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Plymouth Whitemarsh Aquatics’ Sam Kohm has verbally committed to Georgia for fall 2022, joining older brother Zach Kohm, a fall 2021 commit.
I am beyond excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at the University of Georgia!! I would like to thank all my friends, family, and coaches for helping me get to this point, I can’t wait to call Athens home! Go dawgs!! #committotheg
TOP TIMES (SCY)
- 200 free – 1:46.17
- 500 free – 4:41.92
- 1000 free – 9:40.16
- 1650 free – 16:00.10
- 400 IM – 4:10.17
Kohm is a junior at La Salle College High School in Pennsylvania. At 2019 Easterns, as a freshman, he qualified for the 500 free C-final, where he touched 18th overall.
Last summer, at the 2019 Middle Atlantic LSC Championships in LCM, Kohm swam to an eighth-place finish in the 1500m free (16:35.81). He was also 12th in both the 800m free (8:42.35) and 400m free (4:10.91) and 18th in the 400m IM (4:46.36).
Georgia is led in the distance free events by seniors Greg Reed (4:16.7/14:43), Aaron Apel (4:19.1/14:57) and Grant Norgan (4:17.0/15:10), junior Andrew Abruzzo (4:15.0/15:02) and freshman Jake Magahey (4:12.7/14:51).
Kohm joins Matt Sates, one of South Africa’s top talents nationally, in UGA’s 2026 class on the men’s side.
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Congratulations Sam. One of the hardest workers in and out of the pool for sure. Those who actually know, know. No one getting upset around here, so y’all can keep waiting.
BIG things happening for this dawg.
Yous sleepin on my g🤫🤫
Stop sleepin on King Kohm
They tripping dawg
Congrats to Sam! Very proud of this kid and the hard work he put in. Keep an eye out for some massive time drops
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Don’t you UGA should’ve waited until these “massive time drops” actually happened! According to collegeswimming.com this kid sat out his entire sophmore year and hasn’t improved in his best events since 2018!
Stop hating on my guy. He is the hardest worker in the pool always.
Congratulations.
I’m going to wait for someone to get upset at the comments and defend walk-ons.
But the thing is, I think we all knew/know Georgia high schoolers who were significantly faster than this and weren’t given the chance to walk-on at UGA.
It seems like you either have to be crazy fast or have the connections to swim at UGA now
Is he a walk on? I’ve never heard of a walk-on committing one October of junior year. That’s when the top 20s usually commit.
Good point, hadn’t even considered that.
UGA also got another commit on the girls side who doesn’t seem too fast.
Some of these recruits might not have had a meet since December of 2019 so there could be very big time drops coming
If he goes 1:38 in the 200 free and and 4:25 in the 500 free, I’ll say I was wrong.
They also had a girl commit and go 4:40… lol 😂
Didn’t know that having a fast brother could have this much influence
whaaat…
umm