Italian Butterfly Specialist Asia Salvato To Swim For Iowa State In Fall 2026

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Asia Salvato has introduced her dedication to proceed each her schooling and swimming profession at Iowa State College, the place she’s going to be part of the crew within the fall of 2026. Salvato hails from Imola, Italy, the place she attends Istituto Tecnico Scarabelli and trains year-round with Imolanuoto.

Salvato gained’t be the primary member of her household to swim within the NCAA, as her sister Sofia competed at Virginia Tech as a freshman final 12 months and is transferring to Iowa State for this season.

The youthful Salvato confirmed the dedication in an e-mail to SwimSwam, and supplied the next quote:

I selected Iowa State as a result of I felt prefer it was my place, the place I can evolve to do higher.

Salvato focuses on butterfly, with lengthy course bests of 1:01.91 within the 100 and a pair of:14.42 within the 200. Coming from Europe, she has but to report any occasions in a brief course yards pool.

The Italian most just lately competed this previous July on the historic Setti Colli meet, held on the iconic Foro Italico in Rome. First established in 1963, Setti Colli is the oldest annual worldwide swim meet on this planet—and stays extremely aggressive immediately. There, she touched twenty fifth within the 200 fly with a time of two:18.43 and completed forty first within the 100 fly in 1:03.56.

Whereas she has centered nearly solely on butterfly over the previous 12 months, she’s additionally an completed IMer. She posted a time of two:18.43 within the 200 IM on the Campionato Regionali Primaverili meet in March 2023, and went 5:02.24 within the 400 IM on the Campionati Regionali Estivi competitors in July 2023.

High LCM Instances (SCY conversions):

100 Butterfly: 1:01.91 (54.51)
200 Butterfly: 2:14.42 (1:58.57)
200 IM: 2:18.43 (2:01.82)
400 IM: 5:02.24 (4:26.52)

Led by head coach Matt Leach, Iowa State is a Division I program competing within the Massive 12 Convention. This previous season, the Cyclones completed tenth out of 10 groups on the convention championships.

To earn a spot in a minimum of the ‘C’ remaining final 12 months, it took occasions of 55.09/2:00.05 within the 100/200 fly and a pair of:02.52/4:24.08 within the 200/400 IM. Primarily based on these benchmarks, Kaczmark seems to be a finals contender within the 100s and 200s, assuming the transition to brief course yards goes nicely.

Graduate scholar Winter Craig led the way in which within the 200 fly with a 14th-place clocking of two:01.16 at Massive 12s. Within the shorter occasion, senior Carley Caughron (54.64), Craig (55.08), and sophomore Keirlyn Mullica (55.36) have been carefully bunched. Sophomore Emma Kuhn (2:01.51) and senior Mallory Miller (4:18.06) have been the Cyclones’ greatest IMers.

Incoming freshman Kendall Mallers, who owns marks of 55.39 and a pair of:01.61, will pair with Salvato to offer a giant increase to the crew’s fly group over the following few years.

Salvato joins Hayden Bailey, Tessa Moore, and Scout McQueen in committing to ISU’s class of 2030.

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