Swimmer profile
Michael Benson
Male17-18Heartland AquaticsMW · CENTRAL
SR Rating
NCAA D1 cut anchored • 2026 seasonBased on current PBs vs. NCAA D1 cut times.
- #1200 Back SCY2:48.86221
- #2200 Breast SCY3:10.12221
You're at or past recruiting peak. SR Projected here equals SR Current — no forward projection is applied past age 17.
- #1200 Back SCY2:48.86221
- #2200 Breast SCY3:10.12221
College junior year. Range reflects developmental uncertainty — wider for younger swimmers and late developers.
- #1200 Back SCY2:48.86221
- #2200 Breast SCY3:10.12221
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Tell us about your swimmer’s growth. We use trajectory data by default; your input fine-tunes the ceiling range. Not saved — refresh resets to default.
What this means for Michael
Early Career recruit, peak window.
This is the recruiting window. Coaches are evaluating times within ~6 months of where you sit today. The College Ceiling range (217–217) shows the projected upside through college junior year — useful for "where will I be when it counts most" conversations.
What time drops unlock Building Base
Each row shows the time required in that event alone to push SR Rating Current from 217 to 400, holding the other three events fixed. Only physiologically reachable drops (≤15% per event) are shown. In practice swimmers improve across multiple events at once, so real progress will lift faster than these single-event deltas suggest.
No single-event drop within reachable bounds gets 217 all the way to 400. The gap from Early Career to Building Base closes through broad improvement — multiple events moving together. That’s exactly what college coaches want to see; specialists rarely make this jump on one event alone.
Best school matches
Top 0 of 79 curated programs that actually fit. Use the picker below to evaluate any other school.
No programs sit in your current recruiting band. Use the cascading picker below to evaluate a specific school anyway.
Selection: Realistic-tier first (sorted by Team Fit), padded with closest Reach or Stretch only if fewer than 5 Realistic matches exist. Display order: D1 → D2 → D3 within the picks. How is this calculated?
Custom college fit
Pick a specific school to see the full per-event analysis.
682 programs catalogued across NCAA D1, D2, and D3. Roughly half have real scraped rosters; the rest run on calibrated placeholder data while the T-166 cleanup expands coverage.