﻿{"id":439823,"date":"2020-07-14T02:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=439823"},"modified":"2020-07-13T16:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T23:00:52","slug":"tops-swimmings-gabby-mckee-pledges-verbal-commitment-to-ohio-bobcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tops-swimmings-gabby-mckee-pledges-verbal-commitment-to-ohio-bobcats\/","title":{"rendered":"TOPS Swimming&#8217;s Gabby McKee Pledges Verbal Commitment to Ohio Bobcats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW COMMIT:\u00a0<\/strong>Ohio University has received their first verbal commitment for the 2021-22 season and beyond from Gilbertsville, Pa. native\u00a0<strong>Gabby McKee<\/strong>, who will suit up for the Bobcats as a member of the class of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding her commitment, she said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8220;I\u2019m so excited to announce my verbal commitment to Ohio University to further my academic and athletic career. Thank you to all my coaches and teammates who helped me get to this point. But, especially thank you to my family for their continued support. I couldn\u2019t have done it without you! Go Bobcats!!??&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A talented IMer and freestyler, McKee swims year-round with Pottstown YMCA \/ TOPS Swimming and recorded five top-20 finishes at Middle Atlantic Seniors in March 2019. Last summer, she earned five best times at ISCA TYR Summer Seniors where she registered seven second-swims.<\/p>\n<p>Her best times include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>200 IM &#8211; 2:05.45<\/li>\n<li>400 IM &#8211; 4:31.39<\/li>\n<li>200 free &#8211; 1:54.34<\/li>\n<li>500 free &#8211; 4:57.60<\/li>\n<li>1650 free &#8211; 17:45.53<\/li>\n<li>200 back &#8211; 2:02.58<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also competing for Boyertown Area Senior High School, McKee is a four-time Pennsylvania 3A State Championship finalist. 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She would&#8217;ve scored in the B-final of the 400 IM and 500 free at the 2020 MAC Championships.<\/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 noreferrer\">hs@swimmingworld.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW COMMIT:\u00a0Ohio University has received their first verbal commitment for the 2021-22 season and beyond from Gilbertsville, Pa. native\u00a0Gabby McKee, who will suit up for the Bobcats as a member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":439827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[61683,124240],"class_list":["post-439823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-agon-high-school-recruits-page","tag-gabby-mckee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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