Megan Hager signs letter of intent to swim for Colorado State

Scott Swanson

Megan Hager signed a letter of intent Friday, Nov. 15, to swim for Colorado State University.

“I really liked it there,” said Hager, who visited the school in Ft. Collins in September.

She will begin her senior high school season at the beginning of December. “I loved the coaches, loved the team. I’m super excited to be furthering my education there.”

She said she especially liked Head Coach Christopher “Woody” Woodard.

“Everybody on the team, you could tell, they were very relaxed, but obviously still focused on swimming and doing well and excelling. The campus was beautiful.”

She said she’d also taken recruiting trips to Washington State and Northern Arizona.

Sweet Home Coach Doug Peargin called Hager a “stellar piece of our team for the last three years.”

Through her junior year, Hager helped lead the Huskies to two state championships and has won three individual state titles in the 100 Freestyle. She also swam on two relay teams that have set state records, as well as multiple winning relay squads.

“Without her dedication and leadership, we wouldn’t be nearly as far as we’ve been,” Peargin said, noting that Hager is one of the most competitive athletes he’s ever coached – both as an athlete and in the classroom.

“She knows nothing but hard work, whether it be in the classroom or in the pool. She’s the oldest one now on the team this year that has state experience and people are really going to be looking up to her as far as what they’ve got to do and what they’re willing to do.

She sets the example every year.”

Bruce Davis, who coaches the Sweet Home Swim Club, for which Hager has competed since she was in elementary school, said he’d had a lot of conversations with her about the future.

“I think Colorado State got a great athlete and a great person,” said Davis, a Sweet Home alum who went on to swim at Kansas. “I think she’ll do great things when she goes there. I think she made a great choice.”

Hager said she plans to major in biomedical sciences, with an emphasis on anatomy and physiology.

In swimming, she said she expects to focus on the 100 and 200 freestyles, along with the 400 and 800 relays, though she’s adaptable.

“I don’t really know where I’ll fall in that,” she said. “In general, I’m a freestyler. I’ve done everything from the 50 to the 500.”

Colorado State finished the 2019 Mountain West Championships in seventh place.

Hager said she’s excited to compete in the MWC against Boise State, where former Huskies Lucia Davis and Lauren Yon are swimming.

Peargin described the Rams as a “pretty fair program.”

“With her work ethic and get after it, she’ll compete well there. She’ll do well academically there too.”

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