The Tennessee Vols recruited the best backstroker in this year's freshman class, Nick Simons out of Oregon, pushing them into our top 10 recruiting classes. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
Sophomore Jordan Crooks, the fastest freshman in the 50 and 100 free, ripped an unsuited 18.9(ish) 50 freestyle at the end of a Tennessee practice.
Liendo swam his first-ever yards competition today, where he went a 19.69 50 free, 48.06 100 fly, 20.70 50 fly relay split, and 44.38 100 free relay split.
George Kliavkoff’s plea attempted to quantify the impact of UCLA’s departure, but it wasn’t enough to convince the Regents to make a final decision just yet.
SwimSwam went down the road in Austin, Texas to the Texas men’s Orange & White intrasquad, which always has fast, suited, in-season times for mid-September
Hungarian Olympian Hubert Kos is among the best swimmers in this entire recruiting class, and he heads a strong Arizona State Sun Devils class.
Hobson nearly reset his lifetime best in the 200 free at Texas’ Orange & White intrasquad meet on Thursday, clocking 1:32.50.
Luke Hobson took out Drew Kibler’s meet record in the 200 freestyle and nearly established a new personal best with a 1:32.50.
Overwhelmingly, readers are favoring ASU to overtake Indiana and claim a top-five position this season, earning more than 73 percent of votes.
September 22nd, 2022 College, National, News
We continue our 2022 recruiting series with a team-by-team look at the best recruiting classes entering the NCAA next season. The classes below are projected freshmen for the 2022-2023 season.
A few important notes on our rankings:
Wisconsin’s big addition is European Junior Championships silver medalist Dominik Mark Torok out of Hungary. He projects as an elite-level IMer around the level of the best domestic recruits in the class. (For reference, Torok’s best times of 1:59.0/4:17.4 in long course meters are very comparable to #1 domestic recruit Baylor Nelson’s 1:59.1/4:16.4). For rough conversions to short course yards, Torok sits at 1:42.9/3:43.4, both right around NCAA invite level. He’s also a 1:58.4 long course 200 flyer, roughly converting to 1:43.5.
Cooper Scharff is a 47.9/1:44.3 backstroker who should also be a key addition. He was in our “best of the rest” section of recruits just outside the top 20 nationwide.
Michigan also got a key international IMer to add to their roster with this class. Israel’s Eitan Ben-Shitrit is 2:01/4:19.0 in the long course meter IMs, converting to about 1:44.5/3:44.7. Those times should give him a great shot at earning an NCAA invite as a rookie.
Michigan has some big hitters elsewhere in its class, too. Logan Zucker and Clark Wakeland join a mid-distance free group that’s had a lot of success recently. Zucker is 1:35.5/4:19.4 in the 200/500 frees, while Wakeland (a Georgia Tech transfer with one year of eligibility remaining) is 1:35.4/4:17.
On the sprintier end, Lucas Hodgson is 19.9 in the 50 free and still developing a little more 100 free range with a 44.4 lifetime-best. Ozan Kalafat is a solid two-distance breaststroker with times of 53.7 and 1:56.7. The class also has 46.9 flyer Bryce Halterman and 47.3 flyer Tyler Ray.
Nikola Acin, a fifth-year transfer out of Purude, will significantly bolster the free relays and could challenge to score individually. Eduardo Moraes comes over from Penn State with potential to make an impact in the mid-distance events as well.
This is an outstanding class for Notre Dame, including a top-20 recruit and four more names from our honorable mention and best of the rest sections.
Tommy Janton is one of the better backstrokers in this national freshman class, with best times of 46.7 and 1:42.0, both close to NCAA invite level. He’ll have company in the backstroke group with fellow freshman Marcus Gentry (47.2/1:45.7).
Notre Dame has the makings of a pretty good all-freshman medley relay. Tate Bacon is a 46.4 sprint butterflyer with some good sprint free speed too. Ryan Malicki is 53.4 in the 100 breast, and also sub-2:00 in the 200 breast (he’s 1:59.0 there).
Jack Anderson addsa 1:47.8/3:49.0 speed in the IMs. And keep an eye on 1:36.9 200 freestyler Michael Flynn out of neighboring Illinois along with 20.9/45.5/1:36.1 freestyler Dillon Edge, a versatile prospect who is also 1:47.1 in the 200 IM and 54.8 in the 100 breast.
Nick Simons was our #7 recruit in the nation, holding the best times of any American high school senior in the 100 back (46.3) and 200 back (1:40.7). The latter of those times would have earned an NCAA invite in 2022. Simons is also a 1:47.2 IMer with lots of potential to develop into a big-time NCAA scorer and relay contributor.
Speaking of relays, Brazilian sprinter Guilherme Caribe should be a big player there. He’s got long course meter best times of 22.7 and 49.7 in sprint free, converting roughly to 19.8 and 43.3 in the short course yards 50 and 100 frees.
Elsewhere in the class, Landon Driggers is a 1:47.5/3:47.5 IMer who will probably also swim the 200 back (1:44.5). Martin Espernberger is a 47.8 butterflyer and both Pep Arnwine and Ryan Williams are 45-second 100 freestylers.
Damn!! Martin!!! He’s amazing!
Wisconsin is on the come up
Are we counting divers? Where’s the divers? Tennessee has at least 2. Maybe the other schools do too. Let’s recognize them by name, please and thank you.
Dan Knapp new at Notre Dame has been a 1&3m Junior National springboard finalist many times.I could see him scoring at NCAA sometime.
Diving should alight with synchro and polo – Leave swimming to real athletes.
Wow the Vols are really looking stacked this year! UNDEFEATED IN DUAL MEETS, 2nd at SECs and top 10 at NCAAs all look probable!!!
They face NC State in October. That’s a loss.
Wanna put yer ribeye, baked tater and salad on it? The VOLS will be ready for state even if they have to rest, clip and shave some non-SEC teamers.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Dominik Mark Torok moves up the ranks as a borderline A/solid B-finalist at NCAAs. I know the IM depth is insane nationwide, however most of his best LCM times are coming from a intrasquad meet over a year ago. Looking for big improvements
UNC being disrespected. Sebastian Lunak #8 recruit on collegeswimming and Louis Dramm from Germany going to push UNC up hard.
Those two boys are good, especially Lunak, and Boyd Poehlke is a nice swimmer, but other than them, who else on their mens roster can/will individually qualify for NCAA’s?
Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …
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