Versatile Kaelia Hughes will swim for ASU starting this fall (2024)

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Mission Viejo Nadadores’ Kaelia Hughes will swim for Arizona State College starting this fall. Hughes, though initially from Illinois, moved to California following the 2021 season and swam for Irvine Novaquatics earlier than settling at MVN.

I’m extremely excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my tutorial and athletic profession at Arizona State College. I need to thank my household, mates, coaches, and everybody at MVN for supporting me endlessly via this course of. Counting down the times till i’m a Solar Satan! Forks up 🔱😈

Hughes is quite versatile, as she swims the breaststrokes/IMs in addition to the mid-distance freestyle occasions. She just lately competed on the Speedo Sectionals – Carlsbad, the place she finaled within the 100/200 breast and 400 IM. She took tenth within the 100 breast (1:13.28) and seventh within the 200 breast (2:41.10), earlier than inserting ninth within the 400 IM (5:05.48) with a PB.

On the 2023 version of the identical meet, Hughes had an distinctive meet to take thirteenth within the 200 free (1:49.77), twenty first within the 200 IM (2:02.36), and sixth within the 100 breast (1:03.35). Whereas the 200 free and 200 IM had been PBs, her 100 breast was simply off the PB she established in prelims (1:02.56).

Greatest instances SCY:

100 breast – 1:02.56
200 breast – 2:17.07
100 free – 51.62
200 free – 1:49.77
500 free – 4:55.38
400 IM – 4:25.62

ASU, previously a member of the PAC-12, will be part of the BIG-12 this fall. On the newest and closing PAC-12 championships, the Solar devils completed fifth out of 8 groups. To closing on the BIG-12 Championships in 2024, it took instances of 1:03.68/2:17.62 within the 100/200 breast, 1:50.78/4:58.87 within the 200/500 free, and a 4:26.69, leaving Hughes with a number of choices for her championship meet occasion line up.

Different members of ASU’s class of 2028 embody Kaitlyn McMorrow (fly/free), Ariel Beltran (IM), Haiden Schoessel (dash free), Payden Rafferty (again), and Jordan Greber (free/IM).

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