2019-20 Swimming & Diving Roster
Clayton Forde
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Louisville, Ky.
- High School:
- St. Xavier
Record Book: No. 6 in 400 IM.
2019-20: Earned CSCAA All-America citation in 400 IM...Qualified for NCAA Championships in 400 IM...Finished seventh in 400 IM, 11th in 200 butterfly and tied for 12th in 200 IM (personal-best time) at SEC Championships...Posted B-cuts in 500 freestyle, 200 butterfly and 200 IM...Won 400 IM final at Tennessee Invitational and finished third in 200 IM with new PR; also reached final in 200 butterfly...Took first in the 400 IM at Duke...Set new personal best time in 200 breaststroke against Tennessee...Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team...Named to SEC Academic Honor Roll...Named to Dean's List and J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll...Named the recipient of the Charles Lathrop Guyer, III Swimming Scholarship.
2018-19:Â Represented Georgia at the NCAA Championships...Claimed fifth in the 400 IM, 16th in the 500 freestyle, and 22nd in the 200 butterfly at SEC Championships...Posted B-cuts in the 500 freestyle, 200 butterfly, and 400 IM...Named to the CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team...Named to SEC Academic Honor Roll...Named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll.
2017-18:Â Represented the Bulldogs at the NCAA Championships...Placed 12th in the 400 individual medley, 14th in the 500 freestyle and 19th in the 200 butterfly at SEC Championships...Named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll...Named the recipient of the Harvey Humphries Swimming and Diving Scholarship Endowment...Named to the 2018 Scholar All-American Team.
2016-17:Â Attended the NCAA Championships as a relay alternate...Came in ninth in the 400 individual medley, 16th in the 500 freestyle and 20th in the 1,650 freestyle at SEC Championships...Posted B cuts in the 200 and 400 individual medley...Chosen as a Scholar All-American by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association...Named to the SEC All-Freshman Team...Named to the First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll...Named to the J. Reid Director of Athletics Honor Roll.
High School:Â Graduated from St. Xavier High School...Swam for Lakeside Seahawks Swim Team under Coach Mike DeBoor...Helped his team win four Kentucky state championships...Named to the All-State Team three times.
National:Â Competed in the 400 individual medley at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials...Named a USA Swimming Scholastic All-American.
Personal: Born June 16, 1997...Son of Pat and Tricia Forde...Brother, Mitchell, swam for Missouri and sister, Brooke, swims at Stanford...Majoring in History.
Collegiate Personal Bests
| 100 Freestyle | 45.06 | 2018 UGA Fall Invitational (12/1/18) |
| 200 Freestyle | 1:37.27 | 2018 Bulldog Invitational (2/24/18) |
| 500 Freestyle | 4:18.59 | 2018 SEC Championships (2/15/18) |
| 1000 Freestyle | 9:21.00 | Wisconsin (11/4/16) |
| 1650 Freestyle | 15:15.82 | 2017 SEC Championships (2/18/17) |
| 100 Backstroke | 49.02 | 2017 UGA Fall Invitational (12/1/17) |
| 200 Backstroke | 1:47.00 | 2017 UGA Fall Invitational (12/3/17) |
| 100 Breaststroke | 58.47 | Emory (2/2/19) |
| 200 Breaststroke | 2:03.43 | Tennessee (1/25/20) |
| 100 Butterfly | 49.05 | 2020 Bulldog Invitational (2/29/20) |
| 200 Butterfly | 1:43.80 | 2018 NCAA Championships (3/24/18) |
| 200 IM | 1:44.87 | 2020 SEC Championships (2/19/20) |
| 400 IM | 3:41.14 | 2019 Bulldog Invitational (3/2/19) |
