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Walker Thaning - Men's Swimming & Diving - University of Kentucky Athletics

WalkerThaning

  • height 6-1
  • class Junior
  • High school Heritage High School
BIO

Top Times:

50 Freestyle:  20.70 (Mizzou Quad, 11/06/15)

100 Freestyle:  45.49 (OSU Invite, 11/22/15)

50 Backstroke:  22.52 (2015 SEC Championships, 02/17/15)

100 Backstroke: 47.94 (2016 SEC Championships, 02/19/16)

200 Backstroke:  1:45.26 (2016 SEC Championships, 02/20/16)

100 Butterfly:  48.87 (2016 SEC Championships, 02/18/16)

 

 LCM

100 Free: 53.50 (KY Ohio Valley Championships, 06/13/15)

100 Back: 57.12 (Atlanta Classic, 05/14/16)

200 Back: 2:05.35 (2015 GA Long Course Speedo Sectional, 07/12/15)

100 Fly: 55.99 (Atlanta Classic, 05/13/16)

  • 2016 US Olympic Trials Qualifier
  • 2016 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll

2015-16 (Sophomore): Had the third-fastest 100 back and sixth-fastest 200 back swims in school history at the SEC Championships … Touched in at 47.98 to notch an NCAA B cut and finish 19th in the 100 back, improving his time to 47.94 later in the meet as the leadoff of the 400 medley relay that broke the UK record in 3:11.28 with a 10th-place finish … Swam a B cut 1:45.26 in the 200 back prelims and went on to finish 21st in 1:45.39 … Staple member of the 200 and 400 medley relays as well as the 200 and 400 free relays … Swam a 19.73 split in the 200 free relay at the SEC Championships, which took seventh in 1:19.08 … Had a 44.53 split in the 400 free relay that took ninth at the conference meet in 2:56.72 … Led off with a 22.28 back split in the 200 medley relay that finished 10th in 1:27.18 … Named to the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll … Qualified to the US Olympic Trials in the 100 back.

2014-15 (Freshman):  Made his way into the Kentucky record books in the 100 and 200 back, posting the sixth-fastest 100 back time of 48.62 seconds and the fifth-fastest 200 back mark of 1:45.90 at the 2015 SEC Championships … Led off on both the 200 and 400 medley relays at the conference meet … His 48.70-second 100-yard back split in the 400 medley relay helped the Wildcats finish ninth in 3:14.69, and his 50 back split of 22.52 seconds was part of a 1:28.97 team finish for 10th … Also competed in the 100 fly, with a personal record of 49.36 seconds set at the SEC Championships.

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