Courtesy: Tide Swimming of Virginia Beach, Virginia
On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at the Virginia Swimming Senior Long Course Championships in Lynchburg, Virginia, Tide Swimming of Virginia Beach, Virginia added their second swimmer to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Trials.
Swimming lead-off of the 800 free relay, Elle Caldow, swam to a 2:01.49 and a ticket to Omaha. With the lead-off split from Caldow, Tide’s relay, with the help of Samantha Tadder, Abby Reardon, and Kayla Wilson would finish first with a time of 8:18.02. This standard would be a new Virginia Swimming Senior Long Course Champs record, and a Virginia Swimming State record. Caldow becomes the second swimmer from Tide to qualify for the Olympic Trials, joining the aforementioned Samantha Tadder who qualified in the 400 individual medley back in March at the ISCA International Junior Cup, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Caldow has verbally committed to swim at Tennessee, and will be a part of their 2024 class.
Tide’s two qualifiers thus far this year, equals their total number of Olympic Trial qualifiers since their start as a club swim team 30 years ago. Caldow and Tadder will join teammate Callie Dickinson, a rising sophomore at Georgia and semi-finalist at 2016 Olympic Trials, in Omaha, Nebraska in June of next year.
Gonna be a Big Dawg reunion in Omaha next June. Go Dawgs!