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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6llsdvAATC\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Aaron Shackell (@aaron_shackell)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Shackell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/carmels-aaron-shackell-lowers-national-high-school-record-in-200-freestyle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set a national high school record of 1:32.85 in the 200-yard freestyle last year<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/boys-national-high-school-mythical-championships-aaron-shackell-leads-carmel-to-tight-title-full-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lift Carmel High School to a high school team national championship<\/a>, and he will not be the first swimmer from his school to make the trek south from Indiana to Austin. Previously, <strong>Drew Kibler<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Kelly Pash<\/strong> have both become Longhorns and achieved extremely successful college careers.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Kibler, one of only two Carmel alumni to qualify for a U.S. Olympic team, has spent the last year training under\u00a0<strong>Bob Bowman<\/strong>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/bob-bowman-named-director-of-swimming-head-mens-coach-at-university-of-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">became the new director of swimming and men&#8217;s head coach at Texas<\/a> just days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/arizona-state-wins-first-ncaa-team-title-thanks-to-grateful-bob-bowman-really-proud-leon-marchand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guiding Arizona State to its first-ever NCAA team title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before he heads to join the Longhorns, Shackell will have a good chance at joining the Olympian ranks. At a Sectionals meet in Indianapolis in March, he swam a time of 1:46.35 to win the 200-meter free, a time which would have qualified in the top-six and allowed Shackell to claim a World Championships relay spot at last year&#8217;s U.S. Nationals. Shackell currently ranks 18th in the world in the event and third among Americans behind\u00a0<strong>Luke Hobson<\/strong> and Kibler.<\/p>\n<p>Shackell&#8217;s younger sister <strong>Alex<\/strong> is also a contender to qualify for the Paris Games, having helped the U.S. women to silver in the 800 free relay at last year&#8217;s Worlds. Alex is also a strong threat for an individual spot in the 200 butterfly. The Shackell siblings will race for Olympic berths at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/event\/2024\/06\/15\/default-calendar\/u.s.-olympic-team-trials---swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Olympic Trials<\/a> inside Lucas Oil Stadium, a short drive from their home in Carmel, next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Shackell Heading to Texas to Continue College Swimming Career He spent the first few months of his college career at Cal before returning home to prioritize training for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":580427,"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":[3,6],"tags":[131134],"class_list":["post-584992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-aaron-shackell"],"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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