Notre Dame Nabs #6 Recruit, Sarah Paisley Owen (2027), Norment’s 1st Verbal as Head Coach

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Atlanta, Georgia’s Sarah Paisley Owen has introduced her verbal pledge to the College of Notre Dame for 2027-28, handing new head coach Michael Norment the primary dedication of his tenure.

“I’m extremely honored and excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my educational and athletic profession on the College of Notre Dame! I need to thank my household, Coach Justin, Coach Iago, Coach Chris, Coach Gabe, Coach Jhenny, Coach Abel, Coach Grace, and the remainder of my superb coaches and teammates at @maacswim for his or her unwavering assist alongside my journey. I’m deeply grateful to Coach Mike, Coach Joao, and Coach Trevor for this extraordinary alternative to hitch the @ndswimdive household. And lastly, I need to lengthen a particular due to the Notre Dame Athletic Division and employees for making me really feel welcome in South Bend. Go Irish! ”

Paisley Owen is a junior at Midtown Excessive College. She swims year-round with Metro Atlantic Aquatic Membership and is the 2nd-fastest dash freestyler (behind Rylee Erisman) within the cohort. We ranked her #6 on our Manner Too Early listing of prime ladies’ swimmers in the highschool class of 2027.

As a freshman in highschool, she received the 50 free (22.25) and 100 free (48.94) on the 2024 Georgia Excessive College 1A-5A State Championships. Final season, she repeated her state titles on the 4A State Meet, going 22.34 within the 50 and 48.47 within the 100, incomes a brand new PB within the latter. She additionally cut up 21.36/47.37 on the 4×50 free and 4×100 free relays.

Her greatest 50 free time dates from Winter Juniors East in 2023, the place she got here in sixth with 22.21. She has damaged 23 seconds 9 instances within the final two years; three of these have been 22.2s.

At NCA Spring Championships this previous March, she received the 50 free (22.58), was runner-up within the 100 free (49.23), and positioned tenth within the 200 free (with a PB of 1:48.72), eleventh within the 50 fly (24.55), and ninth within the 100 fly (with a PB of 53.65). Her 100 fly time was a 1.3-second enchancment from a 12 months in the past.

Owen kicked off lengthy course season with lifetime bests within the 50 free (25.50) and 100 free (55.80) at U.S. Nationals in June. She finaled in each occasions, coming in nineteenth within the 50 and thirty second within the 100. At Summer time Junior Nationals in Irvine, she positioned 14th within the 50 free (26.18), seventh within the 100 free (56.09), twentieth within the 200 free (PB of two:03.76), and tenth within the 50 fly (PB of 27.46).

Finest SCY instances:

50 free – 22.21
50 free relay cut up – 21.36
100 free – 48.47
100 free relay cut up – 47.37
200 free – 1:48.72
100 fly – 53.65

Owen is the primary prime 20 for the Notre Dame ladies’s staff since the highschool class of 2019, when #5 Coleen Gillilan made South Bend her dwelling.

The Irish completed twelfth out of 15 groups on the 2025 ACC Championships. Owen’s greatest instances would have scored within the ‘C’ finals of the 50 free and 100 free. It took 1:46.56 within the 200 free and 52.69 within the 100 fly to get second swims on the convention meet.

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