Nikola Acin

Class:
Fifth Year
Position:
Freestyle/Backstroke
Hometown:
Zrenjanin, Serbia
High School:
Zrenjanin Grammar School

Graduate (2022-23)
• All-Big Ten second team
• NCAA Championships (Mar. 22-25): Placed 13th in 200-Yard Freestyle Relay (1:16.31), 16th in the 400-Yard Freestyle Relay (2:50.03)
• Big Ten Championships (Feb 22-25): Placed 16th in 50-Yard Freestyle (19.84), Placed 10th in 100-Yard Freestyle (43.02), Placed 15th in the 100-Yard Backstroke (47.51)
• Michigan First Chance Meet (Feb. 11-12): Placed 2nd in 100-Yard Backstroke (48.59)
• Wisconsin/Pittsburg (Jan. 28): Placed 4th in 50-Yard Freestyle (20.19), Placed 3rd in 100-Yard Freestyle (44.33)
• Ohio State (Jan. 21): Placed 2nd in 100-Yard Freestyle (44.19), Placed 5th in 100-Yard Backstroke (49.03).
• Tennessee Invitational (Nov. 17): Placed 16th in 100-Yard Freestyle (43.71), 10th in the 100-Yard Backstroke (47.53)
• Northwestern (Nov. 5): Placed 3rd in 100-Yard Freestyle (44.29), Placed 2nd in 100-Yard Backstroke (48.13)
• Eastern/Michigan/Ohio/Purdue (Nov. 4): Placed 3rd in 50-Yard Freestyle (20.29), Placed 2nd in 100-Yard Freestyle (44.38)
• Oakland (Oct. 8): Placed 1st in 50-Yard Freestyle (20.36), Placed 1st in 100-Yard Freestyle (44.08)

Prior to Michigan
• 2x Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
• 2x Academic All-American
• 3x Academic All-Big Ten
• 3x Dean’s List
• 1x All-American
• 4x Honorable Mention All-American
• 5x Big Ten Championships Medalist

Prep
• School: Zrenjanin Grammar School

Club/International:
• 3x European Championships
• 2x World Championships
• 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
• Multi-year Serbian SCM and LCM age group national champion in the backstroke events for coach Dejan Pejinovic while competing for the Proleter Zrenjanin swimming club
• Three-time national age group record holder in the backstroke events
• Won multiple gold medals at both the SCM and LCM Serbian Championships
• Also a two-time silver medalist in the freestyle events at the LCM Championships
• As a member of the Serbian National Team, won a pair of medals in a four-way dual that also featured Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia
• Fifth Serbian swimmer in history to break 23 seconds in the 50 free (LCM)
• Raced for Serbia at the 2018 Senior European Swimming Championships in Glasgow, Scotland
• Bronze medalist for the National Team at the 2017 Balkan Championships in Bulgaria after competing at the same meet in Greece the year earlier
• Also traveled to Israel for the 2017 European Junior Championships
• Voted the No. 2 athlete in his hometown of Zrenjanin

Personal:
• Full Name: Nikola Acin
• Birthday: December 19, 1999
• Enrolled in: School of Kinesiology
• Major: Master’s in Movement Science