The high school class of 2020, only a month or so into their senior year, got an early start to recruiting this year. Thanks to NCAA rules changes, legislated in April 2018, that allowed prospective student-athletes to begin taking official visits in their junior year of high school, many swimmers and divers in the class of 2020 made their college decisions much earlier than their counterparts from the class of 2019. With another three-and-a-half weeks until Signing Day 2019, we have written about 507 verbal commitments to NCAA Division I, II, and III, NAIA, and CIS programs.
Among the 507 verbal commitments about which we have already reported are 18 of the top-20 boys and all 20 of the top-20 girls:
| Rank | Top 20 Boys from 2020 | Verbal Commitment | Top 20 Girls from 2020 | Verbal Commitment |
| 1 | Carson Foster | Texas | Regan Smith | Stanford |
| 2 | Gianluca Urlando | Georgia | Alex Walsh | Virginia |
| 3 | Destin Lasco | Cal | Olivia Bray | Texas |
| 4 | Adam Chaney | — | Isabelle Stadden | Cal |
| 5 | Jake Magahey | Georgia | Phoebe Bacon | Wisconsin |
| 6 | Matt Brownstead | Virginia | Lillie Nordmann | Stanford |
| 7 | Forrest Frazier | Cal | Emma Sticklen | Texas |
| 8 | Jake Mitchell | Michigan | Abby Arens | NC State |
| 9 | Coby Carrozza | Texas | Anna Keating | Virginia |
| 10 | Ethan Heasley | Texas | Kaitlyn Dobler | USC |
| 11 | Ethan Hu | Stanford | Emma Wyant | Virginia |
| 12 | Wyatt Davis | Michigan | Abby Harter | Virginia |
| 13 | Ethan Dang | — | Kathryn Ackerman | Michigan |
| 14 | Rick Mihm | Stanford | Chase Travis | Virginia Tech |
| 15 | Bence Szabados | Michigan | Maxine Parker | Georgia |
| 16 | Preston Forst | Stanford | Gabi Albiero | Louisville |
| 17 | Matt King | Alabama | Paige Hetrick | Louisville |
| 18 | Luke Miller | NC State | Tristen Ulett | Louisville |
| 19 | Luke Maurer | Stanford | Janelle Rudolph | Stanford |
| 20 | Dare Rose | Cal | Emma Atkinson | Virginia Tech |
Below you will find all the articles we have published to date about verbal commitments from the high school class of 2020. 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 2020 Verbal Commitments
I believe you reported that Matt King was sticking with Coley and following his coach from IU to Bama. Is that still the case?
Actually, I see it says Bama in the spreadsheet, but it still says IU in the body of the article.
I swim with him. Yes, he re-committed to Bama.
King is going to Bama
Has Ethan Dang committed ? Amazing talent. All amazing!!
Can’t say for sure if he’s committed or not, but he has not yet announced his commitment.
From what I’ve heard, he’s down to about 3 schools, but hasn’t decided yet. This info is about 2 months old though, so it definitely could have changed. On the other hand, I’ve heard Chaney has decided, just hasn’t announced.
The actual number of verbal commits is so much higher if you compare it to College Swimming, and even that isn’t complete.
Yes, maybe including the number of commitments SwimSwam has on their list to announce would be more accurate. Lots of work to build all of the articles- obviously it takes time. Class of 2021 stealing a lot of thunder from class of 2020….