SCAD Picks Up Florida State Qualifier Layne Smith For Class of 2026

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Layne Smith has verbally dedicated to attend Savannah Faculty of Artwork and Design to affix their class of 2030.

l’ve been so excited to announce my dedication to Savannah Faculty of Artwork and Design and the @scadswimming staff! So grateful for my mother and father, coaches and teammates who’ve made these previous 11 years imply a lot to me Go Bees!

Smith attends Coral Shores Excessive College and swims on the Florida Keys Swim Membership. She just lately swam on the 2025 FHSAA State Championship meet, ending nineteenth within the 500 freestyle with a season finest 5:15.17. This was barely off the efficiency she had on the 2024 Championships, when she completed sixteenth within the 200 free, setting a private finest 1:56.50 in prelims, and fifteenth within the 500 at 5:12.91

On the FGC Senior Championships in March, she set new season finest instances within the 200 free (1:59.47), the five hundred free (5:11.19), and the 100 IM (1:06.30).

Smith’s Private Greatest Instances SCY:

200 free- 1:56.50
500 free- 5:09.74
1650 free- 17:39.89

SCAD is an NAIA faculty within the Solar Convention, the place they completed third ultimately 12 months’s Championships behind St. Thomas and Keiser.

Smith will stroll onto relays as a freshman, together with her 200 freestyle time coming in at third on the present staff behind freshman Lena Gerl and senior Nikki Hahn. Within the 500 free, her finest time ranks her 2nd behind Gerl, and her 1650 free could be 1st on this 12 months’s staff.

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