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Maddie Thornton introduced her verbal dedication to the College of Georgia this week, giving the Georgia girls their third dedication for the category of 2026.
Thornton swims for the Oregon-based Bend Swim Membership 12 months spherical and competes for Bend Senior Excessive College group throughout the highschool season.
I’m extraordinarily excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my tutorial and athletic profession on the College of Georgia!! I need to give an enormous thanks to my household and associates for his or her by no means ending assist, and to my coaches for getting me thus far. Additionally to educate Stef, Fernando, and Jerry for this unbelievable alternative! I’m so grateful to have discovered my new house!! GO DAWGS!!!🐾❤️🐶
Thornton, a Winter Juniors qualifier, is a flexible addition for the Dawgs as she’s discovered success on the membership and highschool stage in IM, backstroke, and freestyle occasions. Most not too long ago through the long-course season, she received the 200-meter backstroke in a brand new lifetime finest (2:16.25) on the Sacremento LCM Future Championships. She additionally made finals within the 100-meter backstroke and 50-meter freestyle, ending second within the former and seventh within the latter. She swam lifetime bests in each, hitting 1:03.50 within the 100-meter backstroke and 26.63 within the 50-meter freestyle. She additionally swam a lifetime finest within the 200-meter freestyle (2:07.08).
Greatest Instances (Yards):
- 200 IM: 2:01.01
- 200 free: 1:49.12
- 200 again: 1:59.30
- 100 free: 50.73
- 50 free: 23.36
Again in yards, her versatility makes her invaluable for Georgia as a result of it means she might develop in a number of disciplines—a helpful asset for a Georgia group that may seemingly be beginning to rebuild through the 2026-27 season.
Georgia’s acquired a powerful 2026 recruiting class up to now, as Thornton joins #10 Virginia Hinds and BOTR recruits Grace Hunt and Brooke Bennett. Thornton’s 200 IM is simply over four-tenths sooner than Bennett’s, giving each somebody to push them in follow from day one. Georgia solely had two girls sub-2:00 within the 200 IM final season and each can have graduated by the point the category of 2026 arrives on campus, so the Dawgs will hope that Thornton continues to drop time within the occasion each earlier than and after she arrives on campus.
Her dash freestyle bests of 23.36/50.73/1:49.12 strengthen Georgia’s dash crew in tandem with Hinds and go away the door open for Thornton to finally contribute to the Dawgs on the relays.
Final season, the Georgia girls completed fifth on the 2024 SEC Championships, a spot they are going to be preventing to take care of as Texas arrives within the convention this season.
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