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David Oderinde Will Stay In State: Commits To Texas A&M For 2020

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David Oderinde of Klein Oak High School and Premier Aquatics Club of Klein in Spring, Texas, has announced his commitment to swim for Texas A&M in the fall of 2020. A sprint specialist, Oderinde will be joining an Aggies team that finished 12th place in the 200-yard freestyle relay and 18th place in the 400 free relay at the 2019 NCAA Championships.

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At the 2019 Texas High School 6A State Championship meet, Oderinde took 9th place in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly (20.78 and 49.60 respectively). Two weeks later at the Gulf Short  Course Championships, he took 3rd place in the 100-yard backstroke (49.82) and won a pair of silver medals in the 100 and 200-yard freestyles (45.53 and 1:41.53 respectively) behind fellow A&M commit Collin Fuchs.

Best Times in Yards:

  • 50 free – 20.46
  • 100 free – 45.01
  • 100 back – 49.70
  • 200 back – 1:49.84
  • 100 fly – 48.99

Along with Fuchs, Oderinde will join Elijah Sohn and Vincent Ribeiro as members of the Aggies’ class of 2024.

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Texas A&M Swim Fan
5 years ago

Congrats David. Welcome to the Aggie Family!! Wishing you the best in the.pool as well as in the classroom. Gig em forever👍

BSNSwim
5 years ago

David congrats and way to represent Oak!

BGNole97
5 years ago

Been watching David swim since he was on our neighborhood summer league team! Great young man from a great family! Very excited for him and looking forward to getting over to College Station to see him do his thing!

swimmerTX
5 years ago

Collin and David swim together with PACK and I know they will have extremely bright futures.

BSNSwim
Reply to  swimmerTX
5 years ago

They are also high school teammates as well!

monsterbasher
5 years ago

Congrats! But for real is Kawhi going to the Lakers or not?

Pvdh
Reply to  monsterbasher
5 years ago

He’s gonna wait until there are no FAs left and then go back to the Raptors and the Lakers are gonna have to sign Rondo and Mike Beasley again

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