Ben Evans, who swims for Thanet Swim Club in Kent, has committed to swim for Wingate University in the fall of 2016. Evans is an all-around talent who specializes mostly in individual medley and freestyle. His top times include:
| LCM | SCY, converted | |
| 100 meter freestyle | 54.99 | 48.00 |
| 200 meter freestyle | 1:56.05 | 1:41.54 |
| 400m/500yd freestyle | 4:00.46 | 4:28.11 |
| 200 meter butterfly | 2:08.35 | 1:52.43 |
| 200 meter IM | 2:09.50 | 1:52.27 |
| 400 meter IM | 4:32.17 | 3:58.14 |
Wingate competes in the NCAA Division II and is a member of the coach-run, single-sport Bluegrass Mountain Conference. After winning seven consecutive conference championships, the Bulldogs have finished second to Queens University of Charlotte in each of the last two years. Evans will be a good addition to the roster, especially in IM events. His best converted times would have scored in the A finals at 2016 BMC Championships in both the 200 and 400 IMs; Wingate had no swimmers in the top 8 in the 200 IM this year and three in the 400 IM (Oystein Fjeldberg, Ossian Arvidsson, and Camden Wunderlich). Evans would have been on the A/B final bubble for the 200 fly.
In addition, he would have scored top-8 in the 500 free, an event where Wingate had four of the top six finishers: Jerome Heidrich, Leif-Henning Kluever, Arvidsson, and Fjeldberg. Of that group, only Arvidsson was a senior last year, so Evans should have quite a mid-distance training group when he arrives in North Carolina in the fall.
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Great to see he got his F1 visa in place