Virginia Swim & Dive Adds Three Quality Transfers

Todd DeSorbo is constructing a swimming dynasty on the College of Virginia. 

UVA’s girls’s swimming & diving staff gained its second-straight NCAA Nationwide Championship in March after which had three swimmers – Alex Walsh, Kate Douglass, and Emma Weyant – win medals on the FINA World Championships in Budapest final month. With all three of these swimmers and a lot of the core of final yr’s staff set to return subsequent season, the Cavaliers might be an early favourite to defend their nationwide title as soon as once more. 

Together with these returning champs might be two key newcomers, because the Virginia swimming & diving program added three transfers for subsequent season, one to the lads’s staff and two to the two-time defending nationwide champion girls’s staff. 

On Could seventh, Georgia switch Maxine Parker introduced her dedication to UVA. Parker, a rising junior, has as much as three years of eligibility remaining with the bonus COVID yr. She swam at NCAAs in every of her two seasons as Georgia and has expertise swimming the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, 400-yard freestyle relay, and 800-yard freestyle relay. The 800-yard freestyle relay was the one relay UVA didn’t win on the NCAA Championships this yr, because the Cavaliers completed second to Stanford, so Parker may assist the Hoos chase down the Cardinal in that occasion. Her instances within the 200-yard freestyle may additionally assist UVA tremendously subsequent season. 

Sam Baron transferred to Virginia on Could twenty fourth after two seasons at UCLA. A highly-touted highschool recruit with spectacular instances even earlier than arriving at UCLA, Baron had a improbable freshman season, setting a program file in a second-place end within the 100-yard butterfly on the Pac-12 Championships in 2021. She additionally completed fourth within the 200-yard butterfly and certified for the NCAAs in each classes. Her sophomore season was much less profitable, however she nonetheless improved her private bests in each the 200-yard particular person medley and and 200-yard freestyle. Like Parker, Baron is a rising junior with probably three years of eligibility remaining. 

The Virginia males’s swimming staff, which admittedly has some catching as much as do so as to sustain with the wild success of the ladies’s staff, obtained a major dedication from Tim Connery from Texas on July 4th. In only one season at Texas, Connery gained the Massive 12 Championship within the 100-yard butterfly and certified for 3 particular person occasions on the NCAA Championships: 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, and 200-yard particular person medley. Connery may probably see time in a number of occasions for the Cavaliers, however he’s most probably to swim the butterfly leg within the medley relays. He has three years of eligibility remaining. 

2022-2023 seems to be to be one other improbable season within the pool for the Virginia Cavaliers.

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