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CIF 100 Fly State Champion Mia Kragh Verbally Commits to Cal for 2021
NEW COMMIT: The University of Cal, Berkeley has received their second verbal commitment for the 2021-22 season and beyond from talented sprinter and butterflyer Mia Kragh of San Diego, Calif. who will join McKenna Stone as a member of the Golden Bears' class of 2025.
CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPION MIA KRAGH VERBALLY COMMITS TO CAL (2021)California High School State Champion
Mia Kragh has verbally committed to the Cal Golden Bears as a member of the class of 2021.
Kragh is SwimSwam's 16th-ranked recruit in the class.
The Cal women, who were the runners-up at last year's NCAA Championship meet, have gotten off to a
slow start in recruiting the current class of high school juniors as compared to some of their top-10 counterparts, but are catching up quickly
thanks to the commitments of Kragh and McKenna Stone.
In May, as a sophomore, Kragh won the California State Championship in the 100 yard fly, swimming a 52.26 in the race. Along with Stone, this gives Cal the defending California and Illinois high school state champions in that event.
After the sprint butterflies, Kragh's next-best events are the sprint freestyles. She ranked among the top 30 15 & unders nationally last season in the 100 free (50.08) and 50 free (23.11).
She really made big leaps as a high school sophomore to really push her into the elite class of recruiting that would be invited to commit this early to a program like Cal. As a freshman, her best time in the 100 fly was 57.86. As a sophomore, and into the start of her junior season, she's been faster than that swim 12 times already, cutting a total of 5-and-a-half seconds from her best.
She saw a similar drop in 2019 in long course, improving her time in the 100 meter fly from 1:05.18 to 1:00.68 and an Olympic Trials cut. That Trials cut came just 3 weeks ago at the Kevin Perry Senior Invite.
Best Times in Yards:- 50 free - 23.11
- 100 free - 50.08
- 200 free - 1:48.89
- 100 fly - 52.26
- 200 fly - 2:10.20
Cal has a big class of 2020 coming in with a lot of very good backstrokers, but it is a class that is limited on great butterfliers. Isabel Ivey is holding that group in-tact until she graduates, but the addition of Kragh and Stone to the roster on 1 season of overlap with Ivey is an important addition for the long-term health of the program. Cal's biggest need in this class now, as it seems to perpetually be, is a breaststroker to take over after the graduation of Ema Rajic (also scheduled for 2021).
Kragh swims for Rancho San Dieguito Aquatics and Torrey Pines High School.
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THE FIRST 100 VERBAL COMMITMENTS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2021It's not even Thanksgiving in fact Signing Day for the class of 2020 was only two weeks ago but already we have written 100 articles on the verbal commitments from the high school class of 2021.
Because of changes to the recruiting schedule instituted by the NCAA over the last two years, prospective student-athletes are now able to take official visits to campuses beginning in September of their junior year. Therefore, they are making verbal commitments much earlier than in years past.
With 100 names in our database so far, we have written about 16 of the girls and 16 of the boys from our way too early lists of top-20 recruits from the class of 2021.
RANK | TOP 20 GIRLS FROM 2021 | VERBAL COMMITMENT1 | Gretchen Walsh |
2 | Torri Huske |
3 | Grace Sheble | NC State
4 | Paige McKenna | Wisconsin
5 | Ashley Strouse | Northwestern
6 | Reilly Tiltmann | Virginia
7 | Annabel Crush | NC State
8 | Brooke Zettel | Florida
9 | Letitia Sim |
10 | Ellie Waldrep | Auburn
11 | Asia Minnes | Tennessee
12 | Ella Bathurst | Virginia
13 | Amy Tang |
14 | Mackenzie McConagha | Wisconsin
15 | Olivia McMurray | Texas
16 | Mia Kragh | Cal17 | Micayla Cronk | Florida
18 | Rachel Stege | Georgia
19 | Kate Morris | Virginia
20 | Mariah Denigan | Indiana
You can read more about these athletes here:
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