06-29-2021, 03:53 PM
Womens' Swimming Recruit
06-29-2021, 05:55 PM
I wonder if the other Katie (Grimes) is interested in a collegiate swimming career before turning pro.
06-29-2021, 09:02 PM
(06-29-2021, 05:55 PM)cardfan77 Wrote: I wonder if the other Katie (Grimes) is interested in a collegiate swimming career before turning pro.I think Bella Sims is the top dog for the Class of '23. She's the one I'd rather have than Grimes.
And for '22, we really want Claire Curzan and Charlotte Hook. Those are the swimmers we'll need to compete with Virginia moving forward.
(06-29-2021, 05:55 PM)cardfan77 Wrote: I wonder if the other Katie (Grimes) is interested in a collegiate swimming career before turning pro.I think Bella Sims is the top dog for the Class of '23. She's the one I'd rather have than Grimes.
And for '22, we really want Claire Curzan and Charlotte Hook. Those are the swimmers we'll need to compete with Virginia moving forward.
06-30-2021, 08:20 PM
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/
BC
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
On Cruzan:
On Hook:
They are ranked 1/2 of the 2022 recruiting class:
https://swimswam.com/top-20-ncaa-swimmin...s-of-2022/
BC
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
07-03-2021, 08:11 AM
no. 17 Sophie Duncan commits
#17 Sophie Duncan Sends Verbal Commitment to Stanford for Fall 2022 (swimswam.com)
#17 Sophie Duncan Sends Verbal Commitment to Stanford for Fall 2022 (swimswam.com)
no. 17 Sophie Duncan commits
#17 Sophie Duncan Sends Verbal Commitment to Stanford for Fall 2022 (swimswam.com)
#17 Sophie Duncan Sends Verbal Commitment to Stanford for Fall 2022 (swimswam.com)
07-10-2021, 08:24 AM
No. 15 ranked recruit Kayla Wilson from Virginia Beach, VA committed this past week.
https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/
https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/
No. 15 ranked recruit Kayla Wilson from Virginia Beach, VA committed this past week.
https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/
https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/
07-10-2021, 08:44 AM
(07-10-2021, 08:24 AM)VB Card Wrote: https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/Is that her backyard with the one-lane swimming pool? I put up a basketball hoop in my backyard for my son, but sheesh!
(07-10-2021, 08:24 AM)VB Card Wrote: https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/Is that her backyard with the one-lane swimming pool? I put up a basketball hoop in my backyard for my son, but sheesh!
07-10-2021, 10:34 AM
https://swimswam.com/stanford-earns-verb...r-2022-23/
Lucy Bell from Fossil Ridge High School and Fort Collins Area Swim Team in Fort Collins, Colorado has announced her verbal commitment to Stanford
University’s class of 2026....Bell is ranked 7th on our list of top girls recruits from the high school class of 2022. She is a strong IMer with a 200 fly time that would already score at NCAAs. Her 100 fly and 200 IM are just .04 and .06 shy of what it took to make it to finals at the 2021 NCAA Division I Championships.
Lucy Bell from Fossil Ridge High School and Fort Collins Area Swim Team in Fort Collins, Colorado has announced her verbal commitment to Stanford
University’s class of 2026....Bell is ranked 7th on our list of top girls recruits from the high school class of 2022. She is a strong IMer with a 200 fly time that would already score at NCAAs. Her 100 fly and 200 IM are just .04 and .06 shy of what it took to make it to finals at the 2021 NCAA Division I Championships.
https://swimswam.com/stanford-earns-verb...r-2022-23/
Lucy Bell from Fossil Ridge High School and Fort Collins Area Swim Team in Fort Collins, Colorado has announced her verbal commitment to Stanford
University’s class of 2026....Bell is ranked 7th on our list of top girls recruits from the high school class of 2022. She is a strong IMer with a 200 fly time that would already score at NCAAs. Her 100 fly and 200 IM are just .04 and .06 shy of what it took to make it to finals at the 2021 NCAA Division I Championships.
Lucy Bell from Fossil Ridge High School and Fort Collins Area Swim Team in Fort Collins, Colorado has announced her verbal commitment to Stanford
University’s class of 2026....Bell is ranked 7th on our list of top girls recruits from the high school class of 2022. She is a strong IMer with a 200 fly time that would already score at NCAAs. Her 100 fly and 200 IM are just .04 and .06 shy of what it took to make it to finals at the 2021 NCAA Division I Championships.
07-10-2021, 12:01 PM
(07-10-2021, 08:44 AM)oldalum Wrote:(07-10-2021, 08:24 AM)VB Card Wrote: https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/Is that her backyard with the one-lane swimming pool? I put up a basketball hoop in my backyard for my son, but sheesh!
It appears to be a 3-lane pool. When I moved into the south SF-Bay Area in 1980, the cul-de-sac I moved into had 14 homes, half of which had pools. As a former swimmer (as is this recruit's mother), I liked the idea of having a pool for my family. For me, a basketball hoop would have been useless, but to each their own.
I expect that pool was useful for training during COVID. (Remember the stories of Katie Ledecky, et al, trying to find pools to train in?) Kayla's mother helped convince her community to open its only Olympic-sized pool in 2016 (effort started in 2011 apparently).
(07-10-2021, 08:44 AM)oldalum Wrote:(07-10-2021, 08:24 AM)VB Card Wrote: https://swimswam.com/15-kayla-wilson-ann...s-of-2026/Is that her backyard with the one-lane swimming pool? I put up a basketball hoop in my backyard for my son, but sheesh!
It appears to be a 3-lane pool. When I moved into the south SF-Bay Area in 1980, the cul-de-sac I moved into had 14 homes, half of which had pools. As a former swimmer (as is this recruit's mother), I liked the idea of having a pool for my family. For me, a basketball hoop would have been useless, but to each their own.
I expect that pool was useful for training during COVID. (Remember the stories of Katie Ledecky, et al, trying to find pools to train in?) Kayla's mother helped convince her community to open its only Olympic-sized pool in 2016 (effort started in 2011 apparently).
08-06-2021, 03:11 PM
Among all the Olympics news, this piece of exciting news slipped under the radar:
No. 2 Recruit Commits to Stanford
Hook looks to be in the mold of Brooke Forde - great IM swimmer with good long distance and 200 free style potential. Now all we need is her club teammate Clair Curzan to say yes to Stanford...
No. 2 Recruit Commits to Stanford
Hook looks to be in the mold of Brooke Forde - great IM swimmer with good long distance and 200 free style potential. Now all we need is her club teammate Clair Curzan to say yes to Stanford...
Among all the Olympics news, this piece of exciting news slipped under the radar:
No. 2 Recruit Commits to Stanford
Hook looks to be in the mold of Brooke Forde - great IM swimmer with good long distance and 200 free style potential. Now all we need is her club teammate Clair Curzan to say yes to Stanford...
No. 2 Recruit Commits to Stanford
Hook looks to be in the mold of Brooke Forde - great IM swimmer with good long distance and 200 free style potential. Now all we need is her club teammate Clair Curzan to say yes to Stanford...
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