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Best Men's Swimming Schools. 16 by SwimSwam, in its annual NCAA recruiting class rankings. Best Times: The next three in the ranks are almost interchangeable, depending on which strokes and distance ranges you value most. I did not pay for him to go to a private school to be treated like this! Sergile looked more like a distance swimmer in our rankings last year. Custer has maybe beenthebreakout story of this entire class over his junior year. Andrew Taylor Tampa Bay Aquatic Club Countryside High School Palm Harbor, FL**Verbally committed to Florida** What Croley doesnt have yet is that standout third event. Heres that long course 100 (lane 8, all the way at the bottom in the black cap). Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Best Times: Were getting to the point we almost always reach in sophomore ranks, where swimmers have one or two real standout events, and were left to wonder whether the rest of their times will rise to that level over the next year. Joyce is our first true sprinter on the list. Dont say you werent warned. In fact, Peck is within a half-second of Diehls class-leading time in the 100 back. Your son is in the class of 2015. But his IMs have improved enough, too (1:49.2/3:54 to 1:47.5/3:50) to make his lineup choices a little more interesting. (Previous Rank: #2) Its pretty rare to find a 45-second backstroker with 47-second fly speed and 43-second freestyle talent combined with a 54.0 in the 100 breast. Rex Maurer Rose Bowl Aquatics Loyola High School Pasadena, CA **Verbally committed to Stanford** Alabama holds 12 members of the ranking in the 27-man class as of Wednesday evening. The rankings come out after the CIF meets. You could argue that hes the best all-around IMer in the class over Lucas, sitting about a second faster in the 200 and a second slower in the 400. Were going with Kharun at #3 for a few reasons. 1 cornerback in the country: Cormani McClain. In many cases, college coaches will only begin recruiting a student-athlete once she has proved she can swim at the competitive times for the school's conference. Powe actually appears in this same NCSA video we linked for Zuchowski above (Powe is lane 3, black cap, two lanes down from Zuchowski). Weve got video of that swim and if its helpful to see race video against top competition, well, McCarty is one lane over from a guy who is only the best sprinter on the planet. With some time left before the early signing period for the 2023 class opens, we break down the top 25 . Stay tuned to our recruiting channel for more additions to our yearly recruiting coverage: So without further ado, lets take a look at this class as a whole, then review our ranking methodology (please read it before you get upset about how low the top miler is ranked!) At least I hope they get their moments to swim to their full potential! One more massive drop: from 4:22 to 4:15 in the 500 free. Breaststroke is the odd stroke out. Compared to previous junior classes weve ranked, Custer is almost identical to now-American record-holder Bobby Finke, who was 14:37.7 as a junior. That speaks well to his potential in the 200 back, where the NCSA race video isnt as readily available. You know the rankings are brutal when youre splitting hairs over which 47-second flyers and backstrokers to leave out of the top 20 and there are alotof guys with those times not in our top 20 rankings. If his backstroke keeps rising, he could definitely build out a good 200 to go along with his 100. This isnt an exhaustive list of others we considered, but the top few left off the list who made the decisions on 18-20verydifficult. Terms of Use & Privacy Policy | FTC Disclaimer But Kharun is also 45.5 in the 100 fly, making him one of three swimmers in the class who already has a time that would have been invited to 2022 NCAAs. With that out of the way, lets get to our rankings. Best Times: Mueller is another really fast dropper in sprint free, but his backstrokes still remain his calling card. Hes the best 400 IMer and 500 freestyler in the class but his most impressive event might not be either of those two. Through Nov. 16, the SEC is once again lapping the field with the top two classes and nine of the top 25. Subscribe to our newsletter and receive our latest updates! The thing to watch with Dunkel is where he focuses over the next two years. Best Times: Marsteiner is very much a distance free specialist, and hes the best miler in a very deep class. Haughey (lane 5, fourth from the bottom) is pretty arm-driven, but without a lot of tempo. Hes clearly got a sweet spot through the 100s, with very good 100 free and 100 back speed, while the 200 free is still coming around. Heres that long course 100 (lane 8, all the way at the bottom in the black cap). 6. His five 200s definitely stand out from the rest of his event portfolio, most notably the 200 IM and 200 free. FTC Disclaimer | Terms of Use & Privacy Policy Haughey had modest drops in distance free, and does have pretty good range from the mile down to the 200 thats great for relay potential. Branons 200 fly is among the best in the class, and sits only about half a second off of 2021 NCAA invite level. Best Times: 400 IM 3:48.08, 1650 free 15:10.03, 1000 free 9:06.79, 500 free 4:25.04, 200 breast 1:59.81. Powe actually appears in this same NCSA video we linked for Zuchowski above (Powe is lane 3, black cap, two lanes down from Zuchowski). Back then, Cal and Texas (sometimes Stanford) had a stranglehold on the top 5 recruits, and the comments section when Chaney signed with Florida was largely about how he must have gone there only because Cal and Texas were out of full rides. (Previous Rank: #17) For a team thats good in those middle-distance type races, Enoch will be an excellent fit, with potential to one day contribute to a 4200 free relay. He also has a very nice 200 free, with decent speed and endurance developing on either side of it (45.3 in the 100; 4:29 in the 500). I would like to thank my family, coaches, and friends/teammates for helping me through this process. Mentions. These TAC guys took some serious digging to find race videos but we managed to find Norriss career-best in the long course 1500 free. Sam Powe (Previous Rank: Unranked) McCallie GPS Aquatics McCallie School Chattanooga, TN **Verbally committed to Georgia** Yet another guy who has had a meteoric senior rise, Gentry moves from our honorable mentions into our top five. 1 pick by many on the field, Alabama also now heads into the fall once again in contention for the top-ranked recruiting class. We provide you four massive print issues designed to sit on your coffee table like a piece of artwork. (Previous Rank: #19) Dont go to B1G Nate or any other breaststrokers. 5. Division 2 swimming minimum times usually match up with the Speedo Sectional cuts. 13. Jan 27-28, 2023. Obviously, Buff doesnt have Hoffers unprecedented sprint free speed (19.0/41.2 as a high school junior). For the purposes of space, we wont include every top event for these athletes, but just a few of their standouts. Interesting shift and definitely seems to bode well for the ACC with where many of the recruits are concentrating overall. Voepel. Like Modglin, Germonprez has incredible versatility across the 100s of all four strokes. Best Times: 200 back 1:42.94, 100 back 47.87. Hes the best 1000 freestyler in the class with a very good mile to back it up. Right now, it can cause some awkward long or short walls, but that can be cleaned up with time and experience. Almost our entire top 10 had at least one huge time drop since our last ranks, and there is some major upheaval in our list. He was 49.8 in the 100 fly and 1:51.2 in the 200 fly as of last year, but surges into our top 20 after a seven-second drop in that 200 and a 1.6-second drop in that 100. Best Times: Kelly is a tick behind Battaglini in nearly all of their shared events, but his calling card is a wider range of event options. 18. Mullens best short course yards 400 IM is from 2019, so it feels like theres a chance a big drop is coming. Hes the fastest 200 freestyler in this class, and closing in on the 500, too. Winkler has nice versatility into the fly and back, too, and we could see him morph into the versatile sprinter type over his late high school years. Plenty of these swimmers missed potential taper meets amid the coronavirus pandemic, and its difficult to determine whose times have stagnated and which swimmers merely havent had enough chances to rest up and race in the past year. If you weigh any of those three things differently and want him in your own personal top 20, I wouldnt take any issue with it. SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - Shippensburg University men's and women's swimming head coach Tim Verge has confirmed the recruitment of eight student-athletes who have each agreed to attend the university and will suit up for the Raider program when the season begins in September 2021. Weve scouted five sophomore classes now, going back to the class of 2020, and Diehl is the fastest sophomore 200 freestyler weve ever ranked, bestingCarson Fosters 1:33.7 from that class of 2020. (Previous Rank: N/A) Carter Lancaster Bolles School Sharks Bolles School Jacksonville, FL **Verbally committed to Cal** Eva Merrell might be UGA's No. Best Times: LIke Maldari, Irwin is a great 200 backstroker. **The 1000 free isnt an event at the Division I NCAA Championships, but is swum instead of the 1650 in many Division I dual meets and is part of the NCAA program in Division II. Class. Chen is pretty much identical to Zou as a prospect a little faster in the 100 but a little slower in the 200. Best Times: We go from a bunch of specialists to a true all-arounder late in our ranks. He took a gap year and will enroll with the class of 2022. 1 | Big TenNo. Best Times: 50 free 19.79, 100 free 43.59, 100 fly 48.52. The Engineers will be welcoming a total of 25 first-years to the teams this season. Adam and Trey were the only ones ranked in the top 5. Lucas probably projects as a 400 IMer and 200 flyer at the NCAA level. All rights reserved. The Arizona State 200 medley relay tied Cals Pac-12 record on Wednesday to open the 2023 Pac-12 Swimming & Diving Championships. Step 4: Colleges offer scholarships to the student-athletes they want to play for them. Ethan Harrington Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics Palo Alto High School Palo Alto, CA **Verbally committed to Princeton** All rights reserved. 1. Michigan hangs on at No. Shortly after breaking into the top 10, the Crimson . A lot of NCAA programs seem to be pretty good at developing 200 specialists, and thats one way we could see Lancaster moving over the next few years. 2017 Top Football Recruits (4257) 2017 Top Football Recruits. Butterfly is very thin, and theres not a standout 46-second flyer like weve seen in three of the past four sophomore classes. Hes also been 55.4 in the long course 100 fly, which is faster than a lot of the flyers ranked ahead of him. Best Times: Arioti fits in the same mold as DAriano: hes got a bunch of really interesting times without one clear standout stroke or event. 14. A 48-low in the 100 back is very solid, and a 47/47 type is always going to rank well as a recruit. He saw a huge two-second drop in the 200 and about a full-second drop in the 100 to rise from an honorable mention into our top 20. | Privacy Settings | Do Not Sell My Personal Information, There are plenty of arguments in favor of getting Ledford into the top 20. First and foremost, we valued depth above all else the number of top recruits a school has committed. Liam Custer (Previous Rank: Unranked) Sarasota Sharks Riverview High School Osprey, FL **Verbally committed to Stanford** We just had to list 10 of them for Germonprez, who could conceivably lead this class in five or more events with a great senior year. Fan gets on and off the wall really well on his turns. As a result, it felt like the perfect time to update our top 25 recruiting classes -- with rankings just about set in stone at this point in the cycle. This is essentially a re-rank of that class, taking into account a year of improvements. Chase Swearingen New Albany Aquatic Club Westerville Central High School Westerville, OH **Verbally committed to Kentucky** 20.0 and 43.4 mean serious speed those would have been the best sprint free times in the class of 2023, 2022, or 2020 as sophomores. The NCAA has gotten so crazy fast in the stroke that even a 53.6/1:57.3 type like Scholtz has a long ways to go to get into NCAA scoring range. This is quite a ways from Cotters current best time, but was nearly a second drop in long course last October (lane 6, yellow cap). Our goal in these rankings is to reflect what college coaches look for in recruits, based on many years of conversations and coverage. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography. why does the olympics swimming only allows for two swimmers per event but track and field allow for three which leads to a sweep please correct me if i am wrong. It's pretty rare . Hes just a tenth off the best in the class there. Keaton Jones Swim Neptune Higley High School Gilbert, AZ**Verbally committed to Cal** Best Times: It feels like we might see Winkler and Diehl battling for three years over who is the best pure sprint freestyler in the class. Year after year, though, you see far more from Texas, Ohio, Virginia, etc. Hes the best 100 flyer in the class right now with a lot of sheer speed in the butterfly. (Previous Rank: N/A) 1 . Hes on the cusp of breaking 9:00 in the 1000, which is another key barrier. He doesnt have the same speed #13 Li does, but hes definitely got more endurance. But hes built up his speed and really transitioned into one of those 200-specialists were seeing more and more of at the college level. In fact, we considered him mostly an IMer in last years ranks, though even then we specifically noted that we could see him develop into a freestyle relay value. Logan Brown First Colony Swim Team Clements High School Sugar Land, TX **Verbally committed to Texas A&M** This swim is pre-pandemic, and Simons dropped two seconds nine months later. But the race is also an absolute masterclass in attacking your flip turns. 12. Heres that massive mile from Custer (lane 6). Could this be reflective of some demographic difference between California and other states? He reminds me a bit of a souped-up version of River Wright, another former top prospect who was really good across the 100s of all four strokes. He reclassified into the class of 2022, but really isnt significantly older than this group his lifetime-bests in the 100 free and 200 IM both came this spring at age 17, the same age as class leaders Dawson Joyce (17 when he went 43.5 in the 100 free last fall) and Baylor Nelson (17 when he went 1:44.4 in the IM this spring). 16. 2023 Recruit Basketball Team Rankings. 200 fly from the same meet (lane 4, fifth from the top), his aggressive open turns really pop. At this point, youd probably have to project Germonprez to swim 200 IM/100 breast/200 breast in the NCAA format, but he could develop into a lot of different spots across the lineup. Why wasnt my son *swimmer A* chosen for this list??? smh swimswam. (Previous Rank: #20) Thats a possibility with this group, too, especially with most of our top 5 being great freestylers with intriguing stroke events also in the mix. But Jones also has great distance free prowess and some really good IM times hes just two tenths away from being the top 400 IMer in the class and dropped more than four seconds since our last round of rankings. 15. Race videos of Nelsons best times are hard to come by, but this long course 400 IM (lane 1 at the top) from early 2020 does show all four of his strokes. College football's 2023 recruiting cycle has all but come to an end after February's national signing day. Disclaimer: there are alotof high school seniors in the country, and no really good, complete, 100% accurate listing of them all. Best Times: There are 13 individual swimming events in the NCAA Championships lineup. Ben Scholl Cypress Fairbanks Swim Club Cypress, TX**Verbally committed to Texas A&M** 2023 Basketball Recruit. Dean Jones Magnolia Aquatic Club home-schooled Magnolia, TX **Verbally committed to Navy** this long course 400 IM (lane 1 at the top) from early 2020 does show all four of his strokes. Its sacrilege in swimming to make Michael Phelps comparisons, so we wont. Stay tuned to our recruiting channel for more additions to our yearly recruiting coverage: So without further ado, lets take a look at this class as a whole, then review our ranking methodology (please read it before you get upset about how low the top miler is ranked!) 7. And Sergile also took more than three off his 200 IM. An even bigger drop, though, came in the 200 fly: from 1:50 to 1:42.9. Best Times: In the thick of researching for these ranks, I found that Najera had dropped from 3:55 to 3:47 in the 400 IM over his junior year and started getting excited to write the blurb for his entry in the top 20. Hes also got enough freestyle speed (20.5/45.1/1:37.8) to have some relay upside down the line, too. 19. 18. I would be curious on your evaluation of a Class of 23 student at the Baylor School named Josean Massucco a distance and fly swimmer whose times are close to those in your Top 20 and Hon. Class rank: NationalNo. We focus only on American-based athletes, simply because there is so much uncertainty with international recruits if theyll come to the United States, when theyll come to the States and with what graduating class they should be ranked. Quintin McCarty (Previous Rank: Unranked) Pikes Peak Athletics Discovery Canyon High School Colorado Springs, CO **Verbally committed to NC State** But being this good from the 50 through the 200 will give Scholl a shot to swim every relay in the lineup while also contributing individually, and thats really valuable in the NCAA format. Wang was 20.2/44.2 at this time last year, and moves up a spot in the ranks after seeing solid drops in both of those two events. With his speed around the 100s, youd think hed be faster than 1:53 in the 200 IM, and hes definitely got the potential to develop there. 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