Swimmer profile

Penny Irion

Female15-16Puma Aquatic TeamSO · WESTERN

SR Rating

NCAA D1 cut anchored • 2026 season
Late developerage 15
Current (today)
472
Building Base

Based on current PBs vs. NCAA D1 cut times.

  • #1100 Breast SCY1:15.87502
  • #2200 Breast SCY2:49.19467
  • #3200 IM SCY2:35.66434
  • #4500 Free SCY6:24.28402
Projected (age 17)
576
Building Base

Trajectory projected to end of high-school junior year — recruiting peak.

  • #1100 Breast SCY1:10.90615
  • #2200 IM SCY2:22.92561
  • #3200 Breast SCY2:39.75555
  • #450 Free SCY28.69468
College Ceiling (age 21)
782range 472892
D1 Mid-Major

College junior year. Range reflects developmental uncertainty — wider for younger swimmers and late developers.

  • #1100 Breast SCY1:04.49818
  • #2200 IM SCY2:06.81803
  • #3200 Breast SCY2:27.42706
  • #450 Free SCY26.30608
Coach viewPIe ≈ 73(5283)typical outcome D3 (90%)
Why the College Ceiling lineup differs: 50 Free SCY is improving fastest vs. the NCAA D1 cut, so it ranks into the top 4 at age 21 even though it isn't in today’s top 4. That’s a real recruiting signal — shows which event projects as the strongest college pathway.

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What this means for Penny

Building toward recruiting peak — currently Building Base.

Recruiting conversations start in earnest at the end of sophomore year (NCAA contact rules let coaches reach out June 15 of sophomore year for most sports including swimming). Your projected rating (576 → Building Base) is the more meaningful number for that window. Continue building broad event coverage — the top-4 weighting rewards multiple strong events.

Maturity context: Your data shows late-developer trajectory — continued steep improvement past age 15. That's exactly the kind of pattern that under-rates well-developed seniors but signals strong upside.

What time drops unlock D2/D3 Realistic

Each row shows the time required in that event alone to push SR Rating Current from 472 to 600, 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 472 all the way to 600. The gap from Building Base to D2/D3 Realistic 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 5 of 165 curated programs that actually fit. Use the picker below to evaluate any other school.

Pilot data

William Smith College

WomenLiberty LeagueD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

538

Recruit median

470

Above this program's typical recruit median — you're a top-of-class addition.

Stevenson University

WomenMACD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

480

Recruit median

410

Above this program's typical recruit median — you're a top-of-class addition.

Carthage College

WomenCCIWD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

521

Recruit median

430

Above this program's typical recruit median — you're a top-of-class addition.

Wheaton College (IL)

WomenCCIWD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

551

Recruit median

460

Above this program's typical recruit median — you're a top-of-class addition.

Anderson University (IN)

WomenHCACD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

484

Recruit median

380

Above this program's typical recruit median — you're a top-of-class addition.

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.