Luke Whitlock of Florida has entered the transfer portal after spending the fall at Florida. Whitlock moved back home to Fishers, Indiana for the spring. Whitlock originally committed to Louisville before flipping his commitment to Florida before the start of his senior year of high school. He made the US Olympic Team last summer.
Whitlock joins the list of names in the transfer portal as the men’s window opened up two days ago. So far, 164 men have entered the portal from 55 different schools. Auburn still leads the way with 14 men in the portal while Texas is the only other school to have double digits.
The SEC has almost double the amount of any other conference with 59 men in the portal. The Big Ten has 28 men in the portal, the Big 12 has 24, and the ACC has 21.
After eight men from Texas entered the portal on Wednesday including Michael Cotter and Aaron Shackell, two more have joined. Spencer Aurnou-Rhees and Brayden Taivassalo have entered their names into the portal as well. Aurnou-Rhees just finished his junior season and made the conference roster in his freshman season.
The sophomore Taivassalo finished 7th in the 200 breast at SECs last month in a 1:53.95 and was 12th in the 100 breast as well. Taivassalo was one of the scratches Texas made from NCAAs as he earned an invite in the 200 breast but due to roster limits, Texas dropped two swimmers to make room for four divers.
I assume Whitlock will go to IU.
Any chance he goes back to his original commitment at Louisville?
Brayden, come to Vancouver. We have everyone
I heard through the grapevine Whitlock has been sick for some time, ever since Westmont. Hoping his training isn’t taking too much of a hit and that he’ll be ready to kick butt at nationals in June!
I can’t imagine making NCAAs and getting cut… I hope Brayden finds a place where he can be an All American.
NC State always needs breaststrokers. And Indiana can never have enough it seems.
Boy oh boy where do I even begin. Luke Whitlock… honey, my pookie bear. I have loved you ever since I first laid eyes on you. The way you drive into the paint and strike fear into your enemies eyes. Your silky smooth stroke in the pool, and that gorgeous flip turn. I would do anything for you. I wish it were possible to freeze time so l would never have to watch you stop swimming. You had a rough year, but you never gave up hope. You are even amazing off the pool, you’re a great husband and father, sometimes I even call you dad. I forever dread and weep, thinking of the day you will one day retire.… Read more »
OMG!! I’m turning 7 shades of red reading this. I think you should send him this privately, between you and him.
TMI
WTF
CHAT-GP-Cringe
I felt a creeping sense of dread when I was reading this for some reason
Kyle?
Isaac fleig?
gotta be KP 🤨
Even the name fr
Guys it’s a copypasta. How are you people thinking someone actually wrote this
You can tell by the weirdly specific but unrelated words. Putting this comment into google shows it’s from a year-old copypasta about Lebron
so Kyle is clever?
Now that was glorious. Ain’t “love” grand?
Ok Kara
Maybe luke whitlock is going to have a hybrid schedule…
Whitlock’s GF is committed to IU so he may be OK spending a little more time on campus.
I would bet that Shackell will become a party of three very soon. Is there an HOV land between Carmel and Bloomington?
If someone started and left two other Power 4 teams after a semester, they’d better have a convincing story to tell before I offered them a limited roster spot.
Then again, maybe the story is “Alex is a package deal. Take all the Shackells or none.” Hardball seems to be the game of the moment.
ÂŁhackell deal.
Then entire state of IN will become IU swim practice eligible! Haha. Bring back modeling, Ponsler, give killer and Pash some more years to swim. Lily King comes back. It will be glorious