﻿{"id":277209,"date":"2017-09-12T16:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T23:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=277209"},"modified":"2017-09-12T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T23:44:42","slug":"pennsylvania-backstroker-connor-killion-verbally-commits-to-uva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pennsylvania-backstroker-connor-killion-verbally-commits-to-uva\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Backstroker Connor Killion Verbally Commits to UVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW COMMIT: <\/strong><strong>Connor Killion\u00a0<\/strong>has made a verbal commitment\u00a0to swim for the University of Virginia. Killion is from Huntingdon Valley, PA. He swims for Central Bucks Swim Team and is a senior at Lower Moreland High School.<\/p>\n<p>His top times are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100 Back 49.64<\/li>\n<li>200 Back 1:48.70<\/li>\n<li>200 Free 1:40.72<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Killion had a big year last year, taking a second and a half off his best 100 backstroke time. He also improved his 200 back by nearly two seconds.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/courtney-harnish-takes-two-at-pennsylvania-aa-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">2017 Pennsylvania AA High School state championships<\/a> Killion was on Lower Moreland&#8217;s second place 200 medley relay. He picked up a second silver in the 200 freestyle with a 1:40.72. In his third event of the meet Killion finally secured gold, touching in 49.64 in the 100 back. Lower Marion settled for fifth in the 400 freestyle relay.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/new-uva-coaching-staff-secures-first-verbal-commitment-swimmacs-julia-menkhaus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Menkhaus<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>verbally committed to the Cavaliers\u00a0earlier this month.\u00a0Last night on social media the University of Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BY66j5nh5-V\/?hl=en&amp;taken-by=todddesorbo\" target=\"_blank\">coaching staff indicated<\/a> that the program had received two more verbal commitments. We can&#8217;t find news of the second one just yet, but it appears as though the Hoos&#8217; recruiting efforts for the Class of 2018 are taking off despite the later start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW COMMIT: Connor Killion\u00a0has made a verbal commitment\u00a0to swim for the University of Virginia. Killion is from Huntingdon Valley, PA. 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