Disclaimer: Dolfin Swim of the Week is not meant to be a conclusive selection of the best overall swim of the week, but rather one Featured Swim to be explored in deeper detail. The Dolfin Swim is an opportunity to take a closer look at the context of one of the many fast swims this week, perhaps a swim that slipped through the cracks as others grabbed the headlines, or a race we didn’t get to examine as closely in the flood of weekly meets.
High school sophomore Julia Podkoscielny hit a lifetime-best 1:59.00 in the 200-yard IM and currently leads Florida’s high school swimming ranks towards the state meet.
Last year as a freshman, Podkoscielny was 2:00.26 in the 200 IM. This year, with the state meet still to come, the sophomore has already cut more than a second. She dropped to 1:59.85 in an early-October time trial, then cut another eight tenths this week.
In that Class 2A Region 4 meet, Podkoscielny also went 53.76 to win the 100 back. That’s just .01 off a lifetime-best she hit in October, and that time was a drop of almost a second from where she was a year ago – 54.63.
We haven’t ranked out the current class of sophomore NCAA prospects yet – we typically do our “way too early” ranks of the sophomore classes in the spring. But Podkoscielny should be in the mix to make the top 20 nationally there – especially if she keeps her time drops going throughout the rest of this fall season.
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Can’t find a better swim family than the Podkoscielnys!
Great job by swimmer & coach!
Congrats to Julia. Dad was a stud of a swimmer himself. Olympic Record Holder in the 400 Free for about 6-7 hours. The men’s final of the 400 Free in Seoul is one of the greatest Olympic races of all time. Excited to see what Julia will do in the future.
Go Julia!
Do people not get slower after quarantine? I mean sheesh I can’t imagine going a best time this year after 4 months out of the water lol
Yeah it’s insane. The younger ones who don’t get many breaks from swim needed it I guess.