Sweet Home swimmer Lucia Davis has announced that she will swim for Boise State University next fall.
“I fell in love with it,” she said of the Bronco program. “It’s a perfect sized city for me. The coaches are really great. They were both kind and wonderful. The girls were amazing. I could see myself fitting in there.”
Davis swims for the Sweet Home Swim Club and Sweet Home High School – because East Linn Christian, where she attends school, doesn’t have a swim team. A distance specialist, she is a three-time defending 4A/3A/2A/1A state champion in both the 200 and 500 freestyles and is the state record-holder in the 500.
She also has anchored Sweet Home’s 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams to state titles the last two years and state records in both events.
Davis’ best freestyle times for yardage events are 1:52.36 for the 200 , 4:52.33 for the 500, 10:09.35 for the 1000 and 17:06.36 for the mile.
She said she originally planned to make four recruiting trips from an original list of 12 schools, but decided to visit Boise first. She said she’d first thought about the Broncos “when I was, like, 12.”
“It stayed in the back of my mind.”
She said she cancelled her two other planned visits after committing to BSU.
Coach Jeremy Kipp, who arrived from USC last year, has brought in a whole new women’s program for BSU, which competes in the Mountain West Conference and had won two straight conference titles before being edged by 13 points by Nevada last spring in the conference championships. Kipp, though, was named Mountain West Coach of the Year.
A 2015 Scholastic All-American, Davis plans to study health sciences with an emphasis in speech pathology, she said.