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Chanice Posada has announced her commitment to continue her athletic and academic career at Howard University. Posada graduated from the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts this spring, and will arrive in Washington D.C. for the upcoming 2023-2024 season.
As a student at a visual and performing arts school, Posada pursued a concentration in creative writing, and was recently was named a winner of a state-wide poetry contest for high school students in Texas.
“I am overjoyed to be a part of a D1 program that not only uplifts black students but athletes as well. In a sport like swimming, where adversity and discrimination are rampant, it’s teams and spaces like this that make the journey a little easier. Howard is one of the first places to feature a large population of Black Swimmers. It is also the first HBCU to have a swim team because of this, the team is revolutionary in its very existence.”
In the pool with Blue Tide Aquatics, Posada focuses on backstroke and butterfly events. She raced at Speedo Sectionals in College Station this spring, where she recorded her highest finish in the 100 back at 25th (57.39). Her swim put her about two seconds off her personal best of 55.32 from January of 2022.
Last summer, she competed at the Futures Championships, also in College Station. She raced in the 200m back (2:37.31), 100m back (1:09.32), and 100m fly (1:07.40), with her best finish being 56th in the 200m back.
Top SCY Times:
- 50 back – 25.91
- 100 back – 55.32
- 200 back – 2:02.98
- 100 fly – 56.60
The Howard women recently finished 4th out of 9 teams at the 2023 Northeast Conference Championships, just 23 points shy of LIU in 3rd. The team is led by head coach Nic Askew, who oversees swimming & diving in addition to tennis at Howard.
Posada’s best times in the 100 back and 200 back are under the team’s current program records. She also projects to score huge points for the Bison at the conference level, as her best times in the backstroke events are A-final worthy. Howard’s top finisher in the 100 backstroke this season was Courtney Connolly, who picked up 10th with a best time of 57.56. In the 200 back, Aaliyah Yong was the top performer at conference at 26th (2:13.52).
Joining Posada in Howard’s incoming class of 2027 is Jasmine Morgan, Summer Mckoy, and Tiara Jackson.
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I’m extremely proud of this amazingly beautiful young lady. Congratulations on a wonderful future.
She’s bad in the good way
“200m fly (1:07.40)” guessing it was 100m?
Swimming…… Rampant Adversity? Adversity means different things to different folks. Rampant Discrimination? Respectfully disagree.
Rampant=widespread, unchecked
Howard has a great program and it’s an excellent school.
Are you a black swimmer? Do you swim in the same community as Ms. Posada does? Unless the answer to both of these is yes, you don’t get to disagree. It’s her personal experience and I’m willing to bet, also the experience of most black swimmers.
Congrats to Ms. Posada and to Howard for recruiting such an impressive athlete and scholar!
Actually I am a minority. Are you? If you are, great let’s have a conversation. If you aren’t why are you even speaking up? How do know what the collective experience of an entire demographic is? Gaslighting me doesn’t work.
Take a moment to read what I wrote. Adversity, let alone rampant adversity, is a tough sell on this topic. Diversity by all means. Discrimination is something I can speak to. The beauty about swimming is the clock has the last word. Rampant discrimination? Maybe we just agree to disagree because I don’t see it. Btw it’s ok if we see things differently.
He’s speaking up because you come across like a jackass trying to deny this young person’s experience. You can be “a minority” and still not know what the hell she’s gone through.
Love the gaslighting. “Trying to deny this young person’s experience?” Hardly. Feel free to disagree with my perspective but the only thing I am guilty of is responding respectfully to her very public comments. Isn’t that what talkbacks are for?
The young lady has every right to express herself and share her take on things. I have the same right based on my own experiences to disagree in a respectful manner.
You have every right to comment on your own experience. Not hers. Unless you know or have spoken to her, you have no basis to comment. Do you think being “a minority” means you can discount her experience being a Black/Latina girl swimming in South Texas. This is a pretty simple concept to grasp..The question is, why do you feel the need to comment on what she’s experienced. No one asked you about your experiences(is that the issue?). I know you want to make this about you, but have you thought about why a girl like this might see Howard as the only place she feels at home?
What’s your ethnic background? If you’re not black, I’m not sure why you’re commenting on her experience since blacks have had/still do have a very unique experience in this country, especially in regards to access and pools.
I am not commenting on her experiences, you are. My position is she is free to speak about her experiences and unless you know something about them you should just be quiet about that.. Are you trying to make the point that only a black person can comment on her experiences? One might ask why you are commenting on them then? When you or your child makes their announcement, you can make all the comments you want about how racism didn’t exist for you. By the way, you used the term gaslighting when you clearly don’t understand what it means. You are the one actually gaslighting this young lady. You know nothing about her or her experiences.