Stamford, Connecticut’s Samantha Cheruk has made a verbal commitment to join the Villanova University Wildcats in the 2015-16 season. Cheruk is a sprint freestyler with Wilton YMCA Wahoos who has competed at the YMCA Swimming National Championships for the past three consecutive short course and long course seasons.
As a freshman, Cheruk swam for Westhill High School and competed at the 2011 Connecticut State Open Championships at Yale University.
Cheruk’s top times over the past two seasons include:
50y free – 24.31
100y free – 51.98
200y free – 1:53.95
200y IM – 2:09.31
Those times would have represented the fifth-fastest 50 free for Villanova in the 2013-14 season, the seventh-fastest 100 free, the seventh 200 free, and the fifth 200 IM.
Cheruk split a 51.1 on the end of a Wilton Y relay at 2014 YMCA Short Course Championships, not too far off the splits of the women on Villanova’s 4×100 free relay that won the 2014 Big East conference title.
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