23.8/51.7 Sprint Freestyler Lola Early Announces Commitment To Emory For Fall 2026

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Lola Early of New York Metropolis, New York has introduced her dedication to swim and research at Emory College, beginning subsequent fall. She trains year-round with Peddie Aquatic Affiliation and attends Peddie College.

Early confirmed the information in an e-mail to SwimSwam, writing:

I’m tremendous excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my athletic and educational profession at Emory College. I want to give a giant thanks to everybody who helped in my recruiting course of together with my household, associates, and academics for giving me steering that has helped form who I’m. An enormous thanks to my coaches Emmett, Heather, Coach Clean and Greg, and particularly coach Jon at Manhattan Makos. Lastly, thanks to Coach Howell at Emory for giving me this chance to take my swimming profession to the subsequent degree. GO EAGLES!

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Early is dash freestyle specialist, however can also be aggressive within the 100 butterfly and 200 free.

The long run Eagle’s first goal meet of the 2024-25 season was the PAA Thanksgiving Basic in November, the place she gained the 50 free, took second within the 100 and 200 free, and completed seventh in two off occasions, the 100 fly and 200 IM. Within the 50, she swam a season-best 23.82 en path to victory, whereas she clocked lifetime bests of 51.72 and 1:54.03 within the 100 and 200 free. She additionally posted private bests of 59.48 and a couple of:11.02 in her off occasions.

A month later on the EEX Vacation Basic, Early adopted up with occasions of 23.98 and 52.02 within the freestyle occasions, simply shy of her marks from the Thanksgiving Basic. Her 50 free earned her third place whereas she settled for fifth within the 100. She went on to trim three-tenths from her finest within the 200 free, ending sixth in 1:53.73. She additionally stopped the clock at 59.70 within the 100 fly, simply over two-tenths off her finest, to take thirtieth.

Come the highschool season in February, Early competed on the Jap Interscholastic Swimming Championships, the place she earned a pair of top-eight finishes within the dash occasions, inserting seventh within the 50 free and eighth within the 100 free. She was simply two hundredths off her finest within the 50 at 23.84 and 14 hundredths off within the 100 with a 51.86.

She cut up 23.30 to assist Peddie’s 200 medley relay take silver and led off the seventh-place 400 free relay in a near-PB of 51.79, sooner than her particular person swim. Her 50 free finest time of 23.81 stems from the 2024 version of the Jap Interscholastic meet; she completed third within the 50 and tenth within the 100.

Early concluded her season at Speedo Sectionals in March, the place she remained per occasions of 23.88 and 51.82 within the 50 and 100 free, securing fifteenth and seventeenth general. She additionally hit the wall thirty fourth within the 200 free (1:54.02) and logged a career-best 59.46 within the 100 fly, stopping the clock eighty fifth in that occasion.

High SCY Occasions:

50 Freestyle: 23.81
100 Freestyle: 51.72
200 Freestyle: 1:53.73
100 Butterfly: 59.46

Emory is led by head coach Jon Howell, who has been on the helm of this system since 1998. Final spring, the crew claimed its twenty sixth consecutive College Athletic Affiliation (UAA) Championship title after which completed fifth on the NCAA Division III Championships.

Early may have a direct impression for the Eagles on the convention meet, the place ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ finals are scored. Final season, her bests would have put her seventh within the 50 free after prelims—sufficient for the ‘A’ remaining—whereas she would have ranked tenth within the 100 free to make the ‘B’ remaining, simply 0.21 exterior the 51.51 required for prime eight. Her 200 free and 100 fly occasions would have positioned her twenty first and twenty fourth, respectively, slotting into the ‘C’ finals of these races.

On the crew’s 2024-25 depth chart, Early would have ranked fifth within the 100 free, seventh within the 50 free, eleventh within the 200 free, and seventeenth within the 100 fly.

Early joins Charlotte Brown, Alisa Huang, Rebecca Fury, and Sarah Wahl in committing to the Eagles’ class of 2030.

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