Swimmer profile

Benjamin Ewald

Male17-18Great Falls Swim TeamMT · WESTERN

SR Rating

NCAA D1 cut anchored • 2026 season
Late developerage 18
Current (today)
411
Building Base

Based on current PBs vs. NCAA D1 cut times.

  • #1100 Breast SCY1:08.54452
  • #2500 Free SCY5:50.18400
  • #3200 Free SCY2:11.69363
  • #4200 Breast SCY2:43.97345
Projected
411
Building Base

You're at or past recruiting peak. SR Projected here equals SR Current — no forward projection is applied past age 17.

  • #1100 Breast SCY1:08.54452
  • #2500 Free SCY5:50.18400
  • #3200 Free SCY2:11.69363
  • #4200 Breast SCY2:43.97345
College Ceiling (age 21)
569range 411742
Building BaseD2/D3 Realistic

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

  • #1100 Breast SCY59.34696
  • #2200 Breast SCY2:21.97531
  • #3100 Free SCY56.91418
  • #4500 Free SCY5:50.18400
Coach viewPIe ≈ 90(68100)
Why the College Ceiling lineup differs: 100 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 Benjamin

Building Base recruit, D2/D3 Realistic ceiling.

Recruiting window is active. Your optimistic ceiling projects to D2/D3 Realistic territory through college junior year. The meaningful gap between Current and Ceiling reflects college-years upside coaches should weigh in their evaluation — particularly if biological maturation is still ongoing.

Maturity context: Data flags continued improvement well past age 15 — bring this trajectory to recruiting visits as part of the evaluation story.

What time drops unlock D2/D3 Realistic

Each row shows the time required in that event alone to push SR Rating Current from 411 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 411 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 117 curated programs that actually fit. Use the picker below to evaluate any other school.

Pilot data

Illinois Wesleyan University

MenCCIWD3

Match

Your Team Fit

486

Recruit median

460

In line with this program's typical recruit — a natural fit.

Ursinus College

MenCentennialD3

Match

Your Team Fit

486

Recruit median

450

In line with this program's typical recruit — a natural fit.

Hobart College

MenLiberty LeagueD3

Match

Your Team Fit

486

Recruit median

480

In line with this program's typical recruit — a natural fit.

St. Lawrence University

MenLiberty LeagueD3

Match

Your Team Fit

486

Recruit median

450

In line with this program's typical recruit — a natural fit.

Calvin University

MenMIAAD3

Match

Your Team Fit

486

Recruit median

450

In line with this program's typical recruit — a natural fit.

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.