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4 sport highschool athlete Natalie Dunaway has dedicated to swim on the College of Nebraska in fall 2025.
A local of Kansas Metropolis, Dunaway attended Park Hill South Excessive Faculty on the Missouri aspect, the place she completed third at every of the final two Missouri Excessive Faculty Class 2 State Championship meets within the 50 free. Park Hill South has received 16 straight convention titles, however final 12 months Dunaway, because the workforce’s second-leading scorer, helped raise them to a first-ever state title.
Exterior of the pool, Dunaway additionally competed on the varsity’s golf, volleyball, and observe & subject groups, however swimming has emerged as her strongest sport.
Dunaway introduced her dedication to Nebraska on Sunday, only a week after flexing her versatility on the Iowa Flyers A3 Midwest Problem. Whereas her greatest finishes there have been in her main races the 50 free (fifth – 23.78) and 100 free (seventh – 53.24), her greatest breakthroughs got here in secondary occasions 200 free (seventeenth – 1:58.05) and 100 fly (sixteenth – 1:00.30 in prelims).
That 200 free was a six-and-a-half second drop from her earlier private greatest finished only a month in the past, whereas the 100 fly dropped a second-and-a-half off her greatest time from late September.
Finest Occasions in Yards:
- 50 free – 23.64
- 100 free – 52.21
- 200 free – 1:58.05
- 100 fly – 1:00.30
Up to now, Dunaway has been actually good in lengthy course too. She made a closing on the US Futures Championships in Austin within the 50 free swimming 27.13. Her time from prelims of that meet (26.86) is a Winter Juniors lower, and she or he has been 1:00.01 within the 100 free.
Dunaway tasks to offer a right away enhance to the Nebraska dash group. Her greatest time within the 50 free would have put her in competition for a slot on Nebraska’s 200 free relay final season and would rank her third on the Nebraska varsity up to now this season. The Huskers have been ninth within the 200 free relay and eleventh within the 400 free relay finally 12 months’s Huge Ten Championships.
These relays undersold their total Eighth-place end, demonstrating a necessity to usher in some sprinters within the class of 2025.
Apart from Dunaway, the category additionally contains Canadian Olympic Trials qualifier Sophie Kissuk, who has a better of 1:03.31 within the 100 again and a pair of:20.64 within the 200 IM. Whereas not her main particular person races, she is going to contribute within the sprints as effectively with bests of 27.53 within the 50 and 59.82 within the 100 free. The Huskers additionally signed Washington Excessive Faculty State Champion diver Addison Farman for the category of 2025.
With 5 seniors on the roster, Nebraska may very well be benefactors of the secondary market of swimmers changing into accessible after their preliminary colleges needed to pull their roster spots due to the anticipated new roster limitations.
Dunaway was named to the USA Swimming Scholastic All-America checklist earlier this week and is a part of the Panther Mentor Program at her highschool, saying that she “likes to be concerned and provides again to the neighborhood.” She additionally participates as an athlete-coach as a part of her summer season league swim workforce the Thousand Oaks Otters.
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