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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the only reason he's swimming is for college prospects, you will be disappointed.

Look at swimcloud under recruiting and see the lists by year of males who committed to colleges. Scroll through the pages to see where the commitments start to drop off and where the colleges start to become small regional schools you've never heard of. Then click on the profiles of the swimmers on the next page where no one is recruited. It is sobering; moreso when you sort by state. Very, very strong swimmers do not get recruited. Some get recruiting attention from schools that are an inadequate academic match for the student.

There may be a point where the colleges you might be able to swim for and the colleges that are a good academic match cross, but for many swimmers, those lines never cross.[/quote]

This is pretty spot on except it assumes that all those kids not reporting a school (1) are not swimming and (2) wanted to swim.  I don't think swimcloud's info is perfect and I know a number of very talented swimmers who chose not to swim in college.  There are a lot of opportunities to swim Div III and you don't have to be particularly fast.  But, those schools may be expensive, liberal arts schools that are not academic power houses.  So, if your kid is ok going to a lower caliber academic school and can either 1) get merit aid or 2) you can afford for them to pay $70k to let them swim, you'll find a place to swim.  The challenge is finding the spot that matches their academic interests and makes sense to the family financially.  But, my guess is your kid will improve and have lots of options. [/quote]

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