Wednesday, November 10 is the first day of the 2021-22 signing period for students enrolling in the 2022-23 school year.
We have written over 650 articles about prospective student-athletes from the class of 2022 who have made verbal commitments to swim or to dive for a college program. (Note: We have another 100 or so on our waiting list, and we’re getting to them as fast as we can.) Many of those verbal commitments become contractual agreements today, as the second Wednesday in November marks the official opening of signing season for the current seniors in high school.
The NCAA regulates when prospective student-athletes can sign a National Letter of Intent (NLI), which is the binding agreement between an athlete and an NLI member institution in Division I or Division II. In past years, there was a week-long “Early” Signing Period that began the second Wednesday in November, followed by a “Regular” Signing Period which stretched, for most sports, from February to August. In 2018, the NCAA instituted changes to the recruiting timetable and the two signing periods have now been joined. You can see all the signing periods for the student-athletes enrolling in the 2022-23 school year on the NLI website here.
While we are still adding scores of names to this database, here are the Class of 2022 swimming and diving commitments we have noted thus far:
| Rank | Top 20 Boys from 2022 | Verbal Commitment | Top 20 Girls from 2022 | Verbal Commitment |
| 1 | Baylor Nelson | Texas A&M | Claire Curzan | Stanford |
| 2 | Josh Zuchowski | Stanford | Charlotte Hook | Stanford |
| 3 | Liam Custer | Stanford | Justina Kozan | USC |
| 4 | Landon Gentry | Virginia Tech | Blair Stoneburg | Wisconsin |
| 5 | Michael Cotter | NC State | Claire Tuggle | Virginia |
| 6 | Sebastien Sergile | Virginia | Kennedy Noble | NC State |
| 7 | Dawson Joyce | Florida | Lucy Bell | Stanford |
| 8 | Lance Norris | NC State | Lydia Jacoby | Texas |
| 9 | Sam Powe | Georgia | Zoe Dixon | Florida |
| 10 | Will Hayon | Virginia Tech | Rye Ulett | Louisville |
| 11 | Zhier Fan | Stanford | Lucy Malys | Ohio State |
| 12 | Ryan Branon | Texas | Carly Novelline | Virginia |
| 13 | Alec Filipovic | Texas | Emma Weber | Virginia |
| 14 | Quintin McCarty | NC State | Hayden Miller | Florida |
| 15 | Andres Dupont Cabrera | Stanford | Kayla Wilson | Stanford |
| 16 | Charlie Crosby | Texas | Emma Karam | North Carolina |
| 17 | Nick Simons | Tennessee | Sophie Duncan | Stanford |
| 18 | Levi Sandidge | Kentucky | Kristina Paegle | Indiana |
| 19 | Braeden Haughey | Virginia | Katherine Helms | NC State |
| 20 | Ryan Malicki | Notre Dame | Ella Welch | Louisville |
Below you will find all the articles we have published to date about verbal commitments from the high school class of 2022. As always, you can sort by club team, college, conference, home state, school, LSC, etc. (We’re adding articles every day, so keep refreshing this page to get the latest articles!)
(NOTE: If you have a commitment to report, please send an email with a photo (landscape, or horizontal, looks best) and a quote to [email protected]. Do not leave it in the comments below.)
You can read all the articles here.
High School Class of 2022 Verbal Commitments
Emily Lundgren (Best of the rest) committed to Washington State
What is going on at Tennessee? The men’s team is sinking fast! So sad that this storied program with numerous NCAA champs, Olympic Gold Medalists has bottomed out and seems to be proud with the occasional “3rd place SEC Team finish” mainly due to the strength of the divers! Time for a coach who cares about MEN!!!!
How does Pitt expect to get out of the basement of the ACC without a single recruit from Pittsburgh or even the State of Pennsylvania? Why don’t the coaches in Pennsylvania send recruits to Pitt?
There are a lot of teams that don’t have a single person on their roster from their own state, or maybe just a single one. Some of these teams are state schools even, and from reading bio’s, loaded with International…
Stanford Women have the 8 swimmers for 2022. Plus not yet on your list is Emilie Moore, Diver, Boca Raton FL. She was part of the signing day announcements.
To the SwimSwam editorial staff, I’m curious what your vetting process is for publishing verbal commitments. I’m aware of a commitment that was submitted to you a week or so ago, and is not yet included on this list, or anywhere else on SwimSwam, despite the submitter receiving an acknowledgement from your staff within a few hours of the submission.
I totally understand if it’s necessary for you to get a confirmation from a college coach, or verify best times, or whatever other verification you need. I’m just curious what the process is, and what the typical turnaround time is. I do realize that Fall is a very busy time for commitments, for both HS juniors and seniors.
You couldn’t have emailed them directly to inquire?
I’m not particularly concerned about the specific commitment to which I referred. I am just interested in how SwimSwam goes about vetting the announcements, and I thought other readers might be as well. If you ignore the one sentence in my post that refers to a specific commitment, and just read the rest, I think the question is reasonable, but perhaps my wording was poor.
Sure I could have emailed them, but they are usually pretty responsive to comments in articles, and answering that question here might save them having to respond to emails from 50 people asking the same question.
My man, those are a lot of words for “I’m not particularly concerned”
Opinion noted.
Lol not one single person believes that this wasn’t a “waahhhh my kid is the most important why aren’t they done yet?” comment.
Think it took about two months for my swimmer to show up, so chill. Often a big name will show up in a day or two but I’m sure they have a que for the rest and they work through it.
My swimmer’s was pretty quick but that was because it was during a slow period. The articles says they are working through a backlog.
I am giving you an up vote. You need the support and your question is both fair and of broader interest. I am guessing you aren’t getting an answer because SS determines newsworthiness in determing the speed they publish. For example, Claire Curzan’s decision was immediately published. OTOH, there is a publicly declared Top 100 commit that still has not had an article nearly 3 weeks after she committed.
So the story, until foreign recruits are factored in, is ACC and Stanford. ACC going 8 of 20 on both men and women for 16/40 of the total top 40. SEC (including future member Texas, 11/40). Stanford with 9 total of the top 40.
ACC 8/20 8/20
SEC 8/20 3/20
BIG 0/20 3/20
PAC 4/20 6/20
Stanford 9/40
UVA 5/40
NCState 5/40
Texas 4/40
Florida 3/40
VaTech 2/40
Louisville 2/40
UNC 1/40
Notre Dame 1/40
TexasAM 1/40
Kentucky 1/40
SoCal 1/40
Georgia 1/40
Wisconsin 1/40
Indiana 1/40
Tennesse 1/40
Ohio State 1/40
Spot on. Its really a build up of the trackrecord and projected department “brands” market success, for the singular institutions.
glad you included Texas status shift, No comment from you about Cal or Fla.
War Eagle Always!
Today the family grew! Watch out for the Tigers! Wocho madness is causing an upward trajectory to the top!
“top”: transfer-o’portal
Wonderful collating, charting, and sheer volume of spot-on data. Getting with the program takes on a new meaning, when one looks at the professionalism that went into making this listing of verbal commitments. Quality and value-added layers of effort are obvious, throughout this article, and almost all of the other SwimSwam articles that generate on a daily basis. So, what number is this article? I’m guessing 100,008. Close? Well, swim on, then. It’s a new day… Best…