Ava Haase '18 Recruiting Profile

My collegiate goals include getting my degree, continue breaking my individual records in swimming, and be a leader on the swim team.

My athletic background includes basketball, gymnastics, Tae Kwon Do (3rd degree black belt), water polo, and in recent years competitive swimming. I  am glad to have tried so many different sports and believe my well-rounded athletic background differentiates me from others.  In addition, I believe the drive to improve my swimming times is a differentiator.  I do not skip practices.  I am very coachable.  And I love to win.  I have not swam competitively for very long and am still a bit "raw".  In September of 2017 I joined the LAC Swim Club and am now swimming year-round for the first time and am seeing great results.  My senior season will be my third year of competitive swimming and have improved my SCY 50/100-free racing times to 24.51 / 53.55: 

• My time in the 50-free during my first competitive swim season (as a Sophomore) was 27.05 (SCY) and improved to 26.23 by the end of the season.  As a Junior I brought this down to 25.14 and was awarded the "Most Improved Swimmer, Girls Varsity".  
• Since September 2017 I have been training year-around with a club team and have been steadily improving my times...most recently a 24.55 in the 50-free at the Juanita Allington Invitational (Clovis, CA).   
• Likewise, in the 100-free I have seen similar improvements.  My Sophomore time was 59-high, Junior times in the range of 55-high to 57-high, and most recently lowering the time to 53.55 at the Juanita Allington Invitational in Clovis, CA (from a prior all-time best of 55.08).