Cal Women Keep Rolling, Get Verbal from FSHAA Record-holder Isabel Ivey for 2019-20

Just four days after receiving a verbal commitment from high school junior Chloe Clark to its class of 2023, the University of California, Berkeley has its second pledge for the fall of 2019: Isabel Ivey of Gainesville, Florida’s Gator Swim Club.

“I’m very excited to announce my verbal commitment to further my academics and swimming at the University of California Berkeley class of 2023! I would like to thank my parents, teammates and friends, along with my coach Robert Pinter for their continuous support. GO BEARS!???”

Ivey is a junior at F.W. Buchholz High School, whom she led to the 2017 FHSAA Class 4 team championship with individual victories in the 200 free (1:44.68) and 100 breast (1:00.99, a Florida high school state record). She was also a member of the record-breaking 200 free (22.46 anchor) and 400 free (48.89 leadoff) relays. A year ago, as a sophomore at Oak Hall High School, she won the 200 IM (1:57.31) and 50 free (

Ivey is highly versatile and can slot into almost any role for the Bears. She finished 4th in the women’s High Point rankings for 2017 U.S. Winter National Championships, having placed 2nd in the 200 free and 200 IM, 3rd in the 100 back, 8th in the 100 free, and 11th in the 50 free.

Ivey’s best times, swum in prelims at 2017 NCAA Women’s Division I Championships, would have placed her in the A-final of the 200 free and the B-finals of the 100 free and 200 IM. She’s not all that far off in all her other events, either: it took 22.00 to final in the 50 free, 51.73 in the 100 back, 59.81 in the 100 breast, and 52.12 in the 100 fly.

Her top SCY times include:

  • 50 free – 22.43
  • 100 free – 47.88
  • 200 free – 1:43.64
  • 100 back – 52.27
  • 100 breast – 1:00.99
  • 100 fly – 52.61
  • 200 IM – 1:55.77

If you have a commitment to report, please send an email with a photo (landscape, or horizontal, looks best) and a quote to [email protected].

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pinkunicorns
6 years ago

is she the daughter of Mitch Ivey?

bobo gigi
6 years ago

I thought she would go to Florida or Georgia. It shows that Florida has big difficulty attracting big talents on the women’s side even the big local talents. Big talents go where the success is like Stanford, Cal or Georgia. But without big talents it’s tough to have success. And for several years Florida struggles to convince the biggest female talents to go there. And the result is that they have disappeared from the top rankings. Since the Beisel era that’s a very dry period for the Gator ladies team.

swimmerTX
Reply to  bobo gigi
6 years ago

She does swim for the UF club team, Gator Swim Club, and did have USC, Stanford, Gators, and Horns along with Cal in her mind when she committed, if you go to her insta profile and see who all she is following, which is a good indicator of where she was looking into.

Aquajosh
Reply to  bobo gigi
6 years ago

Have you seen their recruiting class for next year? That dry period is about to end. They definitely dropped the ball on recruiting in the last few years, but the girls team improved quite a bit across the board last year. They just had a very young and inexperienced team and no horses to score individually. This year, they’ll be back on the map with scoring, and next year could even get back into the top 10.

bobo gigi
6 years ago

She’s got the talent to make the olympic team in 2020. The US women’s 4X200 free relay needs new talents like Isabel Ivey if they want to beat Canada in Tokyo. Best wishes to Miss Ivey.

zelda
6 years ago

if this was a stanford commitment there would be 30 plus comments by now…..

Go See Cal
6 years ago

It’s her idol too!

(G)olden Bear
6 years ago

Go Bears!

Kaez
6 years ago

Holy! This is huge!

samuel huntington
6 years ago

Swimswam you will need to do recruit rankings two years in advance now it seems!

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