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Kelsey Caught will head to Lexington, KY, for her collegiate profession after signing with the College of Kentucky. The backstroke/dash freestyler will arrive on campus from Wilmington, NC, within the fall of 2025 as a part of the Wildcats’ class of 2029.
Caught competes for the Waves of Wilmington Swim Crew and Hoggard Excessive Faculty. Throughout her junior season for Hoggard, Caught was a two-time finalist on the NCHSAA 4A State Championship, notching seventh-place finishes within the 100 backstroke and 50 freestyle. Every week earlier, on the NCHSAA 4A Jap Regionals, she gained the 100 backstroke and was the runner-up within the 50 freestyle. She gained each on the 2024 3A/4A MEC Convention Championship in January, serving to Hoggard declare the general title.
She most not too long ago competed for the Waves of Wilmington on the 2024 Winter Junior Championships – East, the place she logged season-best instances within the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, and 200 backstroke. Her finest end was within the 200 backstroke, the place her time of two:00.50 earned forty eighth place.
Caught swum all her lifetime bests in her main occasions in 2023, although she’s been near them on a number of events in 2024.
Greatest Instances (SCY):
- 50 freestyle: 23.55
- 100 freestyle: 52.13
- 200 freestyle:1:54.35
- 100 backstroke: 54.87
- 200 backstroke: 2:00.01
The Kentucky Wildcats are in a rebuilding section and need to rebound from a ninth-place end on the 2024 SEC Championships. None of Caught’s lifetime bests would have scored on the 2024 SEC Championships, a convention that’s solely gotten extra aggressive with the Texas Longhorns arriving this season.
Nonetheless, Caught will likely be a powerful addition to the Wildcats’ backstroke and dash freestyle teams because the crew seems so as to add depth. Her lifetime bests would’ve landed her in a tie for fifth on Kentucky’s 2023-24 depth chart within the 50 freestyle, fifth within the 100 backstroke, eighth within the 200 freestyle and 200 backstroke, and ninth within the 100 freestyle.
The Wildcats have had a busy season recruiting in the highschool class of 2025. Caught joins Arianna Wertheim, Elizabeth Summa, Hadar Karp, Ava Fuller, Zalika Methula, Abby Dunford, Charlotte Driesse, and Sarah Shaffer in signing on with the Wildcats’ class of 2029.
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