D3 Swimming Recruitment

beltwaymom
Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:34:34 +0000

If you value academics and want competitive swimming, check out the NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference) website.
NESCAC is a great conference and includes Amherst, Middlebury, Bowdoin and Tufts. among others.
Email the coaches asap after you study the times. Where’s the fit?

Also checkout D3swimming.com

The Conference champs were last weekend. They are one of the fastest, if not the fastest conference in all of D-III. Many of the boys dropped 10+ seconds at conference. My own son, a freshman, is much faster than he was in high school and will make an impact at NCAAs. He is thrilled to be at D-III-more balanced life-- than D-1 and his competitive experience just as fast as D-1 mid major teams and low ivies, ie… UPENN, and Dartmouth.

When you contact coaches, emphasize your potential to drop more time in college, if in fact that is something you think you can do.

Re. Wash U. beware, they are fast D-3 team, but admissions is sketchy;They are paranoid about being a “Tufts Syndrome” school. (look that up on CC) ie. unless you show amazing proof that they are your first choice, they will wait-list you.

Re. D-1, Georgetown has a relatively new coach who probably does not have much pull with male admissions. His team was not very strong as of 2008.

Dartmouth- forget about it. Bottom of Ivy League,very depressing swim culture, school eliminated swimming a few years ago and alum managed to bring it back to life, barely.
In 2007 they had 15 ED candidates and only 3 got in. Unheard of in Ivy or NESCAC recruiting. Dart. Coaches have very little impact on admissions unless you are a Jr. Nationals swimmer. But they will string you along. Beware.