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Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - Sakibomb25 - 07-01-2020

The No. 2 recruit in the Class of 2021, Torri Huske, gave her verbal to Stanford today:

https://swimswam.com/national-hs-record-holder-torri-huske-2-in-the-class-chooses-stanford/

Been waiting for her to commit now for the past few months, so glad it's official. Huske is just behind the top recruit in the country in Gretchen Walsh, who will swim with her sister Alex at UVA, so we are keeping par with Virginia, who has been grabbing top recruits like crazy the past few seasons.

Still waiting to see if the rumors are true about No. 4 Amy Tang and her silent commitment to Stanford.

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - Cardinal77 - 07-01-2020

The #8 recruit, Samantha Tadder, has Stanford in her final 3. She's from Virginia but has Texas and Kentucky as the other two. A top 25 recruit, Megan Lynch also committed to Stanford. Will be another excellent class if the above mentioned recruits including Tang commit to Stanford. There are 3-4 amazing recruits for 2022 as well that will shape the college scene for the next 4-5 years. Go Card!

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - warrenloui - 07-03-2020

(07-01-2020, 03:39 PM)Cardinal77 Wrote: The #8 recruit, Samantha Tadder, has Stanford in her final 3. She's from Virginia but has Texas and Kentucky as the other two. A top 25 recruit, Megan Lynch also committed to Stanford. Will be another excellent class if the above mentioned recruits including Tang commit to Stanford. There are 3-4 amazing recruits for 2022 as well that will shape the college scene for the next 4-5 years. Go Card!

Swimswam is reporting that Tadder has committed to Stanford. The report includes quotes from her so it's pretty solid info
.

Thanks.

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - BobK - 07-03-2020

Fantastic. Thanks for the great news

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - 82lsju - 07-03-2020

(07-03-2020, 01:03 PM)warrenloui Wrote:
(07-01-2020, 03:39 PM)Cardinal77 Wrote: The #8 recruit, Samantha Tadder, has Stanford in her final 3. She's from Virginia but has Texas and Kentucky as the other two. A top 25 recruit, Megan Lynch also committed to Stanford. Will be another excellent class if the above mentioned recruits including Tang commit to Stanford. There are 3-4 amazing recruits for 2022 as well that will shape the college scene for the next 4-5 years. Go Card!

Swimswam is reporting that Tadder has committed to Stanford. The report includes quotes from her so it's pretty solid info
.

Thanks.

this report?

https://swimswam.com/stanford-lands-2019-junior-national-champion-8-samantha-tadder/

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - Cardinal77 - 07-18-2020

Amy Tang #4 recruit now committed to Stanford Class of 2021, likely making it the #1 recruiting class with 3 top 10 recruits. Go Card

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - Sakibomb25 - 07-18-2020

(07-18-2020, 04:59 PM)Cardinal77 Wrote: Amy Tang #4 recruit now committed to Stanford Class of 2021, likely making it the #1 recruiting class with 3 top 10 recruits. Go Card

Finally! We definitely need the reinforcements. Virginia is going to be our rival the next four years with the Walsh sisters and Kate Douglass.

And whoever picks up Claire Curzan (2022) is going to be in the driver's seat...

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - mbdude - 07-19-2020

a sprinter from Colorado commits

https://swimswam.com/colorado-5a-sprint-champ-anna-shaw-verbally-commits-to-stanford/

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - Softball Fan - 07-19-2020

I don't understand all the ranking institutions in college swimming. According to this article Tang #3 and Tadder #20.

https://www.collegeswimming.com/team/112/recruiting/

https://www.collegeswimming.com/recruiting/rankings/2021/F/

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - Cardinal77 - 07-19-2020

(07-19-2020, 11:20 AM)paloalto Wrote: I don't understand all the ranking institutions in college swimming. According to this article Tang #3 and Tadder #20.

https://www.collegeswimming.com/team/112/recruiting/

https://www.collegeswimming.com/recruiting/rankings/2021/F/

Go to swimswam.com to review the other ranking service.

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - BostonCard - 07-19-2020

(07-01-2020, 12:37 AM)Sakibomb25 Wrote: The No. 2 recruit in the Class of 2021, Torri Huske, gave her verbal to Stanford today:

https://swimswam.com/national-hs-record-holder-torri-huske-2-in-the-class-chooses-stanford/

Been waiting for her to commit now for the past few months, so glad it's official. Huske is just behind the top recruit in the country in Gretchen Walsh, who will swim with her sister Alex at UVA, so we are keeping par with Virginia, who has been grabbing top recruits like crazy the past few seasons.

Still waiting to see if the rumors are true about No. 4 Amy Tang and her silent commitment to Stanford.

Didn't realize that Huske is from Virginia (Arlington), so to beat UVa and lure her cross country is no mean feat.

BC

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - JustAnotherFan - 07-19-2020

Stanford is rocking it with women's swimming.

I have a question for anyone with inside admissions knowledge here. Why do we have such great luck with top ranked recruits in swimming versus some other sports? Are women swimmers at the high school level just more likely to be committed to their schoolwork? We simply cannot offer many highly rated football players or basketball players or baseball players because of academic concerns.

Also, I am guessing that the paring down of sports at Stanford will allow each remaining sport to potentially lower their academic standards marginally as a smaller percentage of the student body will be recruited athletes. Any thoughts on how that is going to impact the big money sports that are not perennial national championship caliber teams (e.g., football, basketball, baseball)?

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - akiddoc - 07-19-2020

(07-19-2020, 02:30 PM)JustAnotherFan Wrote: Stanford is rocking it with women's swimming.

I have a question for anyone with inside admissions knowledge here. Why do we have such great luck with top ranked recruits in swimming versus some other sports? Are women swimmers at the high school level just more likely to be committed to their schoolwork? We simply cannot offer many highly rated football players or basketball players or baseball players because of academic concerns.

Also, I am guessing that the paring down of sports at Stanford will allow each remaining sport to potentially lower their academic standards marginally as a smaller percentage of the student body will be recruited athletes. Any thoughts on how that is going to impact the big money sports that are not perennial national championship caliber teams (e.g., football, basketball, baseball)?

Swimmers tend to come from affluent families where high academic standards are a tradition.

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - oldalum - 07-19-2020

Swimming is one of what Bowlsby referred to as the "country club" sports, which he said Stanford will always do well in. The high educational achievement is correlated with the high socioeconomic level.

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - BostonCard - 07-19-2020

(07-19-2020, 02:30 PM)JustAnotherFan Wrote: Also, I am guessing that the paring down of sports at Stanford will allow each remaining sport to potentially lower their academic standards marginally as a smaller percentage of the student body will be recruited athletes. Any thoughts on how that is going to impact the big money sports that are not perennial national championship caliber teams (e.g., football, basketball, baseball)?

I would not count on it. There is no correlation between the proportion of the student body that are athletes and the admission requirements on those athletes. Stanford isn't trying to have a minimum average SAT or GPA, so fewer athletes "bringing down the average" doesn't make a difference.

BC

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - pefloresjr - 07-19-2020

Coach Meehan is also the 2020 Olympic Women's swimming coach. Top swimmers want to begin working with the Olympic coach as soon as possible. That is not the only factor and we have recruited well some years before that was true, but that is definitely a big momentum factor in recruiting some of the best recruits.

Cheers,
Pete F.

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - Mick - 07-20-2020

(07-19-2020, 08:40 PM)oldalum Wrote: Swimming is one of what Bowlsby referred to as the "country club" sports, which he said Stanford will always do well in. The high educational achievement is correlated with the high socioeconomic level.

Curious...which of these sports would we consider to be "Country Club" sports?

Crew/Rowing
Fencing
Field Hockey
Squash
Sailing
Synchronized Swimming
Volleyball
Wrestling

For me, all of them but wrestling are country club sports. Even men's volleyball falls into that category. For women, it's the equivalent of football, and it's played everywhere throughout the country.

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - ca245 - 07-20-2020

If one defines a country club sport as one that is typically encountered in a country club, the ones that immediately come to mind are swimming, tennis, and golf, all of which are conspicuously absent from this list.

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - JustAnotherFan - 07-20-2020

(07-19-2020, 09:44 PM)BostonCard Wrote:
(07-19-2020, 02:30 PM)JustAnotherFan Wrote: Also, I am guessing that the paring down of sports at Stanford will allow each remaining sport to potentially lower their academic standards marginally as a smaller percentage of the student body will be recruited athletes. Any thoughts on how that is going to impact the big money sports that are not perennial national championship caliber teams (e.g., football, basketball, baseball)?

I would not count on it. There is no correlation between the proportion of the student body that are athletes and the admission requirements on those athletes. Stanford isn't trying to have a minimum average SAT or GPA, so fewer athletes "bringing down the average" doesn't make a difference.

BC

Not all sports are created equal (e.g., football) and not all athletes are created equal (e.g., Tiger Woods). There are certainly stretch cases that get through admissions. When there are less sports and therefore scholarship positions, it is fair to wonder if the school would spread out the extra slots for extra consideration among the sports, or if they just disappear.

RE: Women's Swimming Picks Up Big Recruit - BostonCard - 07-20-2020

There is no quota on "exceptional" athletes. If we happened to have a chance at Tiger Woods, Katie Ledecky, John McEnroe all in the same year, even if they were on the lower range of the academic side, we would like admit all of them, provided they weren't below a minimum bar. If the next year, we were only looking at one exceptional athlete, and she was below the bar, the fact that she was the only athlete of her caliber wouldn't help her.

Athletes are not competing against one another from an admissions perspective (they may be competing against one another for a limited number of scholarships, of course).

BC