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Highschool senior Gracyn Lanning of the famed Bolles College in Jacksonville, Florida has dedicated to swim at Notre Dame subsequent fall. A local of New York Metropolis, she grew up coaching with the 92nd Avenue YMCA Flying Dolphins on the Higher East Facet of Manhattan earlier than matriculating to Florida in 2021 to attend the Bolles College.
Eventually yr’s Florida Excessive College Class 1 State Championships, the place the Bolles ladies gained their Thirty fourth-straight title, Lanning completed third within the 100 breast (1:02.81) and 200 IM (2:02.39). She additionally raced at Winter Juniors East in December, the place her greatest end was forty fifth within the 200 breaststroke.
Greatest Instances in Yards:
- 100 fly – 54.92
- 100 free – 53.23
- 100 breast – 1:02.39
- 200 breast – 2:15.85
- 200 IM – 2:02.39
- 400 IM – 4:33.41
Whereas she is primarily a breaststroker, Lanning has proven sufficient means in different occasions that she most likely has a powerful future as an IM’er on the school degree. She has already dropped greater than three seconds within the 200 IM this season alone.
She is going to be part of a Notre Dame program in an attention-grabbing spot. After a history-making season for the boys’s group final yr, this system was suspended for all the 2024-2025 season. The ladies’s group completed eighth out of 11 groups finally yr’s ACC Championship meet, although, lagging a bit behind the boys’s program.
Nonetheless, this system has landed an excellent ladies’s class of 2025 that features Emily Hamill and Maddie Faikish from Pennsylvania, Kate Simon and Tess Heavner from Minnesota, and Becky Rentz (Illinois), Ava Pape (Texas), and Kate Hotem (Virginia). There are some superb swimmers in that class (Rentz and Hamill particularly), however Lanning is the one breaststroker of the group.
Lanning’s greatest time within the 100 breast is simply .08 seconds behind the group’s chief this season Emily Kitayama, who’s a freshman; Mary Codevilla, a sophomore, has been 1:02.44. Lanning’s greatest time within the 200 breast can be the group’s chief this season by a second-and-a-half.
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