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Multi-time SCHSL 5A State Champion Wells Cloud has introduced his dedication to the College of Arizona’s class of 2029. Cloud hails from Charleston, SC, and can head to Arizona within the fall of 2025 after graduating from James Island Constitution Excessive Faculty.
I’m so psyched to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my educational and athletic profession on the College of Arizona! I wish to thank my mother and father, buddies, teammates, and coaches who’ve supported me all through my profession!! I wish to thank Coach Ben for giving me this chance!! Bear down🐻⬇️
Cloud put an exclamation level on his highschool swimming profession this fall, breaking two state information on the SCHSL 5A State Championship. First, Cloud defended his 200 freestyle title from 2023, breaking the state file as he soared below the 1:39 barrier for the primary time in his profession with a 1:37.62. Later within the meet, he improved on his runner-up end within the 100 butterfly from 2023, cracking 49 seconds for the primary time as he swam a state file 48.05 for his second title of the day. He additionally led off his faculty’s 200 and 400 freestyle relays with lifetime bests of 20.68/44.99.
Cloud improved even additional on the 2024 Winter Junior Championships – East. He went sub-48 seconds two months after he broke 49 seconds for the primary time, swimming 47.82 to complete seventeenth general. Cloud additionally made the ‘C’ closing within the 100 freestyle, ending twenty second after swimming a lifetime better of 44.76 in prelims. He additionally swam a lifetime greatest within the 50 freestyle (20.67), taking a hundredth off his swim from the SCHSL Championships.
Finest Occasions (SCY):
- 50 freestyle: 20.67
- 100 freestyle: 44.76
- 200 freestyle: 1:37.62
- 100 butterfly: 47.82
The 2024-25 season is Arizona’s first as a part of the Massive 12 convention, that means the workforce may have one Massive 12 Championship below its belt when Cloud arrives on campus. Cloud’s lifetime bests within the 200 freestyle, 100 butterfly, and 100 freestyle would’ve scored on the 2024 Massive 12 Championships. His greatest end would’ve been thirteenth within the 200 freestyle together with his lifetime greatest, and his bests would’ve been fifteenth within the 100 butterfly and twenty first within the 100 freestyle.
Cloud’s greatest occasions based mostly on Arizona’s 2023-24 depth chart would’ve been the 200 freestyle (sixth) and 100 butterfly (eighth) as effectively. These two occasions fall on the identical day of the convention and NCAA championships schedule, which doubtless leaves Cloud with a option to make as to which occasion to give attention to. However even past his particular person occasions, Cloud has the potential to contribute to a number of relays.
After ending fourth on the closing Pac-12 Championship, Arizona completed twenty seventh on the 2024 NCAA Championships.
Cloud joins Noah Caiserman, Duncan Henderson, Ben Butler, and Luke Hernandez in having signed to Arizona’s males’s class of 2029.
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