It’s only May but the University of Texas men’s swimming and diving team has already received three verbal commitments for its class of 2022. After hearing from Charlie Scheinfeld and Drew Kibler earlier this spring, the Longhorns have now picked up a verbal nod from Deerfield, Wisconsin’s Daniel Krueger. Krueger announced via his Instagram account:
“I am excited to announce my verbal commitment to study and swim at the University of Texas! I can’t wait to join the Longhorns in 2018!”
A USA Swimming Scholastic All-American, Krueger is homeschooled and swims for McFarland Spartan Sharks. His sweet spot is the 100 free but he excels from the 50 to the 200, and has a strong backstroke, too. Krueger competed in the 50/100m freestyle events at U.S. Olympic Trials last summer before going on to represent Team USA at the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. There, he finished one spot off the podium in the 100 free and was part of the gold-medal 400 free and 400 medley relays.
Krueger recently updated all his personal-best times in short course yards while swimming at Dolfin ISCA Junior National Championship Cup. He won the 50/100/200 free, all with best times (he broke the meet records in the 100/200 freestyles), placed third in the 100 back and 100 IM (more PBs), and was 5th in the 50 back, 7th in the 50 fly and 12th in the 50 breast.
Kreuger’s top SCY times include:
- 50 free – 19.84
- 100 free – 43.38
- 200 free – 1:35.58
- 50 back – 23.78
- 100 back – 49.02
- 200 IM – 1:49.91
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I watched Daniel race at the Pac 12 vs. USA National Team in October. Daniel threw down a 43.1. He is going to do great things swimming at Texas. He’s a huge addition to possibly Texas’ best recruiting class ever.
Did Whitney Hite actually send him to Texas to wait for him next year?
No
DO deserves every bit of this! He is definitely the hardest worker both in and out of the water that I’ve met, and Texas is going to only help him more. Congrats!
Wow nice pick up for UT. He will most likely arrive on campus 19.5, 42.8, 1:33.7 and then REALLY drop.
Not sure about 1:33.7 that’s a big time drop but the others I can see especially the 50
Eddie will be gone by the time he arrives on campus.
Huge potential in long course
He’s been really good in long course 49.61 at 17 and 22.89 at 16 in the 50 is outstanding.
His times aren’t that impressive. They are as easy as going 22.7 in 50m underwater dolphin kick.
Those times are like Will Licon, they ain’t hard
Licon needs to stop being such a Mormon and get hard
That was rude
That’s not easy
he has really long arms
he has really long socks, too
Another diamond in the rough
Swimming has gotten really fast when a 1:35.5 200 freestyler is a “diamond in the rough”.
Diamond in the rough? I’m pretty sure tons of schools have scouted him for a quite a while
This kid is not a diamond in the rough. He will be top 5 in the class of 2018
Yes, but he’s still a diamond in the rough. Kid’s had an incredible trajectory, but having followed it, I think he’s just getting started.