Wednesday, November 9 marks the 2022-23 Initial Signing Date for prospective student-athletes -in sports other than football and basketball- enrolling in the fall of 2023.
We have written over 450 articles about swimmers and divers from the class of 2023 who have made verbal commitments to college programs for next fall. (Note: We have another 100 or so on our waiting list, and 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 which 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. You can see all the signing periods for the student athletes enrolling in the 2023-24 school year on the NLI website here.
While we are still adding scores of names to this database, here are the Class of 2023 swimming and diving commitments we have noted thus far:
| Rank | Top 20 Boys from 2023 | Verbal Commitment | Top 20 Girls from 2023 | Verbal Commitment |
| 1 | Scotty Buff | Florida | Bella Sims | Florida |
| 2 | Rex Maurer | Stanford | Kiley Wilhelm | Harvard |
| 3 | Ilya Kharun | Arizona State | Cavan Gormsen | Virginia |
| 4 | Will Modglin | Texas | Camille Spink | Tennessee |
| 5 | Nate Germonprez | Texas | Erin Gemmell | Texas |
| 6 | Keaton Jones | Cal | Tess Howley | Virginia |
| 7 | Gibson Holmes | Stanford | Berit Berglund | Texas |
| 8 | Roman Jones | Cal | Lucy Thomas | Stanford |
| 9 | Hudson Williams | NC State | Campbell Stoll | Texas |
| 10 | Jonny Marshall | Florida | Julia Podkoscielny | Florida |
| 11 | Logan Brown | Texas A&M | Miriam Sheehan | NC State |
| 12 | Brendan Whitfield | Virginia Tech | Michaela Mattes | Florida |
| 13 | Chase Mueller | NC State | Hannah Bellard | Michigan |
| 14 | Ben Scholl | Texas A&M | Jillian Cox | Texas |
| 15 | Sonny Wang | Harvard | JoJo Ramey | Florida |
| 16 | Caleb Maldari | Florida | Caroline Bricker | Stanford |
| 17 | Ben Irwin | Georgia Tech | Eleanor Sun | Princeton |
| 18 | David Schmitt | Harvard | Sophie Brison | Tennessee |
| 19 | Tristan DenBrok | Georgia | Maddie Waggoner | Wisconsin |
| 20 | Andrew Taylor | Florida | Madison Smith | Michigan |
Below you will find all the articles we have published to date about verbal commitments from the high school class of 2023. 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.)
You can read all the articles here.
High School Class of 2023 Verbal Commitment Database
Pieter Coetze – Cal
Hi Pieter, did you change your timeline? You originally said you were coming in the fall of 2024.
Florida just got a verbal from Canada’s best junior female sprinter Lilly Daley. 25.9/55.3/2:00.5 long course.
They also signed Sean Sullivan from Carmel who was a verbal to IU.
Ouf Georgia
No commits for Virginia in the top 20 for men??
Nope. They’ve got a bunch of BOTR but no top 20s.