2025-26 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster
Biography
Accolades
- ACC team championship (2025)
At Cal
2024-25 (Fr.)
- Swam in eight events as a freshman
- Had three top-three finishes during the season
- Set a personal-best in the 100 back at the Minnesota Invitational (46.00)
High School/Club
- Graduated from the Durham School of Arts
- Swam for East Carolina Aquatics, where he was a 22-time team record holder
- Named the No. 3 recruit in the 2024 recruiting class by SwimSwam.com
- Three-time North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) most outstanding swimmer (2022, 2023, 2024)
- NCHSAA all-state record holder on 100 backstroke (47.30), 100 freestyle (42.600), 50 freestyle (19.47) and 100 butterfly (46.94)
- 2023 NCHSAA Swimmer of the Year
- Six-time NCHSAA 3A champion
Personal
- Full name is Lucca Luiz Battaglini
- From Durham, North Carolina
- Parents are Claudio & Becca Battaglini
- Parents, Claudio is an exercise and sport science professor/researcher at UNC
- Chapel Hill and volunteer swim coach at East Carolina Aquatics and USA Jr. National Swim Team, while Becca is also works at UNC Chapel Hill and was a three-time All-American volleyball player at Hastings College
- Has two siblings, Gabi and Vincent Battaglini
- Enjoys playing the saxophone and piano, while listening to jazz music
- Goal is to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics
- Plans on majoring in business administration
Historical Player Information
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2024-25Freshman
Free/Fly/Back
6'4"
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2025-26Sophomore
Free/Fly/Back
6'4"
