Aaron Shackell to Workforce Up With Siblings at Indiana After Stops at Cal and Texas
After utilizing his first two seasons of NCAA eligibility at Cal after which Texas, U.S. Olympian Aaron Shackell now plans to symbolize the Indiana Hoosiers. Shackell didn’t make a proper announcement of the transfer, however he now lists @indianaswimdive in his Instagram profile. Shackell will be part of his youthful siblings, twins Alex and Andrew Shackell, in swimming in Bloomington.
Aaron Shackell was a shock qualifier for final 12 months’s Olympic group as he gained the 400 freestyle at Olympic Trials earlier than putting eighth within the occasion in Paris. These outcomes got here in between his first two collegiate stops, a semester every at Cal and Texas. Shackell departed Cal in late 2023 with plans to coach for Trials again dwelling in Carmel, Ind., after which return to Berkeley within the fall, however he ended up transferring to Texas. That tenure additionally got here to a sooner-than-expected conclusion, with Shackell going dwelling within the winter. His subsequent vacation spot might be a lot nearer to dwelling.
It’s unclear when Shackell might be eligible to compete for Indiana, however he’ll present an instantaneous increase within the freestyle occasions and presumably the 200 butterfly, the yards model of the occasion during which he took gold on the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships. Shackell is a former Nationwide-Excessive-College-record holder within the 200-yard free.
After his quite a few strikes between coaching stops, Shackell struggled at U.S. Nationals and didn’t qualify for any A-finals. He did swim a greatest time within the 200 free, however his 1:46.50 was not sufficient to succeed in a particularly fast top-eight, and he ended up putting eleventh at night time. Shackell additionally completed tenth within the 200 fly prelims and twelfth within the 400 free heats earlier than withdrawing from consolation-final swims.
