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Katie Grimes, the most important recruiting chip on the desk this fall after a deferred determination on school swimming, has chosen to affix the dynasty on the College of Virginia for her collegiate swimming profession. She is going to be a part of the Cavaliers of their hunt for a fifth consecutive NCAA title for the spring semester this season, which makes the already-favored Cavalier girls a near-lock to win in March.
Posing with a late 1969 Virginia-orange Corvette Stingray within the Nevada desert, Grimes teased with a mostly-obscured College of Virginia shirt and a caption of “Hoo’s prepared,” referencing the nickname for Virginia’s scholar physique and athletic groups. This appears to be a refined teaser for the right announcement that’s anticipated on Thursday morning.
Grimes, 18, is the #1 recruit within the class of 2024, however didn’t make a university determination earlier than the Olympic Video games in Paris. She was reportedly nonetheless making campus visits earlier this semester earlier than lastly touchdown on the Cavaliers.
The 2-time Olympian will be a part of her Staff USA teammates Alex Walsh, Gretchen Walsh, Emma Weber, and post-grad Kate Douglass in Charlottesville. Grimes was the youngest member of the 2020 US Olympic Staff at 15, putting 4th within the 800 free.
In Paris, she received silver within the 400 IM and was tenth within the 1500 free. She additionally swam the open water 10km race, ending fifteenth.
Whereas she comes from a Sandpipers of Nevada program that’s targeted on lengthy course and worldwide competitors, she had the highest occasions within the class of 2024 in six completely different occasions: the 200 free, 500 free, 1000 free, 1650 free, 200 fly, and 400 IM.
Some of the versatile American juniors in historical past, nearly each occasion is a believable contribution for her at Virginia – save for perhaps the breaststrokes. However even there, turning gifted non-breaststrokers into breaststrokers is a calling card for the Virginia girls.
Finest Instances in Yards/Meters:
| SCY | LCM | |
| 50 free | 23.42 | 26.92 |
| 100 free | 49.66 | 56.53 |
| 200 free | 1:42.90 | 1:57.19 |
| 400/500 free | 4:28.27 | 4:05.18 |
| 800/1000 free | 9:22.11 (break up) | 8:17.05 |
| 1500/1650 free | 15:26.17 | 15:44.89 |
| 100 again | 52.89 | 1:01.39 |
| 200 again | 1:50.56 | 2:07.72 |
| 100 breast | 1:04.86 | 1:15.36 |
| 200 breast | 2:14.87 | 2:41.16 |
| 100 fly | 52.63 | 59.85 |
| 200 fly | 1:52.28 | 2:08.70 |
| 200 IM | 1:55.33 | 2:12.66 |
| 400 IM | 3:57.02 | 4:31.41 |
Her finest occasions within the 500 and 1650 frees, two occasions the place the NCAA subject has been relatively-week the previous couple of seasons, would have received final 12 months’s titles; her 400 IM would have been 2nd behind solely her future teammate Alex Walsh.
Grimes is value conservatively 50 factors to a crew that received final 12 months’s NCAA title by 86.5 factors final season. The Cavaliers misplaced 92 factors from that crew by way of the graduations of Jasmine Nocentini and Ella Nelson, plus one other 13 from Abby Harter, however in any other case return principally in-tact. Additionally they add Claire Curzan as a switch, one other former #1 recruit, plus World Championship medalist Leah Hayes, and a pile of different top-flight newcomers.
If there was any doubt concerning the Cavaliers’ potential to win one other title this season (and with #2 Texas going through losses from final season, there wasn’t a lot), this dedication all-but-wipes that away.
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