Arizona State Sprinter Khalil Fonder Enters NCAA Transfer Portal

Virginia native Khalil Fonder has opted to transfer out of Arizona State University. Fonder competed with ASU for the entirety of the 2018-19 season, his freshman campaign. This year, he raced through the mid-season invite, and then competed in two January dual meets but hasn’t raced since then.

PRE-COLLEGE BESTS

  • 50 free – 20.34
  • 100 free – 44.06
  • 200 free – 1:37.62
  • 50 back – 22.16
  • 100 back – 47.47
  • 200 back – 1:45.88
  • 100 fly – 46.91
  • 200 fly – 1:52.16

BEST TIMES AT ASU

  • 100 free – 43.85 (2019 mid-season)
  • 100 back – 46.88 (2019 Pac-12 Champs)
  • 100 fly – 46.15 (2019 Pac-12 Champs)

Fonder made marginal improvements in his freshman year in the 100 back and 100 fly, and then dropped some time in the 100 free just a couple of months ago at the NC State Invitational in November of 2019. He was ASU’s top 100 butterflier last season and their #2 100 backstroker.

In his freshman season, Fonder competed at the 2019 Pac-12 Championships, where he made finals in the 100 fly and 100 back. He finished eighth in the conference in the 100 fly and 14th in the 100 back, hitting NCAA ‘B’ cuts in prelims but winding up a couple tenths off of NCAA qualification in the 100 fly. He was also about eight tenths off of qualifying in the 100 back.

Fonder still raced at the 2019 NCAA Championships, competing on relays only. He was 20.51 on the 200 medley relay fly leg and 46.64 on their 400 medley relay fly leg, though neither made finals.

Fonder would be a big pick-up at most any other major D1 institution, swimming-wise, as a near-NCAA qualifying sprinter strong in back, fly and free. SwimSwam has reached out for a comment on Fonder’s next steps without a response yet as of this posting.

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Crick
4 years ago

‘Tis the season…

Samuli Hirsi
4 years ago

1) “marginal improvements” what i ve seen on college times on most of the swimmers, getting some improvement does not seem to be given on year college years

2) nowadays you have to be more clear with your words, if somebody enters transfer portal or somebody transfers, dont cha think? Entering portal does not mean anythig because you have to get spot somewhere and those spots do not grow in trees in higher levels of institutions…..

Swimnerd
4 years ago

Yo hit up UK I heard they’ll need some sprinters after this year

SWIMGUY12345
4 years ago

I WILL CONTINUE TO ASK: HOW DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE TRANSFER PORTAL/WHO IS LEAKING THIS INFORMATION TO YOU???

Clearly it’s not the swimmers themselves, because you reached out to Fonder for a comment and he didn’t respond. So who’s feeding you guys this stuff?

Ol’ Longhorn
Reply to  SWIMGUY12345
4 years ago

Mel and Braden would rather risk jail time than give up their sources. I’m sure it’s some Deep State source —- like Instagram.

Swimming4silver
Reply to  SWIMGUY12345
4 years ago

The Deep state

POWERTOWER
Reply to  SWIMGUY12345
4 years ago

Don’t think they are going to tell you, guy.

Ol' Longhorn
Reply to  SWIMGUY12345
4 years ago

QUIT SHOUTING!!!

PVSFree
Reply to  SWIMGUY12345
4 years ago

Breaking: SwimSwam commenter figures out how journalism works

ACC fan
4 years ago

Heard he wants to transfer to NC STATE

Dabestestman
4 years ago

Relative of Doug Fonder he USS Coach in VA?

swimfan
Reply to  Dabestestman
4 years ago

adopted son i believe

Lane 8
Reply to  swimfan
4 years ago

yes

Superfan
4 years ago

Wonder if he didn’t make the conference team and then that was the turning point

SWIMFAN
Reply to  Superfan
4 years ago

no

Bruh moment
Reply to  Superfan
4 years ago

LOL no.

Book it!
Reply to  Superfan
4 years ago

He was removed from the team long before he entered the transfer portal!

Anonymous
Reply to  Superfan
4 years ago

He committed super early. It seemed no other college was considered.

Sccoach
4 years ago

I’d like to see a tri meet. The ASU transfer portals vs the Indiana transfer portals vs the Bama transfer portals

Wow
Reply to  Sccoach
4 years ago

Honestly if someone had some free time it’d be interesting to see the list from those 3 schools, and potentially where they would stack up as a team. Recruits have to notice these things, right?

hookem91
Reply to  Wow
4 years ago

this wouldn’t be a difficult stat sheet to make if someone has access to all the names from the transfer tracker.

Swimmom
Reply to  hookem91
4 years ago

Hummm more interesting how many transferred and got in more difficulty at the next stop?

Snarky
Reply to  Sccoach
4 years ago

Ouch

Swimmom
Reply to  Sccoach
4 years ago

Honestly swimming isn’t all there is to being a D-1 collegiate athlete…there are rules that must followed, academic standards, and contributing to a healthy team environment. That’s why student comes before athlete!

Ol' Longhorn
Reply to  Swimmom
4 years ago

Uh… take away the swimming and you’re a student-student.

Stinky
Reply to  Sccoach
4 years ago

That’s pretty funny.

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Karl Ortegon

Karl Ortegon studied sociology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, graduating in May of 2018. He began swimming on a club team in first grade and swam four years for Wesleyan.

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