The Auburn Tigers have received a verbal commitment from sprinter Valerie Hull, adding more speed to their class of 2014. Hull joins a class that already includes 23.3/51.7 sprinter Ashton Ellzey and 23.8/50.8 sprinter McKenna Debever.
Hull hails from Pacific Swim in the San Diego-Imperial LSC, where she trained under the guidance of head coach Dianne Molenaar and her staff.
Hull sits right in the same range as the rest of that group, but is probably the best among them, with bests of 23.5 and 50.1 in the 500 and 100 from a flat-start. She’s also been 1:48.80 in the 200 yard free.
And so Auburn continues to look to rebuild the sprint depth for which its legendary in this fall’s recruiting class: a depth that in a jam-packed SEC may not be as impressive this fall as it has been in the past (though the Tigers always seem to pull a proverbial sprint rabbit out of their proverbial speed hats).