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Highschool junior Riley Anderson from Colchester, Connecticut, has made a verbal dedication to Duke College for the 2026-27 college 12 months.
“I’m so excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my athletic and educational profession at Duke College! I need to thank my household, my coaches Rob, Matt, and Kelly, and my buddies for all of their assist! I particularly need to thank Coach Brian and the Duke teaching workers for giving me this wonderful alternative! Go Blue Devils!!😈”
Anderson attends Bacon Academy, which doesn’t have a pool, so she does her highschool swimming with the Manchester Excessive College co-op, as her father did some 30 years in the past. Riley is a Third-generation high-level swimmer, following within the footsteps of her grandfather (Ron Anderson) and her father (Sean Anderson). Ron coached the Manchester leisure swimming workforce and the Manchester Excessive College boys’ workforce for over 40 years and was inducted into the Manchester Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2011. Sean, who nonetheless holds the Manchester Co-op Excessive College workforce’s 50 free report (20.98, set in 1993 when he attended RHAM Excessive College), swam collegiately at Penn State.*
[*Note: as reported by Will Aldam, Staff Writer at CT Insider, on October 3, 2024. https://www.ctinsider.com/gametimect/article/riley-anderson-manchester-bacon-swimming-girls-19798047.php]
Riley Anderson is the 2-time defending Connecticut highschool state champion within the 50 free, having received the State Open and Class S titles in 2022 and the State Open and Class LL titles in 2023. As a sophomore, in 2023, she additionally received the 100 free and, with a fully-integrated Bacon Academy within the co-op, Manchester completed 4th on the Connecticut State Open behind Greenwich, Ridgefield, and Cheshire.
Anderson does her membership swimming with the West Hartford Aquatic Staff. She broke 23 seconds within the 50 free as a highschool freshman and has continued to enhance since then. On the 2024 Speedo Sectionals in Windfall final March, she received the 50 free and was runner-up within the 100 free, and she or he lowered her PBs within the 50 free (22.49), 100 free (49.12), 50 again (26.07), 100 again (55.18), and 100 fly (54.68). She is now fifth within the class within the 50 free and Third within the 100 free, and we ranked her 14th on our Method Too Early Checklist of prime recruits from the highschool class of 2026.
She had a robust lengthy course season, as nicely, placing up lifetime bests within the LCM 50 free (26.19), 100 free (57.00), 200 free (2:09.48), 50 again (31.53), 50 fly (27.68), and 100 fly (1:01.28) on the ISCA Summer time Senior Blast in July.
Anderson is the primary prime 20-ranked recruit for the Blue Devils in 4 years. Duke positioned fifth on the 2024 ACC Girls’s Championships, scoring 779.5 factors (essentially the most in program historical past), solely 7 factors behind North Carolina.
Greatest SCY occasions:
- 50 free – 22.49
- 100 free – 49.12
- 100 fly – 54.68
- 100 again – 55.18
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