2008-2009: Earned career-best times in the 100
backstroke (50.73) and 200 backstroke (1:48.92) while placing second in
both events at the MAC Championship meet. Named to the second-team
All-MAC at the end of the MAC meet and was also named to the Academic
All-MAC team for maintaining a 3.85 GPA.
2007-2008: Swam to an 11th place finish in the 100
back (52.45) and 13th in the 200 back (1:51.57). Helped three relays at
the MAC meet as well: anchoring the ninth place 200 freestyle relay
(1:25.99), the 10th place 400 freestyle relay (3:08.91) and swam the
backstroke leg of the eighth place 400 IM relay (3:28.04). Named 2nd
team All-MAC and MAC All-Academic.
2006-2007: Earned UB’s Most Improved award. Finished
fifth in the 200 backstroke (1:52.61) at the MAC Championships. Set a
lifetime-best of 1:51.63 in the prelims of the 200 backstroke. Won the
consolation final (ninth overall) in the 100 backstroke in 52.15.
Placed 14th in the 400 IM (season-best 4:17.08). Swam the opening
backstroke leg of UB’s fourth-place finishing 400-medley relay at
the MAC meet.
High School: Graduated from Newmarket High School.
Participated for 12 years with the Newmarket Stingrays Swim Club
program for head coach Alan Swanston. Reached the finals of the Junior
Nationals, finishing seventh in the 200-meter backstroke in 2006.
Finished fourth in the 100-meter backstroke at the provincial meet.
Personal: Born August 5, 1988. Son of Karel and Radka
Tamchyna. Has one sister (Cathy). Favorite athlete is Dominik Hasek.
Favorite food is roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut. Lists
Christopher Walken as his non-sports hero. Majoring in engineering
physics.
