{"id":224217,"date":"2016-10-06T09:10:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=224217"},"modified":"2016-10-06T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:10:52","slug":"alvin-jiang-gives-verbal-commitment-to-unc-tarheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/alvin-jiang-gives-verbal-commitment-to-unc-tarheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin Jiang Gives Verbal Commitment to UNC Tarheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><i>Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website <a href=\"https:\/\/agonswim.com\/\">AgonSwim.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alvin Jiang\u00a0<\/strong>has verbally committed the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is from Colleyville, Texas and swims for Lakeside Aquatics.<\/p>\n<p>His best times are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50 Back 24.20<\/li>\n<li>100 Back 49.60<\/li>\n<li>200 Back 1:54.37<\/li>\n<li>100\u00a0Fly 48.76<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This summer Jiang was the USA Swimming Austin Futures Champion in the 100 fly (55.41). He was also a 50 free (23.69) and 100 back (58.83) finalist. Jiang is a USA Swimming Scholastic All-American and a senior at Cistercian Preparatory School. Swimming for his school at the 2016 Texas Southwest Preparatory Conference Championships he won both the 100 fly (49.17) and 200 IM (1:53.34).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Lewis\u00a0<\/strong>led the Tarheel&#8217;s butterfly group last year. While he has graduated,\u00a0<strong>Patrick Cusick\u00a0<\/strong>(48.40) will be Chapel Hill&#8217;s fastest swimmer still around in the 2017-2018 season. On the backstroke front,\u00a0<strong>Nicolas Graseer\u00a0<\/strong>and Lewis led the charge at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2016-acc-mens-championships\" target=\"_blank\">ACCs last year<\/a>.\u00a0<strong>Rob Whitacre\u00a0<\/strong>(47.78) will be a senior when Jiang gets to North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/a_jiang7\/status\/781236737095761920<\/p>\n<p><em>To report a verbal commitment email <a href=\"mailto:HS@swimmingworld.com\">HS@swimmingworld.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. 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