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New Jersey native Sarah Rodrigues, an ‘Honorable Point out’ in our class of 2025 rankings, will commerce in her proximity to the Huge Metropolis for the massive hats of Texas, as she has introduced on Instagram her verbal dedication to swim for the College of Texas within the fall of 2025.
I couldn’t be extra excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my athletic and educational profession on the College of Texas! I wish to thank all of my household, buddies, teammates, and coaches who helped me obtain this objective. A HUGE thanks to @texaswsd for granting me this chance. HOOK’EM HORNS🤘🧡
Representing her highschool, Wayne Valley, on the NJSIAA Meet of Champions this previous March, Rodrigues made an look atop the rostrum in each of her occasions. Within the 200 free, Rodrigues swam a private better of 1:47.68 within the prelims to qualify into the ultimate first. Whereas she in the end touched second within the ultimate, she improved her time by taking the silver in 1:47.15. Within the 100 again, she once more certified first into the finals with a brand new private better of 52.54. She was simply .05 slower in finals however remained within the lead, claiming the highest spot on the rostrum in a time of 52.59.
Rodrigues is not any stranger to the rostrum as she positioned inside the high 8 in a number of occasions earlier within the winter on the 2023 Winter Juniors Championship-East meet. within the 100 again she claimed seventh place in a time of 53.60, after having set a then PB in prelims of 53.26. Within the 200 again, she climbed to the fourth step of the rostrum, swimming a time of 1:54.81.
She has not restricted herself to success in simply the yards pool, although. In one of many deepest occasions domestically for the US Ladies, Rodrigues earned a second swim on the 2024 US Olympic Trials this previous summer season as she swam a 2:11.37 within the prelims of the 200 again, in the end inserting 14th in a private greatest time of two:11.04.
Extra lately on the finish of July, on the Richmond version of the Futures Championships, Rodrigues received the 200 again (2:11.74) in addition to the 100 fly in a brand new PB of 1:00.40). She additionally set new PBs within the 200 fly (2:20.43) in addition to within the 100 free (57.89) and 100 again (1:01.64) inserting 2nd within the latter of the occasions.
Finest Yards Instances
- 200 Free – 1:47.15
- 100 Again – 52.54
- 200 Again – 1:52.84
- 100 Fly – 54.21
- 200 Fly – 2:00.67
Rodrigues, in a yr’s time, can be becoming a member of a Texas program that might have simply accomplished its first yr within the SECs and can be trying to equal or higher its string of three runner-up finishes on the NCAAs.
On the 2024 Huge 12 Champs, Texas, in its final yr within the convention, received the meet by almost 1000 factors, amassing a rating of 2148 to Houston’s 1266.5. Within the 100 again, Texas went 1-2-3 behind freshman Berit Berglund‘s 51.72. Within the 200, it was her teammate Olivia Bray, a senior, who took the win in a time of 1:53.01.
Within the 100 fly Texas went 1-2-3, with Emma Sticklen and Olivia Bray taking the highest two spots in 50.61 and 50.80, whereas within the 200, it was Kelly Pash who claimed victory in a time of 1:51.68, simply forward of Sticklen’s 1:51.68.
Huge 12 instances doesn’t paint the best image for Rodrigues’s potential success for Texas, however on the 2024 SEC’s her greatest within the 100 again (52.54) would have tied for ninth in prelims, whereas her 200 better of 1:52.84 would have been 4th out of prelims and fifth within the A-Closing. Whereas neither of her fly instances would have made the highest 24, her 200 free better of 1:47.15 would have simply squeaked into the C-Closing in twenty fourth.
Whereas Rodrigues nonetheless has a yr to enhance, she already has private bests which are able to not solely making the finals at SECs, based mostly on final yr’s instances, but in addition to qualify her for the NCAA Championships. Her 200 again time of 1:52.84 would have ranked sixteenth heading into the NCAAs final yr, and would have positioned twenty first total.
Rodrigues matches the robust Texas stereotypical swimmer, a robust cross-over between the backstroke and butterfly occasions, just like returning fifth-year Bray.
Becoming a member of Rodrigues in Austin subsequent fall are #5 Haley McDonald, BOTR Avery Collins, and Ella Mongenel. McDonald can also be a robust 200 backstroker and, with Rodrigues, might show to be a formidable pressure for Texas at each SECs and NCAAs.
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