Swimmer profile

Delaney Nilius

Female15-16North Star Swim TeamMN · CENTRAL

SR Rating

NCAA D1 cut anchored • 2026 season
Late developerage 16
Current (today)
756
D1 Mid-Major

Based on current PBs vs. NCAA D1 cut times.

  • #1100 Breast SCY1:03.21868
  • #250 Free SCY25.26686
  • #3200 Breast SCY2:29.20681
  • #4100 Free SCY55.33678
Projected (age 17)
945
D1 Mid-Major

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

  • #1100 Breast SCYCONF58.351104
  • #2200 Breast SCY2:17.72866
  • #3100 Free SCY52.03815
  • #450 Free SCY24.18782
College Ceiling (age 21)
1166range 7561166
Blue Chip

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

  • #1100 Free SCYCONF46.171166
  • #2200 Breast SCYCONF2:04.711166
  • #3200 IM SCYCONF1:51.991166
  • #4100 Breast SCYCONF57.291166
Coach viewPIe ≈ 20(1723)typical outcome D3 (61%)
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 Delaney

Building toward recruiting peak — currently D1 Mid-Major.

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 (945 → D1 Mid-Major) 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 D1 Power 4

Each row shows the time required in that event alone to push SR Rating Current from 756 to 950, 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
100 Breast SCY1:03.2154.34−8.87s

Best school matches

Top 5 of 168 curated programs that actually fit. Use the picker below to evaluate any other school.

Pilot data

Franklin & Marshall College

WomenCentennialD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

788

Recruit median

560

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

Gettysburg College

WomenCentennialD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

788

Recruit median

550

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

Swarthmore College

WomenCentennialD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

788

Recruit median

540

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

Dickinson College

WomenCentennialD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

788

Recruit median

500

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

Stevenson University

WomenMACD3

Safety

Your Team Fit

705

Recruit median

410

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.