{"id":281639,"date":"2017-10-24T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=281639"},"modified":"2017-10-24T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:45:39","slug":"yotas-lauren-soleo-announces-verbal-commitment-to-james-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/yotas-lauren-soleo-announces-verbal-commitment-to-james-madison\/","title":{"rendered":"YOTA’s Lauren Soleo Announces Verbal Commitment to James Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW COMMIT: Lauren Soleo<\/strong> has verbally committed to swim for James Madison University beginning next fall. Soleo will make the move to Virginia from Cary, North Carolina. She swims for YMCA of the Triangle Area (YOTA) and is a senior at Panther Creek High School.<\/p>\n

At last winter’s North Carolina 4A High School Championships<\/a> Soleo finished ninth in the 200 free (1:53.33) and the 500 free (5:02.11). Those swims came two weeks after she finished third in the 200 free (1:56.11) and second in the 500 free (5:04.89) at the SWAC Conference Championships. As a sophomore at the state meet\u00a0in 2016<\/a> Soleo was eighth in the 200 free (1:53.46) and ninth in the 500 free (4:59.49).<\/p>\n

A USA Swimming Scholastic All-American, Soleo had her breakout meet at Winter Juniors her sophomore year. There, she dropped two seconds in the 200 free, six in the 500, and 21 in the 1650. Now, in the early fall of her senior year, her best SCY times stand at:<\/p>\n