Tools To Find A Great Pool Contractor: Early Signing Day 2020: Over 830 Verbal Commitments from the Class of 2021

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020 is Early Signing Day for the high school class of 2021. We have written over 830 articles about prospective student-athletes from the class of 2021 who have made verbal commitments to swim or to dive for a college program, an increase of about 230 over the class of 2020’s early commitments at this time a year ago. (Note: We have another 200 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 tomorrow, 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 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 2021-22 school year on the NLI website here.

While we are still adding scores of names to this database, here are the Class of 2021 swimming and diving commitments we have noted thus far:

Rank	Top 20 Boys from 2020	Verbal Commitment	Top 20 Girls from 2020	Verbal Commitment
1	Aiden Hayes	NC State	Gretchen Walsh	Virginia
2	Anthony Grimm	Texas	Torri Huske	Stanford
3	Joshua Matheny	Indiana	Grace Sheble	NC State
4	Tim Connery	Texas	Amy Tang	Stanford
5	Jack Aikins	Virginia	Paige McKenna	Wisconsin
6	Jack Alexy	Cal	Micayla Cronk	Florida
7	Sam Hoover	NC State	Ashley Strouse	Northwestern
8	Matthew Fallon	Penn	Samantha Tadder	Stanford
9	Tyler Lu	Northwestern	Mia Kragh	Cal
10	Matthew Fenlon	Stanford	Lindsay Flynn	Michigan
11	David Curtiss	NC State	Annabel Crush	NC State
12	Arsenio Bustos	NC State	Reilly Tiltmann	Virginia
13	Hayden Zheng	Stanford	Mariah Denigan	Indiana
14	Trent Frandson	Cal	Rebekah Hamilton	Auburn
15	Luke Hobson	Texas	Rachel Stege	Georgia
16	Luke Barr	Indiana	Letitia Sim	Michigan
17	Chris Guiliano	Notre Dame	Brooke Zettel	Florida
18	Garrett Boone	NC State	Ella Bathurst	Virginia
19	Nate Stoffle	Auburn	Ellie Waldrep	Auburn
20	Tyler Hulet	Texas A&M	Asia Minnes	Tennessee

Below you will find all the articles we have published to date about verbal commitments from the high school class of 2021. 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 Recruits@swimswam.com. Do not leave it in the comments below.)

You can read all the articles here.

High School Class of 2021 Verbal Commitments

If you have a commitment to report, please send an email with a photo (landscape, or horizontal, looks best) and a quote to Recruits@swimswam.com.

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