Oklahoma State Champion Sylvia Admire Commits to Illinois State

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Sylvia Admire, an Oklahoma State Champion, has introduced her dedication to swim and examine at Illinois State College for the 2023-2024 season. Admire will full her senior 12 months at Claremore Excessive College earlier than making the transition to Regular, Illinois the place she is going to compete as a Redbird.

I’m tremendous excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my athletic and tutorial endeavors at Illinois State College! The assist I’ve obtained from my dad and mom, coaches, and teammates all through this course of has been unbelievable. I wish to thank the coaches at Illinois State for his or her consideration over the previous 12 months, and the workforce for making my go to to campus memorable. I can not wait to be part of the Redbird household! Roll Birds!

Along with swimming along with her highschool, Admire trains and competes with the Trident Aquatics Membership. Admire’s specialty is freestyle, significantly any distance between 50 and 500. She has competed in quite a lot of prestigious meets such because the Oklahoma 6A (largest colleges) State Championships, Speedo Sectionals, and Futures Championships.

Finest Instances SCY:

• 50 free- 23.76
• 100 free- 51.77
• 200 free- 1:52.62
• 500 free- 5:02.61

On the 2022 Oklahoma State Championships, which occurred in February, Admire swam the 100 and 200 freestyles. In each occasions, she certified first in prelims and went on to win the occasion in finals. Within the 100 free, Admire’s finals time of 51.77 set a brand new private greatest, knocking .75 seconds of her earlier document from December of 2021. She didn’t drop any time within the 200 free, though she was solely about one second off her private greatest, posting a 1:53.72.

Most lately, Admire competed within the Minneapolis part of Futures Championships. She swam the 50 free, 100 free, and 400 free (all LCM), qualifying for finals in every. Within the 50, she swam a private greatest by .34 seconds, posting a 27.32 in prelims and qualifying nineteenth. In finals, she dropped one other .35 seconds, ending seventeenth with a 26.97. Her 400 time of 4:37.46 was a season greatest, coming in simply over 5 seconds off her lifetime greatest. She completed twenty eighth total. 

Illinois State College is a Division I Mid-Main program within the Missouri Valley Convention. On the 2022 MVC Championships, the Redbirds got here in second place out of eight groups, ending behind Missouri State. 

Admire will enter her final highschool season with greatest instances that may already rating on the MVC Championships. In 2022, her greatest 50 time would have put her thirteenth total. She would have been the second-fastest performer for Illinois State. Freshman Emma Feltzer was the Redbird’s quickest performer, ending ninth in 23.42 seconds. Equally, within the 100 free, Admire would have are available in thirteenth total and been the second Redbird behind Feltzer, who completed sixth with a 50.87.

When she arrives on campus in 2023, Admire will probably be joined by fellow freshman Lauren Campbell,  a freestyle, breaststroke, and IM specialist from London, Ontario. Admire would be the third member of her household to swim within the Missouri Valley Convention.

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