Defending Illinois High School state champion Ryan Held has signed a National Letter of Intent to swim for the North Carolina State Wolfpack in 2014.
Held is a rare commodity: a sub-20-second sprinter out of high school who also appears to have ability to swim up to the 200 with success at the college level. He’s been 19.92 in the 50, 43.91 in the 100 and 1:39.54 in the 200. He’s also a strong sprint butterflyer.
Held swims for the Springfield YMCA and Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin High School. Read more about his commitment here.
From Illinois to NC State? Congrats to the young man on the scholarship, but it’s hard to understand what these teenagers see in NC State. They probably have the worst athletic department in the ACC, and perhaps all power conferences.
Looking back, this is a hilarious comment