(NLI Photos) Markham signs with LSU, follows older brother to SEC

Versatile butterflyer/IMer Jake Markham of Cherry Creek High School in Colorado has signed an National Letter of Intent to swim for Louisiana State University next season.

Markham holds top times of 1:49.21 in the 200 back, 1:49.74 in the 200 IM and 49.89 in the 100 fly. He’s also a strong freestyler and should be a big help to LSUs lineup in multiple areas.

Markham will now compete against his older brother, Jared, who swims for Georgia, setting up an exciting sibling rivalry within the SEC.

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Jared Anderson

Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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