Articles by Anya Pelshaw

Shareef Elaydi Moves Up All-Time Ranks In 15-16 200 IM With 1:43.82, #6 All-Time

Elaydi earned the win while Ty Thomas and Jackson Hartzler, who are also 16 years old, also moved up into the top 15 all-time.

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2024 SCM Worlds Silver Medalist Tessa Giele Commits To Alabama For Spring 2026

Giele’s best converted time in the 100 fly would have been 3rd at 2025 NCAAs while her converted 50 free time would have been 5th.

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Junior Pan Pac Medalist Lillie McPherson Of Australia Heading To Florida For 2026

McPherson boosts the team’s sprint free and fly groups. She is not far off what it took to make the 2025 NCAA Championships based on her best converted times.

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Caroline Wanezek Becomes 3rd Wanezek To Head To Wisconsin With Her Commitment For 2026

Caroline primarily specializes in sprint free, IM, and fly. Her older sisters Abby (senior) and Maggie (sophomore) are currently with the Badgers.

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Summer Juniors Qualifier Karina Conover Hui Commits To UCLA For 2027

Karina Conover Hui primarily specializes in butterfly and backstroke. She swam the 50 and 100 flys at Summer Juniors.

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“BOTR” Ranked Jackson Irwin Commits To Texas A&M For 2027

Irwin was 9th in the 1500 free at Summer Juniors back in August and is the 3rd BOTR ranked recruit already committed for 2027.

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BOTR Lilliana Krstolic Reclassifies From 2027 To 2026, Commits To Georgia

Krstolic specializes in distance free and is club and high school teammates with #2 ranked Rylee Erisman, who also reclassified from 2027 to 2026.

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Distance Freestyler Elle Floyd Commits to Salisbury University

Floyd has made huge strides the last few years and is just outside of the top 8 in the 1650 free at the conference level with her best time already.

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College Swimming Weekly Preview: December 8-14

Tennessee will host Kentucky on Thursday, in what is a top 25 matchup on the men’s side. See the full weekly schedule here.

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Summer McIntosh Swims 2:02.62 200 Butterfly, #4 Performance All-Time

McIntosh now holds four of the five fastest performances of all-time in the 200 butterfly.

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2025 US Open: Night 4 Meet Record Roundup

Four meet records were broken on the final night in Austin with the men’s 200 back, 100 free, and 200 fly and the women’s 200 breast and 200 fly going down.

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Luka Mijatovic Breaks Larsen Jensen’s 23 Year Old 15-16 NAG Record With 7:48.28 800 Free

Mijatovic took over four seconds off Jensen’s NAG that was set back in 2002 at the Pan Pac Championships.

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Kansas Clinches 153–147 Victory Over Houston With Clutch Final Relay

Kansas won the final five events on the day to earn the win, including the 200 free relay to close the meet.

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Marrit Steenbergen Breaks Sjostrom’s European Record With 50.42 100 Free, Wins 4 For 4 Golds

Steenbergen has gone four for four in gold medals in Lublin, winning the 100 free, 200 free, 100 IM, and 200 IM. She also set a new European Record.

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Carson Foster Breaks US Open Meet Record With His 3rd Fastest 400 IM Ever (4:07.02)

Foster was less than half a second off his lifetime best. He did not swim the event at 2025 Worlds after tweaking his ankle.

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