Grant Shoults To Retire After This Week’s Mission Viejo Meet

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Grant Shoults To Retire After This Week’s Mission Viejo Meet

Stanford swimmer Grant Shoults announced on Tuesday that he’ll retire after one last meet at Mission Viejo this week.

Shoults made the announcement on social media, bowing out as the Swim Meet of Champions hosted by Mission Viejo, his home pool.

This Friday will mark my last race as a competitive swimmer and I am incredibly excited to do so at my home pool in Mission Viejo (SMOC). Thank you everyone for the amazing support throughout my career and I can’t wait to be light it up in my 1st and last day as a Pro Swimmer! pic.twitter.com/TjnIKbTFzv

— grantshoults (@grantshoults) March 29, 2022

It brings an end to a long and illustrious career for the graduate student who, ever self-aware, lists his grad year as “Stanford 20-ish”. Shoults utilized a redshirt year for the COVID-19 pandemic and a graduate student year, giving the 24-year-old six years with the Cardinal.

The decision isn’t because Shoults is getting slower: He finished ninth at NCAAs in the 1,650 freestyle, the time of 14:38.18 the second-fastest of his college career. He helped the Cardinal finish seventh in the team standings.

Shoults finishes as a 14-time All-American, 10 of them individual. He’s a three-time Pac-12 champion in the 500 free, finishing third in that event this season and second in the mile. He holds the Stanford record in the 500 free (4:10.02) and is third all-time in the 1,650 and fourth in the 1,000 free. He endured a shoulder surgery in 2019 that cost him significant time in the water.

A long-time U.S. national teamer, he competed at the 2019 World Championships. The native of Laguna Hills, Calif., and Santa Margarita Catholic graduate was 2016 Swimming World High School Swimmer of the Year. He set national high school records in the 200 free and 500 free. He won two gold medals and a silver at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Singapore, including gold in the 400 free and silver in the 200 free. He also won bronze in the 400 free to go with 800 free relay silver at the 2017 World University Games.

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