The recruiting season for the high school class of 2025, which began on June 15, 2023, hit a milestone yesterday, November 13, 2024, with the arrival of Early NLI Signing Day.
Over the last 17 months, we have written some 350+ articles* about swimmers and divers who plan to matriculate at colleges and universities in the fall of 2025. Here is what we have seen so far.
*NOTE: Yes, I know this list is incomplete. We currently have over 350 emails in the [email protected] inbox that we are trying to get to. If you have an announcement to make, please send it to that email address, rather than put in the comments section of this article (which I don’t read).
Leading the field are Cal and Georgia with 18 total verbal commitments each. Auburn, Princeton, and Virginia have 15. Stanford (14), Notre Dame (13), Indiana (12), Navy (12), Tennessee (12), Texas (11), Michigan (10), and NC State (10) are the teams with the next-most verbal commitments, while Army West Point, Duke, Louisville, and USC are tied with 9 and Alabama, Florida, Harvard, Ohio State, and Wisconsin have raked in 8.
All of our top-20 boys and 19 of the top-20 girls have announced their plans for the fall of 2025. Virginia earned verbals from 5 ranked boys and 2 ranked girls, while Cal 1 and 5, respectively. Here is the whole list:
Below, check out our top 20 ranked recruits in the class of 2025 and where they’ve committed.
Top-20 Commitments
| Boys | Swimmer | Commitment | Girls | Swimmer | Commitment |
| 1 | Maximus Williamson | Virginia | 1 | Alex Shackell | Defer |
| 2 | Thomas Heilman | Virginia | 2 | Teagan O’Dell | Cal |
| 3 | Luke Ellis | Indiana | 3 | Claire Weinstein | Cal |
| 4 | Nathan Szobota | Virginia | 4 | Madi Mintenko | Virginia |
| 5 | Jason Zhao | Stanford | 5 | Haley McDonald | Texas |
| 6 | William Mulgrew | Harvard | 6 | Grace Rabb | Florida |
| 7 | Sean Green | Georgia | 7 | Lilla Bognar | Florida |
| 8 | Josh Bey | Indiana | 8 | Annie Jia | Cal |
| 9 | Thomas Mercer | Virginia | 9 | Elle Scott | Cal |
| 10 | Marvin Johnson | Florida | 10 | Kennedi Dobson | Georgia |
| 11 | Max Carlsen | NC State | 11 | Lily King | NC State |
| 12 | Noah Cakir | Indiana | 12 | Addie Robillard | Stanford |
| 13 | Blake Amlicke | Virginia | 13 | Raya Mellott | Virginia |
| 14 | Campbell McKean | Texas | 14 | Lynsey Bowen | Florida |
| 15 | Crash Ackerly | Yale | 15 | Alana Berlin | Stanford |
| 16 | Ethan Ekk | Stanford | 16 | Bella Brito | USC |
| 17 | Gavin Keogh | NC State | 17 | Julie Mishler | Louisville |
| 18 | Caiden Bowers | Cal | 18 | Chloe Kim | Princeton |
| 19 | Jordan Willis | Florida | 19 | Ella Cosgrove | Cal |
| 20 | Alex Thiesing | Michigan | 20 | Annam Olasewere | Stanford |
Top Destinations for the Class of 2025 (Combined M/W)
Below you will find all the articles we have published to date about verbal commitments from the high school class of 2025. As always, you can sort by club team, college, conference, home state, school, LSC, etc. (We’re adding articles every day, so keep refreshing this page to get the latest articles!)
(Remember, if you have a commitment to report, please send an email with a photo (landscape, or horizontal, looks best) and a quote to [email protected]. Do not leave it in the comments below.)
Virginia announced 18 (3 divers).
Too many emails should be a good thing for a site like this
With new squad limits going into effect next fall, having numbers isn’t too important compared to quality of the athletes!
Jordan Tiffany signing to ASU… even more sprinters scoring at the NCAAs for ASU
While still competing and enrolled at byu…
What to the notations in red mean in the chart of all the commits? For example Gunnar Grubbs (Stanford) has B-02 in red. The ones in black appear to refer to the swimswam rankings, but I can’t tell what the red ones mean.
Diving rankings
Thanks
Go dawgs! We have struggled a little with depth the past few years, so this is definitely a sign of good things to come!
Roster limits, please wait a few years :/
It’s certainly going to be interesting to see what happens after roster limits are instituted
This is not getting as much attention as it should be getting. Offers are getting rescinded left and right.
Can you give any names?
I know first hand that some SEC schools have null/void clauses on the contract. The wording is something like….the swimmer will be provided w 1 year scholarship only if their times are fast enough to make the new roster limit should it go into effect in April/May. So there is some window dressing going on. Signing doesn’t guarantee anything.
i heard that if a current swimmer has their spot pulled, they can stay at their school on scholarship for a year, but not on roster. Any truth to that? That does help in situations such as leases and class scheduling
This is probably on a case-by-case basis.
Pretty sure anyone that signed an NLI before this year can not have their scholarship rescinded(even if they get cut). My guess is most if of the current signees are signing 1 year deals and that will be the case going forward for all but the top few swimmers each year.
It depends on the agreement. The Big Ten, for example, requires all agreements to be written for 4 years, though there’s no requirement that what an athlete is given in year 1 is also given in 2 3 4 in partial scholarship sports like swimming. Most schools don’t require multi-year aid agreements as far as I know.
But…that’s not going to stop Texas from cutting them ;-). Since they’re no longer NLIs, just scholarship agreements, there’s a lot more flexibility.
This is bonkers. Teams better be extremely careful if they use that clause because I’m sure a lot of parents and coaches will not look fondly on that and will certainly hesitate to send kids there
That’s what I was wondering. From what I’ve been reading the settlement if approved in March or April it is likely to take affect starting in the Fall 2025 semester to the won’t be a long lead in. They are capped at 30 at the NCAA level and the SEC has said 22. So are they just going to yank offers back? I just don’t see how any school can keep a class of 18 in that environment even with redshirts not counting against the roster. I do expect we’ll see more redshirts used in swimming to play games with the caps, but still 18 is 60% of the cap.
I read (probably in a swim swam comment) that redshirts will count towards the roster and won’t be a solution. Does anyone know if this is true?
I thought the same. 11 men signed by Cal? Not sure where roster limits will settle, but have heard 23-30 range. And they likely have a lot more than that on the current roster. Seems like an issue unless they have a ton of guys leaving.