Tools To Find A Great Pool Contractor: Minnesotan Nick Kale Will Join Purdue’s Breaststroke Tradition in Fall 2021

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Wayzata High School senior Nick Kale has verbally committed to the Purdue Boilermakers. Kale, who swims for the Minnetonka Swim Club in Minnesota, joins a very midwestern-heavy recruiting class of 2021 for Purdue.

Kale is a breaststroker who finished 4th in the 100 breaststroke (55.31) in February at the Minnesota High School AA State Championship meet and 7th in the 200 breaststroke (2:06.32) at the Minnesota LSC Senior State Championships.

His breaststroke specialty fits in with the group where Purdue has made its name nationally. That group was a little thinner than normal at last year’s Big Ten Championships, scoring just 38 points across the two breaststroke events, but that still made the stroke its second-most successful group behind only the sprint freestylers (84 points).

At the most recent NCAA Championships in 2019, then-sophomore Trent Pellini earned All-America honors via a 15th-place finish in the 100 breaststroke.

Kale’s Best Times in Yards:

50 free – 21.59
50 breast (relay split) – 24.77
100 breast – 55.31
200 breast – 2:06.32

Kale is a Winter Juniors qualifier in long course with a 1:06.85 in the 100 breaststroke and a Summer Juniors qualifier with his best of 55.31 in the 100 yard breaststroke.

The Boilermakers’ 2020-2021 roster has 38 male swimmers & divers on it. Of those, 15 come from Purdue’s home state of Indiana.

The rest of the midwest has not been a rich recruiting ground for the Purdue men, though. Outside of Indiana, the Boilermakers have 2 from Michigan and 1 from Ohio as their only other team members from the area traditionally known as the Midwest.

In the class of 2021, however, they are beginning to shift that ratio. Of 5 announced men’s commits in the class of 2021, 2 are from Indiana (Chandler Lipp and Brady Samuels), 1 is from Illinois (Connor McCarthy), and 1, Kale, is from Minnesota. The other swimmer, Luke Fortner, is from North Carolina.

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