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Audrey Derivaux won’t be going to Disneyland, irrespective of what number of extra gold medals she wins on the 2026 Junior Pan-Pacific Swimming Championships this week in Vancouver, Canada.
The current Haddonfield High School graduate took care of that journey to Mickey’s residence final week.
“I’ve been staying out here for the past week now,” Derivaux mentioned. “I’ve been training out here. I have another week until I go to Junior Pan-Pacs. It’s been busy, but it’s been fun.”
‘Here’ is Irvine, California, the place New Jersey’s prime scholastic swimmer received 4 18-and-under gold medals, a silver and a bronze, on the United States Championships earlier this month. The 18-and-under swimmers certified for his or her championship heats in preliminaries alongside the perfect swimmers within the nation, no matter age.
“I was at U.S. Nationals and I competed there,” Derivaux mentioned. “That went pretty well. I was really proud of myself for that. I’m excited to compete for USA there. Since then, I’ve been training out here for in California for a little bit, and it’s been really fun. I’m doing really well.”
The former Haddons’ star has a present for understatement.
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Haddonfield’s Audrey Derivaux, a 2x USA National Team member, not too long ago set two meet information on the South Jersey Invitational.
Derivaux earned the highest seed time in 5 Pan-Pac occasions she is scheduled to compete in beginning Monday morning. Derivaux will defend the 100- and 200-meter butterfly golds she received in Adelaide, Australia in 2024. She can also be the Junior World Champion within the 200 fly, the 200 backstroke and 200 particular person medley, profitable these titles final summer season in Romania. She added gold medals within the 4-by-100 medley relays at each occasions.
Call her journey to California and Canada a senior journey of kinds.
After ending her junior yr at Haddonfield in June, Derivaux instantly began the method of graduating a yr early to expedite her enrollment on the University of Texas.
“I’m so sad to leave Haddonfield,” Derivaux mentioned. “That’s been my home for like 10 years now. It’s going to be a big change. I club swam at Jersey Wahoo’s and I’m really just looking for a change in environment, a change in training. I’m really looking forward to working with the Texas coaching staff. I think it’s going to work out really nicely. I can’t wait. The team’s so great there.”
The accelerated transfer to Texas has two functions. Derivaux will get an early begin on her collegiate swimming profession. It additionally offers her two full years of elite coaching earlier than the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The determination made for a flurry of exercise for Derivaux this summer season out of the pool.
“I took a few online classes over the summer to get my credits in,” Derivaux mentioned. “In about May, I met with my counselor, Mr. (Jeffrey) Holman, and my principal, Mrs. (Tasmmy) McHale, and they outlined how the summer would look for me. They worked so well with me. They really did everything they could to help me, which I really appreciated.
“I took a number of courses over the summer season to realize my senior credit. By mid-July, I used to be all accomplished and all my credit had been achieved. So, I used to be able to go.”
An elite swimmer who excels at timing every breath she takes during a race, Derivaux has mastered another art. Carving out a time to take a deep breath just for herself.
“I’ve been making an attempt to benefit from the course of right here in California,” Derivaux said. “Training’s been actually onerous, however I had to soak up the second. I’m coaching exterior, and it is so lovely. I really like coaching like beneath the palm bushes right here. I’m simply making an attempt to take pleasure in each step as I go together with it. I’ve such an incredible assist group round me. They’ve all simply helped me get to the place I’m now.”
The US Nationals had been held the identical weekend on the Tri-County Swimming Championships, which can also be held outside. Derivaux holds the Tri-County document in 13 completely different occasions, swimming for Wedgewood.
Nationals was her final occasion swimming for Jersey Wahoos. Though the remainder of the state did not understand it on the time, Derivaux closed out her Haddonfield profession by main the Dawgs to their seventh straight NJSIAA Group C state title and profitable her second 500-yard freestyle and 200 IM gold medals and main off Haddonfield’s 4×50 free relay gold medalists. Along the best way she swam the 4 quickest instances in Meet of Champions historical past in each the five hundred and IM.
For the subsequent section of her swimming profession, Derivaux shall be sporting the Burnt Orange cap with a Longhorns brand and the Red, White and Blue of the USA.
With zero downtime.
“Actually, I’m going straight from Vancouver to Austin,” Drrivaux said. “Classes begin August twenty fourth, so move-in is a few week earlier than. I’m going to get there just a little bit later than the remainder of the crew that is transferring in. But, yeah, I amgoing straight there.”
Tom Rimback grew up reading the Burlington County Times and Courier Post sports sections and began writing for the BCT in 1996. He has covered everything from Super Bowls and Final Fours to Tri-County Swimming but he’s happiest on a sideline interviewing South Jersey scholastic athletes. Follow him on twitter @Rimbacksports. Email him with story ideas at [email protected] and, most importantly, support local journalism with a subscription to the Courier-Post.
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