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Lorena Jerebic, a current high school senior from Zagreb, Croatia, has committed to swim for Division I California State University, Bakersfield. Jerebic will graduate from high school in spring 2020 and join the Runners’ class of 2024.
At the 2019 European Junior Swimming Championships,she swam all 3 butterfly events, with a high finish of 9th in the women’s 100 fly semi-final. She also swam at the World Junior Championships (100 back, 50 fly, 100 fly), with a high finish of 24th in the 50 fly. At December’s Euroepan Short Course Swimming Championships, which was her 2nd time racing at this meet, she swam all 3 butterfly races, including finishing 19th in the 200 fly. She was short of her best times in all 3 of those races.
With the Croatian Swimming Federation, Jerebic has had multiple opportunities to represent her nation in international meets in locations such as Scotland, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Denmark, Russia and Slovenia.
“I am so excited to announce my verbal commitment to swim and study at the California State University, Bakersfield❗️ I am grateful to my friend who directed me to the university and helped me with the important things and of course to Coach Christopher Hansen for introducing me to their great program. I look forward to being a part of the team this fall! I would like to thank my parents, teammates and coaches that have helped me through this whole process. GO RUNNERS🟡🔵”
With her current best times converted to short course yards, Jerebic would have had multiple finals performances with the CSU Bakersfield Runners at the 2020 WAC Championships.
| Best SCM Times | Best LCM Times | ||||
| 50 freestyle – 26.66 | 50 freestyle – 27.18 | ||||
| 100 freestyle – 56.52 | 100 freestyle – 58.88 | ||||
| 200 freestyle – 2:02.89 | 200 freestyle – 2:10.63 | ||||
| 100 backstroke – 1:03.09 | 100 backstroke – 1:04.66 | ||||
| 200 backstroke – 2:16.31 | 200 backstroke – 2:21.42 | ||||
| 100 butterfly – 59.26 | 100 butterfly – 1:00.49 | ||||
| 200 butterfly – 2:11.43 | 200 butterfly – 2:16.87 | ||||
| 200 IM – 2:21.80 | 200 IM – 2:24.82 | ||||
At the WAC Championships this year, the Runners placed 5th as a team.
Jerebic will begin her swimming career in the United States at CSU Bakersfield beginning fall 2020.
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