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Sweden’s Lisa Nystrand has made a verbal commitment to North Carolina State University and will join the women’s swimming and diving team in the fall of 2024. She wrote on social media:
“I am so happy and excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at North Carolina State University! Honored that I get to be a part of the Wolfpack! GO PACK🐺❤️”
Nystrand trains with the club team Simklubben Neptun in Stockholm and represents Sweden internationally. An IM/breaststroke/backstroke specialist, she competed at 2023 European Junior Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, this past summer and took home a silver medal in the 400 IM with a PB of 4:45.06. She was also a finalist in the 200 IM (7th, 2:16.68), 100 breast (8th, 1:11.84), and 200 breast (6th, 2:29.48), and she split 2:03.53 on the 4×200 free relay. She clocked lifetime bests in the two breaststroke events in semi-finals (1:09.02/ 2:29.25).
At the SCM Nordic Championships in Norway last December, she won the 200 breast (2:23.50), 200 IM (2:10.28), and 400 IM (4:38.09) and came away with PBs in the 200 breast, 200 IM, and 200 free (2:00.31 leading off the 4×200 free relay). She recently notched a lifetime best in the SCM 400 IM (4:37.12), a race she won by 20 seconds at the Swedish Swim Games in Upplands Väsby.
Best SCM times:
- 400 IM – 4:37.12 (4:09.65)
- 200 IM – 2:10.28 (1:57.36)
- 200 breast – 2:23.50 (2:09.27)
- 100 breast – 1:07.55 (1:00.85)
- 200 back – 2:09.85 (1:56.98)
Best LCM times:
- 400 IM – 4:45.06 (4:11.04)
- 200 IM – 2:14.64 (1:58.41)
- 200 breast – 2:29.25 (2:10.85)
- 100 breast – 1:09.02 (1:00.37)
- 200 back – 2:16.32 (2:00.64)
The Wolfpack have also pulled in verbal commitments for fall 2024 from #3 Leah Shackley, #5 Erika Pelaez, #13 Lily Christianson, and Katya Ivanov. Because the inevitable comparison will be made to the last Swedish swim star to matriculate at NC State, it’s worth pointing out the improvements Sophie Hansson made during her time in Raleigh:
| Sophie Hansson | 2017 | 2021 |
| SCM | ||
| 50 breast | 30.11 | 29.55 |
| 100 breast | 1:05.26 | 1:03.50 |
| 200 breast | 2:23.16 | 2:18.13 |
| LCM | ||
| 50 breast | 30.90 | 30.31 |
| 100 breast | 1:07.59 | 1:05.66 |
| 200 breast | 2:28.09 | 2:23.82 |
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