{"id":455972,"date":"2020-12-02T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=455972"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T18:23:16","slug":"how-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-affecting-college-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-affecting-college-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Affecting College Recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Affecting College Recruiting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 dramatically altered the lives of swimmers everywhere, particularly those of high school swimmers attempting to navigate the recruiting process and its new restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College recruitment usually begins June 15, between swimmers\u2019 sophomore and junior years of high school. But in the wake of a pandemic, the NCAA made the decision in March to enact a recruiting dead period, suspending on campus recruiting until April 15, 2020. The dead period has since been extended to April 15, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recruiting dead period transforms the way high school swimmers interact with college coaches and teams. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/student-athletes\/resources\/recruiting-calendars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NCAA<\/a> defines a dead period as a time in which \u201ca college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents, and may not watch student-athletes compete or visit their high schools.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, prospective college athletes on the brink of the most intense part of their recruitment processes were unexpectedly subjected to the unusual circumstances of fully digital recruiting.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoom, interactive virtual tours, social media and other technological tools that universities have at their disposal certainly ease this process. However, an all-online process can make it difficult to discern a convincing facade from reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A high school senior from Highlands Ranch, Colorado, <strong>Lindsey Wehr<\/strong> committed to the University of Minnesota in July. She said the recruitment dead period went into effect in what felt like the middle of her process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs the restrictions for COVID-19 became more strict schools began to get pushier, which made me cut out some of my options,\u201d she said. \u201cI ended up looking at completely different schools during COVID-19 than I was before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wehr\u2019s recruitment during the dead period was characterized by frequent phone calls and Facetimes with college coaches, and a few Zoom calls with teams. She said the biggest challenge on these calls was discerning whether teams actually had the \u201cfamily-like\u201d connections they promised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think the calls were helpful, but at the same time it was very difficult to figure out how bonded the teams actually were,\u201d said Wehr. \u201cI couldn\u2019t tell if they were putting out the red carpet or actually being straight with me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Wehr, visiting campuses was important in deciding where to commit, even if she wouldn\u2019t get to interact with athletic staff or swimmers. She flew out to see her top three schools in person, which she said was extremely beneficial in making a final decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversely, <strong>Tiffanie Ruan<\/strong> committed to a school she\u2019d never visited. The senior from Bowlingbrook, Illinois had already picked her final three schools by the time COVID-19 struck, favoring Northwestern, Georgia Tech and Southern Methodist University. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruan took an official visit to Georgia Tech, and was able to visit the Northwestern campus that is located just an hour away from her home. In August, she committed to SMU, the only school out of her top three she hadn\u2019t seen in person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruan was able to make the decision confidently by conducting her own research about the SMU team and academic programs, looking into resources directed to her by the coaches, and participating in a virtual visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI got to meet a lot of people working there like the athletic director and the academic advisor,\u201d she said. She also met the team on the call, which she said was important in her decision making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Wehr and Ruan said their biggest advice for college recruits is to ask questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHonestly, when quarantine happened I halted my process for a couple of months because I didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d said Ruan. \u201cI was hoping COVID-19 would end by the time my junior year was over so I could actually take visit,s but obviously that\u2019s not the case. 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