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Pippin Kantakom has introduced his dedication to the College of Pennsylvania. Kantakom will arrive at Penn within the fall of 2025 after ending up his highschool profession at Phillips Academy Andover, the place he competes along with racing for Phoenix.
Kantakom is a global pupil at Andover; he’s from Bangkok and represents Thailand internationally.
The Andover boys are a constant drive in New England prep college swimming. Kantakom has helped the workforce sweep the Jap Interscholastic Championships and the NEPSAC Division I Championships for the previous two seasons. Within the 2023-24 season, Kantakom completed second within the 500 freestyle at Easterns and fourth within the 200 IM, swimming lifetime bests of 4:31.90 and 1:48.80.
Two weeks later, Kantakom completed second within the 200 IM (1:48.97) and third within the 500 freestyle (4:35.50). He additionally break up 45.51 on Andover’s title-winning 400 freestyle relay, which capped the championship effort for the workforce.
Most lately, Kantakom raced for Phoenix Swimming at New England Seniors. There, he was a three-time championship finalist, highlighted by a second-place end within the 100 breaststroke in his second registered time swimming the occasion. He clocked a lifetime greatest 54.94 within the closing, dropping from the 56.07 he swam in prelims.
Kantakom additionally took fourth within the 200 breaststroke with a lifetime greatest of two:01.38. Just like the 100 breaststroke, this meet was the primary time he’d registered an official yards swim within the occasion. Lastly, he added a fourth-place end within the 200 IM (1:50.17) and a Thirteenth-place end within the 400 IM (4:07.07).
Greatest Occasions (SCY):
- 500 freestyle: 4:31.80
- 100 breaststroke: 54.94
- 200 breaststroke: 2:01.38
- 200 IM: 1:48.08
Kantakom arrives on campus with a 200 IM lifetime greatest that might’ve made the ‘C’ closing on the 2024 Males’s Ivy League Championships and ultimately earned 5 factors. That will’ve made him the fifth Penn swimmer within the occasion’s ‘C’ closing; the Quakers had one ‘B’ finalist however no swimmers within the championship closing.
In 2024, solely 25 swimmers entered the boys’s 200 breaststroke on the Ivy League Championships, which means all however one scored. Kantakom’s 2:01.38 lifetime greatest would’ve positioned him within the ‘C’ closing, the place he would’ve earned one other three factors.
Kantakom’s proven loads of velocity already, however given how few official races he has on his resume in occasions just like the 100/200 breaststroke, it appears that evidently he’s acquired much more to present in these races.
Penn is dwelling to U.S. Olympian and 200 breaststroke American document holder Matt Fallon and, maybe unsurprisingly, has begun to construct a powerful breaststroke group behind him. Kantakom’s 100 breaststroke time would’ve been fourth on the workforce’s 2023-24 depth chart, however the Quakers’ final recruiting class featured “Better of the Relaxation” recruits, Jeffrey Hou and Watson Nguyen, each of whom arrived on campus with 53-point 100 breaststroke lifetime bests. Final season, Fallon was the one Penn swimmer to interrupt 54-seconds within the occasion; they have already got two this season, successfully doubling their whole from final 12 months with the postseason nonetheless to return.
Penn completed fourth on the 2024 Ivy League Championships, up from sixth the 12 months earlier than. The college’s pool is closed for all the 2024-25 season for main renovations. Kantakom’s recruiting class would be the first to coach solely on the improved services.
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