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USA Swimming Scholastic All-American Scarlett McGlinchey has announced her verbal commitment to swim and study at Duke University. McGlinchey is from Sewell, New Jersey, where she currently attends Our Lady of Mercy Academy and trains year-round with the Greater Philadelphia Aquatic Club. McGlinchey has one year remaining in high school and will arrive in Durham next fall for the 2025-2026 season.
McGlinchey primarily a breaststroke specialist, and owns Summer Junior National qualifying times in both the 100 & 200. Outside of breaststroke, she’s a Futures qualifier across the IM events and nearly all distances of freestyle.
Last season at Summer Juniors, McGlinchey recorded her top finish in the 200m breast at 92nd (2:42.71). She also competed in the short course Winter Juniors this past December, where her top event was the 100 breast. She stopped the clock in a season best time of 1:03.44 for 38th, putting her just over half a second off her personal best from March of 2023.
Highlighting McGlinchey’s spring was the NCSA Spring Championships. She recorded a top-20 finish in the 200 breast (2:18.05/2:40.50) and a top-30 finish in the 100 (1:04.05/1:14.10), with her 100m swim at night marking a new personal best. She also notched a new best time in the 400m IM, where she dropped over five seconds en route to a 27th place finish (5:01.00).
Top SCY Times
- 200 free – 1:51.78
- 500 free – 4:58.04
- 100 breast – 1:02.71
- 200 breast – 2:15.22
- 200 IM – 2:02.44
- 400 IM – 4:24.05
Under the direction of first-year head coach Brian Barnes, the Blue Devils finished 5th as a team at the 2024 ACC Championships and 16th at the 2024 NCAA Division I Championships. McGlinchey is already within ACC scoring range in the 200 breast, where it took a morning swim of 2:16.17 to advance to finals this year.
Kaelyn Gridley and Sarah Foley led the way for Duke in the 200 breast this season. Gridley secured 4th at ACCs in 2:08.48, while Foley was just behind in 8th with a final time of 2:10.85. Gridley, a rising junior, went on to finish 4th at NCAAs also (2:04.94).
McGlinchey is joined by Neala Klein, Tierney Lenahan, and Sidney Arcella in Duke’s class of 2029. Arcella is also a New Jersey native, while Lenahan is from Illinois and Klein from Florida.
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