Winter Juniors Qualifier Reagan Phillips Sends Verbal To South Carolina (2024)

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Reagan Phillips has introduced her verbal dedication to the College of South Carolina, starting within the fall of 2024. Phillips is wrapping up her junior 12 months at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Faculty in Potomac, Maryland. 

Phillips shared her dedication on Instagram:

Phillips is a dash freestyle specialist, and trains year-round with Rockville Montgomery Swim Membership. She competed at Winter Juniors – East this previous December, the place she earned her highest end within the 200 free at 62nd (1:53.42). Along with the 200 free, Phillips additionally raced the 50 and 100, incomes 97th (24.05) and 91st (52.95), respectively.

This previous summer time, Phillips recorded a handful of non-public greatest instances on the 2022 NCSA Summer season Championships. She dropped a second within the 200m to submit a 2:09.43, and shaved off a number of hundredths within the 100m for a 59.11. Her highest end was twentieth within the 50m free, the place she swam a season greatest time of 27.06. 

Prime SCY Occasions:

• 50 free – 23.20
• 100 free – 50.70
• 200 free – 1:50.74
• 100 fly – 56.58
• 200 IM – 2:06.33

South Carolina just lately completed eighth out of 12 groups on the 2023 SEC Championships. The dash freestyle occasions have been comparatively sturdy for South Carolina this season, as they put up 12 factors within the 50 and 25 factors within the 100. It took a 22.66 to advance to the C-final this 12 months within the 50 and a 49.37 within the 100. Phillips is outdoors of that vary now, however nonetheless has over a 12 months remaining to enhance earlier than arriving in Columbia.

The Gamecocks have been led by Janie Smith in each dash occasions this 12 months. Smith clocked a 22.29 to take 18th within the 50, and a 48.32 within the 100 to put ninth general. Aubrey Chandler and Dylan Scholes joined Smith within the C-final of the 50 free incomes twenty second (22.72) and twenty third (22.78), respectively. Scholes additionally raced within the C-final of the 100 free, the place she took twentieth with a 49.04. Scholes is the one one in every of that group that can nonetheless be on campus when Phillips arrives.

Phillips joins Brooke Beede and Emma Reiser in South Carolina’s class of 2028. Beede additionally swims freestyle occasions, proudly owning greatest instances of 23.46/50.27/1:48.74 within the 50/100/200 freestyle. Reiser is extra distance oriented, but additionally owns a greatest time of 1:48.41 within the 200 free. 

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