Dylan Carter this winter made probably the splashiest Junior Nationals debut that we’ve ever seen. The Davie Nadadores 16-year old was swimming his first career taper meet after moving to Florida earlier this year from his native Trinidad & Tobago, and proceeded to stamp his name on the National Age Group Record books in his first ever yards-course taper meet.
In his first race, the 50 free, he took 3rd overall in 19.94, which made him the third 16-year old to ever dip under 20 seconds. He missed the honor of becoming the second by mere minutes, as Bolles’ Caeleb Dressel was a 19.82 leading off their relay in the session’s opening event.
He then won the 200 free in 1:35.29, which is a new Winter Juniors record and broke the 15-16 National Age Group Record set earlier in 2012 by Michael Domagala, who will be a teammate of Carter’s at USC.
He was also a 43.83 in the 100 free, meaning he sits in the top-3 all-time in the age group in the 50-200 freestyles, plus has a 47.22 in the 100 backstroke! Only the great Ryan Murphy has been better in that race as a 16-year old!
Carter’s commitment is to arrive in January of 2014 for the Trojans. He will spend 2013 focusing on training for the Junior World Championships that will be held August 26th-31s in Dubai, UAE, and join USC mid-season next year.
How Dave Salo was able to squeeze another swimmer into this class and shift and dodge his scholarships around is a mystery only he may know. The Trojans only graduate 5 after this season, with the only real big star being Alex Lendrum; perhaps this is a sign that Vlad Morozov is thinking strongly about going pro after this season, which would free up a lot more money.
Peeling through the lists of swimmers who will join the USC roster in the 2013-2014 season shows that they’ve made a move from being a “very good, very top-heavy” team to a team with the depth to contend for national titles. Every single one of them is a bona-fied star, and they are all good to the point where if they’re not huge NCAA Championship meet contributors by the time they’re sophomores, at the latest, it would be shocking.
Santo Condorelli
Michael Domagala
Reed Malone
David Morgan
Steven Stumph
Dylan Carter
Yakov Toumarkin
Carter took visits to Arizona and USC, though he was also considering Michigan, Cal, and Louisville. He is coached by Alex Pussielidi, and is a dual United States/T&T citizen, though he competes for T&T internationally.
Thought I’d go w Dr Seuss theme to get on the level of our tommy Trojan friends here. Didnt know how to impart “wise-ass-dom” in coloring book form.
Naïveté is fun, ignorance is bliss, I bet you’re so perfect, that you don’t piss
If it were true, youd never know it, you’re just too busy, pretending you don’t $***.
I couldn’t help noticing, a bit of commotioning, perhaps you should put your mind back, on your sun-tan lotioning
But if you insist, on chiming on this, I can chime back, your views are amiss.
Take hook line and sinker, no rules ever get tinkered, but don’t be surprised, when the stink gets called stinker.
The funding is there, don’t get it wrong, just follow the crumbs, try to put down the bong
Take a deep breath, earth to your mother, dont volunteer… Read more »
You are kidding about shifting schollies around right? It’s called private school, and just like at Stanford, if they want you there, then tuition is “waived,” aka academic and need-based scholarships. Many friends have taken advantage of such in swimming and water polo. As a high school and club coach of both sports I’ve sent boys to many private schools on that arrangement, including several to u$c and Stanford. I didn’t think this was a secret, much like federal and state grants cover many at public schools that are not on schollie – except those really are strictly enforced as need-based regardless of athletic ability, as well as being dependent on residency. This is why it’s always impressive to me… Read more »
CaryWright,
I agree that many times PD can be a little inflammatory but I also think you might be a tad naive if you think that what he talks about doesn’t go on. Even in swimming.
“tad bit inflammatory” thanks Mark, that’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me 🙂
If anything USC is under more scrutiny by NCAA Compliance because of past football infractions. With Pat Haden as AD all the sports toe the line. As USC is private there’s no “in state ” tuition preference like at State schools so can’t go down that road.
Unless its changed since I went thru recruiting at Stan, if u are accepted there and ur family has income of certain lower levels u got tuition waived because they hv so much in endowments. There was no such program at USC. Kids want to go to USC because not only is it academically at a very high level as well as their sports but there also actually hv fun at USC. Ask anyone who goes to USC, they love it!
I can tell you with great certainty that USC has the same set up as Stanford. “Packages” which include all kinds of “aid” to offset tuition AND fees and the $$$ comes from all kinds of sources, including the Federal Government in the way of “grants” for need based reasons (which means lower income) are offered to recruitable athletes. Oftentimes, these “outside” sources of $$$ are much greater than the $$$ which is offered under the 9.9/14 scholarship structure as defined by the NCAA. This information was as of the 2012-2013 season.
Need based aid such as Pell Grants and Cal Grants are NOT countable per the NCAA, but many other “scholarships” and “grants” ARE countable against those 9.9/14 athletic… Read more »
You should bring this up with your coach, who offered exactly what I speak of to, yep you guessed it, yours truly. Congrats on snagging a partial, certainly isn’t easy, and all kidding and rivalry aside, I want to be clear that being a part of NCAA swimming is a huuge accomplishment in and of itself. It is a sport very far along in its evolution, and is as competitive – or more so – than any sport in the world. Just look at the numbers of participants(most populated sport in the world by comfortable margin; this has been debated many times before and numbers bare that out), and hang your hat on where you’ve gotten yourself. But don’t for… Read more »
Dylan Carter is actually the second from the left (with the Davie Cap infront of him) 2nd from the right is Daniele Tirabassi. He is currently a senior.
I was actually referring to the kid with the beard, who is the “one to the right ” of Carter, not the one who is “on the right” OF the picture. And now we know who that is thanks to SwimPrincess.
And I agree with Bobo – looks more like a rugby player than a swimmer (or like one of those 13 yr. old Little League ball players from the Dominican Republic…….)
Tirabassi is like 25.
Just to be clear, Tiribassi is about 23 years old.
How many of those recruits are foreign?
Just Carter (kinda) and Toumarkin, and Carter is a dual citizen with T&T and the United States.
Agreed. I thnk Dylan looks like he’s 22 as well. Big boys
Am I the only one who thinks this kid (and the kid to his right) look more like 30 than 16? Heck, my adult sons (who are both older than 30) don’t have facial hair like that, particularly the kid with the full beard on the end. LOL!
I’d say that the guy on the left of the photo looks more like a prop in rugby than a swimmer. He is physically impressive and hasn’t the usual body of a swimmer. I presume he’s a sprinter. He remembers me Felipe Silva of Brazil, a little big man in the water.
That’s Roberto Gomez, 2012 Olympian for Venezuela and former Florida Gator.
I thought the exact same thing. Amazing how mature these “kids” look. Looks to me like their growth potential has pretty much already occured.
Your math is off on the first 16 year old under 20 seconds. That title is held by none other than Vladimir Morozov. 19.96 (5/16/2009)
http://www.socalswim.org/records/recordslist.aspx?agegroup=4&ReturnUrl=/default.aspx
You’re right Chunks…guess I should’ve specified as being among American citizens. Vlad did it first though.