Anthony Grimm No Longer Swimming After Strong Freshman Year at Texas
At last year’s NCAA Championships, Texas freshman Anthony Grimm swam the first leg of the Longhorns national-runnerup 200 medley relay, combining with Caspar Corbeau, Alvin Jiang and Cameron Auchinachie to swim a time of 1:21.36, only 0.23 behind champion Florida. But Grimm is now leaving the sport. He confirmed his decision in an Instagram post.
Grimm wrote, “I’m going to really miss swimming. I’m going to cherish the relationships made, memories created, and lessons learned so close to my heart.” After that, he went on to thank the various teams he had swum for throughout his swimming career, including Texas.
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Accordingly, Grimm is no longer listed on the Longhorns’ roster. The Fairfax, Va., native arrived in Austin as one of the top high school swimmers in the country. He committed to Texas in October 2019 (during his junior year of high school) after swimming some of the top high school times nationally across all four strokes. During his lone year of college swimming, Grimm’s biggest impact came on relays, but he did finish just outside of individual scoring territory in his best event, the 100 back, with a 19th-place mark of 45.44 in prelims, just eight hundredths behind a tie for 16th place.