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Germantown Academy Aquatic Club’s Jack Maketa has verbally committed to the admissions process* at Yale for fall 2022. Maketa is a junior at Germantown Academy in Pennsylvania.
I am extremely excited and honored to announce my verbal commitment to the admissions process to swim and study at Yale University! I would like to thank my parents for their endless support, as well as my coaches, teammates, and friends. This would not have been possible without them. Go Bulldogs 🐶! #boolaboola
TOP TIMES (SCY)
- 100 free – 46.51
- 200 free – 1:40.12
- 500 free – 4:33.36
- 100 fly – 49.75
- 200 fly – 1:48.57
At the 2020 Easterns, one of the biggest private school championships nationwide, Maketa finished ninth in the 100 fly (50.28) and 17th in the 200 free (1:42.39). He was also 23.84 leading off Germantown’s ninth-place 200 medley relay and 46.28 on the third leg of their sixth-place 400 free relay.
At a GAAC intrasquad in November, Maketa swam to lifetime bests in the 100 fly (49.75) and 200 free (1:40.12). It was his first time under 50 in the 100 fly and a near two-second drop in the 200 free.
Last season, as a freshman Connor Lee led the sprint fly group at Yale with a 46.12 in the 100 fly, finishing second at the 2020 Ivy League Championships. As a junior last season, Patrick Frith was an A-finalist in the 200 fly, leading the Bulldogs (1:44.37). With his current bests, Maketa would’ve made the 200 fly B-final and 100 fly C-final at Ivies last year.
Maketa joins Lucius Brown, Tommy Park, Finn Henry and Nareg Minassian in Yale’s class of 2022.
*Note: A verbal commitment between an Ivy League coach and a prospective student-athlete is not an offer of admission, as only the Admission Office has that authority. The coach can only commit his or her support in the admission process. Ivy League Admission Offices do not issue “Likely Letters” before October 1 of the prospective student-athlete’s senior year of high school. The Likely Letter, while issued after an initial read of the student’s application, is not an offer of admission to the university.
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Congrats to Jack and the Germantown program! They are definitely on the rise and I’m excited to see what they do in the upcoming years!
Use to be those times would have been on the Junior National GA team. I’ve watched GA practices and have seen faster get out of practice times.
Yeah whatever…. Here we go again with another brainwashed Dick Shoulberg cult member going nutso when ever a current team member has success. Just like your former ousted and should be banned by Safesport coach, you and your fellow cult members have no class!
Thankfully for the sport and Germantown Academy, the disgraced Richard Shoulberg will never walk through the doors of the pool natatorium to coach a Germantown Academy athlete again. He’s lucky he’s still allowed to masquerade as a coach, like he’s doing right now. Shoulberg should be on the Safesport banned list with his buddies Rick Curl, Joe Bernal and Mitch Ivey.
Every time a Germantown Academy alumnus says something like this, I fact check it, and they’re almost always made up claims.
Y’all have gotten so exhausting, that I’m just going to have to start assuming your boisterous claims are false.
The sad fact is that Dick Shoulberg, himself, is encouraging this with his former swimmers and coaches. He loves it because he’s a narcissist that doesn’t care about anybody but himself…