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Tyler Houpt has introduced his dedication to proceed his schooling and swimming profession at Hope Faculty this fall. Houpt is from Mason, Ohio, the place he not too long ago graduated from Mason Excessive College and is a member of the Mason Manta Rays.
Along with pool swimming, Houpt performs water polo and has expertise with open water races. He not too long ago completed seventh on the 2024 Ohio Open Water Championship, enhancing on his ninth place end from final summer season. In 2022, he positioned twenty seventh on the USA Swimming Open Water Junior Nationwide Championship, which he adopted up with a 4th place end on the Central Zone Open Water Championship later in the summertime.
“Hope Faculty appears like a house away from house with the robust and extremely welcoming staff and training workers. The school itself welcomed me with open arms and a powerful nursing program to go together with it.”
Within the pool, Houpt swims quite a lot of occasions together with distance freestyle, the 400 IM, and the 200 fly & breast. He wrapped up his brief course season this spring on the Tim Myers Memorial SC Senior Championships, the place he clocked a private better of 16:07.07 within the 1650 en path to a sixth place end. He additionally dropped almost 4 seconds within the 200 breast (2:07.69) and hit a season greatest within the 200 fly (1:55.77) to complete tenth and eighth, respectively.
Houpt additionally represented his highschool this spring on the OHSAA State Championship (Division I). He took 18th within the 500 (4:43.14) and twenty eighth within the 200 IM (1:57.97), which is barely slower than he was at this meet in 2023 when he completed eighth and fifteenth (4:37.42/1:54.65) in the identical occasions.
Prime SCY Instances
- 500 free – 4:38.50
- 1650 free – 16:07.07
- 200 breast – 2:07.69
- 200 fly – 1:55.77
- 200 IM – 1:54.39
- 400 IM – 4:09.12
Hope Faculty, situated in Holland, Michigan, is a Division III program within the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation (MIAA). This yr, the lads’s staff completed 2nd on the MIAA Championships and twenty third on the NCAA Division III Championships.
Houpt is poised to make an instantaneous influence on the convention stage, as his greatest instances throughout all of his predominant occasions would have scored within the top-8 at this yr’s meet. Bailey Smith was the staff’s prime distance freestyler this yr after successful the MIAA titles in each the five hundred (4:35.26) and 1650 (16:01.21), however is not going to be on campus when Houpt arrives this fall.
Houpt is joined by Noah Buist, Aaron Thomas, Everett Cox, Luke Newcomb, Blake Hetherington, Luke Wyrick, and George Marsh in Hope’s incoming class this fall.
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