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Daisy Collins from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has made a verbal commitment to the University of Texas for the 2027-28 season and beyond.
“I’m incredibly excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at the University of Texas, Austin! A huge thank you to my parents, friends, and everyone at NCAC, especially Coach Brown, Coach DeSelm, Coach Watts, and Coach Sean, for always believing in me. I’m extremely grateful to Coach Carol and Coach Erik for this amazing opportunity. I can’t wait to be a Longhorn! HOOK ’EM!
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Collins, a junior at Woods Charter School who swims year-round with North Carolina Aquatic Club, is our #8 pick from our Way Too Early list of top girls swimmers in the high school class of 2027. She leads the cohort by a large margin in the 1650 free and represented Team USA at World Aquatics Junior Championships this summer, where she placed 7th in the 1500 (16:39.38).
In high school swimming, Collins won the 200/500 free distance double as a sophomore at the 2025 North Carolina Independent Schools 1A/2A State Championships with times of 1:47.92 and 4:45.36. Those were PBs by 1.5 and 3.1 seconds, respectively. A month later, competing at SwimAtlanta’s Best of the South meet, she won the 1650 freestyles with a PB of 16:02.94 (-7.4 seconds, establishing the #1 time in the class of 2027. She also improved her 1000 free (9:43.45, going out in the 1650), 200 fly (2:02.08), and 400 IM (4:20.65). At Tar Heel States at the end of March, she lowered her 1000 time yet again (9:42.78), becoming the #2 performer in the class behind Audrey Derivaux.
She kicked off long-course season at PSS in Fort Lauderdale, clocking PBs in the 200 free (2:05.02), 800 free (8:49.08), and 1500 free (16:45.82). At U.S. Nationals in June, she dropped 7.5 seconds off a month-old 400 free PB to finish 14th with 4:13.13 and placed 9th in the 1500 with a PB of 16:27.99, earning a spot on the World Juniors team.
Collins dropped time in the rest of her events (shorter freestyle distances, back, breast, and fly) throughout the rest of the summer – in some cases, multiple times – and ended her stateside season at NCSA Summer Championships before going on to World Juniors in Otopeni, Romania, at the end of August. At NCSAs, she won the 800 free and 1500 free, was runner-up in the 200 free (PB of 2:01.63), and came in 3rd in the 400 IM (PB of 4:53.01). She also hit a PB of 57.60 in the 100 free in prelims.
Collins will join a Longhorns distance group led by Jillian Cox and Kate Hurst, who went 1-3 (15:30.33 and 15:47.93) in the mile at SEC Championships last year; Collins’ time would have placed 5th. As both were freshmen last season, Collins will overlap with them during her first year.
Best SCY times:
- 1650 free – 16:02.94
- 1000 free – 9:42.78
- 500 free – 4:45.36
- 200 free – 1:47.92
- 200 fly – 2:02.08
- 400 IM – 4:20.65
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