Distance Free Specialist Clare Custer Verbally Commits to Harvard for 2026-27

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Clare Custer, a rising senior at Pine View Faculty in in Osprey, Florida, has introduced her verbal dedication to the admission course of* at Harvard College. She’s going to simply miss overlapping within the NCAA together with her brother, Liam Custer, a junior on the Stanford males’s swimming and diving group.

“I’m so excited and honored to announce my verbal dedication to the admissions course of at Harvard College to proceed each my athletic and tutorial careers! I’d wish to thank my household, associates, coaches, and teammates for his or her limitless help in serving to me attain my targets. A particular thanks to Coach Amanda and Coach Geordie for giving me this unbelievable alternative! I’m so grateful to begin the subsequent chapter of my life with @harvardwswimdive. GO CRIMSON ❤️❤️”

Custer does her prep swimming with Riverview Excessive Faculty and her year-round swimming with Sarasota Sharks. A distance free specialist, we named her to the “Better of the Relaxation” part of our Means Too Early listing of prime swimming recruits from the highschool class of 2026.

As a junior on the 2024 FHSAA Class 4A State Championships, Custer completed 2nd within the 500 free (4:50.78) and thirteenth within the 200 free (1:51.52). She competed a month later at Winter Juniors East, the place she positioned nineteenth within the 500 free (4:51.14) and fifth within the 1650 free (16:20.12). Her mile time was a lifetime finest by 9 seconds. She additionally competed within the 200 free and 400 IM.

Custer concluded the 2024-25 quick course season with new PBs within the 1000 free (9:47.65), 200 fly (2:05.24), and 400 IM (4:27.37) on the Florida Swimming LSC Spring Senior Championships.

On the TYR Professional Collection in Fort Lauderdale final month, she dropped 2.8 seconds within the 800 free to position seventeenth with a brand new time of 8:50.55. Her finest occasions within the 400/1500 free (4:22.22/16:49.26) date from January 2024 when she swam on the TYR Professional Swim Collection in Knoxville.

Custer will be a part of the Harvard class of 2030 with swimmers Frances Muir and Malia Ma, in addition to diver Victoria Wang whom we ranked #6 within the nation on our Means Too Early listing of prime divers within the cohort. Custer’s finest occasions would have scored within the prime 8 of each the five hundred free and the 1650 free on the 2025 Ivy League Girls’s Championships. She’s going to overlap one yr with Alexandra Bastone, who gained each occasions for Harvard.

Greatest SCY occasions:

1650 free – 16:20.12
1000 free – 9:47.65
500 free – 4:49.19
200 free – 1:50.96

*Observe: A verbal dedication between an Ivy League coach and a potential student-athlete will not be a proposal of admission, as solely the Admission Workplace has that authority. The coach can solely commit his or her help within the admission course of. Ivy League Admission Places of work don’t problem “Seemingly Letters” earlier than October 1 of the possible student-athlete’s senior yr of highschool. The Seemingly Letter, whereas issued after an preliminary learn of the scholar’s software, will not be a proposal of admission to the college.

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