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Brady Calkins, a California resident, sends his verbal dedication to swim at Notre Dame with the category of 2025. He dedicated earlier than Notre Dame was suspended for the 2024-2025 season.
“I’m past grateful and excited to announce my dedication to proceed my educational and athletic careers on the College of Notre Dame! First, I want to thank my household, pals, coaches, and academics for his or her unconditional love, assist, and steerage which has helped form me into the particular person I’m in the present day. Moreover, I want to thank your entire teaching workers and staff at Notre Dame for giving me this chance! I can’t wait to hitch the household! Go Irish!!”
Calkins is presently a senior at Jesuit Excessive College and he swims for the Sierra Marlins Swim Group in Folsom, California. He has two US Open qualifying instances and three Summer season Juniors qualifying instances. He’s additionally a two-time Scholastic All-American in 2023 and 2024.
His most up-to-date meet was West Winter Juniors at the start of December the place he had three finals swims. He completed seventh within the 200 again, coming in at 1:45.74 which was just below a second slower than his U.S. Open qualifying time of 1:44.98 from the 2023 Winter Juniors. His 100 again was 48.82 for sixteenth. That was simply off his better of 48.35 from the 2024 CIF State Championships in Could, which is his different U.S. Open time. He went 1:48.29 within the 200 IM to complete twentieth and get the Summer season Juniors qualifying time. He additionally picked up a Summer season Juniors time main off the 800 freestyle relay in 1:37.22.
On the 2024 CIF State Championships, Calkins had two A-Ultimate swims. He completed sixth within the 200 IM, going 1:49.02 in finals after swimming 1:48.44 within the prelims. He additionally completed fifth within the 100 backstroke, going 48.57 so as to add a bit from his prelims swim of 48.35.
On the 2024 Summer season Junior championships, Calkins completed eleventh within the 200 backstroke (2:04.90) and twentieth within the 100 backstroke (57.38). He additionally time-trialed the 200 IM on the meet going 2:08.07
Finest Instances SCY:
- 200 free: 1:37.22
- 100 again: 48.35
- 200 again: 1:44.98
- 200 IM: 1:48.29
Notre Dame competes within the ACC, and so they completed 2nd finally 12 months’s championships to NC State. Notre Dame put two males within the 200 IM closing, and three within the 100 and 200 again finals finally 12 months’s ACC Championships.
It’s troublesome to foretell the place Calkins will find yourself as a result of the Notre Dame males had their season suspended, however they are going to be again in motion earlier than Calkins arrives on campus within the fall. Based mostly on final 12 months’s instances, nevertheless, his highest rating comes within the 200 backstroke the place his time would have positioned him fifth. He might want to drop a bit with a view to qualify for finals, as proper now he sits simply outdoors finals in all of his occasions, at twenty eighth within the 200 again, and thirty third within the 200 IM and 100 again.
He additionally has some competitors amongst his personal class, as Notre Dame additionally picked up a dedication from the #3 100 backstroker within the class, Zack Oswald. Oswald has recorded finest instances of 46.82 within the 100 again and 1:44.25 within the 200 again.
Calkins will arrive subsequent fall as a member of the category of 2029 together with Ethan DiFronzo, Evan Conti, Zack Oswald, Min-Gyo Jang, Owen Tarrington, and Luke Bucaro.
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