The center diver with probably the most factors on the 2023 NCAA Males’s Swimming and Diving Championships is available in the market for a brand new program for subsequent season.
Ruard van RenenA South African freshman at Southern Illinois College entered the NCAA Switch Portal on Wednesday.
Van Renen made a public look on the primary day of the 2023 MAC Championship, the place he swam the quickest ever by a 44.89 MAC swimmer within the 100-yard backstroke time trial.
He carried that feat to the NCAA Championship the place he completed ninth in 100 backstrokes (44.67) and thirteenth in 200 backstrokes (1:40.22) in a brand new convention file.
These 13 factors had been SIU’s first within the NCAA Championship match since 1995. This put Salukis twenty eighth total within the encounter. He was paired with Raunak Khosla of Princeton as the best scorer in a match outdoors of the Energy 5 conferences.
Yard Greatest Occasions:
- 50 free – 19.99
- 100 free – 44.14
- 100 again – 44.67
- 200 again – 1:39.73
- 100 flies – 46.10
Final yr, earlier than arriving in Southern Illinois, van Renen completed second in 100 backstrokes at South Africa’s Quick Course Nationwide Championships. His 54.37 put him about three seconds behind Commonwealth Video games champion Pieter Coetze.
Van Renen was additionally second in that match (24.41) after Coetze in 50.
Southern Illinois assistant coach Johno Fergusson can also be from South Africa.
“The place ought to I begin my time at SIU?” Van Renen informed SwimSwam on Wednesday. “SIU handled me so properly of their coaches, they welcomed me with their loving arms. The chums and connections I made whereas at SIU won’t ever be forgotten, and I plan to maintain these individuals who consider in me with me on my journey to success.
“This system itself is unquestionably one thing that has helped me develop as a bodily swimmer. SIU was excellent to me and so they actually meant lots to me and that is why this course of was very tough. I’m so grateful for the chance SIU gave me.
“The rationale I left is just not as a result of I do not consider in this system, however as a result of I would like extra quick races and folks to push me day by day moderately than push myself towards the clock.”
Van Renen says he is in search of a coaching group that may push him as a person, each on the NCAA and internationally. Whereas he did not identify the particular workforce he is noticed, he mentioned he is in search of packages with backstroke athletes at his stage to push him—which is a reasonably quick record nationally. Different colleges with non-veteran backstroke athletes scoring in NCAA Championships embody Cal, Florida, Arizona State, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Purdue, Texas, and Stanford.
“Clearly the objective is to make Paris 2024 and leaping on a brand new program is a giant threat, however I am keen to take it on and make it a hit,” he mentioned.
“I will be able to work onerous and present folks what I can do.”
Getting into the switch portal doesn’t require an athlete to switch; as a substitute, it provides athletes the liberty to attach with coaches at different colleges on switch points.
This yr’s new guidelines restrict the period of time a pupil athlete can entry the swimming and diving switch portal to 60 days after the NCAA Championship invites are introduced. Whereas we’re lower than midway via this era to date, the brand new change appears to have had the impact of weakening the portal as only some high-profile D1 swimmers have entered the portal to date.
This window doesn’t apply to swimmers searching for a graduate switch.
Van Renen, who will flip 20 in Might, has three years to qualify.
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