Sam Kohm to Join Older Brother Zach at Georgia in Fall 2022

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Plymouth Whitemarsh Aquatics’ Sam Kohm has verbally committed to Georgia for fall 2022, joining older brother Zach Kohm, a fall 2021 commit.

I am beyond excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at the University of Georgia!! I would like to thank all my friends, family, and coaches for helping me get to this point, I can’t wait to call Athens home! Go dawgs!! #committotheg

TOP TIMES (SCY)

  • 200 free – 1:46.17
  • 500 free – 4:41.92
  • 1000 free – 9:40.16
  • 1650 free – 16:00.10
  • 400 IM – 4:10.17

Kohm is a junior at La Salle College High School in Pennsylvania. At 2019 Easterns, as a freshman, he qualified for the 500 free C-final, where he touched 18th overall.

Last summer, at the 2019 Middle Atlantic LSC Championships in LCM, Kohm swam to an eighth-place finish in the 1500m free (16:35.81). He was also 12th in both the 800m free (8:42.35) and 400m free (4:10.91) and 18th in the 400m IM (4:46.36).

Georgia is led in the distance free events by seniors Greg Reed (4:16.7/14:43), Aaron Apel (4:19.1/14:57) and Grant Norgan (4:17.0/15:10), junior Andrew Abruzzo (4:15.0/15:02) and freshman Jake Magahey (4:12.7/14:51).

Kohm joins Matt Sates, one of South Africa’s top talents nationally, in UGA’s 2026 class on the men’s side.

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Dawg guy
3 years ago

Congratulations Sam. One of the hardest workers in and out of the pool for sure. Those who actually know, know. No one getting upset around here, so y’all can keep waiting.
BIG things happening for this dawg.

The Big Z
4 years ago

Yous sleepin on my g🤫🤫

TheBigH
Reply to  The Big Z
4 years ago

Stop sleepin on King Kohm

The Big Z
Reply to  TheBigH
4 years ago

They tripping dawg

TheBigH
4 years ago

Congrats to Sam! Very proud of this kid and the hard work he put in. Keep an eye out for some massive time drops

The Big Z
Reply to  TheBigH
4 years ago

Fr

Guy
Reply to  TheBigH
4 years ago

Don’t you UGA should’ve waited until these “massive time drops” actually happened! According to collegeswimming.com this kid sat out his entire sophmore year and hasn’t improved in his best events since 2018!

TheBigT
Reply to  Guy
4 years ago

Stop hating on my guy. He is the hardest worker in the pool always.

Last edited 4 years ago by TheBigT
Dan
4 years ago

Congratulations.

SWIMGUY12345
4 years ago

I’m going to wait for someone to get upset at the comments and defend walk-ons.

But the thing is, I think we all knew/know Georgia high schoolers who were significantly faster than this and weren’t given the chance to walk-on at UGA.

Guy
Reply to  SWIMGUY12345
4 years ago

It seems like you either have to be crazy fast or have the connections to swim at UGA now

Guy
Reply to  SWIMGUY12345
4 years ago

Is he a walk on? I’ve never heard of a walk-on committing one October of junior year. That’s when the top 20s usually commit.

SWIMGUY12345
Reply to  Guy
4 years ago

Good point, hadn’t even considered that.

Guy
Reply to  Guy
4 years ago

UGA also got another commit on the girls side who doesn’t seem too fast.

Anonymous
Reply to  Guy
4 years ago

Some of these recruits might not have had a meet since December of 2019 so there could be very big time drops coming

SWIMGUY12345
Reply to  Anonymous
4 years ago

If he goes 1:38 in the 200 free and and 4:25 in the 500 free, I’ll say I was wrong.

Former Big10
Reply to  Guy
4 years ago

They also had a girl commit and go 4:40… lol 😂

Guy
4 years ago

Didn’t know that having a fast brother could have this much influence

Swim Dawg
4 years ago

whaaat…

Hswimmer
4 years ago

umm

About Karl Ortegon

Karl Ortegon

Karl Ortegon studied sociology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, graduating in May of 2018. He began swimming on a club team in first grade and swam four years for Wesleyan.

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