Connor Morgan '25 Recruiting Profile

I have been swimming since I was 7, but didn’t like it at first. My dad convinced me to try again so I wouldn’t be bored at my sisters meets. From there on I fell in love with the sport. All that could go wrong or right in a race, and all the hard work to pay off during a district meet or state meet makes swimming so much more fun. Swimming is such a unique sport that so much can happen in a 20 second race. 

I am a Junior on the Central Columbia High School swimming and diving team. All three years that I have been swimming for my high school, I have made the state team. My first two years at states we only on relays, but last year I was an alternate in the 500 free. This year I went to states on two relays, and in the 500 free and the 200 IM. My main stroke is freestyle, particularly distance freestyle, but I also swim a lot of IM as well. My main events are the 500 free, 1000 free, 200 IM, and 400 IM. 

I am a four sport athlete in swimming, soccer, cross country, and track and field. In soccer I am a bench player for our Varsity team, and play a lot of JV. In track I pole vault, and run distance. While I am not particularly good at these sports, they help me a lot for swimming. I also lift Monday, Wendesday, and Friday morning before school with one of my track coaches all throughout the school year. 

Outside of the classrooms, I and part of my schools drama club.  I am an actor, and enjoy the fun stuff that happens behind the scenes of the shows  I also serve and teach Kindergarten and 1st grade boys at my church. There I also run the computer for the k-4 age range room.

In college I want to major in some type of education, or ministry. I want to teach because I want to impact kids lives. I want to point them in the right direction in life. I want to be a positive figure in each kids life that they could tell me something to get them help, or whatever they need. 

I want to swim in college because I want to be the best swimmer I can possibly be, swim against the best swimmers I possibly can, and be apart the fun shenanigans that happen during swim meets. I love the atmosphere of college swimming, and would like the challenge the college swimming could present itself as.