{"id":280386,"date":"2017-10-12T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=280386"},"modified":"2017-10-12T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:20:05","slug":"sc-worlds-medalist-nyls-korstanje-gives-verbal-nod-to-nc-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sc-worlds-medalist-nyls-korstanje-gives-verbal-nod-to-nc-state\/","title":{"rendered":"SC Worlds Medalist Nyls Korstanje Gives Verbal Nod to NC State"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW COMMIT:\u00a0<\/strong>Dutch sprinter\u00a0Nyls Korstanje\u00a0<\/strong>has given his verbal commitment to NC State University.\u00a0Korstanje lives in Eindhoven where he trains with the Dutch National Team under\u00a0Marcel Wouda<\/strong>, the 1997 400 IM world record setter, and 1998 200 IM World Champion. Korstanje still calls the city of Nijmegen and it’s club Aqua Novio ’94 home.<\/p>\n

Korstanje is not a total stranger to swimming in the United States. He learned to swim in North Reading, Massachusetts, while living in Boston suburb from ages six to nine. His swimming career took off there as he trained with Reading’s Burbank YMCA and in 2008 won the New England Championships eight and under 25 free and 25 backstroke.<\/p>\n

More recently, and on a larger, international stage, Korstanje won gold in the 50 free and silver in the 100 free at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Swimming festival. His biggest international success to date came at World Short Course Championships in Windsor, Canada last winter. There he was a member of the Netherlands’ bronze medal earning 4×50 freestyle mixed relay. He also raced the 100 freestyle in Canada.<\/p>\n

His best SCM times are:<\/p>\n