{"id":343985,"date":"2018-12-25T18:05:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=343985"},"modified":"2018-12-25T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T03:00:53","slug":"texas-earns-2020-verbal-from-virginia-gators-olivia-bray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/texas-earns-2020-verbal-from-virginia-gators-olivia-bray\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Earns 2020 Verbal From National Junior Teamer Olivia Bray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW COMMIT:\u00a0<\/strong>Daleville, Va. native and high school junior\u00a0<strong>Olivia Bray\u00a0<\/strong>has announced her verbal commitment to Texas and will join the Longhorns in the fall of 2020. Bray is a member of the USA National Junior Team.<\/p>\n<p>Bray does her club swimming with the Virginia Gators under head coach\u00a0<strong>Doug Fonder\u00a0<\/strong>and owns the Junior National &#8211; or faster &#8211; standard in 10 events, including a trio of U.S. Open cuts. She&#8217;s coming off an extremely successful Winter Nationals meet, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/amanda-kendall-holds-off-olivia-bray-for-100-fly-winter-nats-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she finished second in the 100 fly<\/a> (58.55) to move herself up to third all-time in the 17-18 age group. The USA Swimming Scholastic All-American also finished second in the 200 fly and posted an additional pair of top-18 finishes.<\/p>\n<p>Bray raced to three lifetime bests at Nationals this past summer where her highest finish was an 11th-place showing in the 50m fly. 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I cannot wait to train with such an amazing team and under a great coaching staff!! #hookem&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her best times include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50 free &#8211; 22.73<\/li>\n<li>100 free &#8211; 49.20<\/li>\n<li>200 free &#8211; 1:46.37<\/li>\n<li>500 free &#8211; 4:52.02<\/li>\n<li>100 back &#8211; 52.02<\/li>\n<li>200 back &#8211; 1:54.26<\/li>\n<li>100 fly &#8211; 51.38<\/li>\n<li>200 fly &#8211; 1:53.85<\/li>\n<li>200 IM &#8211; 1:58.56<\/li>\n<li>400 IM &#8211; 4:19.64<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When she suits up for the Longhorns at the start of the 2020-21 season, Bray will make an immediate impact and is only .08 seconds off of\u00a0Olympian <strong>Kathleen Hersey\u00a0<\/strong>100 fly program record.\u00a0Event with 1.5 years of club swimming still to go before arriving in Austin, Bray&#8217;s best times would&#8217;ve won both fly events at the 2018 Big 12 Championships where Texas won their sixth-straight conference title.\u00a0Bray also would\u2019ve scored in the A-final of the 100 fly at NCAAs last year, as well as the B-final of the 200 fly.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have a commitment to share, please send a photo and quote via email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hs@swimmingworld.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hs@swimmingworld.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW COMMIT:\u00a0Daleville, Va. native and high school junior\u00a0Olivia Bray\u00a0has announced her verbal commitment to Texas and will join the Longhorns in the fall of 2020. 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