{"id":641443,"date":"2026-04-13T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=641443"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:50:00","slug":"distance-ace-isabella-zarkos-gives-2027-verbal-to-boston-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/distance-ace-isabella-zarkos-gives-2027-verbal-to-boston-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance Ace Isabella Zarkos Gives 2027 Verbal to Boston College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Distance Ace Isabella Zarkos Gives 2027 Verbal to Boston College<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW COMMIT:\u00a0<\/strong>Distance freestyler <strong>Isabella Zarkos<\/strong> of Las Vegas, Nevada, will head to the East Coast for her college career after she verbally committed to Boston College for Fall 2027. Zarkos is a Junior National qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>She will join\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/mia-briant-hands-2027-verbal-commitment-to-boston-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mia Briant<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>as a member of the Eagles&#8217; Class of 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding her commitment, she said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>&#8220;I\u2019m so excited and honored to announce my verbal commitment to further my academic and athletic career at Boston College! <\/strong><strong>I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to my parents for their unwavering love, belief and support and to my siblings for their constant encouragement. I\u2019m also deeply grateful to my coaches, Jake and Ron, and my teammates at Sandpipers of Nevada for shaping me into the swimmer I am today. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Bruno and Coach Dara for this incredible opportunity. I can\u2019t wait for what\u2019s ahead! GO EAGLES!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zarkos does her club swimming with Sandpipers of Nevada and most recently competed at TYR Pro Swim Series &#8211; Westmont where she finished 17th in the 1500m free and 19th in the 400m IM. She placed 16th in the mile at Juniors West back in December before going on to take second in that event as well as seventh in the 500 free and eighth in the 1000 free at Walnut Speedo Sectionals a week later.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, she raced to eighth place in the 1500m free at NCSA Summer Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Her best times include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1650 free &#8211; 16:42.03<\/li>\n<li>1000 free &#8211; 9:59.17<\/li>\n<li>500 free &#8211; 4:58.61<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently a junior at Faith Lutheran High School, Zarkos took third in the 500 free and fifth in the 200 free at the 2025 Nevada 3A State Championships. 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She would&#8217;ve placed 20th in that event at the 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships.<\/p>\n<p><i>If you have a commitment to share, please send a photo and quote via email to hs@swimmingworld.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distance Ace Isabella Zarkos Gives 2027 Verbal to Boston College NEW COMMIT:\u00a0Distance freestyler Isabella Zarkos of Las Vegas, Nevada, will head to the East Coast for her college career after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":641444,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[61683,2194,137735],"class_list":["post-641443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-agon-high-school-recruits-page","tag-boston-college","tag-isabella-zarkos"],"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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