Two-time U.S. Open qualifier Ryder Hicks has introduced his verbal dedication to swim for the College of Louisville starting within the fall of 2025.
I’m very excited and grateful to announce that I will probably be persevering with my educational and athletic profession on the College of Louisville! I wish to thank my household, pals and teammates for his or her infinite help and most significantly I need to thank God for every little thing he has accomplished in my life. I’d additionally wish to thank my coaches on the Mason Manta Rays, Ken Heis, Emilie Hoeper, and all of my earlier coaches for all the time supporting me and serving to me get the place I’m in the present day. Lastly I need to thank Coach Albiero and the Louisville Teaching workers for believing in me and giving me this superb alternative. Go Playing cards!
The Cincinnati native at the moment trains year-round with the Mason Manta Rays, primarily specializing in breast and IM. On the 2024 NCSA Summer time Championships, Hicks threw down a sequence of non-public finest occasions and certified for the U.S. Open within the 100 breast (1:05.00) and 200 breast (2:18.14). He additionally posted a Winter Junior Nationals qualifying time within the 200 IM (2:08.75).
Hicks is in his senior 12 months at Archbishop Moeller Excessive College, the place he has swam for the Crusaders for the previous two seasons. On the OHSAA Division I State Championship again in February, Hicks posted a 4th-place end within the 200-yard IM with a time of 1:52.66 and a Seventh-place end within the 100 breast with a time of 56.81.
On the identical meet, he helped his crew to an Eighth-place end within the 400 free relay, anchoring the squad with a 47.33 break up, and aiding the crew to a Twelfth-place end within the 200 medley relay, main off in a 23.63 on backstroke responsibility.
Finest Instances SCY:
- 100 breast – 56.44
- 200 breast – 2:01.79
- 200 IM – 1:49.91
- 400 IM – 4:00.36
A Division I program within the Atlantic Coast Convention, the College of Louisville males’s crew positioned 4th out of 11 groups on the 2024 ACC Championships. The Cardinals went on to ship 9 swimmers to the NCAA Division I Championships, the place they positioned fifteenth total.
To closing on the 2024 ACC Championships, it took occasions of 54.51/1:57.99 within the 100/200 breast and 1:47.03/3:51.91 within the 200/400 IM, placing Hicks simply exterior the cutoff in a handful of occasions.
At a crew stage, Hicks needs to be a contributor all through the season. Primarily based on the occasions from 2023-24, he would have been the Cardinals’ Fifth-fastest swimmer within the 100 breast, Fifth-fastest within the 400 IM and Eighth-fastest within the 200 IM.
The complete record of commits for Louisville’s class of 2029 to this point consists of Hicks, Szymon Misiak, Nate Thomas, Steven Owens and Ryan Henderson.
