Articles by Lucas Hetzel

Utah Gains Verbal From Backstroker Amber Gardner For Fall of 2020

Gardner is a middle distance finalist in the California CIF North Coast Section and will look to improve on her times in Salt Lake City.

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Sandpipers Distance Swimmer Ethan Houck Makes Commitment to Denver for 2020

Ethan becomes the third Houck to commit to a Division 1 college to swim distance events. He should add to the Pioneer’s dominance over the Summit League.

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Canadian Madison Archer Commits to the University of New Mexico for 2020

Archer will be training with the D-Squad that produced a Mountain West Conference Champion in 2019.

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Middle Distance Freestyler Grace Miller Commits to Northeastern for 2020

Miller will join the Huskies in 2020 and will cement herself as one of their top freestylers.

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NCSA Champion Noah Rutberg Verbally Commits to UNC for 2020

Rutberg will be joining coach Mark Gangloff and the Tar Heels, who finished in 10th place at the 2019 ACC Championship meet.

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Backstroker Caroline Storen Delivers Verbal to Swim For Johns Hopkins in 2020

Storen has times fast enough for two Division 3 ‘B’ cuts with another event right on the cusp with one more year of high school and club swimming remaining.

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Arkansas Secures Verbal From Florida Based Lizzy Linartas For 2020

Linartas has dropped a great deal of time in the butterfly races since 2017 and will look to continue to do so in Fayetteville.

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Oregon High School State Champion Tia Lindsay Verbals to Arizona for 2020

Lindsay will come to Tucson 1.04 seconds off of the ‘B’ cut in the 100 back and 1.21 seconds off the 200 back ‘B’ cut with one more year for improvement.

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Slovenian Breaststroker Tina Celik Makes Commitment To Rutgers For 2020

Celik will make an immediate impact when she arrives at Rutgers; she is within close range of the school record in the 100 breast and the top 5 in the 200.

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Pennsylvania Sprinter Syd Paglia Commits to the Naval Academy for 2020

Paglia will join the 2019 Patriot League Champion Naval Academy team and is already fast enough to make multiple ‘A’ finals and contend for relay spots.

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Floridian Zach Brewer Has Committed To Penn State For 2020

Brewer has seen great improvement in the shorter distance events, dropping over 7 seconds in the 200 free and 19 seconds in the 500 free since 2017.

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Norwegian Breaststroker/Freestyler Brian Benzing Commits To Towson For 2020

Formerly from Maryland, Benzing will move back to America to swim for Towson, where he can contribute in both breaststroke and sprint free events.

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Pennsylvania High School State Runner Up Diver Meghan Wenzel Chooses Georgia

Wenzel will look to join a Bulldogs squad that finished in 18th place at the 2019 NCAA championship meet, scoring only two of out their 66 points from diving.

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YMCA Nationals Finalist Julia Stevens Commits To Lehigh University For 2020

Lehigh finished 49 points out of 2nd place at the 2019 Patriot League Championships and Stevens will help them close the gap.

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Phoenix Speedo Champion Ellis Bohon Stays In State With Grand Canyon Commitment

Bohon will be able to make an immediate impact when he arrives in Phoenix both at the team and conference levels.

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