Hello. I’m a rising senior. How does this D3 recruiting process work exactly? My swim coach at my high school isn’t helping me out at all. I know there is a recruiting form on their website? Should I start filling this out now during the summer months?
I want to get recruited for swimming. I know MIT places heavy emphasis on academics as well, which I’m not too concerned about at the moment. I can’t find what swimming times MIT is looking for and if my times are good enough??
Can someone confirm if these swim times are good enough? I can’t find what swim times MIT looks for at allow on their webpage? and also what happens if I improve a lot over the summer? And do I need to apply early action?
Assuming these times are SCY, I don’t think you’ll be very heavily recruited, if at all. However, it certainly doesn’t hurt to try. I think emailing the coach is typically a good way to start the process.
@podslove Thanks for the input! I forgot to mention my other notable time 200 Breastroke: (2:21.00). What should be good goals for the SCY times to make myself more heavily recruited. I’m working this summer on getting a lot faster so I’ll get better times during senior year.
Go to the roster for MIT swimming and from there you can look for the athletes who compete in those events and see what current time are. You should always fill our the recruitment form for any school you are interested in and then follow-up a few days later by contacting the Coach by phone. Also, unless you are set on MIT academically, be sure not to limit yourself to recruitment by just one school.
Note that if you are committed to going to MIT, and to swimming in college, it will be MUCH tougher than being committed to going to MIT, OR being committed to swimming in college.
Looking back on my son’s recruiting process, he should have been looking at 20 colleges (fill out 20 recruiting forms, send 20 emails to coaches, make 20 phone calls to coaches) instead of three or four, if he was committed to playing his sport in college. But in the long run for him, the academics (and financials) won out over wanting to play his sport in college no matter where. Not only do you have to be an excellent and lauded athlete, but you need to fit into that coach’s program.
I would say try to go sub 1:02 in the hundred breaststroke, or under a minute for serious recruitment. Untapered, 3 of MIT’s swimmers go under a minute in the 100 breast.
Athletic recruiting at MIT has subtle differences with athletic recruiting at other schools.
Do a search on this CC MIT forum for various past (lengthy) discussions. There’s lots of good info there.