Versatile Sprinter Darren Nguyen Sends Verbal To Claremont McKenna College’s Class Of 2030

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Darren Nguyen has verbally dedicated to swim at Claremont McKenna Faculty as a member of the category of 2030. He confirmed the choice in an e-mail to SwimSwam, writing:

I’m grateful to announce my verbal dedication to the admissions course of at Claremont McKenna Faculty! I wish to thank my mother and father, brother, associates, and teammates for his or her unwavering help and being there by the whole lot. I additionally wish to thank all my coaches: Logan, Wade, Kristine, Justin, Jacinta, Nate, Sarah, Ron and Wealthy for shaping me into the swimmer and particular person I’m immediately. Lastly, I wish to thank Coach Charlie and Coach Tom for his or her perception in me and giving me this chance. SKO STAGS!

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High SCY Instances:

100 Butterfly: 50.00
200 Butterfly: 1:51.32
100 Backstroke: 51.73
50 Freestyle: 21.50
100 Freestyle: 47.61
200 Freestyle: 1:44.72

Nguyen hails from Irvine, California, the place he attends Santa Margarita Catholic Excessive College and trains year-round with Irvine Novaquatics. He’s a butterfly and freestyle specialist, robust throughout each fly distances and the 50-200 free, and likewise swims the 100 again throughout the highschool season.

He lately switched to Irvine Novaquatics after coaching with Mission Viejo Nadadores for his whole profession. He first made a reputation for himself in June 2024 when, alongside teammates Nolan Baker, Victoria Mori, and Gracyn Aquino, he set a brand new Nationwide Age Group (NAG) Document within the combined 15-16 4×50 freestyle relay, swimming a time of 1:27.91 at a Mission Viejo Instrasquad meet.

Nguyen’s finest time of fifty.00 within the 100 fly stems from his sophomore season, whereas his 1:51.32 within the 200 fly, 21.50 within the 50 free, 47.61 within the 100 free, 1:44.72 within the 200 free, and 51.73 within the 100 again have been all set final season. Most of his bests have been posted on the RAA Winter Championships in December, although his 200 free got here at a neighborhood membership meet in Oceanside in February.

He’s been a stalwart for Santa Margarita at the highschool degree, serving to them win the CIF Southern Part Division I Championships in 2024 and 2025 and contributing to the workforce’s 2024 State title.

On the 2024 Part meet, Nguyen took tenth within the 100 fly along with his private finest and fifteenth within the 100 again (52.32). He superior to State within the 100 fly, the place he took twenty ninth (50.16).

Final season, he touched ninth within the 100 fly (50.26) and 14th within the 100 again (52.09) at Sections. He additionally swam the butterfly leg of the 200 medley relay, splitting 22.49 to assist the workforce end runner-up. He didn’t swim individually at State, however contributed a 22.53 fly break up on the 14th-place 200 medley relay and jumped onto the 200 free relay, the place he break up 20.96 on the relay that completed eleventh.

Claremont McKenna Faculty is positioned in Claremont, California. The swim workforce is a co-op between Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd Faculty, and Scripps Faculty, which competes as a Division III program within the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Convention (SCIAC). The Stags completed first at this 12 months’s SCIAC Championships, profitable by 228 factors.

On the workforce’s 2024-25 depth chart, Nguyen would have ranked first within the 200 fly, second within the 100 fly, third within the 100 again, eighth within the 50 free, twelfth within the 100 free, and thirteenth within the 200 free. He might be a right away consideration for the medley relays on both backstroke or butterfly if he has a while drops throughout his last highschool season.

When he arrives on campus, Nguyen can have a number of coaching companions in his major occasions. Present freshman Jayden Kadiman owns bests of 49.77 and 1:51.96 within the fly occasions, whereas fellow freshman Jack Beckman has been as fast as 51.37 within the 100 again. Sam Zhou, the one different publicized commit within the college’s recruiting class, owns finest instances of 49.42 within the 100 fly and 49.64 within the 100 again, giving Nguyen one other robust coaching associate.

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