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Nicholas Schafer
 Nicholas Schafer
Class:
Sophomore

Hometown:
Carina, Australia

Last College:
Queensland University of Technology

Height:
6-1

Event:
Breast/IM

Before Wisconsin: Schafer came to Wisconsin after one year at Queensland University of Technology in Queensland, Australia ... swam for River City Rapids club under Coach Dion Walmsley ... competed in 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore taking home four medals--won gold medals in 100-meter breaststroke and 4x100-meter relay, won silver in 50-meter breaststroke, won bronze in 200-meter breaststroke ... became Australia's first ever gold-medal winner at the Youth Olympic Games in the men's 100-meter breaststroke ... bronze medalist in 100-meter breaststroke in the 2010 Australian Swimming Championships ... Australian Youth Olympic Festival Swimming Team 2009 ... Australian National Short Course Finalist 2008 ... named 2011 Queensland University of Technology Student Guild Sport Scholar ... began swimming competitively in 2004.