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Mattaus Rammel from the New Wave Swim Staff in Raleigh, North Carolina has verbally dedicated to attend Ohio State College in fall 2026. His dedication comes two weeks after breakthrough swim within the 100 fly on the Winter Junior Championships – East meet in Greensboro earlier this month.
At that meet, Rammel received the B Last and positioned ninth within the 100 fly in 47.25. That was a brand new greatest time by 1.7 seconds, bettering on the 48.91 that he swam in early November of this 12 months. In whole this season, he has dropped over two seconds on this occasion versus his greatest time coming into the autumn.
Within the course of, he tied the North Carolina Swimming LSC 15-16 file in that occasion – Noah Henderson swam 47.25 as effectively in 2018.
Rammel is a venture swimmer for the Buckeyes and a little bit of a late bloomer. One of many youthful swimmers within the class, he doesn’t flip 17 till Might.
He was a protracted course entry into that Winter Juniors meet in that 100 fly and used the Bonus commonplace to enter his different particular person race, the 50 free, the place he additionally swam a greatest time of 20.70.
Whereas Rammel didn’t have the minimize to swim the 100 free individually on the meet, he cut up 44.10 on a 400 medley relay anchor, which is 1.4 seconds higher than his lifetime greatest flat begin.
Rammel attends the Ravenscroft Faculty, the place he’s the defending North Carolina Non-public Faculties D1 State Champion within the 50 free.
Finest Instances in Yards:
- 50 free – 20.70
- 100 free – 45.53
- 100 fly – 47.25
- 200 fly – 1:51.34
- 100 again – 50.76
Rammel is the primary introduced dedication for the Buckeyes males within the class of 2026 – an unusually-late begin for the group that completed thirteenth ultimately 12 months’s NCAA Championship meet.
The present Ohio State butterfly crew is younger, led by freshman Matthew Klinge, who swam 46.21 on the Ohio State Invitational in November. Klinge has already dropped over a second within the occasion as a freshman at Ohio State to rank tenth within the Large Ten this season. That’s a reasonably vital improvement for the Buckeyes, who’re making an attempt to maintain tempo with the convention front-runners Indiana and Michigan – Indiana’s Finn Brooks has been 45.15 this season.
They create in Ethan Reniweicki (47.48) amongst a gaggle of fairly good dash flyers within the class of 2025, however Rammel’s time earlier this month will make him a key difference-maker for the Buckeyes when he arrives in a season-and-a-half.
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