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The Woodlands, Texas’ Wesley Foster will keep in-state for his collegiate swimming profession, heading to Faculty Station within the fall of 2025 to compete for Texas A&M. Foster, a present senior at The Woodlands Excessive College, is a summer time juniors qualifier within the butterfly occasions. On the membership degree, he swims for the Premier Aquatic Membership of Klein (PACK) in Springs, Texas.
I’m excited to be a part of the way forward for A&M swimming. I felt like I belonged there from my first go to. I’m grateful and lucky for the chance and searching ahead to reaching my athletic and educational targets in Faculty Station.
Foster had a breakout season his junior 12 months, changing into the Texas Area 4 – 6A champion within the 100 fly (48.40) and ending in fifth within the 200 free (1:40.83). In each occasions, he established new private bests. Just a few weeks later, he certified for the championship ultimate on the Texas UIL 6A State Championships for the primary time in his highschool profession, grabbing sixth in 48.81. He went on to steer off Woodland’s 4×100 relay, swimming a 44.95 for a brand new finest and breaking the 45 barrier for the primary time. Foster helped Woodlands Excessive College to a third place end out of 105 groups.
On the GA Southern Premier the next week, Foster continued to set new finest instances, swimming the 200 fly in 1:47.95 for the runner-up place. He moreover swam the 400 IM, hitting one other PB with a 4:01.22, dropping over 3 seconds from his earlier PB of 4:04.93 that he set simply two months prior in March.
Foster carried this momentum with him into July, the place he wrapped up his lengthy course season on the USA Futures Championships – Austin. There, he recorded 2 high 8 finishes, within the 100 fly and 200 fly. Within the 100, he set a brand new private better of 55.14 to position sixth general. Within the 200, he swam a finest time of two:01.01 to get beneath the summer time junior lower and break each 2:03 and a pair of:02 for the primary time. With that effort, he positioned third. Foster moreover swam the 100 free (52.55) and 200 IM (2:10.23), each of which have been new bests.
Finest Instances (SCY):
- 50 free: 20.85
- 100 free: 44.95
- 200 free: 1:40.83
- 100 fly: 48.40
- 200 fly: 1:47.95
- 400 IM: 4:01.22
The Aggie males completed in 4th on the 2024 SECs and sixteenth at NCAAs, with Baylor Nelson main the way in which at each championship meets. Following the top of the 2024 season, the ladies’s head coach of A&M, Steve Bultman, retired. The college introduced quickly after that it might mix its males’s and ladies’s staff beneath the brand new director of swimming Blaire Anderson. Anderson, who spent the final seven seasons on the College of Virginia and was a pivotal issue of the UVA ladies’s 4-straight NCAA championships, will lead A&M’s predominantly new teaching workers this fall.
The SEC, which added Texas A&M’s in-state rival, the Texas Longhorns this fall, will solely develop extra aggressive within the upcoming years. In 2024, to qualify for a second swim in Foster’s main occasions, it took instances of 47.06/1:45.84 within the 100/200 fly.
Foster will be a part of 3 different Texas natives in Daniel King, HM Bucky Gettys, and Alejandro Michelena for the Aggies’ class of 2029. Michelena, one other butterfly specialist with PBs of 47.99/1:45.86 within the 100/200 fly, is one in all Foster’s teammates at PACK. The 2 will look to contribute to A&M’s already robust butterfly group, led by Clayton Conklin and Connor Foote, that scored 84 factors at SECs in 2024. Conklin could have graduated as soon as Foster and Michelena arrive, however the two will overlap with Foote, a present junior, for 1 12 months.
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