{"id":644736,"date":"2026-06-08T08:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=644736"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:49:52","slug":"junior-national-qualifier-isaac-yeung-sends-2027-verbal-to-army-west-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/junior-national-qualifier-isaac-yeung-sends-2027-verbal-to-army-west-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior National Qualifier Isaac Yeung Sends 2027 Verbal to Army West Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Junior National Qualifier Isaac Yeung Sends 2027 Verbal to Army West Point<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW COMMIT:\u00a0<\/strong>The United States Military Academy at West Point has secured a new verbal commitment for the 2027-28 season and beyond from <b>Isaac Yeung <\/b>of Bellevue, Washington. Yeung is a Junior National qualifier who excels in freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>He will join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/freestyler-beau-joens-hands-2027-verbal-to-army-west-point\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beau Joens<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/army-black-knights-lock-in-2027-verbal-from-swimatlantas-kohlston-katz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kohlston Katz<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in West Point as a member of the Black Knights\u2019 Class of 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding his commitment, he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808000\"><strong>&#8220;I am extremely excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at West Point! I would like to express my gratitude to all my friends, family, and coaches for their support and guidance through this journey. Finally, I would like to give my thanks to Coach Hannah, Ryan, and the rest of the staff at West Point for entrusting me with this amazing opportunity. Go\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Army<\/span>\u2013Beat Navy!&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeung does his club swimming with Seattle Metropolitan Aquatic Club. He earned two best times at Juniors West back in December before going on to win the B-final of the 200 free at Washington Seniors a week later. Last summer, he won the 800m free at Pacific Northwest Seniors and took eighth in that event at Sacramento Futures.<\/p>\n<p>His best times include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>200 free &#8211; 1:41.29<\/li>\n<li>500 free &#8211; 4:29.74<\/li>\n<li>1650 free &#8211; 15:41.89<\/li>\n<li>200 fly &#8211; 1:50.57<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently a junior at Bellevue High School, Yeung earned silver in the 500 free and bronze in the 200 free at the 2026 Washington 3A State Championships. 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Army set two program records and three meet records at the conference championship.<\/p>\n<p>Army named <strong>Scott Thacker<\/strong> as the new Director of Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Swimming and Diving on June 8.<\/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>Junior National Qualifier Isaac Yeung Sends 2027 Verbal to Army West Point NEW COMMIT:\u00a0The United States Military Academy at West Point has secured a new verbal commitment for the 2027-28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":644737,"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":[61683,3657,52900,137939],"class_list":["post-644736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-agon-high-school-recruits-page","tag-army","tag-army-west-point","tag-isaac-yeung"],"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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