Stanford  - If swim recruiting were like choosing sides on the playground, you might think Stanford got the first five picks. That’s how good their class is. Chad LaTourette, Austin Staab, John Criste, and David Mosko are all top-ten recruits and all four are near the top of the class for their respective events. LaTourette and Criste are Mission Viejo and Junior Team teammates, would have would have qualified for this year’s NCAA Championships and are head and shoulders above their seniors peers. In a race of the nation’s best senior milers, La Tourette’s would lap his nearest competitor. Criste set a new CIF this weekend and nearly topped Aaron Piersol’s 200 IM mark.

They’re not the only record-holders however. Staab (Westerville, OH) became just the second high school swimmer to go under 44 seconds in the 100 freestyle and tied Nate Dusing’s national high school record in the 100 butterfly. Mosko (Cincinnati) is the other Ohio product to join the Cardinal next season. Mosko seems almost pedestrian next to these guys, but the Marlin is second only to Madwed in the 500 and 200 fly. The same can be said for Korotkin (Sacramento, CA) who, at 15:20 in his mile, is no slouch. He’s just no Chad LaTourette.  Jake Allen was also identified early by the Stanford staff and the payoff came last weekend when the sprinter went 20.35 and 44.72 this past weekend.

Forget about Skip Kenney erasing the school record books – LaTourette, Staab, Criste, and Mosko will take care of that. This is the class that get’s Skip Kenney that eight NCAA title.

  2707	Tourette, Chad	Mission Viejo, CA
  2671	Staab, Austin	Westerville, OH
  2649	Criste, John	Valencia, CA
  2648	Mosko, David	Cincinnati, OH
  2510	Korotkin, Scott	Sacremento, CA
  2386	Allen, Jake	Davis, CA