By Sophia Chiang, Swimming World College Intern
I am lucky (or, depending on your perspective, perhaps unlucky) to have missed out on the NCAA recruitment process. Not because I couldn’t be recruited to swim, but because I chose not to: I decided to go to university across the pond in the United Kingdom, where collegiate swimming is run slightly differently than NCAA swimming.
Being that I didn’t personally go through it, I sometimes still struggle to understand what it’s like for my friends who swim on teams from high level, high commitment Division I teams to lower level commitment Division III teams, and everything in-between. This confusion is compounded by terminology like “red-shirting,” specific guidelines for each division, specific dates for signing letters of intent, and more.
To the outsider: what does it all mean?
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