For every sport other than basketball and football, Wednesday, November 8 marks the initial signing date for prospective student-athletes signing in 2023-24 for the purpose of college enrollment in 2024-25.
To date, SwimSwam has written over 400 articles about swimmers and divers from the high school class of 2024 who have made verbal commitments for next fall (with many still waiting on our list—we’re getting to them as fast as we can). Many of those verbal commitments become contractual agreements today, as the second Wednesday in November traditionally marks the official opening of signing season for high school seniors.
The NCAA regulates when prospective student-athletes can sign a National Letter of Intent (NLI), which is the binding agreement between an athlete and an NLI member institution in Division I or Division II. In past years, there was a week-long “Early” Signing Period that began the second Wednesday in November, followed by a “Regular” Signing Period that stretched, for most sports, from February to August. In 2018, the NCAA instituted changes to the recruiting timetable and the two signing periods have now been joined, in all sports except football and basketball.
The final signing date for the class of 2024 is August 1, 2024.
You can see all the signing periods for the student-athletes enrolling in the 2024-25 school year on the NIL website here.
Below, find our top 20 ranked girls and boys and where they’ve verbally committed. The only top 20 recruit who has not committed anywhere thus far is Katie Grimes, the U.S. Olympian who is a four-time World Championship medalist.
GIRLS TOP 20
| RANK | SWIMMER | VERBAL COMMITMENT |
| 1 | Katie Grimes | |
| 2 | Leah Hayes | Virginia |
| 3 | Leah Shackley | NC State |
| 4 | Levenia Sim | Stanford |
| 5 | Erika Pelaez | NC State |
| 6 | Maggie Wanezek | Wisconsin |
| 7 | Anna Moesch | Virginia |
| 8 | Katie Christopherson | Virginia |
| 9 | Bailey Hartman | Virginia |
| 10 | Piper Enge | Texas |
| 11 | Emily Thompson | Stanford |
| 12 | Jillian Crooks | Tennessee |
| 13 | Lily Christianson | NC State |
| 14 | Annika Parkhe | Stanford |
| 15 | Elise Clift | Virginia |
| 16 | Lillie Nesty | Texas |
| 17 | Caroline Larsen | Louisville |
| 18 | Emily Brown | Tennessee |
| 19 | Camden Doane | Louisville |
| 20 | Camille Murray | Louisville |
BOYS TOP 20
| RANK | SWIMMER | VERBAL COMMITMENT |
| 1 | Kaii Winkler | NC State |
| 2 | Daniel Diehl | NC State |
| 3 | Cooper Lucas | Texas |
| 4 | Drew Hitchcock | Georgia |
| 5 | Jacob Wimberly | Texas A&M |
| 6 | Lucca Battaglini | Cal |
| 7 | Adriano Arioti | Harvard |
| 8 | David King | Virginia |
| 9 | Johnny Crush | Army West Point |
| 10 | Kyle Peck | Texas |
| 11 | Daniel Li | Stanford |
| 12 | Spencer Nicholas | Virginia |
| 13 | Jake Eccleston | Louisville |
| 14 | Gregg Enoch | Louisville |
| 15 | Nolan Dunkel | NC State |
| 16 | Tolu Young | Arizona State |
| 17 | Matt Marsteiner | NC State |
| 18 | Jeremy Kelly | Texas |
| 19 | Landon D’Ariano | Texas |
| 20 | Luke Whitlock | Florida |
Below you will find all the articles we have published to date about verbal commitments from the high school class of 2024. 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!)
(NOTE: 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.)
One the women’s side, the “new ACC” is completely stacked for next year. That conference is going to be off-the-rails.
Stanford is still listed as Pac12.
Initial Boys Top 20 List still says Luke Whitlock to Louisville. He is committed to University of Florida as the spreadsheet says.
Good catch, updated.
The table before the spreadsheet still says Louisville
where is bradley binns
Dollars to donuts, Grimes goes pro and stays sandpipers, at a bare minimum for the next 7 months for the Olympics
Going pro at this point seems like the most likely. Although IMO its a bad call. Just looking at “modern history”, Missy Franklin, Katie Hoff, and Kate Ziegler were all much more accomplished at this point (I think they all had WR’s in high school). At this point Grimes isn’t a gold medal contender in any event. But only Katie knows what’s best for her. Would be cool to see all the Sandpipers go at it in college tho
Well, either way she’s not going to college before the Olympics. My guess long term is she is going pro and doesn’t want to focus on SC for so much of the year.
Nah- inside scoop, Katie grimes-> Stanford
I’ve been trying to tell yall. She’s going to Stanford. Mama grimes says so.
Seems like the obvious choice for Katie Grimes would be Florida. What better place for her to train than alongside Katie Ledecky and Bobby Finke?
Although the fact that Florida didn’t secure any other top 20 recruits does give me pause.
They do have the Canadian Julie Brousseau committed who could be considered top 10 for sure but a small class to this point. And probably spent a lot of money on 2023 class.
I wonder why she is not on the above verbal commitment database.
I don’t think any international swimmers are on this list. Ella Jansen (Canadian) is top 5 on swimcloud but not on this list
The fact that she hasn’t committed thus far to join Bella seems to indicate that she’s planning on turning pro. But who knows!