Swimmer profile

Luke Gardner

Male17-18Cougar Aquatic TeamNJ · EASTERN

SR Rating

NCAA D1 cut anchored • 2026 season
age 18
Current (today)
579
Building Base

Based on current PBs vs. NCAA D1 cut times.

  • #1100 Free SCY50.57596
  • #250 Free SCY23.36575
  • #3200 Free SCY1:53.28570
  • #4500 Free SCY5:21.06519
Projected
579
Building Base

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

  • #1100 Free SCY50.57596
  • #250 Free SCY23.36575
  • #3200 Free SCY1:53.28570
  • #4500 Free SCY5:21.06519
College Ceiling (age 21)
586range 579691
Building BaseD2/D3 Realistic

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

  • #1100 Free SCY50.39602
  • #250 Free SCY23.24584
  • #3200 Free SCY1:52.97575
  • #4500 Free SCY5:20.64521
Coach viewPIe ≈ 50(3156)typical outcome D3 (89%)

Refine your College CeilingTesting

Tell us about your swimmer’s growth. We use trajectory data by default; your input fine-tunes the ceiling range. Not saved — refresh resets to default.

What this means for Luke

Borderline D2/D3 Realistic recruit — D2/D3 Realistic ceiling.

Recruiting window is active. Your Current (579) is just 21 points below the D2/D3 Realistic threshold — effectively a D2/D3 Realistic caliber recruit for evaluation purposes. Your optimistic ceiling projects to D2/D3 Realistic territory through college junior year. The modest gap between Current and Ceiling reflects college-years upside coaches should weigh in their evaluation — particularly if biological maturation is still ongoing.

Maturity context: The Building Base → D2/D3 Realistic ceiling-range transition is the late-developer story: data signal alone doesn't flag it, but the spread between conservative and optimistic ceilings suggests biological development may not yet be complete. (We're working on a parent-input layer to refine this — see methodology §4.7.)

What time drops unlock D2/D3 Realistic

Each row shows the time required in that event alone to push SR Rating Current from 579 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.

EventCurrentTargetΔ
100 Free SCY50.5749.14−1.43s
50 Free SCY23.3622.68−0.68s
200 Free SCY1:53.281:45.76−7.52s

School matches

School matches activate once your SR Rating is published. The curated set spans NCAA D1 P5 programs in this pilot, with the school list growing as we expand coverage.