2021-22 Swimming Roster
Hoover, Sam
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Thursday, May 14
2020 Swimming & Diving, Postseason
Sunday, March 08
Sam Hoover
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Chapel Hill, N.C.
- High School:
- Chapel Hill
- Weight:
- null
Bio
American Record Holder
- 2024: 200 medley relay
- 2022: 800 freestyle relay
- 2024: 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay
2x ACC Champion
- 2022: 400 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay
2x Academic All-ACC Team (2022, 2024)
2024-25 (SENIOR):
- Bronze Medalist in the 200 medley relay & 800 medley relay at ACC Championships
2023-24 (JUNIOR):
- Competed in five meets for the Wolfpack during the regular season
- Was a part of the 200 medley relay American Record holding team (1:20.98)
- Competed in NCAA Championships earning personal bests in (50y free, 100y free, and 100y breast)
- Took home three individual top ten times in the ACC Championships ( 200y IM, 100y breast, 100y free)
- Recorded seven personal bests at ACC Championships
- Competed in eight meets for the Wolfpack during their regular season specializing in freestyle and IM
- Clocked season-bests in the 50-yard freestyle (20.76), 100-yard freestyle (43.72), 200-yard freestyle (1:34.40) and 200-yard IM (1:44.77) at the Bulldog NCAA Qualifying Meet
- Won the 200-yard IM (1:48.96) by over a second at the first home meet of the season against Kentucky
- Earned All-America status as a member of the Pack’s sixth-place 800 freestyle relay squad (6:08.22) at the 2022 NCAA Championships
- Also competed in the 100 freestyle (28th - 42.43) and 200 freestyle (30th - 1:33.52) at NCAAs, with his 100 time cracking the NC State top 10
- Won a pair of relay gold medals at the ACC Championships, taking first in the 800 freestyle relay (6:08.35) in meet record time and in the 400 medley relay (3:01.88)
- Finalist in all three of his individual events as he competed in the 200 individual medley (5th - 1:44.13), the 200 freestyle (5th - 1:33.13) and the 100 freestyle (13th - 42.91)
- Clocked season-bests in the 200 individual medley (1:43.47) and 200 freestyle (1:32.62) in the ACC prelims to rank in the top seven in program history in each of those events
- Won both the 100 (48.34) and 200 (1:36.25) freestyle events in the Pack’s home meet against Duke
- Claimed first collegiate victory in the 100 freestyle in the Pack’s tri-meet with Auburn and Kentucky; won the event in a time of 43.78
- Member of the 2021-22 U.S. Junior National Team
- 10x NISCA All-American
- National Junior Team member
- 10x NC High School State Champion
- 2020 High School National Champion in the 100 freestyle
- NC High School State record holder
- Named NC High School Most Outstanding Swimmer in 2020
- High school valedictorian