Yes I am aware of the collegeswimming site. It is good for finding rankings and they recently started posting times, but it is still difficult to get a grip on the personality of the coach/team. I would imagine that many recruited athletes have a similar problem: if you don't know anyone on the team and you can't logistically visit all of your schools, how do you determine athletic personality fit.
On this board you can find out alot about the personalities of the different schools: who is preppy, who is overworked, who has grade inflation. There is a little bit of that info on collegeswimming but it is often nothing more than who is going to win such and such a conference and what I really want to know is what coach really cares about his athletes and gets the most out of them athletically while not letting them slack on academics. I don't really want to post on collegeswimming because it's such a small world swimming wise, I don't want to be seen as a helicopter sports mom (which I probably am
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