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Daniel Garza, a member of CSP Tideriders, has dedicated to hitch the Denison Massive Crimson Swim & Dive roster this fall. He grew up in Ladue, Mo., an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, situated 460 miles west of Denison College’s campus in Granville, Ohio.
Garza, who’s 6’8″ based on his NCSA recruiting profile, is a Nationwide Honor Society member. He instructed SwimSwam:
I’m very proud to announce my dedication to swim and research at Denison College! I’d prefer to thank Coach Gregg, Coach Kristen, and Coach Kellen for this superb alternative. I’d additionally prefer to thank all my membership and highschool coaches and teammates for all they’ve carried out for me. And thanks to my mother and father for all the time supporting me. Go Massive Crimson
Garza is a co-captain of his group at Ladue Horton Watkins Excessive Faculty, a program that has been in existence for greater than 70 years.
As a senior, Garza scored the lion’s share of factors for his group on the Missouri State Excessive Faculty Actions Affiliation (MSHSAA) Class 1 State Championships with a 4th place end within the 100 breast and a seventh place displaying within the 200 IM.
He broke his personal 100 breast faculty file of 58.81 throughout prelims (58.65) earlier than breaking it once more throughout finals (58.39) within the final swim of his highschool profession.
Garza is leaving massive sneakers to fill at Ladue Horton Watkins Excessive Faculty, the place he took down a 34-year-old faculty file as a junior within the 100 breast (59.95). His first sub-minute 100 breast was greater than a second sooner than the earlier file of 1:01.27.
The identical yr, he was a part of the 200 medley relay (1:39.76) that broke a 46-year-old faculty file by practically a second.
As a senior, he beat a decade-strong 200 IM file (1:59.02) by swimming it in 1:58.62, then he lowered it once more a number of weeks later to 1:58.24.
After Garza’s 100 breast 4th place end in November on the state championships, Ladue Rams Boys Swimming & Diving Staff head coach Rob Peglar commented: “It was very becoming that probably the greatest swimmers in Ladue historical past completed his profession and closed the group’s season with a record-breaking efficiency!”
Prime SCY Occasions
50 free – 22.47
100 free – 49.52
200 free – 1:45.70
500 free – 4:48.63
100 breast – 58.18
200 breast – 2:09.10
200 IM – 1:58.06
Denison College competes within the North Coast Athletic Convention (NCAC) together with their neighbor and rival Kenyon School. Situated about half-hour aside, the 2 faculties supply each other robust competitors domestically and on the nationwide stage, as Kenyon School is the 2023 DIII Nationwide Runner-Up.
Whereas Denison positioned eighth on the 2023 NCAA DIII Nationwide Championships, breast was a very robust speciality for the Massive Crimson, contributing 26 factors in 100 breast and 22 factors in 200 breast, second in factors solely to the #1 Emory males who represented 1 / 4 of the finalists within the two occasions.
On the convention stage, defending champions Denison fell to the Kenyon Owls on the 2023 NCAC Championships by 117 factors after main the primary three days of the four-day meet.
Garza’s present finest instances would have been value 50 factors on the NCAC Championships, able to scoring thirteenth within the 100 and 200 breast, for 17 factors every, and 14th within the 200 IM for 16 extra factors.
Denison had 5 ‘A’ finalists within the 200 IM and 200 breast and 4 ‘A’ finalists within the 100 breast eventually season’s championships, all of whom had been sophomores with two exceptions.
Senior Richie Kurlich, a 22-time NCAA Division III All-American and four-time NCAC Champion, positioned 2nd within the 100 breast (1:58.45). Freshman Francesco Assalone positioned seventh in 100 breast (55.93), eighth in 200 IM (1:52.62), and eighth in 200 breast (2:05.57), and his time on the roster will overlap with Garza’s for 2 seasons.
Becoming a member of Garza as a freshman on the 2024-2025 roster is the versatile Nick Hensel, whose finest instances would have positioned fifth within the 200 breast (2:03.67) and eighth within the 100 breast (56.97) eventually season’s convention championships, on high of his ‘A’ remaining scoring instances within the 200 IM (1:52.62), 50 free (20.72), 100 free (46.10), and 200 free (1:41.42).
Rounding out the recruiting class are Ben Bevill (again/IM/free), Ben Campbell (distance free), George Goins (distance free), Marshall Pifer (again/free), and Clay Perry (free).
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