Nicholas Matyas '22 Recruiting Profile

The spring before my freshman year I was diagnosed with Stage III Hodgkin Lymphoma. Ironically the weekend before I was diagnosed, I had swum in my club teams championships and gotten all PR’s, all the while a large tumor was pressing on my lungs. While my chemotherapy protocol was aggressive, I continued to swim and now nearly three and a half years into remission I feel that I have finally gotten back on the track I was on before I was diagnosed. I just finished my high school swim career, and it was the best season I have ever had both performance wise and personally. I was consistently dropping times and getting stronger with every swim. I loved every second of competing and being part of a team and I realized at my last meet that I wasn’t ready to hang up my suit and goggles. I always planned on doing club swim at college, and should I not be a fit for a collegiate team I will most certainly join the club team, but being a swimmer is a part of me that I never want to let go, and nothing would make me happier than being a collegiate swimmer.