Meet the First NYU Swimmer to Compete in the Team USA Olympic Trials
From growing up swimming in Lake Michigan to becoming the first NYU swimmer to compete in the Team USA Olympic trials, Derek Maas knows what hard work looks like.
The current NYU Grossman School of Medicine student also maintained a perfect 4.0 while earning his bachelor's and MBA in four years as a star swimmer at the University of Alabama.
This June, he represented NYU in the Olympic prelims for 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley, and 100m butterfly.
There are more than 325,000 swimmers in the U.S., and Derek is one of just approximately 900 who competed in Indiana for qualifying—making him part of the top 0.2 percent nationally.
Here's what he had to say about the journey there:
From growing up swimming in Lake Michigan to becoming the first NYU swimmer to compete in the Team USA Olympic trials, Derek Maas knows what hard work looks like. The current NYU Grossman School of Medicine student also maintained a perfect 4.0 while earning his bachelor's and MBA in four years as a star swimmer at the University of Alabama.
This June, he represented NYU in the Olympic prelims for 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley, and 100m butterfly. There are more than 325,000 swimmers in the U.S., and Derek is one of just approximately 900 who competed in Indiana for qualifying—making him part of the top 0.2 percent nationally. Here's what he had to say about the journey there:
