Jan. 22, 2021
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A scaled-down Shamrock Invite takes on a different format this year, as the timed finals meet will see a total of six sessions over three days. The men swam morning and afternoon sessions yesterday, then wrapped up with a morning session today, and then women will swim this afternoon and tomorrow. Instead of the normal bevy of teams, this iteration of the annual invite featured only the hosts Notre Dame and Missouri State on the men’s side, with the Fighting Irish completing a clean sweep and winning 268-86. With still almost a month to go until ACCs, Notre Dame got some big performa ...
Jan. 19, 2021
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TYR Pro Swim Series: What We Learned From the First Prelims/Finals Meet of the Year Usually a prelims/finals meet in mid-January would be another ho-hum competition in the leadup to the Olympic Trials. But this past weekend’s Pro Swim Series in San Antonio and Richmond was a welcomed sight for swim fans due to the fact it was the first legitimate prelims/finals meet in a long-course venue since March 2020, a week before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the United States. USA Swimming held the U.S. Open across nine different sites in late November, but the meet was timed finals only ...
Jan. 17, 2021
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Manning Haskal from Encino, California has announced his verbal commitment to the University of Texas for the 2022-23 school year and beyond. “I couldn’t be happier to announce my verbal commitment to continue my swimming and academics at the University of Texas! This incredible opportunity wouldn’t be possible without the support of all my coaches, teammates, family, and friends. The outstanding UT coaching and team camaraderie is a dream come true and I can’t wait to contribute in every way possible to my future longhorn family! Hook ‘em🤠🤘” Haskal is a junior at The Buckley School ...
Sept. 8, 2020
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John Hayes , a 3-time individual high school state champion in Kentucky, has verbally committed to Alabama. A high school junior, Hayes is expected to arrive in the fall of 2022. He is the 16th-ranked recruit in the boy’s high school class of 2022 . I’m excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my studies and swimming career at the University of Alabama. ROLL TIDE🔴🐘 A post shared by John M.Hayes (@john_mhayes) on Sep 4, 2020 at 4:45pm PDT He is the 3rd top-20 boys’ recruit to have announced his verbal commitment so far, following Lance Norris and Michael Cotter , who commi ...
Sept. 7, 2020
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Aubrey Bowles , a native of Richmond, Virginia, has announced his verbal commitment to swim for Villanova University after his graduation in the spring. Bowles swims for Nova of Virginia Aquatics as well as for his high school, St. Christopher’s School. “I am extremely excited to announce my verbal commitment to further my academic and athletic careers at Villanova University! Thank you to my family and coaches for their unending support. #GoWildcats #AllGloryToHim” Bowles was a two-event finalist at the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA) Swimming and Diving St ...
Sept. 7, 2020
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Bucknell University has received a pair of verbal commitments for the 2021-22 season from Rockville, Md. native Sarah Culkin and Rylie Giles of Ridgefield, Conn. Photo Courtesy: Sarah Culkin via CollegeSwimming Regarding her commitment, she said: “I’m so excited to finally announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at Bucknell University! I would like to thank to my family, friends, coaches, and teammates who have helped me get to this point. Go Bison!! 💙🧡” Culkin swims year-round with Rockville Montgomery Swim Club and most recently raced ...
Sept. 5, 2020
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Rising high school senior Jibran Himsieh from Arlington, Texas has verbally committed to the University of Missouri. Representing Arlington’s Lamar High School, Himsieh was the Texas Class 6A Region 1 High School Champion in both the 200 free (1:40.79) and 500 free (4:35.41) in January as a junior. 2 weeks later, at the Texas high school state championship meet, he finished 13th in the 200 free in 1:40.89, almost exactly matching his Regionals swim. In the 500 free, he dropped 3.5 seconds in prelims and another 2 in finals to swim 4:29.67 for 11th place. The longer the races get, the ...
July 16, 2020
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The 29 Confessions of a Distance Swimmer By Chandler Brandes, Swimming World College Intern “I didn’t choose the distance life. The distance life chose me.” Well, not quite. Distance swimmers are all born the same way: we swam the 500 for the first time around age nine or 10 and didn’t do too badly, so our coaches put us in it again at the next meet. Then again. And again. And before we knew it, we were swimming the 1000. Then the dreaded day came when we had to swim the 1650. And here we are, many years later, still staring at the bottom of the pool, anxiously waiting for the red bl ...
April 4, 2020
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Coleman Stewart of NC State and Virginia’s Paige Madden were named the ACC men’s and women’s swimmer of the year, respectively, in Friday’s list of postseason honorees . Full list of honorees: Madden led a parade of Virginia winners, with Kate Douglass claiming women’s freshman of the year and Todd DeSorbo earning women’s swim coach of the year. Paige Madden won the 200, 500 and 1,650 freestyle at the ACC championships to earn ACC Swimmer of the Meet honors . She was ranked in the top eight in all three events on the NCAA psych sheets, before the event was cancelled due to the corona ...
March 30, 2020
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American Athletic Conference (AAC) Champion Kristen Stege will transfer to the University of Tennessee after a breakout freshman season at East Carolina University. Stege made headlines in February when she won the AAC title and broke the conference record in her first-ever attempt at the 1650 yard freestyle. Stege’s time of 16:11.96 earned her an NCAA Championship invite as the 28th seed in the mile. She was East Carolina’s only qualifier for a meet that wound up being canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak. “It was a really hard decision and I enjoyed my freshman year at ECU ...
Jan. 21, 2021
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T2 Aquatics in Naples, Florida played host this weekend at the 2021 T2 Naples Open. One of the stars of the meet was 15-year-old Edie Simecek who was the only swimmer to represent Flatiron Swimming and made the most of her weekend, picking up 6 top-3 finishes including 4 victories in the 100 back, 100 fly, 200 fly, and 100 free. Simecek’s long course victories came at 1:07.22 in the back, 1:02.99 in the 100 fly, 2:19.85 in the 200, and a 59.28 in the 100 free. She also notched a 2:29.73 LC 200 IM for 3rd place and a 28.05 LC 50 freestyle for 2nd. Also among those who had a successful ...
Jan. 20, 2021
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Logan Robillard from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho has made a verbal commitment to Northern Michigan University and begin in the fall of 2022. “I am very excited to announce my verbal commitment to swim for Northern Michigan University. I am looking forward to furthering my education and continuing to swim at NMU. The coaching staff is amazing and the team is a great fit. I want to thank my family, current coaches and personal trainer for helping me get to this point. Go Wildcats!” Robillard is a junior at Lake City High School where he swims the 200/500 free distance double. He was runner-up ...
Jan. 19, 2021
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Finn Henry of Bulldog Swimming in Connecticut has verbally committed to the application process at Yale University for fall 2022. A junior at Guilford High School, Henry will join the Yale class of 2026. Henry’s father, Jim Henry , is the head coach of the Yale men’s and women’s swim program. I am excited to announce my verbal commitment to enter the admissions process and further my academic and athletic career at Yale University. A big thank you to my parents, my brothers, my family, my friends, and my many coaches who have helped me along the way. Go Bulldogs! #boolaboola All of H ...
Jan. 17, 2021
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Pipeline Swimming’s Michelle Morgan has verbally committed to the UNC Tar Heels for fall 2022. She’s a junior at Freedom High School in Tampa, Fla., and joins UNC’s class of 2026. Morgan was an honorable mention ‘One to Watch’ in our Top 20 recruiting rankings for the girls’ class of 2022 . I am ecstatic to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at the University of North Carolina!! I am so grateful for all of my coaches, family, and friends who helped me through this process, I couldn’t have done it without them. I can’t wait to be a part of the UN ...
July 18, 2020
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Jaka Pušnik from the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana has announced his verbal commitment to Florida State University for 2022-23. Born in 2003, Pusnik swims for PK Olimpija Ljubljana and represents Slovenia in international competition. Last summer he was a finalist in the 200 free at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku. He finished 8th with 1:53.76. Since then he has dropped 2.1 seconds in the 200, his strongest event. He also competed in the 400 free and 200 back.
April 7, 2020
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Distance specialist and Washington high school state finalist Grace Morgan of Edmonds, Washington has announced her verbal commitment to the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay for this fall. Morgan swims for West Coast Aquatics and attends Meadowdale High School. Morgan is coming off a season in which she saw large improvement in many of her main races. At the Pacific Northwest Swimming Senior Championships last December she swam best times in both the 200 free (1:57.40) and 500 free (5:10.47). Her time in the 500 marked a 4 second improvement from her previous best time. This Januar ...
April 3, 2020
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Coleman Stewart of North Carolina State and Paige Madden of Virginia have been named the ACC Swimmers of the Year for the truncated 2019-2020 season. The awards mirrored those handed out for Most Valuable Swimmer at the ACC Championship meets. Stewart, a senior, ended the season as the country’s top swimmer in the 100 backstroke thanks to his ACC Record of 44.04 done at the ACC Championship meet. That would have made him the top seed at the NCAA Division I Championship meet that was canceled. He won ACC titles in the 100 back and 200 back and was a member of the winning 200 medley an ...
March 31, 2020
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Austin, Texas-native Malia Rausch has announced she plans to swim for The Ohio State University in the class of 2025. Rausch recently competed at the 2020 Texas UIL 6A State Swimming and Diving Meet, where she won the 500 free (4:48.06) and was runner-up in the 200 IM (2:02.21) at the conclusion of her junior year season at Lake Travis High School. She also led off the 8th-place 200 medley relay (26.69 backstroke) and the 6th-place 400 free relay (51.82). In club swimming, where she represents Austin Swim Club, Rausch focuses mainly on freestyle and backstroke. She swam the 100/200/5 ...
March 31, 2020
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In light of the Olympic postponement, United States National Team member Erica Sullivan is waiting to see who USC will hire to replace outgoing head coach Dave Salo before confirming she will enroll next fall. Sullivan graduated high school in 2018 and committed to USC, deferring her enrollment a year to focus on training for Tokyo. Salo announced in January that the 2019-20 season would be he last with the program, also leaving the fate of his associate head coach and the U.S. Olympic open water head coach Catherine Kase up in the air. Now that the Games are pushed back a year and h ...
March 29, 2020
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Alli Anger of Mandeville, Louisiana has announced her verbal commitment to join the Drury University swim team in the fall. She swims year round with the Pelican Athletic Club as well as attending Archbishop Hannan High School. Last November Anger was a two-event finalist at the LHSAA (Louisiana high school) Division 3 State Championships. There, she finished 3rd in both the 200 free (1:58.12) and 100 back (1:00.89). This February at the 2020 Louisiana Senior SC State Championships she finished just .01 off of her best time in the 100 free, swimming a 55.06 to take 15th in the event. ...
