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The College of Georgia Ladies’s Swimming and Diving group has landed an enormous verbal dedication for the 2026-27 faculty yr: #10 Virginia Hinds from Chevy Chase, Maryland.
“I’m tremendous excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed to swim and research on the College of Georgia!!! I wish to thank my coaches, household, and mates who’ve all helped make this attainable. Additionally, an enormous thanks to Coach Stef, Fernando, and Jerry for this chance!! GO DAWGS ❤️🐾”
Hinds is a junior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase Excessive Faculty. She swims year-round with All Star Aquatics and focuses on backstroke. An Olympic Trials qualifier within the 200 again, we ranked her #10 on our Manner Too Early checklist of high recruits from the highschool class of 2026.
Hinds is just the 2nd ranked dedication for the UGA ladies within the final 5 recruiting lessons. After 43 seasons on the helm of the mixed males’s and girls’s program, Jack Bauerle retired in June 2021 and the Bulldogs employed Neil Versfeld and Stefanie Williams Moreno to move the boys’s and girls’s groups, respectively. There was a dearth of top-20 commits because the Bauerle period wound down and Georgia made the transition to the cut up program, however the momentum has picked up for 2025 and 2026.
The highschool class of 2018 was the apex of recruiting for the Georgia ladies, with 4 high 20 commitments. They scored one every in 2019-2021 earlier than being shut out from 2022-24. Now, the Bulldogs have commitments from #10 Kennedi Dobson and 4 extra “Better of the Relaxation” recruits within the class of 2025 they usually’ve kicked of 2026 with #10 Virginia Hinds.
| Highschool class | High 20 Recruits |
| Class of 2026 | #10 Virginia Hinds |
| Class of 2025 | #10 Kennedi Dobson |
| Class of 2024 | no high 20 |
| Class of 2023 | no high 20 |
| Class of 2022 | no high 20 |
| Class of 2021 | #10 Rachel Stege |
| Class of 2020 | #20 Maxine Parker |
| Class of 2019 | #2 Zoie Hartman |
| Class of 2018 | #7 Eva Merrell, #9 Olivia Carter, #13 Dakota Luther, #18 Maddie Homovich |
| Class of 2017 | #1 Courtney Harnish |
| Class of 2016 | #7 Veronica Burchill |
As a sophomore in highschool, Hinds gained the 100 free (49.93) and 100 again (53.35) on the 2024 MPSSAA 4A3A State Championship final February. Two months earlier, she had notched PBs within the 100 again and 200 again at Winter Juniors East, putting 4th and 18th within the respective occasions.
Hinds swam at U.S. Olympic Crew Trials in June and wrapped up her lengthy course season a month later at Richmond Future. All advised, she improved her LCM occasions this summer time within the 50 free (26.77), 100 free (58.35), 200 free (2:03.80), 200 again (2:13.14), 100 fly (1:01.65), and 200 fly (2:22.63).
She is considered one of solely two backstrokers within the cohort with a SCY 52/1:55 mixture, and her 23.5/49.7/1:47.6 within the dash free occasions give her the pliability to contribute to various Georgia relays.
Finest SCY occasions:
- 100 again – 52.87
- 200 again – 1:55.95
- 200 free – 1:47.61
- 100 free – 49.78
- 50 free – 23.50
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