Szakelyhidi's Top Times:
100 Breast - 56.82
200 Breast - 2:05.80
200 IM - 2:01.14
As a Freshman (2009-10): Notched the second top time on the team in the 100 breast (56.82) and the third in the 200 breast (2:07.49)...member of eighth place 400 medley relay (3:19.01) at the ACC Championships...individually, took 17th in the 100 breast and shaved nearly two seconds off his prelim time in the finals of the 200 breast for a 24th place showing...registered a pair of top ten performances in the 100 breast (seventh - 58.91) and 200 breast (eighth - 2:10.16) at the 2009 Terrapin Cup...tallied a personal best in the 200 IM (2:01.14).
Before Maryland: Four-year letterwinner at Riverside High School...finished third in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League in the 100 breast as a freshman ...improved at the state championships every year, placing ninth in 2007, fourth in 2008 and winning the state crown in the 100 breast in 2009...also set Pennsylvania state record in the 100 breast and broke six school records...named an All-American...also swam with Seneca Valley Swim Club...finished sixth at Germantown Sectionals in 2009 in the 200 breast.
Personal: Son of Robert Szakelyhidi and Sherry Szakelyhidi...has one sibling, Alex...secretary of National Honor Society...Allegheny Mountain Swimming and USA Swimming Academic All-American...lists sports hero as Jerome Bettis...chose Maryland because the `campus is amazing and the people are great'...Business major.
