Jack Punswick, Cancer Survivor and Kansas 6A State Champion, Sends Verbal to Southern Indiana

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Jack Punswick, most cancers survivor and Kansas 6A 2024 State Champion within the 100 breaststroke, has given his verbal dedication to the College of Southern Indiana’s class of 2030. Punswick, who was cleared of Hodgkins Lymphoma in April following a year-and-a-half-long battle with the illness which he was identified with in 2024 following the summer time Futures Championships in Minneapolis, is presently taking a spot yr to regain the shape he confirmed in 2024. On the 2025 Kansas 6A State Championships, Punswick positioned second within the 100 breaststroke regardless of not but being cleared of most cancers and was named the recipient of the 2025 Nationwide Excessive Faculty Spirit of Sport Award, which acknowledges people who exemplify beliefs of the spirit of sport.

I’m extraordinarily humbled and excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my educational and athletic profession on the College of Southern Indiana! I wish to thank God, my household, buddies, and teammates, Coaches Rob, Gavin, Bentley, Betty, Ashlyn, Ty, Pattern, Jacobs, and Thurston for his or her immense assist and steering.

Thanks @usi_swimdive and Coach Kainer for giving me the chance to satisfy an unimaginable purpose of swimming D1! Go Screagles!

Punswick accomplished chemotherapy in December 2024 and rapidly returned to competitors, and for a time held the highest time in Kansas within the boy’s 100 yard breaststroke with a 1:00.24 representing Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest Excessive Faculty, qualifying him for the 2025 KSHSAA 6A State Championship. Weeks later, Punswick posted a 1:00.32 the prelims of the 100 breaststroke on the 2025 EKL Championships which he adopted up with a third-place end in finals with a 1:01.44. On the KSHSAA 6A State Championships, Punswick swam a 59.63 to take second within the 100 breaststroke behind membership teammate Lincoln Mainelli, serving to Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest to a third-consecutive state title within the KSHSAA 6A division.

Southern Indiana’s males’s staff completed sixth within the 2025 Summit League Championships. Punswick’s greatest time within the 200 breaststroke would have earned him 18th within the prelims on the 2025 Summit League Championships, and his 100 breaststroke lifetime greatest additionally places him barely exterior of the B remaining on the 2025 Summit League Championships.

Punswick is ready to have a direct affect on Southern Indiana’s males’s staff. The College of Southern Indiana’s inaugural season was launched within the fall of 2022, making it one of many youngest within the NCAA and offering Punswick with the chance to assist foster the tradition of this system for years to come back. Punswick’s greatest occasions already put him within the top-10 of this system’s high performers in each breaststroke occasions, notching him at 2nd within the 200 breast and 4th within the 100 breast. It’s also value noting that Punswick didn’t begin swimming year-round till his sophomore yr of highschool (2022-2023) after getting lower from his highschool basketball staff. One yr later, and after additionally becoming a member of COOL Swim Group (Metropolis of Olathe Lightening) with coach Rob Kenley, Punswick entered the 2023-2024 highschool swim season and and went on to win the state title within the 100 breaststroke in February 2024, roughly 5 months previous to his most cancers prognosis.

Greatest Instances

50 Breaststroke (SCY) – 27.67
100 Breaststroke (SCY) – 57.86
200 Breaststroke (SCY) – 2:07.77
200 IM (SCY) – 2:04.39
50 Breaststroke (LCM) – 30.94
100 Breaststroke (LCM) – 1:06.02
200 Breaststroke (LCM) – 2:25.17

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