Leah Erdman '18 Recruiting Profile

To say that I love swimming would be an understatement.  I have been swimming on a swim team since I was 4 years old and I have enjoyed every single minute of it!  I have always swam on a club team, as I still do, but transferred high schools my sophomore year to be given the opportunity to swim on a high school team.  Swimming brings me joy and I love swim workouts (especially the difficult ones), dryland workouts, as well as my teammates.  I appreciate what swimming has done for me personally and physically.  Swimming has taught me to be tough, to be positive at all times, to never give up, to support your teammates and coach, and to be organized in order to juggle the life of swimming with the life of school and work.  I’ve done my best to put academics first throughout my swimming career and I will do the same in college.  Becoming a veterinarian is my career goal and is very important to me.  

Swimming is my passion and I could not imagine going to college without swimming being a part of my college experience.  I am interested in learning about a variety of colleges at all levels of swimming.  I believe I would be a valuable part of any swim program because I am a leader, I have a very strong work ethic, and I am very encouraging to my teammates.