Bella Scopel Tramontana from the Sandpipers of Nevada has introduced her verbal dedication to Arizona State College. Tramontana will be part of the Solar Devils within the fall of 2025 as a part of the category of 2029.
I’m past excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my tutorial and athletic profession at Arizona State College. I’d wish to thank my buddies, teammates, and household for the limitless assist they’ve given me all through this journey. A particular due to Coach Michael and Coach Ron for all the time believing in me. I additionally need to thank Coach Logan, Coach Herbie, and all of the workers at ASU for this wonderful alternative. Can’t wait to be a Solar Satan!! FORKS UP 🔱❤️
Tramontana is on the Brazilian nationwide crew and has competed for them at a number of World Junior Open Water Championships, together with at the newest version in Italy in September 2024. Unsurprisingly given her open-water prowess, Tramontana makes a speciality of distance occasions within the pool.
Greatest Occasions (Yards):
500 freestyle: 4:57.18
1000 freestyle: 10:12.40 (cut up)
1650 freestyle: 16:51.16
All three of those lifetime bests come from the CA/NV Speedo Sectional Championship in December 2023. Since then, Tramontana had a robust 2024 within the 50-meter pool, swimming lifetime bests of 4:24.71 within the 400-meter freestyle and 17:09.85 within the 1500-meter freestyle at April’s Fran Crippen SMOC.
These had been massive swims for Tramontana, representing a 3.56-second drop within the 400-meter free and eight.84 seconds within the 1500. Later in the summertime, she continued to enhance by swimming a brand new lifetime finest within the 800-meter free, breaking 9 minutes for the primary time (8:58.37) to go three-for-three in LCM distance occasion private bests for 2024.
The Solar Satan ladies are a crew in transition. That is their first season beneath new head coach Herbie Behm (although in fact Behm just isn’t new to this system). They graduated their massive NCAA factors scorer Lindsay Looney after 5 seasons and have added some key items this season to mitigate that loss and proceed making an attempt to maneuver up the NCAA standings. And at last, that is their first season within the Huge-12 convention after shifting from the Pac-12.
By the point Tramontana arrives on campus, the crew may have had a yr of expertise in all these respects and she or he’ll be part of a distance crew headed by Deniz Ertan and Alexa Reyna. She joins a strong recruiting class for the Solar Devils that makes a speciality of a spread of disciplines. Alexia Sotomayor, Marley Lovick, Eleaunuh Phillips, and Cali Watts have additionally verbally dedicated to the Solar Devils’ class of 2029.
