Michelle Jung
Michelle Jung
Height: 5-4
Year: Senior
Hometown: Lexington, Mass.
High School: Lexington
Major: Biochemistry

2016-17 Season: Named to the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association All-Academic Team and the Great Northeast Athletic Conference All-Academic Team ... Competed in seven meets before her season came to an end, due to injury ... Swam in five different events and recorded a pair of top-five finishes ... Placed fourth in the 500-yard freestyle vs. Babson College on November 15 and added a fifth-place effort in the 50-yard freestyle.

2015-16 Season:
Tabbed to the GNAC All-Academic Team ... Swam in seven different events for the Sharks ... Recorded three top-five finishes and posted a pair of personal-record times ... Placed fourth in the 50-yard breaststroke at Saint Joseph's College (Maine) on January 10 and also finished fifth in the event vs. Westfield State University on October 24 and at Western New England University on January 23.

2014-15 Season: Named to the GNAC All-Academic Team ... Competed in seven different individual events for the Sharks ... Finished fifth vs. Babson College in the 100-yard freestyle on December 2 ... Placed fifth vs. Western New England University in the 50-breaststroke and sixth in the 500-freestyle on January 24.

2013-14 Season: Swam six different individual events in her first college season ... Made her collegiate debut on October 26 vs. Westfield State University and placed eighth in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:12.52 ... Finished fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke with a mark of 1:29.10 on January 12 vs. Saint Joseph's College (Maine) ... Placed fifth in the 100-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 1:07.78 vs. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on January 14.

High School/Personal: Three-year letterwinner in swimming and earned a letter in indoor track for Lexington High School ... Volunteered with elementary after-school program and various community service organizations, while at LHS ... Member of Symphonic Band at Lexington High ... Born December 13, 1994 ... Majoring in Biochemistry with a minor in Public Health at Simmons and would like to pursue a career in Pharmaceutical Industry Research ... Daughter of Suk and June Hyup Jung ... Served as an Executive Board member for the Simmons Campus Activities Board ... Serves as a Chemistry and Physics Liaison member and Historian and is also a Chemistry Lab Teaching Assistant at Simmons ... Serves as the Historian of Tri Beta Biological Honor Society ... Member of Sigma Xi Research Honor Society ... Named to the Dean's List for three different semesters ... Currently working on a research project in the Simmons chemistry department as a SMART scholar ... Earned a Research Internship at Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research in the Summer of 2016 ... Enjoys cooking working out with weights, exploring Boston and research.