Santi Corredor is in the NCAA transfer portal after a season with the Florida State Seminoles. Corredor went to high school in Florida and is a dual citizen in the United States and Colombia.
Corredor began his career at the University of Florida in his home state, then transferred to the University of Southern California for his junior season (the 2019-20 season). He didn’t compete with USC, though, then left the school due to “financial complications.” He hopes to transfer to South Carolina, which would be his fourth school.
He’s outlined his situation in a petition to the NCAA in hopes he can transfer and not have to sit out a season, which includes his claim that his transfer is for mental health reasons due to his experiences at FSU.
“South Carolina is the only school I would swim for. From personal experience as a swimmer under them, Jeff Poppell and Robert Pinter are two outstanding coaches with great team culture values. I would love the chance to have Coach Poppell as my head honcho.”
TOP TIMES (SCY)
- 200 free – 1:37.06
- 500 free – 4:18.57
- 1650 free – 15:19.74
- 200 back – 1:45.08
- 200 fly – 1:45.45
- 200 IM – 1:47.63
- 400 IM – 3:44.85
Corredor has represented his home nation of Colombia internationally; he raced at the 2019 Pan American Games, placing eighth in the 400 free and 400 IM. In yards, his lifetime bests in the freestyle events, and the 200 back and 400 IM, are all from 2018 while he was a freshman at Florida. He hit a 200 fly PR earlier in 2021 with FSU, while his 200 IM PR is from high school. He scored in the 500 free B-final and 200 fly C-final at the 2021 ACC Championships with the Seminoles.
Jeff Poppell was the Florida women’s head coach while Corredor was with the Gators, and Poppell’s currently taking over the South Carolina program as the Florida program is combining genders under Anthony Nesty.
As the Gamecocks rebuild under Poppell’s new direction, Corredor would be a big get for the Gamecocks, who had nobody under 4:20 in the 500 free this past season; in fact, he would’ve been their best swimmer in all of the events on his top times list except for the 200 free.
good grief
He needs to sit out a year. Honor your commitment…
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Not gonna lie, when I first saw the headline my brain misread it as Santo Condorelli and I thought “oh I didn’t know they had a transfer portal for international representation” 😂
Ok cool but it’s probably time to look in the mirror at this point
Time to look in the mirror from which side of the story? Obviously something is up with the swimmer that’s made him transfer this many times. The atmosphere at florida state is a very stressful one coming from a swimmer at the program. The fact that they recruit 20-30 swimmers a year doesn’t help that. The yearly cuts at the infamous garnet and gold meet just add onto the stress the swimmers face on the daily.
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Just another batch of FSU swimmers entering the transfer portal. Turning into an annual tradition.
Santi Corredor is a stand up dude. Hard worker and always a pleasure to be around. Hopefully everything works out for him and he ends up at South Carolina with a good coaching situation via Jeff Poppell.
Then why is this his 4th school? That’s ridiculous no matter what kind of person you are.
It might not be as bad as you think if he left SoCal because of financial reasons and then Jeff Poppell comes out and says he has scholarship money that was left on the table…
No good reason for the NCAA to deny this. Let the man swim
No good reason? Wait until NIL is passed. You’re going to see athletes in football/basketball hopping schools every year if there’s no check on it.
I agree – give someone one freebie. By the second one, it seems like there oughta be some kind of a cooling-off period.
coaches can leave whenever they like, so no.
But ultimately why shouldn’t they be able to hop around however they want? I personally wouldn’t want to but if that’s what an athlete wants to do/how they can best make a living they should be allowed to
Yet another report of a toxic culture/coach… this seems way more prevalent than I would have imagined. How do these people rise to division 1 coaching roles?
It’s different than a program like auburn that had a ton of transfers… if it’s one guy he’s probably the problem not the coaches
There are 6 people in the transfer portal leaving FSU. Several for mental health reasons…
You fail to realize that this is this swimmers 3rd transfer in as many years
Is that a toxic culture at USC or FSU?
from what I’ve heard from others swimming there ive heard both are pretty bad
From experience the UF coach/culture is very overrated and it’s an overall bad time. Fsu has terrible coaches and south californi was too expensive. Like you mention, this toxic issue is more prevalent than people imagine.
I’d love to see an anonymous survey done across the Power 5 teams and beyond and see how many swimmers are truly happy where they are.
I can tell you that my swimmer, at FSU, couldn’t be happier. Swimming fast, on the Deans list, loves the coaches, and truly enjoying the great team culture.