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Winter Juniors qualifier Nick Shalhoub has introduced his verbal dedication to swim for The Faculty of William & Mary starting within the fall of 2026. He publicized the information in an e mail to SwimSwam, writing:
I’m excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my tutorial and athletic profession at William and Mary! I need to thank Coach Nate and Coach Mike for giving me this chance. I additionally need to thank my coaches, my dad and mom, and my teammates who’ve helped me alongside the way in which. Go Tribe!!
The North Carolina native is wrapping up his senior yr at Inexperienced Hope Excessive Faculty, the place he swam for the varsity swimming and diving workforce all 4 years. Shalhoub additionally trains year-round with the TAC Titans, the place he makes a speciality of backstroke, IM, and middle-distance freestyle.
Shalhoub certified for Winter Juniors – East for the primary time this previous December, ending 91st within the 400 IM (4:03.78), 93rd within the 200 again (1:51.69), and 106th within the 100 again (51.98).
On the North Carolina Excessive Faculty Athletic Affiliation (NCHSAA) 8A State Championships two months later, his first yr advancing to the meet, Shalhoub made a pair of ‘A’ finals within the middle-distance freestyle occasions. He grabbed bronze within the 500 free (4:35.91) and completed sixth within the 200 free (1:42.39), each private bests on the time, whereas additionally serving to Inexperienced Hope take fourth within the 400 free relay (47.34 cut up) and sixth within the 200 free relay (22.09 cut up) because the workforce completed fourth general.
Final month, Shalhoub posted a string of lifetime greatest performances on the Speedo Sectionals in Cary. He positioned fifth within the 200 again (1:46.62) and 400 IM (3:56.98) and tenth within the 100 again (50.49) and 500 free (4:33.09), which all stand as his present profession bests.
Over the previous 12 months, Shalhoub has dropped seven seconds within the 400 IM, over 5 seconds within the 500 free, almost three seconds within the 200 again, over two seconds within the 200 free, and over half a second within the 100 again, a trajectory that bodes nicely as he prepares to make the bounce to collegiate swimming. The 200 IM may very well be an occasion to observe as nicely, along with his greatest of two:00.03 relationship again two years and by no means having been swum at a tapered meet.
High SCY Occasions:
100 Backstroke: 50.49
200 Backstroke: 1:46.62
200 IM: 2:00.03
400 IM: 3:56.98
200 Freestyle: 1:42.39
500 Freestyle: 4:33.09
A Division I Mid-Main program, William & Mary competes within the Coastal Athletic Affiliation, the place the lads’s workforce not too long ago positioned fourth out of 5 groups eventually month’s convention championships. Shalhoub’s greatest occasions within the backstrokes and 400 IM would have made the ‘B’ finals; he’s not far off the occasions of 1:45.65 and three:55.71 wanted to make the ‘A’ finals within the 200 again and 400 IM, both.
With the 400 IM and 100 again scheduled shut collectively on the convention meet, Shalhoub might swim the five hundred free (or 200 IM) as his third occasion, because the 200 free additionally overlaps with the 400 IM and 100 again. It took a time of 4:32.62 to make the ‘B’ remaining and rating factors in 2026, lower than half a second off his present lifetime greatest.
On the workforce’s projected 2026-27 depth chart, factoring in graduations and different incoming recruits, Shalhoub is slated to rank second within the 200 again and 400 IM, fifth within the 500 free, seventh within the 100 again, twelfth within the 200 free, and seventeenth within the 200 IM, bringing added depth to the roster.
Becoming a member of Shalhoub in Williamsburg within the fall are Parker Saltsman (again/IM), Wyatt Ball (fly/middle-distance free), Nethaniel Mester (breast), William Finucane-Tuccio (dash free/fly), Jack Tarte (dash free/fly), Kyle Spaman (breast), and Brayden King (distance free).
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