College Recruit Rankings Profile: Five-Star Christian Higgins, Class of 2011

By Reed Shimberg

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 29. CHRISTIAN Higgins, a five-star recruit from the class of 2011, is the next subject in the Swimming World College Recruit Rankings Profiles series. Higgins lives in New Canaan, CT and swims for Wilton Y Wahoos.

He owns long course senior national cuts in the 100 (1:02.29) and 200 (2:15.53) breaststroke.

Higgins maintains his profile in the Swimming World College Recruit Rankings.

What is your favorite and least favorite set?
My favorite set is 6x 100 off the blocks fast and probably my least favorite set would have to be timed 30 minute swims fast.

Where are you interested in going to college, and how is the process going?
I have not yet committed to a college and am still in the process of figuring out where I want to look. I'm looking at schools where the weather is warm.

What is your favorite swimming-related memory?
My favorite swimming memory would be watching my brother Andrew, who just turned 15 this year, at his first meet. He was a hockey player but decided to try swimming as a freshman in high school. He raced the 100 breaststroke at a high school meet and did pretty well considering he hadn't really raced before. It was pretty cool to see that he was enjoying it. I think he finished 14th in States.

Who do you look up to in the world of swimming?
A lot of people. But I think that the person that I have a lot of respect for who was in the sport is Erik Vendt. I remember reading something about one of his sets being 30x 1000, which is just insane. I think that when you see a guy working hard and getting positive results, it helps to motivate people.

What do you consider to be your breakthrough moment in swimming?
I think that when I tried to make the Olympic trials at the UltraSwim back in 2008. I remember going in there and being seeded like 8 seconds over the cut and ending up missing the cut by .20.

What is your daily schedule with school and practice and such?
Usually I wake up around 5 for morning practice, get in my car with my dog. I'll get to the Wilton Y and swim for an hour and a half then head off to school. During the day, I'll try to stay focused and make my way through the day. After school, I'll head over to the Y again for a two-hour workout and afterwards a short dryland session.

What are your long and short-term goals?
My short-term goal is to make the National Team. As for long term: the Olympics.

What is something that people wouldn't know about you?
One of the reasons I became a swimmer is because I broke my collarbone playing lacrosse. Afterwards, I decided to make the switch into a yearround swimmer.

What are you interested in studying in college?
I think something to do with the music industry. I love all types of music and have taken a few music production courses at my school so it's something I think I would enjoy studying.

Did you do any other sports besides swimming and lacrosse?
Yes. I played football, baseball and hockey.

What keeps you motivated in the pool?
My coach Randy Erlenbach. I think the fact that I have a coach who is equally as passionate as I am about the sport and is pushing me every day to do my best is extremely motivating.

What are you looking to gain from swimming?
It's something that I love to do. I want to just learn from my experiences and the lessons that swimming gives and hopefully apply them later in life.

Does swimming leave you much time for a social life?
Yes and no. I usually just end up spending more time with swimmers and at practice, which aside from school is most of my social life. In terms of non-swimmers, it's hard to hang out with them regularly because of my practice schedule.

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