Fountain Valley, California’s Justin Nguyen has given a verbal commitment to the University of Southern California for 2017-18. Nguyen swims at Irvine Novaquatics and is a member of four NOVA relay squads with national age group records: 13-14 400m free relay, 13-14 800m free relay, 15-16 200m free relay, and 15-16 800m free relay.
A senior at Fountain Valley High School, Nguyen is the reigning CIF-Southern Section Division I champion in both the 100 free (44.58) and 100 back (48.94). He also split a 22.94 50 fly on Fountain Valley’s 200 medley relay that finished 13th at the 2016 meet.
Nguyen competed in the 50/100/200y free and 100/200y back at 2015 Speedo Winter Junior Nationals West, making the C finals in the 200 free and 200 back. After swimming the 200m back at Olympic Trials, he went on to Speedo Summer Juniors and contested the 50/100m free and 100/200m back.
His best times are:
| SCY | LCM | |
| 200 back | 1:49.25 | 2:03.53 |
| 100 back | 48.94 | 57.74 |
| 50 back | 24.79 | 28.98 |
| 200 free | 1:37.65 | 1:52.50 |
| 100 free | 44.58 | 51.58 |
| 50 free | 20.95 | 24.27 |
Nguyen will join Jake Sannem and Nikita Tretyakov in the Trojans’ class of 2021.
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How was ice cream on Tuesday?
20.95 but 44.58 wowza