Articles by Anya Pelshaw

#6 Ranked Recruit In Class Of 2023, Aaron Shackell Announces Transfer To Texas

Shackell joins the Texas roster and would have made NCAAs this past season. He is currently the #3 American this season in the LCM 200 freestyle.

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Entries Show Summer McIntosh In 200 Freestyle, Still No 800 Freestyle

McIntosh is listed in the 100 and 200 freestyles on SplashMe in addition to the 400 free, 200 IM, 100 back, 200 fly, and 400 IM.

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Saint Petersburg Aquatics Sweeps 15&Under 5K Open Water Jr. National Titles

Brinkleigh Hansen won the girls 5K while Cobe Hehenberger won the boys event. All swimmers were 15& under as of the end of the year.

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Erika Pelaez Earns 200 Free Trials Cut With 2:00.51, Wins 100 Fly In Same Session

Pelaez has dropped over half a second in the 200 free this season already and earned another Trials cut as the cut is a 2:00.89.

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NCAA Qualifier Tommy Palmer Transferring From Arizona to Arizona State

Palmer helps boost the sprint freestyle group and would have fit right into the team’s 200 free relay that was 3rd at 2024 NCAAs.

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Division II Champion Kyle Micallef Transferring to Alabama For 5th Year

Micallef is just off what it took to make the D1 2024 NCAA Championships. He won the D2 50 freestyle NCAA title this past season with Florida Southern.

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Josh Matheny and Luke Barr of Indiana Enter Transfer Portal, But Have No Intention to Transfer

Both Matheny and Barr entered with “do not contact” labels but are not leaving Indiana. Instead, the move allows them to give back scholarship money for the benefit of the team.

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Florida State NCAA Qualifier Yordan Yanchev Returning For 5th Year

Yanchev was the team’s highest individual scorer at 2023 ACCs and has made NCAAs in all four seasons with Florida State.

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Kaii Winkler, Erika Pelaez Highlight Pysch Sheets for Fort Lauderdale 18&Under Spring Cup

Winkler is the top seed in five events while Pelaez is the top in all six of her entries. Night 1 recap of the distance session can be read here.

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Pitt Associate Head Coach Roman Willets Announces He Will Step Away From Coaching

Willets graduated from Michigan in 2014, spent time coaching club swimming before coaching college swimming where he most recently spent a season at Pitt.

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Finn Winkler Enters Transfer Portal After Freshman Season At Texas

Winkler is the older brother of the #1 ranked recruit in the class of 2024, Kaii Winkler, who is headed to NC State this fall.

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Arizona State NCAA Qualifier Ieva Maluka Transferring to Georgia

Maluka helps fill in the gap that Zoie Hartman graduates as Hartman just finished her fifth year with the Bulldogs.

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Iowa State Hires Former Washington State Head Coach Matt Leach As Next Head Coach

Leach most recently was the head coach of Washington State and started the Indiana State women’s program from the ground up in 2015/2016.

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Did Summer McIntosh’s New Sponsor Just Leak Her Olympic Trials Schedule?

McIntosh’s sponsor claims that she picked the 200 IM over 800 free and will also swim the 400 IM over the 200 freestyle individually.

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NCAA Relay Champion Coby Carrozza Returning To Texas For Fifth Year

Carrozza helped the Texas men to NCAA titles in the 800 free relay in both 2022 and 2023. He swam for the US at 2022 Worlds.

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