Ethan Nichols '17 Recruiting Profile

I started swimming for my local Y team at 8 years old.  After a few years, I went to a YMCA/ USA team near home and started swimming year round.  In June of 2015 I joined Columbia Swim Club, a competitive USA swim team, and while is is almost an hour drive to practice one way, I feel I am getting stronger and faster and learning a lot!  Although I can only get in the pool 6x per week because of logistics, I am excited to be with this team.  At meets you will see me rooting for my teammates and congratulating my competition when we have a great race against each other.   My coaches will tell you that I am competitive, even at practice!   And what gets me amped???  Relays!

I am hoping for a collegiate career at a medium sized school, maybe even military.  I am working on reaching a Sectionals time in backstroke soon, and continue to drop time in my freestyle events.  I have great form when I butterfly and have been told "incredibly long arms" so I have been working on that stroke and trying to drop time as I get stronger.  I am a young senior in high school, I will still be 17 when I graduate highschool, so will only get bigger and faster as I mature.  I know I have not peaked yet!

I excel at school and have a 3.25 GPA currently.  I have been taking several AP college courses, even though my practice schedule makes it difficult sometimes with all the travel.  Thanks for considering me!