Mia Thatcher Sends Verbal to SCAD; Will Join Her Brother Joel Next Fall

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Budding student-artist-athlete Mia Thatcher announced her intention to swim for the Savannah College of Art and Design beginning in the fall of 2020 in the most appropriate way:

Thatcher is a butterfly specialist who started training with Savannah Swim Team in June. Before that she trained with coach Jason Roberts at Countryside YMCA in Lebanon, Ohio. She swam for Mason High School on their District Championship team as a sophomore and a junior. In club swimming, Thatcher is a YMCA Nationals qualifier in the 100/200 fly. She competed at the Georgia Swimming LSC Long Course State Championship this summer in the 100 back and 100/200 fly. She finaled in the 200 fly (28th) and notched PBs in the 100 back and 100 fly. She swam the 100 fly at 2019 YMCA Short Course National Championships.

Thatcher will be an immediate impact player for the NAIA national-champion Bees. Her best times would have scored at 2019 NAIA Nationals in the A final of the 200 fly and the B finals of the 100 fly and 200 IM.

Best SCY times:

  • 100 fly – 58.66
  • 200 fly – 2:10.81
  • 200 IM – 2:18.71
  • 500 free – 5:18.92

Thatcher will be able to swim with her older brother Joel Thatcher, who just returned to SCAD after a two-year mission in Peru. Currently a sophomore on the Bees’ roster, he broke the NAIA national records in the 500 free (4:20.35) and the 1650 free (15:18.39) as a freshman at the 2016-17 NAIA Championships.

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Heyitsme
4 years ago

This should be in a Disney movie. So awesome!!

María Félix
Reply to  Heyitsme
4 years ago

My daughter goes to that school, they do super great art and designs! The school is amazing!!

hookem91
4 years ago

Coolest commitment announcement I’ve seen in a while. Congratulations!

Mason Manta Rays
4 years ago

Congratulations, Mia!

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Anne Lepesant

Anne Lepesant is the mother of four daughters, all of whom swam in college. With an undergraduate degree from Princeton (where she was an all-Ivy tennis player) and an MBA from INSEAD, she worked for many years in the financial industry, both in France and the U.S. Anne is currently …

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