From September 8, 2023, through August 21, 2025, we have written nearly 800 articles about the college commitments of swimmers and divers from the high school class of 2025. We have amassed a database of over 1240 incoming freshmen and transfers, noting their states or countries of origin, previous schools, teams, and local swim committees. All of which gives you plenty of ways to sort through the information to see where the athletes come from and where they are going.
* NOTE: I would like to thank the athletes, their families, their coaches, and everyone else who sent us emails, for their patience! This is a Herculean task: the inbox gets flooded in the fall after campus visits; college season ramps up; then it’s high school championships and college conference meets; after NCAA and NAIA nationals, we move into long course season with the PSS circuit, international meets, and summer championship meets of all kinds. All along the way, athletes are committing and we’re trying to stay on top of it. We fall behind, we catch up, we fall behind again… it’s exhausting. I would like to express my gratitude to Anya, Casey, Sophie, Charlotte, Sean, Claire, Madeline, Terin, Braden, Will, Mark, Nicole, Sam, and Spencer for helping to keep this machine going.
All of our top-20 boys and top-20 girls announced their plans for the fall of 2025. Virginia and Indiana led the destinations for the boys with 3 each. UVA nabbed #1 Thomas Heilman, #2 Maximus Williamson, and #12 Thomas Mercer, while the Hoosiers landed #4 Luke Ellis, #6 Josh Bey, and #18 Noah Cakir. Stanford (#5 Ethan Ekk and #15 Jason Zhao) and Cal (#16 Ryan Erisman and #19 Kenneth Barnicle) earned a pair of top-20s each. Auburn, Georgia, Harvard, Navy, NC State, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, and Wisconsin rounded out the destination schools with one apiece. The top 10 divers committed to Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Princeton, Purdue, SMU, and Stanford (2).
On the girls’ side, Cal accounted for 20% of the top-20 recruits, garnering commitments from #2 Teagan O’Dell, #3 Claire Weinstein, #5 Annie Jia, #12 Elle Scott, and #18 Ella Cosgrove. Stanford had 3: #13 Addie Robillard, #14 Alana Berlin, and #19 Annam Olasewere. Florida (#6 Grace Rabb and #9 Lilla Bognar), UVA (#4 Madi Mintenko and #17 Raya Mellott), and Texas (#7 Haley McDonald and #20 Sarah Rodrigues) all claimed two. Georgia, Indiana, Louisville, NC State, Princeton, and USC also earned commitments from a top-20 recruit. Auburn, Duke, Indiana, Iowa State, Michigan, Ohio State, Purdue, Rutgers, Stanford, and Tennessee also claimed a top-10 diver for the fall.
Schools with 10 or more recruits in the database:
| Team | M/W 2025 |
| Ohio State | 30 |
| Northern Kentucky | 24 |
| Indiana | 23 |
| Arizona State | 23 |
| Virginia | 22 |
| Cal | 22 |
| Navy | 22 |
| Fairfield | 20 |
| Princeton | 20 |
| Notre Dame | 20 |
| Georgia | 18 |
| Lehigh | 18 |
| Hamilton | 18 |
| Tampa | 18 |
| Tennessee | 18 |
| Auburn | 17 |
| Kentucky | 17 |
| West Virginia | 17 |
| Florida | 16 |
| Quincy | 16 |
| Eastern Illinois | 16 |
| Louisville | 15 |
| Texas A&M | 15 |
| Florida State | 15 |
| NC State | 15 |
| Texas | 15 |
| Southern Illinois | 14 |
| Stanford | 14 |
| Yale | 14 |
| Harvard | 14 |
| USC | 13 |
| Alabama | 13 |
| Columbia | 13 |
| Virginia Tech | 13 |
| Lafayette | 13 |
| Michigan | 13 |
| Colorado Mesa | 12 |
| Wisconsin-Green Bay | 12 |
| SMU | 12 |
| Duke | 11 |
| Dartmouth | 10 |
| Rice | 10 |
| St. Bonaventure | 10 |
| North Carolina | 10 |
| Ouachita Baptist | 10 |
| DePauw | 10 |
| Wisconsin | 10 |
SwimSwam Database for the Class of 2025 (Combined M/W)
Below you will find our complete database of swimmers and divers from the high school class of 2025 –as well as transfers moving to new schools this fall– along with information about where they’ve come from and where they’re going. As always, you can sort by ranking, college, athlete’s name, club team, conference, home state/country, previous school, LSC, etc.
NOTE: If you have a correction or an addition for the database, please send me an email to [email protected], rather than putting in the comments section (which I don’t read).
THANK YOU FOR THE TREMENDOUS WORK THAT GOES INTO PRODUCING THIS! In previous years, we were able to download this document. When I attempt to do so by clicking on the icon on the bottom right, I get an error message. Would you please see if this can be fixed. TIA
Great info but certainly not an exhaustive list of 2025 commits
Certainly not. If your kid is missing, definitely let us know and we’d be happy to add them.
Great list but Davidson has 17 incoming freshman (3 divers, 14 swimmers). I know you had more of them as they were listed in my daughters commitment announcement.
I don’t understand all the down votes but this is literally from the SwimSwam Article…”Smith will join Elizabeth Palmer, Reece Ramseur, Ellery Bracall, Frances Bohner, Julia Pisano, and Caroline Furbay on Davidson’s campus this fall.”
Wow! What an effort putting this together. Nice work.
Fascinating data! Thanks for sharing. Would love to see you pull data to show of all the swimmers who were cut from their school roster as a result of the recent NCAA rulings, what % quit swimming as opposed to transferring to another school
I would love that data too, but that would cost us tens of thousands of dollars in labor to compile lol. If you can find us a sponsor for it, we can manage the project…
I got a couple of questions:
1) Are these swimmers in the teams, or would some of them be attending the universities without being on the team?
2) How could 1 year can a university recruit these many student-athletes, not including the So, Jr, and Sr who are already in the team.
This is only a list of swimming commits. It’s plausible that, given the circumstance of the sport, there are individuals on this list who lost their roster spots and are just going as NARPs, but they were all committed to swim or dive when they were added.
Sometimes programs’ teams aren’t evenly distributed throughout the classes. The Michigan men famously had a class of 20+ in 2010, and won an NCAA title in 2012. Can’t do that many anymore with roster limits, but…
Ohio State – 16 men, 14 women (30)
Indiana – 11 men, 12 women (23)
Michigan – 7 men, 6 women (13)
USC – 5 men, 8 women (13)
Wisconsin – 4 men, 6 women (10)
Northwestern – 4 men, 5 women (9)
Minnesota – 6 men, 1 woman (7)
Purdue – 5 men, 1 woman (6)
UCLA – 0 men, 4 women (4)
Penn State – 0 men, 1 woman (1)
Purdue brought in one woman? Really?
There are a lot of folks missing because this is self reported. If the athlete didn’t contact Swimswam, they are not listed. Looking on swimcloud though, they only have on recruit listed there as well, so they may only have one.
Penn State has many freshman men and women that were never self reported to swim swam so I’m sure this is not all correct. And, rosters are not usually posted on team websites yet so there is no way for swim swam to correct this.
For Texas, is Baylor Nelson still headed to Austin? Thought he was transferring from A&M.
Class of 2025 only. No transfers on this
Thx…but curious, as Taivassalo (Texas), Chaney (Florida), Taylor (Florida), Reiter (Cal Baptist) and Tiffany (BYU) are all listed under ASU.
Ah, looks like B Nelson was added.
I do see some transfers on this list for some schools