Florida State To Get Five International Recruits

Photo Courtesy: Indian River State College

Five international recruits have signed with the Florida State Seminoles. The Seminoles signed 11 swimmers in total. Swimming World looked into the Florida State recruiting class.

Manuella Ribas Andrade

Andrade is from Curitiba, Brazil and currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida. She specializes in freestyle events. Her best times include a 51.94 100-yard freestyle, a 1:49.56 200-yard freestyle and a 4:56.03 500-yard freestyle. She is a member of the Brazilian junior national open water team and swimming team.

Molly Carlson

Carlson will be a huge diving addition to the Seminoles. She is from Toronto, Ontario in Canada and is a member of the Canadian National Team. She has represented her country in a number of large competitions including the 2014 Youth Olympics and 2014 World Junior Championships. She is a 12-time junior national medalist.

Tayla Lovemore

Lovemore is from Durban, South Africa. Prior to Florida State, she swam at Indian River State College and was a three-time NJCAA Champion. Her best times include a 54.18 100-yard butterfly, 55.34 100-yard backstroke and a 23.01 50-yard freestyle. She will enter Florida State as a junior.

Aidan Faminoff

Faminoff is a native of Victoria, British Columbia in Canada. He will help the Seminoles’ diving team on the men’s side. This past summer Faminoff earned a bronze medal in the 3-meter synchronized diving event at the 2015 junior Pan American Championships.

Max Polianski

Polianski is from Auckland, New Zealand and is a member of his country’s national team. He is New Zealand’s reigning national champion in the 200-meter butterfly. His best times include a 1:56.97 in the 200-meter short course butterfly.

The Seminoles also signed Macie Beairsto from Missouri, Nika Blank from Massachusetts, Ayla Bonniwell from New York, Natalie Chambers from Texas, Griffin Alaniz from Maryland and Nate Samson from Maine.

“This class is a nice mix and it’s just what we need,” coach Frank Bradley said in a press release. “I think we’re getting some great young men and women in this class. They’re talented in the pool as well as in the classroom. I think they’ll come in and contribute right away.”

Name*

Email*

Welcome to our community. We invite you to join our discussion. Our community guidelines are simple: be respectful and constructive, keep on topic, and support your fellow commenters. Commenting signifies that you agree to our Terms of Use

Name*

Email*

12 Comments

Oldest

Newest Most Voted

Inline Feedbacks

View all comments

Ron Corlis Teare

8 years ago

What? Why don’t you recurit Americans you idiots.

Roland Raffin

8 years ago

Such BS giving scholarships to foreign students. We should cut off state and federal funding to schools that don’t give these to US students!

Diana Tunell

8 years ago

Taking another opportunity away from an American. There are plenty of young american athletes who would blossom if given this opportunity. No wonder our medal count is going down in the Olympics as we are training our competitors.

Jason

8 years ago

Reply to Diana Tunell

You’re an Idiot. Foreign athletes are highly beneficial to the development of the sport domestically. They add much needed international experience as well as depth to the collegiate swimming scene. The other thing I would like to mention is that these scholarships are available to EVERYONE and can be competed for by both Americans and foreigners. Its not like there are special “foreigner only” scholarships. If it happens to be a foreigner that is best suited for a scholarship or position on a team then they should get it… this concept is known as CAPITALISM.. something you yanks are very good at and promote. In conclusion I would also like to mention that unless you are Native American you should not be pointing fingers at foreigners because at some point, someone in your family came to this country as a foreigner.

Tyler Yates

8 years ago

If you train at an American college, you should represent the United States in the Olympics, not the country you barely swam in…

commonwombat

8 years ago

Reply to Tyler Yates

Just a small technicality called citizenship gets in the way ! Just remember these swimmers have had to have already reached a certain standard before being “college recruited” so whilst for some, it will be the ‘finishing school’; they’re far from being solely products of the US collegiate system.

Some will do well, many will sink without a trace just as will be the case with any domestic recruit. Just as it is for most collegiate swimmers, this is probably “the ceiling” as regards their swimming careers as I would expect none of these in the article above (and very few if any out of all the Foreign recruits I’ve seen listed) to make their relative countries Olympic teams, either for Rio or in the future. It’s doubtful even if most will even make the trip back for their national Trials.

Erica Wachtler

8 years ago

Glad I’m not the only one who thinks we should recruit our own American kids!

superfan

8 years ago

i agree to a certain point, but when you think about it….what foreigners training in the USA colleges are winning medals at the Olympics…..not very many, if any. you can swim fast by staying at home and training (and maybe going to school there).

Roland Raffin

8 years ago

Not ones that work here and pay taxes my friend. Anyone that wants to move here, work, and add to the U.S. economy I am good with. Let’s get our U.S. high school students scholarships first before looking for swimmers from other countries!