Turkish Backstroker Ekin Nazlı Okudur Commits to Dartmouth (2024)

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Turkish swimmer Ekin Nazlı Okudur has dedicated to swim at Dartmouth Faculty of the Ivy League starting fall 2024, making her the most recent Turkish swimmer to flood into the NCAA.

Okudur is primarily a 100/200 freestyler and backstroker from the Fenerbahce Sports activities Membership, one of many nation’s greatest and most profitable multi-sport golf equipment. Different swimmers from that membership who’ve made the journey to america embrace Deniz Ertan at Arizona State, Hazal Ozkan at Wisconsin, Aleyna Ozkan at Duke, Gizem Guvenc at UCLA, and former Ohio State Buckeye Zulal Zeren. The membership can also be the house coaching floor of fifty breaststroke World Document holder Emre Sakci.

Individually, she completed eleventh within the 200 again at December’s quick course Turkish Championships; she was sixth in lengthy course over the summer season. Final weekend, she added a brand new private finest in lengthy course within the 100 again, swimming 1:03.98 to knock three-tenths of a second of her earlier quickest time from April 2023.

Greatest Instances in Meters, Yards (Transformed):

LCM
SCM

50 free
27.59
—
24.13

100 free
58.50
—
51.26

200 free
2:05.90
—
1:50.54

100 again
1:03.98
1:02.14
55.98

200 again
2:15.45
2:13.55
1:59.86

Okudur initiatives to make a giant, rapid impression for the rebuilding Huge Inexperienced, a program that not solely missed the 2020-2021 COVID-19 season, but additionally confronted being reduce by the varsity altogether.

Jamie Legh, a freshman, leads Dartmouth in each the 100 yard (55.23) and 200 yard (2:02.14) backstrokes this season. Okudur’s transformed time within the 100 free would make greater than a second enchancment on the workforce’s 400 free relay and her transformed time within the 200 free would rank 2nd on the workforce and make a roughly three-second enchancment, on paper, on the workforce’s 800 free relay.

She initiatives to be a three-event scorer as a freshman, with a transformed time that might have made her a B-Finalist within the 200 again finally yr’s Ivy League Championship meet.

Dartmouth has gone international to construct their class of 2024. Program head coach Milana Socha additionally has commitments from Maria Uranga and Sasha Dauletau from Texas, Izzy Mundee from New Orleans, and Maddie Blackwell from California.

Dartmouth positioned eighth out of 8 groups finally yr’s Ivy League Championship meet.

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