Swimmer profile

Cara Pennington

Female17-18Boys and Girls Club of DelawareMA · EASTERN

Performance Recruiting Progression Goals Time Standards Meets

SR Rating

NCAA D1 cut anchored • 2026 season

Late developerage 18

Current (today)

563

Building Base

Based on current PBs vs. NCAA D1 cut times.

#1500 Free SCY5:35.10607
#2200 Free SCY2:08.61553
#31650 Free SCY20:30.29514
#4100 Free SCY1:02.31475

Projected

563

Building Base

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

#1500 Free SCY5:35.10607
#2200 Free SCY2:08.61553
#31650 Free SCY20:30.29514
#4100 Free SCY1:02.31475

College Ceiling (age 21)

708range 563 – 828

D2/D3 Realistic→D1 Mid-Major

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

#1500 Free SCY5:10.74761
#2200 Free SCY1:58.95698
#31650 Free SCY18:53.19657
#4100 Back SCY1:03.69565

Coach viewPIe ≈ 49(30–56)typical outcome D3 (82%)

Why the College Ceiling lineup differs: 100 Back 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 Cara

Building Base recruit, D1 Mid-Major ceiling.

Recruiting window is active. 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 D2/D3 Realistic

Each row shows the time required in that event alone to push SR Rating Current from 563 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
500 Free SCY	5:35.10	5:19.17	−15.93s
200 Free SCY	2:08.61	2:01.96	−6.65s
1650 Free SCY	20:30.29	18:06.23	−144.06s

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.