Marist Signs Futures Qualifier and Backstroke Specialist Brady King For Fall 2025

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Parkland Aquatic Membership’s Brady King will head east this fall to swim for and research at Marist College. King, a distance free/backstroke specialist from Macungie, Pennsylvania, comes from a household of swimmers. Each his sisters, Avery and Reilly, swam collegiately—Avery for Niagara College and Rielly for Siena College.

On the Pennsylvania 3A State Championships, King helped his now alma mater, Emmaus Excessive Faculty, to a thirteenth place end in a subject of 114 groups.* King scored 4 factors individually, inserting thirteenth within the 500 free for his sole particular person occasion. He blew away his earlier better of 4:40.77, which he had set simply 2 months prior, decreasing it to 4:39.55 in prelims then dropping 2+ seconds for a 4:36.73 in finals. He contributed splits of 21.48 in Emmamus’ 200 free relay, 46.65 within the 400 free relay, and led off their 200 medley relay in a 23.78, one other PB.

King wrapped up his brief course season on the Center Atlantic Senior Championships, hitting PBs in his 200 free (1:42.52), 100 again (50.66), 200 IM (1:55.94), and 400 IM (4:09.26). His highest end got here within the 200 again, the place he was simply 4 tenths off his PB of 1:48.49, swimming a 1:48.84 for second general.

Finest instances (SCY):

100 again – 50.66
200 again – 1:48.49
200 free – 1:42.52
500 free – 4:36.73
1000 free – 9:39.28
1650 free – 16:17.59

Marist, a D1 Mid-Main, competes within the Metro Atlantic Athletic Convention. After profitable all of it in 2024 for the primary time since 2008, Marist completed 2nd—simply 30 factors shy of the 2025 MAAC Champions, Niagara—on the MAAC Championships this yr. The Crimson Foxes have been led by James Conable, a distance free/IMer who swept his particular person occasions however graduated this spring.

King would have scored within the backstroke occasions at MAACs final yr, along with his time within the 200 again good for seventh whereas his 100 again would have positioned fifteenth. King additionally has scoring potential within the 500 free, as his PB of 4:36 would have certified for a second swim. Additional, his instances would have ranked him 2nd and third within the 100/200 again, respectively, on Marist’s roster this previous season.

King will arrive in Poughkeepsie, New York with an enormous group of recruits, together with Franco Ciccarone, Tyler Roer, Benjamin Millar, Jake Mercer, Lorezo Aquilino, Colt Sears, Joey Myer, and Ty Dropic. Though King will arrive on campus as the only freshman with an A-final worthy time, Dropic, Myer, and Aquilino all would have certified for a second swim of their prime occasions.

*The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation (PIAA) classifies excessive colleges primarily based on dimension from 1A to 6A. A 3A highschool has a mean whole enrollment of 536-752 college students.

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