Two-time Singaporean Olympian Ting Quah has signed with the DC Trident today, the team announced today. Quah will be just the second Asian swimmer to compete in the ISL after Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey made her debut last month for the same team. Japan’s Daiya Seto signed to swim for Energy Standard but did not compete in either the Indianapolis match or the Naples match.
Quah, 27, competed for Singapore in the 2008 and 2016 Olympics. In Beijing at just 16-years-old, she finished 34th in the 100 free (56.14) and 32nd in the 400 IM (4:51.25). After missing the 2012 Olympics, she only swam the 100 butterfly in Rio, placing 35th in the heats at 1:00.88.
Quah will provide some much-needed butterfly depth to the Trident, who were hurting on that end in Indianapolis and in Naples. They had Brianna Throssell score some points, but had to use breaststroker Bethany Galat in butterfly events in Indianapolis. Galat ended up being replaced by fellow former Texas A&M Aggie Sarah Gibson, who finished eighth in both the 50 and 100 fly in Naples. Galat did score high in the 200 fly in both meets but the addition of Quah will allow the Trident coaches to use Galat in her stronger events.
Ting Quah swam four years at UCLA under Trident head coach Cyndi Gallagher, where she was seventh in the 100 fly at NCAAs as a junior in 2013 and was 15th as a senior in 2014 after setting her lifetime best in the heats (51.89).
Quah is also the older sister to current NCAA swimmers Zheng Quah (Cal) and Jing Quah (Texas A&M).
The DC Trident will be swimming in their third ISL match on November 16-17 in College Park, Maryland alongside the three other US-based teams (Current, Condors, Breakers).
DC Trident Roster
Coaching Staff
- Cyndi Gallagher
- Stefanie Williams
- Rachel Stratton-Mills
Women
- Anika Apostalon, CZE
- Emma Barksdale, USA
- Lisa Bratton, USA
- Annika Bruhn, GER
- Natalie Coughlin, USA
- Bethany Galat, USA
- Sarah Gibson, USA
- Siobhan Haughey, HKG
- Madison Kennedy, USA
- Simona Kubová, CZE
- Katie Ledecky, USA
- Leah Neale, AUS
- Leiston Pickett, AUS
- Ting Quah, SGP
- Brianna Throssell, AUS
Men
- Zach Apple, USA
- Kevin Cordes, USA
- Abrahm DeVine, USA
- Ian Finnerty, USA
- Zane Grothe, USA
- Zach Harting, USA
- Tristan Hollard, AUS
- Robert Howard, USA
- Jay Litherland, USA
- Cody Miller, USA
- Giles Smith, USA
- Velimir Stjepanovic, SRB
- Jeremy Stravius, FRA
- Andreas Vazaios, GRE