World Junior Championships Finalist Alex Quach Commits to Ohio State

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Alex Quach, who swam at the 2019 World Junior Championships representing Australia, has committed to Ohio State University. He is scheduled to join the Buckeyes in the fall of 2021. Quach is part of a growing wave of Australians who have been freed to explore the NCAA system thanks to that country’s new policies of holding trials for major international meets later in the year, rather than the traditional March or April dates that had conflicts with the NCAA season.

Last summer, Quach represented Australia internationally in Budapest at the FINA World Junior Championships. At that meet, individually, he finished 16th in the 50 fly semi-finals, 18th in the 100 fly prelims, and 16th in the 200 fly prelims.

He also raced on a trio of Australian relays, the men’s 400 free, the mixed 400 free, and the men’s 400 medley relay, all of which qualified for finals but none of which earned medals.

Domestically, in 2019, at 17-years old, he qualified for the final of the men’s 200 fly at the Australian National Championships.

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Quach joins an Ohio State team that finished 2nd at last year’s Big Ten Championship meet. The Buckeyes last season were a balanced and deep team, without many glaring holes, though their top butterflier Noah Lense (4th in the 100 fly and 3rd in the 200 fly) did graduate at the end of last season, which leaves a gap there moving forward.

As a freshman, Quach will battle with rising 2020 junior Semuede Andreis (46.9 at Big Tens last year) and incoming class of 2020 freshman Jean-Pierre Khouzam (47.0/1:44.4 out of high school) for medley relay spots.

Quach will bring some firepower to a class of 2021 for the Buckeyes that has a few good pieces (like 55-second breaststroker Karl Helmuth) but that generally lacked the sizzle of the team’s class of 2020 that ranked 7th in the nation.

Quach trains with the Auburn Swim Club in Lidcombe, New South Wales

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