07-01-2021, 10:12 AM
On Cruzan:
On Hook:
They are ranked 1/2 of the 2022 recruiting class:
https://swimswam.com/top-20-ncaa-swimmin...s-of-2022/
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Quote:What can you say about Curzan? She’s one of the best recruits we’ve ever seen in college swimming. She would have made the 2021 NCAA A final in six different events (100/200 fly, 100/200 back, 50/100 free). She’s the best sprint freestyle in the class by a longshot, and she might not even swim those events at the college level because of how good her fly and back are. Her lifetime-bests haven’t had race videos available lately, but this long course swim from November shows how smooth and efficient her butterfly is. And her underwater kick speed is unbelievable, especially coming off the turn. Curzan is in lane 4.
On Hook:
Quote:Hook is Curzan’s club teammate, and the two of them pretty well cover the butterfly events in this class with outstanding speed. Hook definitely qualifies as one of those IM/stroke types we mentioned above who don’t really cross over into a lot of relay events. But she’s got the best 200 fly and 200 IM in the class, and has a 200 free that should give her at least one high-level relay event early on in her career. Hook isn’t quite the underwater rocket that Curzan is, but race videos show a really tough, disciplined swimmer. This is an older swim, but the way Hook (lane 4) paces this swim and then rips away from the field in the back half is veteran-level 200 fly strategy.
They are ranked 1/2 of the 2022 recruiting class:
https://swimswam.com/top-20-ncaa-swimmin...s-of-2022/
BC