Swimmer profile
Gage Costain
Male17-18Sioux Falls Swim TeamSD · CENTRAL
SR Rating
NCAA D1 cut anchored • 2026 seasonBased on current PBs vs. NCAA D1 cut times.
- #11650 Free SCY17:26.63650
- #2200 Free SCY1:53.32570
- #3500 Free SCY5:11.44569
- #4100 Free SCY53.66499
You're at or past recruiting peak. SR Projected here equals SR Current — no forward projection is applied past age 17.
- #11650 Free SCY17:26.63650
- #2200 Free SCY1:53.32570
- #3500 Free SCY5:11.44569
- #4100 Free SCY53.66499
College junior year. Range reflects developmental uncertainty — wider for younger swimmers and late developers.
- #1500 Free SCY4:32.70848
- #2200 Free SCY1:39.93831
- #3100 Free SCY46.46768
- #4200 Back SCY1:53.88722
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What this means for Gage
Borderline D2/D3 Realistic recruit — D1 Power 4 ceiling.
Recruiting window is active. Your Current (597) is just 3 points below the D2/D3 Realistic threshold — effectively a D2/D3 Realistic caliber recruit for evaluation purposes. Your optimistic ceiling projects to D1 Power 4 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 597 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.
| Event | Current | Target | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1650 Free SCY | 17:26.63 | 17:21.90 | −4.73s |
| 200 Free SCY | 1:53.32 | 1:52.74 | −0.58s |
| 500 Free SCY | 5:11.44 | 5:07.58 | −3.86s |
| 100 Free SCY | 53.66 | 51.73 | −1.93s |
Best school matches
Top 5 of 124 curated programs that actually fit. Use the picker below to evaluate any other school.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Men • Liberty League • D3
Your Team Fit
527
Recruit median
470
Above this program's typical recruit median — you're a top-of-class addition.
Hartwick College
Men • Empire 8 • D3
Your Team Fit
433
Recruit median
370
Above this program's typical recruit median — you're a top-of-class addition.
Drew University
Men • Landmark • D3
Your Team Fit
520
Recruit median
390
Above this program's typical recruit median — you're a top-of-class addition.
Alfred University
Men • Empire 8 • D3
Your Team Fit
523
Recruit median
390
Above this program's typical recruit median — you're a top-of-class addition.
Skidmore College
Men • Liberty League • D3
Your Team Fit
613
Recruit median
460
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.