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The College of Florida has kicked off its 2025 recruiting class with a giant splash, as Lynsey Bowen, the #9 ranked recruit within the ladies’ highschool class of 2025, introduced her verbal dedication to the Gators on Monday morning.
I’m tremendous excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my athletic and tutorial profession on the College of Florida! Thanks to my household, teammates, and coaches who’ve supported me alongside the way in which!! Go Gators!!!💙🧡🐊
Bowen marks the third swimmer ranked inside SwimSwam’s high 10 within the class to commit inside 10 days of the firstclass of 2025 dedication on September 8, with #1 Alex Shackell and #3 Claire Weinstein each committing to Cal final week.
Bowen is a teammate of Shackell’s at Carmel Swim Membership in Carmel, Indiana, the place she additionally options prominently on the Carmel Excessive Faculty ladies workforce that’s been a dominant drive for many years. Final season, Carmel gained its thirty seventh straight Indiana State title, incomes them USA In the present day’s Ladies’ Workforce of the 12 months.
Bowen gained the five hundred IHSAA free state title as a freshman in 2022, and final season, swept the 200 and 500 free throughout her sophomore yr.
Bowen kicks off Florida’s 2025 class by giving them somebody who can immediately make an influence on the nationwide degree, as she’s already quick sufficient to be an NCAA scorer within the 500 free (4:40.69), which is an occasion that noticed three Gators rating final season they usually now have the odds-on favourite for the nationwide title this yr in freshman Bella Sims.
Bowen tasks to additionally swim the 200 free (1:45.30) and 1650 free (16:19.60) in school, and regardless of the actual fact she’s solely raced the mile as soon as up to now in her profession, that point is lower than six seconds shy of the 2023 NCAA minimize line (16:13.73).
And for the way good she is briefly course, Bowen is arguably a good higher lengthy course swimmer at current, coming off a really spectacular summer time that noticed her qualify for the World Junior Championships and win gold on the U.S. ladies’ 800 free relay (1:59.00 break up).
The 16-year-old positioned sixth individually within the 800 free in Netanya after profitable the U.S. Junior Nationwide title in a private finest time of 8:33.71, and again in Might, she set two different notable PBs within the 200 free (1:59.82) and 400 free (4:11.97) on the Indy Spring Cup.
Bowen’s Finest Instances In Yards, Meters
| SCY | LCM | |
| 100 free | 51.01 | 56.22 |
| 200 free | 1:45.30 | 1:59.82 |
| 400/500 free | 4:40.69 | 4:11.97 |
| 800/1000 free | 10:03.14 | 8:33.71 |
| 1650 free | 16:19.60 | |
| 200 again | 1:58.61 | 2:15.13 |
| 200 fly | 2:03.01 | 2:13.61 |
The Florida girls’s workforce has been on a path again to the higher echelon of the NCAA over the previous few seasons, and issues actually got here to a head in 2022-23 when the Gators gained the SEC title for the primary time since 2009.
That victory got here after some key additions to the workforce, maybe most notably Emma Weyant, one of many high 500 freestylers within the nation, and Florida’s upward trajectory figures to proceed this season with Sims and Cal switch Isabel Ivey coming into the lineup.
Though these swimmers will already be heading into their junior years as soon as Bowen arrives, the Gators might be welcoming a fully loaded group of recruits this season, led by top-ranked Sims, however there are 4 others who rank inside the highest 20 becoming a member of the workforce this yr, with #12 Michaela Mattes becoming a member of Sims as a distance freestyler.
We can also’t overlook the truth that the very best distance freestyle swimmer of all-time, Katie Ledecky, trains out of the College of Florida, as does probably the greatest on the planet on the lads’s facet in Bobby Finke.
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