By Anne Lepesant on SwimSwam
It’s Opening Day for recruiting for the high school class of 2028!
June 15, 2026, otherwise known as the first day of allowable athletic recruiting for rising high school juniors by NCAA Division I and Division II coaches, is finally here. Today, student-athletes in the class of 2028 can both initiate and receive communications –including email, text messages, social media messages, phone calls, and video calls– with college coaches. They can also make verbal commitments for the 2028-29 school year. (NCAA Division III coaches are not constrained by this rule; they can make contact and recruit year-round.)
Contact between coaches and prospective student-athletes, whether off-campus or on-campus (on-campus visits include both official and unofficial visits) may not begin until August 1st.
The NCAA has published separate calendars of allowable events during the 2026-27 recruiting year for Division I baseball, women’s basketball, men’s basketball, football, men’s golf, women’s lacrosse, men’s lacrosse, softball, women’s volleyball, and cross country/track and field. Recruiting timelines for all other Division I sports, including swimming and diving, are spelled out in a separate recruiting calendar.
The recruiting calendars for Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision, and beach volleyball will be published at a later date.
Over the last several years, the NCAA has sought to make the lives of prospective student-athletes and college coaches less stressful by curbing early recruiting (gone are the days when coaches were getting verbal commitments from 8th-graders) and giving coaches a break from year-round recruiting.
Contact Periods Defined
Recruiting Period: Authorized athletics department staff may make in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts and evaluations. Quiet Period: A quiet period is that period of time when it is permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts only on the member institution’s campus. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts or evaluations may be made during the quiet period. Dead Period: A dead period is that period of time when it is not permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on or off the member institution’s campus or to permit official or unofficial visits by prospective student-athletes to the institution’s campus. Recruiting Shutdown: A recruiting shutdown is a period of time when no form of recruiting (e.g., contacts, evaluations, official or unofficial visits, correspondence or making or receiving telephone calls) is permissible. For swimming and diving, no recruiting contact can be made during the following 6 weeks: One week in August The final 14 days of December The first week of January The third and fourth weeks in February during the most popular period for conference championshipsFollowing the House vs NCAA settlement, the swimming and diving recruiting landscape has changed in significant ways. Schools that opted into the agreement now have roster limits, which, in most cases, mean fewer recruiting spots than, say, for the high school class of 2025. On the other hand, the NCAA’s old scholarship limit rules (the equivalent of 14.1 per women’s team and 9.9 per men’s team) are no longer in effect and these schools will now be allowed –but not required– to offer full scholarships to every member of the team.
Class of 2028
The phones were likely ringing off the hook this morning for some of the biggest names in the high school class of 2028. Those include USA Swimming’s 2025-25 National Junior Team roster members Abigail Bonham (Glen Allen, VA), Gabi Brito (Santa Monica, CA), Ellie Clarke (Cicero, IN), Maggie Dickinson (Milwaukee, WI), Brinkleigh Hansen (Saint Petersburg, FL), Grace Koenig-Song (Chicago, IL), Alex Siegel (Merrick, NY), Ellie Stanley (Maryville, TN), Sarah Zhang (Lexington, MA), Charlie Cancelmo (Seattle, WA), Peter Kovacs (Bloomington, IN), Syunta Lee (Mill Creek, WA), David Sammons (Charlotte, NC), and Wilson York (Louisville, KY).
Other top recruits from the cohort include Kai Joyner (Rochester, MN), Noah Stotler (Middleburg, FL), Owen Miklos (Richmond, VA), Jack Maddan (Sugar Land, TX), Treyvn Krauss (Denver, CO), as well as Reina Liu (Cary, NC), Mikayla Tan (San Ramon, CA), Karina Plaza (Charlotte, NC), Kennedi Southern (Little Elm, TX), Jianna Amores (Miami, FL), Shelby Hutchinson (Haddon Township, NJ), Avery Daigle (Mandeville, LA), Mady Petty (Tyler, TX), Emma Grace Richardson (Charlotte, NC), Lane Francis (Richmond, VA), Katrin Otaegi (Dublin, CA), Daniela Linares Danzos (Danville, CA), and Emma Hussein (Stevenson Ranch, CA).
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