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The girls high school graduating class of 2020 is already one of the best in the history of swimming. But Lillie Nordmann‘s big 200 free swim last weekend raises the class to new heights.
For reference, here’s how we ranked the top of that recruiting class last spring:
- Regan Smith
- Alex Walsh
- Olivia Bray
- Isabelle Stadden
- Phoebe Bacon
- Lillie Nordmann
- Emma Sticklen
Smith is a world champ and world record-holder. Walsh won three gold medals at the Pan American Games. Bacon won two golds there. Stadden won one. This is as loaded a class as you can possibly find.
And yet #6 Nordmann is making a case to move up that list after a stellar showing at Texas’s 6A High School State Championships. The senior smashed an 11-year-old 6A state record in the 200 free, going 1:43.62. That’s the second-fastest time of anyone in this recruiting class, leapfrogging #2 Walsh and coming in behind only #1 Smith, who has been 1:43.27.
Later in the meet, Nordmann beat #8 Sticklen head-to-head for the 100 fly title, going a lifetime-best 52.00. At the end of the meet, she split 48.39 on the end of the 400 free relay. That blows out her career-best in the flat-start 100 free (49.05) and ranks highly in a class that only has a handful of 48-second freestylers.
You can find race videos of the Texas 6A state meet here.
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Nordmann will be joining Smith; andRuck next year at Stanford…Wow!
Maybe and maybe