Yeah, she will never swim a second in college and she will never be a Cal Bear, but Penny is still my favorite swimmer, and she is such a class act in being the celebrity that she is.
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Elise Garcia: Beyond excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and swimming career at the University of California Berkeley!! I would like to thank all of my family, friends, and coaches for supporting me throughout this ongoing journey. I cannot wait to be a part of such an incredible program!! Go bears!!! #classof2022
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Ema Rajic: Super excited to announce my verbal commitment to the University of California Berkeley!! I want to thank all my family, friends, and coaches for helping me commit to my dream school! Can't wait to be a baby bear!! Go bears!!! [url=https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/babybear/][/url]#babybear
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Then there are the prodigies abroad who may or may not experience language barrier challenges if they should desire to compete in the States:
800m Free podium: Ajna Kesely (HUN), Delfina Pignatiello (ARG) - 8:25.22 Championship record, 5+ sec ahead of Ajna, Gestido Cons (ESP)
Delfina had also broken the 1500m Free Championship record with her 15:59.51 to take the crown, with a Ledecky-esque margin of victory (16 sec)!
Ajna placed 2nd in this gruelling mile, but snagged a gold of her very own in the 400m Free (where Delfina was the runner-up).
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USA Swimming 2017-2018 National Team
Women:
- Cassidy Bayer (200 Fly)
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- Lucie Nordmann (#16 SS, #9 CS) - back, free. Have a feeling Lucie's more of a furdette lean tho (LSJU needs sprint back/fly/free talent to make up for Howe & Hu's versatile top end punch in those areas, so Lucie can help to partially fill the back & free aspects). The 2 Texas teams also in the running, maybe 'SC as they are in serious need of a backstroker... We would certainly welcome Lucie though if she wants to be a Bear
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- Sarah Grinalds (#20 SS, #20 CS) - freestyler, better in the sprints & shorter distances.
- Or Cathy Teng (#46 CS)?
- Or our Junior Day visitors - Mikki Thompon (#51 CS), Jessica Epps (#84 CS), Vivian Wang (#85 CS)?
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To keep up with the above FB win streak, along with this year's trend of early swim commitments, would make sense to host our Bears prospects as early as this coming Sat's game v. Weber State
Def. looking forward to appearances from our 4 super talented Baby Bears commits:
- Cassidy Bayer (#5 SwimSwam, #14 CollegeSwimming)
- Elise Garcia (#18 SS, #21 CS)
- Alex Sumner (Hon. Mention SS, #32 CS)
- Ema Rajic (#42 CS)
With so many of the top elites in the HS class of 2018 already having announced their verbals, who else would you realistically like to see show up @ Memorial over the weekend?
- Eva Merrell (#1 SS, #1= CS) is an easy choice lol - fly, back, sprint free ace
- Mary-Sophie Harvey (#4 CS) who can do it all - IMs, mid-distance free /breast/fly
- Morgan Tankersley (#4 SS, #8 CS) would be a really brill asset with her rangy freestyle
Callie made the trip to Georgia this weekend, alongside Jessie Nava (#37) + Kaki Christensen (#53) who both went on to verbal to UVa, and Kaylee Wheeler (#124) who then committed to Louisville.UrsusArctosCalifornicus said:
revised guess is that our mystery recruit may possibly be Callie Dickinson (#69 CS)??
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A 2018 international whose name hasn't yet come up in the discussion (primarily cos I hadn't previously realised that she may be considering studying & swimming collegiately in the States) is Swedish Olympian Sophie Hansson (#16 in the class according to CollegeSwimming)
Going the SCM-to-SCY conversion route yields even more promising results...for example, a 1:05.26 in the 100m Breast, done @ 2016 Swedish Short Course Nationals last month, that would roughly correspond to a 58.79 in yards, i.e. inside A finals scoring range!
By the same token, I'd urge a bit of caution with regards to getting our hopes too high here, since the likely path for the younger Hansson could well be to the Trojanettes (sister on team, Salo's reputation & record of recruiting/developing breaststrokers, nice pool & SoCal weather which may appeal to someone from the colder Nordic clime)
Sophie & Louise Hansson @ Rio
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- If Morgan isn't meant to be, then possibly Easop Lee (#13 SS, #16 CS)? May not be quite as swift as Morgan in the mid-distance frees, but do add a 200 Fly & IMs to her resume. Alright, so Stanford is her dream school, but maybe Cal can become a better dream school for her haha.
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Heartily approve of Lee's decision here, over her going to the Farm...reckon BearDevil will be chuffed too
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OBear, no room. We are going after bigger fish.OBear073akaSMFan said:Glad she is not going to the farm but disappointed she is not going to Cal!UrsusArctosCalifornicus said:
Heartily approve of Lee's decision here, over her going to the Farm...reckon BearDevil will be chuffed too
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Not really expecting any of the following to visit - but heck, you never know...
- Ruby Martin (#26 CS) who packs a mean 200 Fly (best in the class). But prob. of relatively limited utility to the Bears lineup, as Cassidy & Elise both hold faster times in the 100 Fly... I can sort of see Ruby being snapped up by Bauerle to join Dakota Luther & Olivia Carter, to form a formidable fly dynasty for UGA that can challenge Bears in this dept (tho we would still be better in the sprint flys).
Gladly to sacrifice Easop for your guarantee of bigger fishes!!!tedbear said:
OBear, no room. We are going after bigger fish.
Hey OBear - can't speak for tedbear meself lol, but I'd think all bets/guarantees are basically off, if #1 Eva and #4 Morgan were both to show up on the farm during LSJU's recruiting weekend...OBear073akaSMFan said:Gladly to sacrifice Easop for your guarantee of bigger fishes!!!tedbear said:
OBear, no room. We are going after bigger fish.
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Meanwhile, National Junior Teamer Diana Dunn (#98) made the trip to Kyle Field over the weekend (Texas A&M) ...
...Diana was at the Auburn Tigers game today, I believe
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Looks like Reece & the 2018 men's recruits will be at the 'SC game this Sat. Wonder if anyone may show up on the women's side?
MSH checking out her Canadian options this weekend:UrsusArctosCalifornicus said:
Eva + Taylor or MSH => Cal would seal the deal for us in my judgement - OTOH don't have much of a clue as to where those 2 Canadians may end up at - perhaps they'll choose to take the Emily Overholt route and attend uni north of the border, whilst at the same time competing as pro swimmers instead?
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- Mary-Sophie Harvey (#4 CS) who can do it all - IMs, mid-distance free/breast/fly
MSH would complement Eva very nicely...however am not quite as sold as tedbear re MSH's interest in Cal (but would love it if she does take a trip to Berkeley!). Bears having already welcomed MSH's Canadian National teammate Sarah Darcel (whose forte lies in pretty similar areas) to our Froski class this season, so MSH might not be the highest priority on Teri's plate...
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Eva & Lucie apparently having quite a blast and bonding with 2018 Dawg commits Dakota, Madison& Olivia on their Georgia recruiting trip this weekend.
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Meanwhile, Jessica Epps (#84) stayed a bit closer to home after her Harvard trip last Sat:
https://instagr.am/p/BZHzWXmFtpT
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- Lucie Nordmann (#16 SS, #9 CS) - back, free. Have a feeling Lucie's more of a furdette lean tho (LSJU needs sprint back/fly/free talent to make up for Howe & Hu's versatile top end punch in those areas, so Lucie can help to partially fill the back & free aspects).
The 2 Texas teams also in the running.
Eva & Lucie apparently having quite a blast and bonding with 2018 Dawg commits Dakota, Madison & Olivia on their Georgia recruiting trip this weekend.
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I think the recruiting picture should become clearer soon after the 30th, which is when the furdettes likely will be hosting their visitors during the ASU game weekend
Hopefully the key verbals from Eva (#1) & Morgan (#4) will flow in before the 30th - would really prefer not to endure a rehash of the heartbreaks we were hit with after the Furd's recruiting weekends of 2016 & 2017!!! :p
Hey OBear - can't speak for tedbear meself lol, but I'd think all bets/guarantees are basically off, if #1 Eva and #4 Morgan were both to show up on the farm during LSJU's recruiting weekend...
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- Or our Junior Day visitors - Mikki Thompon (#51 CS), Jessica Epps (#84 CS), Vivian Wang (#85 CS)?
...whilst Sam Shelton was hosting Sarah Grinalds, Cathy Teng, Mikki Thompson & Jessica Epps over @ Harvard:
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- Lucie Nordmann (#16 SS, #9 CS) - back, free. Have a feeling Lucie's more of a furdette lean tho (LSJU needs sprint back/fly/free talent to make up for Howe & Hu's versatile top end punch in those areas, so Lucie can help to partially fill the back & free aspects).
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(also, I'm new here, the furd refers to Stanford, correct? is there any reason why they're called that?)
Bearz012, there should be no connection between Meehan's salary and the number of full scholarships (14) available to the team. What happens is that scholarships can be split up, i.e., two swimmers can each get 1/2 scholarship, and in the case of the Furd, the difference can be made up in financial aid, or just the flat out ability of rich parents being able to pay the difference. I think the NCAA should just hard cap the number of swimmers you can have on a team, period.bearz012 said:
I think part of the reason that Stanford's able to distribute so many scholarships is because they no longer are paying for Meehan's coaching.
https://swimswam.com/stanford-womens-head-coaching-position-endowed-paul-violich-family/
Not surprised about Nordmann's commitment, she's very close with Bartel, who committed way earlier.
(also, I'm new here, the furd refers to Stanford, correct? is there any reason why they're called that?)