Swimmer profile

Sam Lemm

Male17-18Waukesha Express Swim TeamWI · CENTRAL

SR Rating

NCAA D1 cut anchored • 2026 season
Late developerage 18
Current (today)
730
D2/D3 Realistic

Based on current PBs vs. NCAA D1 cut times.

  • #11650 Free SCY16:37.56751
  • #2200 Back SCY1:53.70725
  • #3500 Free SCY4:48.56715
  • #4100 Back SCY53.14661
Projected
730
D2/D3 Realistic

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

  • #11650 Free SCY16:37.56751
  • #2200 Back SCY1:53.70725
  • #3500 Free SCY4:48.56715
  • #4100 Back SCY53.14661
College Ceiling (age 21)
792range 730888
D1 Mid-Major

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

  • #1500 Free SCY4:38.05800
  • #21650 Free SCY16:18.10796
  • #3200 IM SCY1:53.42774
  • #4100 Back SCY50.48771
Coach viewPIe ≈ 26(2230)typical outcome D3 (76%)
Why the College Ceiling lineup differs: 200 IM 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 Sam

Borderline D1 Mid-Major recruit — D1 Mid-Major ceiling.

Recruiting window is active. Your Current (730) is just 20 points below the D1 Mid-Major threshold — effectively a D1 Mid-Major caliber recruit for evaluation purposes. Your optimistic ceiling projects to D1 Mid-Major 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 D1 Mid-Major

Each row shows the time required in that event alone to push SR Rating Current from 730 to 750, 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.

EventCurrentTargetΔ
1650 Free SCY16:37.5616:15.40−22.16s
200 Back SCY1:53.701:51.09−2.61s
500 Free SCY4:48.564:33.20−15.36s
100 Back SCY53.1446.27−6.87s

Best school matches

Top 5 of 131 curated programs that actually fit. Use the picker below to evaluate any other school.

Pilot data

University of Scranton

MenLandmarkD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

624

Recruit median

450

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

Widener University

MenMACD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

613

Recruit median

410

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

Franklin & Marshall College

MenCentennialD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

777

Recruit median

550

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

Union College (NY)

MenLiberty LeagueD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

711

Recruit median

480

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

Anderson University (IN)

MenHCACD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

608

Recruit median

370

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.