We wanted to let you know
about a brand new free website designed specifically to assist your high school
swimmers with their college analysis and selection process. It consolidates
information from hundreds of sources to provide an unmatched tool to evaluate
swim performance and the potential to swim in college. We hope you will have
your swimmers take a look at LookForIt (www.lookforit.com).
LookForIt compares a
swimmer’s best times against the top times of virtually all of the Division I,
II, III, NAIA and NJCAA colleges in the US with a swim team. You can read about
the features if you go to the website and click on “I’m an Athlete”, but one of
the most attractive features is a personalized dashboard that reports each
college where the athlete might be the #1 (blue), #2 (red), #3 (silver), or
close to the #3 swimmer (yellow) in an event at a college based on the
comparison of the athlete’s time to each specific college’s times.
Swimmers have a variety
of selection criteria to narrow the colleges that appear on their dashboard
(like selecting colleges by Division, by geography, etc). The athletes also
have access to direct links into the swim and academic websites of virtually every
college in the US simply by clicking on the college name or schoolhouse icon.
If they enter the history of their times, they will also have access to graphs
of their swim time improvement in each event along with an analysis of their
times against a variety of time standards including age group standards, junior
national/national cuts, and college Division A and B cuts.
In addition, swimmers can
summarize all the results from a particular event on their dashboard to
highlight by position and Division where their swim times would be competitive.
For example, the swimmer can see at a glance those Division I, II, III, NAIA
and NJCAA colleges where their 100 breast swim times would place them as the #1
swimmer, the #2 swimmer, the #3 swimmer, or close to the #3 swimmer. They can
even enter a swim time goal to see how the list of colleges would change if
their time were to improve.
This is just a small
sample of the power that is now available to your swimmers. There are lots of
other great features in LookForIt. Please have your swimmers try it out –
registration and access to these features are free. Just have them go to www.lookforit.com
and click on “I’m an Athlete” to get started. You can also find us
on Facebook – help us spread the word about LookForIt.
We hope this can save
your swimmers a lot of time in their college search process. Please let
us know what your swimmers think about LookForIt, and contact us if you have
any suggestions to make the website even better.
LookForIt, LLC
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