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Poland Nationwide Staff member Bartosz Loter has introduced his intentions to attend and symbolize the Division 1 mid-major program at Drexel this fall. Loter, 19, is a local of Cieszyn, Poland and competes domestically for UKP Unia Oświęcim.
On the current Polish Open and Youth Championships, which served as their Olympic Trials, Loter swam a private better of 28.71 within the 50 Breast and made the finals within the 100 and 200 breaststroke, each of that are Olympic occasions. Within the 100, he completed sixth in 1:04.15 and repeated the inserting within the 200, hitting the wall in 2:19.11. In every occasion, he completed behind Jan Kalusowki, who positioned as excessive as 2oth on the Olympics and received bronze on the current European Championships.
Whereas Loter didn’t symbolize the Poles in Paris, he does have worldwide expertise. Final summer season, he donned a Polish flag cap for the 2023 European Junior Championships, which have been held in Belgrade, Serbia. He completed twenty third in each the 50 (29.19) and 200 (2:21.15) and twenty ninth within the 100 (1:05.29).
None of these occasions have been the very best occasions, and it’s doable that he missed his taper, as two weeks later, at Polish Juniors meets, he recorded new PBs of 28.88, 1:03.83, and a pair of:18.96.
Briefly course, he holds private bests of 27.52, 1:00.05, and a pair of:10.71 from the Polish Juniors meet this previous December, the place he swept all three of his occasions.
Greatest Meters Occasions Transformed
- 100 Breast SCM: 1:00.05 – 54.09
- 100 Breast LCM: 1:03.83 – 55.70
- 200 Breast SCM: 2:10.71 – 1:57.75
- 200 Breast LCM: 2:18.96 – 2:01.58
Primarily based on the transformed occasions, which aren’t with out some questioning, Loter appears to be extra inclined to short-course swimming, which ought to assist ease his transition to the 25-yard pool.
Loter might be becoming a member of a Drexel Dragon staff that completed 4th on the Coastal Athletic Affiliation Championships this previous winter beneath the management of Head Coach Nathan Lavery. Within the breaststroke occasions, Drexel superior one swimmer to every of the A and B finals, with Kacper Karnik ending 4th within the 100 (53.89) and third within the 200 (1:57.46).
Karnik, like Loter, hails from Poland, so Drexel might be seeking to have the freshman take over, as Karnik was listed as a senior on final 12 months’s roster. Loter ought to simply assist fill that hole as his 100 breast transformed time (scm) would have been tenth in prelims, and the 200 breast scm transformed time of 1:57.75 would have positioned him 2nd in prelims.
The Dragons’ solely different breaststroke finalist was Alex Blacker, who’s listed on their roster as an IMer however, as a sophomore final 12 months, ought to have two years of overlap with Loter. Neither of his subsequent greatest occasions, the 50 free and 200 IM, are in scoring vary now, however maybe with time, he may develop them and enter scoring vary.
Becoming a member of the Pole in Philadelphia are fellow European Pink Rullis and Wisconsin’s Oscar Greatest. Rullis, who hails from Latvia, swam on the 2024 World Championships in Doha, inserting 53rd within the 100 free and fortieth within the 200 free. Greatest is a sprinter with a virtually equal 100 fly (49.41) and 100 again (50.05).
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