EXAMPLE
12 schools
These schools fit across your times, academics, intended major, and preferences.
D1 · FL
Why this school made the list
Your 200 Free lands in the Scorer range for this roster.
Strong kinesiology program.
200 Free · Your time 1:45.80 · 16th place 1:46.62
Source: 2025-26 championship results
Estimated net price · ~$18k / Preferences · Match
Schools are grouped as Strong, Good, or Worth Considering based on your swimmer’s times and the priorities you choose. Save any school you want to keep considering.
Compare your swimmer’s times with the current roster for each event.
Keep academics, cost, location, and other priorities alongside the swim comparison.
“On The Board gave us a much easier way to organize our daughter’s recruiting list than our own spreadsheet. Being able to move schools up and down on our list, track notes, and see where things stand with each school has made the process much easier to manage.”
“Honestly, the amount of time this saved us on research alone made it worth it. Trying to dig through individual college websites and program stats manually was turning into a full-time job.”
“I'm usually terrible with new apps, but this was really easy to figure out right away. It’s made tracking and organizing our target D1 programs so much less overwhelming.”
“Navigating the recruiting process felt totally chaotic before finding this. It genuinely gives you all the tools you need to stay on top of things.”
“We’ve been using it for a bit now and it’s been a huge help. Plugging in my swimmer’s specific events and times to see realistic target schools gave us instant clarity.”
Your Recruiting List keeps roster comparisons, academics, cost, notes, coach status, and next steps together for every school you’re considering. Saving is unlimited. Recruiting fields are editable for the first three schools you save; later schools stay visible with those fields read-only.
Create your shortlist from Match, then organize notes, coach status, and next steps in your Recruiting List. Unlock these recruiting tools for every saved school for $29 once. Nothing recurs.
The roster read, major, cost, and family priorities stay connected to the school you save. If a fact is unavailable, it does not appear.
See where a swimmer's time lands against the current roster for that event.
Keep an intended major beside the swim evidence.
Use cost, location, admissions, and named priorities when they matter.
Strong, Good, and Worth Considering results explain the available evidence behind them.
Use your swimmer’s times and priorities to find schools that fit, or browse the public School Finder and save schools you already have in mind.
Start with your swimmer’s gender and at least one event time. Class year, intended major, academics, location, cost, and other priorities are optional, but they make the list sharper. On The Board groups visible results as Strong, Good, or Worth Considering and explains why each school appears.
These groups are a starting point, not a verdict. Strong means the roster comparison and the priorities you entered line up most consistently. Good means there is enough evidence to keep looking, with a tradeoff to weigh. Worth Considering means a specific reason keeps the school in view. Open each school and check the evidence.
You can enter your inputs publicly, but you need to create a free account or sign in before personalized results appear. Match results and the reasons behind them are free with an account; they are not part of the $29 purchase.
On The Board compares your swimmer’s entered time with the current roster when evidence is available. The same 100 Free can be in the Scorer range at one school and the Contributor or Depth range at another. It is a starting point, not a promise of coach interest or admission.
All three can help families research college swimming. Swimcloud focuses on swimmer profiles, college search, recruiting visibility, and contacting coaches. SwimIntel focuses on recruiting analytics, best-fit reports, and performance projections. On The Board is built around the family’s ongoing decision: turn swim times, academics, intended major, location, cost, and other priorities into personalized Strong, Good, and Worth Considering matches; explain why each school made the list; then carry those schools into a Recruiting List for notes, coach status, and next steps.
Match results and reasons are free with an account, and saving schools is unlimited. The original first three saved schools have editable recruiting fields; later saved schools remain visible with those fields read-only. Pay $29 once to enable those recruiting fields across every saved school. Nothing recurs.
Swimming already asks a lot of families: club dues, tech suits, travel, and time. Recruiting research should not add another big bill. Most of the underlying information is public. It is just scattered across roster pages, meet results, school websites, and government data.
I built On The Board to bring that research together and make the research side of recruiting free. Families should not have to pay steep consulting fees or hit another expensive paywall just to make sense of public information. That is why I made this.
Kevin Tu / Swim parent and founder, On The Board