Samantha Cheruk of Wilton YMCA Wahoos Verbally Commits to Villanova

Stamford, Connecticut’s Samantha Cheruk has made a verbal commitment to join the Villanova University Wildcats in the 2015-16 season. Cheruk is a sprint freestyler with Wilton YMCA Wahoos who has competed at the YMCA Swimming National Championships for the past three consecutive short course and long course seasons.

As a freshman, Cheruk swam for Westhill High School and competed at the 2011 Connecticut State Open Championships at Yale University.

Cheruk’s top times over the past two seasons include:

50y free – 24.31
100y free – 51.98
200y free – 1:53.95
200y IM – 2:09.31

Those times would have represented the fifth-fastest 50 free for Villanova in the 2013-14 season, the seventh-fastest 100 free, the seventh 200 free, and the fifth 200 IM.

Cheruk split a 51.1 on the end of a Wilton Y relay at 2014 YMCA Short Course Championships, not too far off the splits of the women on Villanova’s 4×100 free relay that won the 2014 Big East conference title.

1
Leave a Reply

Subscribe
Notify of

1 Comment
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Sam Colon
9 years ago

That’s my beautiful niece! So proud of her!

About Anne Lepesant

Anne Lepesant

Anne Lepesant is the mother of four daughters, all of whom swam in college. With an undergraduate degree from Princeton (where she was an all-Ivy tennis player) and an MBA from INSEAD, she worked for many years in the financial industry, both in France and the U.S. Anne is currently …

Read More »