The women’s swimming and diving transfer portal window began yesterday, Wednesday, March 12th. Day 1 saw about 130 women enter the portal.
This is already close to the 191 total women that entered during the whole 45-day window a year ago. Last year also included about 40 graduate transfers as most swimmers that swam during the 2020-2021 COVID season have now used their eligibility.
Day 2 Morning Update
A few athletes entered the portal last night after the evening update. Among those include another woman from Arizona State. Kinley Wigle has now joined fellow teammates Haiden Schoessel and Kaitlyn McMorrow in the portal. Wigle just finished her sophomore season and did not swim at Pac-12s last year or Big-12s this year.
Reese Hinnerichs of Florida State has entered the portal as well. The first-year concluded her season in the dual meet against Florida.
Three-time America East ‘A’ finalist Alice Stenbeck of Bryant is also in the portal. The freshman finished her season swimming to 3rd in the 200 breast, 5th in the 100 breast, and 7th in the 200 IM. She was faster in prelims in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes with a 1:02.88 and 2:15.77.
Late Morning Update:
Florida’s Melissa Cowen has entered the portal. She last competed at midseason swimming a best time in the 100 breast with a 1:01.36 in prelims.
Virginia diver Ruby Borzekiwski is the first of the team to enter the portal. The team announced earlier this month that it would cut its diving program. The team had 10 divers this season.
More women from Auburn have joined the portal. Eight women already entered from Auburn on day 1.
Looks like alot of “non-starters” looking for a place to petform!
Anya / Braden… I (we) truly appreciate your efforts reporting on and sharing information regarding the latest developments with the transfer portal. And, it’s understood that there are lots of “moving parts” and different ways to summarize the information. Quick clarification if you wouldn’t mind… In the Day 1 article / summary…you report that 255 Women entered the portal on Day 1. However, at the top of this article it says that 130 entered the transfer portal on Day 1. I’m guessing that maybe the 255 number is actually a TOTAL that includes both the 130 that entered yesterday…and that there were approximately 125 existing swimmers and divers that were already in the transfer portal? Thanks for clarifying that discrepancy.
Are other non revenue sports at these school having to make these kinds(number) of roster cuts like swimming?
Here’s an analysis based on averages, though averages don’t really tell the full story: https://swimswam.com/which-sports-are-being-hit-hardest-by-new-ncaa-roster-limits/
Baseball is the other sport I’ve heard the most about roster cuts in, mostly because coaches are worried about smaller rosters impacting pitcher availability.
Football, believe it or not, is the sport that is getting hit the hardest by roster limits.
I heard that University of Georgia is no longer having any walk-on football players.
Most Power 4s are in the same boat, because it’s 105 roster spots and 105 scholarships.
That is a bit of a misnomer though – because 20/105 athletes would have been walkons this year but will just get scholarships next year. So there will be fewer of these end-of-the-roster, unlikely to see playing time except maybe kickoff coverage, guys. But there will still be 20 guys who would’ve been walk-ons otherwise on the rosters.
I have Florida at 31 (with recruits) going into next season.
feel like they dont need to worry about the roster limit too much since theres normally substantial roster churn every year (not being shady)
Crazy times. I’ll be interested when the mens portal opens. I know the other site that has the cut tracker isn’t really “tracking” cuts – I know of kids at schools that had 0 anticipated that have been cut. And I have huge suspicions of over recruiting on the mens side by some schools. Heartbreaking for these kids.
Reposting this here: Listening to Shackell’s pod with Beisel and Hoff (quite the 4IM lineup!) – I’m so sorry but they completely missed the point re: the current college competitive landscape. i appreciate her presenting her POV with her decision, but it comes off as a little tone-deaf given an entire class of freshmen at IU just entered the portal + the murmurs surrounding the program as a whole.
…and she made a comment about getting the coaches’ attention…some of us swim for coaches where if we’re not Olympians we’d be lucky to even sniff a crumb of their time. It’s not about wanting it more/less. Idk why I’m getting worked up about this, but I know multiple people affected by these cuts and it feels like a slap in the face to hear this from IU’s new shiny bluechip recruit while her supposed teammates quit the sport/find new programs after a single year.
Surprised Beisel didn’t ask more in depth questions on the topic. Hoff never swam ncaa, so wouldn’t expect her to. I really think the hybrid bs is going to hurt this sport more than we can see now.
I honestly don’t see many kids wanting to stay with their high school club team. I know my daughter couldn’t wait to go to college. She loved her club and her coach but it was time to move on.
Their podcast never really presses the guests on more “difficult” topics, it seems they’re really just there for a silly little convo for us to hear. It’s fun to listen to but not super substantial. Social Kick does a better job at picking the guests’ brains in my opinion.
Wondering if the real time publishing of this info will make anybody have 2nd thoughts about entering? Or at least waiting until after NC’s?
People make bad decisions for bad reasons all the time, so probably.
if i wanted less eyeballs on it i would enter the portal next friday so it gets lost in the sauce of ncaas lol
This process doesn’t need to be a secret. These are people who hope to switch schools which will be very public info anyway and time is of the essence! Enter the portal asap ladies! Or don’t and just be a regular student at your school which sounds lovely as long as you picked the right school for you. Don’t be ashamed of the portal it’s a very hopeful thing to put your name out there! Hopefully there is a light at the end of the tunnel for some of these people. Worth a shot!
I don’t know about eyeballs, but if I had a meet and a taper to focus on, I wouldn’t want the added distraction until after it was over. Focus on putting up good times, and then start the process.
This is such a distraction for ncaa athletes. They should be focusing on racing next week but have had their families ripped apart this week.
Counterpoint: It might get more eyeballs on it because so many people are checking the site around NCAAs