Category: Swimming and Diving

Olympic Trials Qualifier Parker Macy Selects Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s swimming program now has six members of the class of 2025.

Notre Dame’s swimming program now has six members of the class of 2025. The latest came earlier this week when Parker Macy of Irvine, California, announced his verbal commitment to the Irish. Notre Dame also has received commitments in the aforementioned class from Chris Guiliano, Owen Grimaldi, Andrew Guziec, Max Myers and Nick Tommasone.

The Olympic Trials qualifier made the following Instagram post as his announcement:

While swimming for Irvine High School, Macy has been a finalist for the CIF Southern DI Section Championship four times, twice apiece in the 100-meter breaststroke and the 200 individual medley. As a sophomore, he placed sixth in the latter event and ninth in the former. Both were improvements from his previous showing in the championships.

Macy is a club swimmer for Irvine Novaquatics. Besides making the Olympic Trials cut in the 200 breaststroke, he was a finalist in three events in the most recent Toyota U.S. Open. He had six personal best times at the College Station Sectionals and, last year, competed in three events at the Phillips 66 Nationals.

 

Notre Dame Lands Top Swimming Recruit Madison Feehery

Madison Feehery, a Florida state champion swimmer, has verbally committed to Notre Dame.

Madison Feehery, a Florida state champion swimmer, has verbally committed to Notre Dame. Feehery, an incoming senior at Barron Collier High School, was named the 2020 Naples Daily News Female Athlete of the Year. Though the COVID-19 pandemic prevented her from meeting Notre Dame athletes and coaches in person, she exchanged text messages and video chats with them, and her mind was made up after taking an unofficial visit to the university last weekend.

Feehery’s state championship last season came in the 50-yard freestyle. She also placed second in the 100-yard butterfly and was on two top-five relay teams. Barron Collier was the Class 3A runner-up in the state finals.

Feehery comes from a swimming family. Her older sister, Emma, just finished her freshman season at North Carolina, so the two could compete against each other at the collegiate level, maybe more than once. Their mother swam throughout high school, and their father was a swimmer at La Salle. An aunt and uncle also swam for the Tar Heels.

It was Emma who pushed Madison towards Notre Dame. Emma swims for North Carolina, but the Irish were her second choice. While it might seem preposterous for some that a person would push his/her sibling toward a conference rival, blood is thicker than water. That’s definitely the case for the Feeherys.

 

Top Swimming Recruit Chris Guiliano Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame suffered a blow in April when Zach Yeadon, an All-American distance swimmer, entered the NCAA transfer portal after three years.

Notre Dame suffered a blow in April when Zach Yeadon, an All-American distance swimmer, entered the NCAA transfer portal after three years. A month later, there’s some good news to be had. It won’t help the program right away, but there’s more hope for the future now.

Chris Guiliano, the top sprint swimmer from the Class of 2021 who had yet to commit anymore, has verbally committed to Notre Dame. During his junior season at Daniel Boone High School in Douglassville, Pennsylvania, he won a state championship in the 200-yard freestyle. He might have won more events were it not for the cancelation of the rest of the meet.

There’s a good reason Guiliano is regarded as Notre Dame’s top recruit from the Class of 2021. He’s already putting up times that would blow past most of the team. His personal best of 20.27 seconds in the 50 freestyle would have been the second-best on the Irish, his 1:351.81 would have been third, and his 44.29 in the 100 freestyle would have been fourth. For an Irish team that struggled in sprint events last season, Guiliano can’t arrive in South Bend soon enough.