Matthew Capron '12 Recruiting Profile

Hello my name is Matthew, as you can probably see
form my account. I am going to be a senior at Healdsburg High School, and of
course my main sport is swimming. I am doing football right now so I've been
lifting a lot, therefore my weight has gone up from what I want to be at in
swim season. I am a little over 5'10 and weigh 180. During swim though I try to
keep my weight around 170 and I don't lift heavy at all, if I lift. I swim
twice a day during the season and this last season I dropped a second every
race. This year I was ranked fourth in the 100 fly in my SCL league, but
actually gained two seconds there because I believe I peeked. My main goal for
last year's season was to go a 54 in my 100 fly so that I could advance to NCS,
the big leagues in California. I know that if I had more time to train I could
have done this. The whole year I was actually going after the school record in
the 100 fly which is a 52.62, the record being held by my private coach Travis
Carranza.

            I
love to be around people and to be social, otherwise I get very lonely and don't
know what to do. So I'm looking for a school that has a very close team where
everybody gets along and just wants to have a good time with the sport. I like
to have fun and goof off, but when I know that I need to train and get down to business,
I snap into a serious mode that makes me work hard and excel to new levels.
Personally, pushing myself is one of the most enjoyable things I get out of
life. The feeling of accomplishment when you finish something that you know
tons of other people couldn't do, or can do and they'll help you through it is indescribable
and I just can't explain the self satisfaction I get when I advance to
something better than I am.

            I
would like to go to school where I can Financial Aid as well. That is very
necessary for me to get in to a good school because right now my family does
not have the money because my older brother is being sent to college a year
before I am. I think that I would be able to handle going to a school out of
California, even though it looks like right now that would be my main choice.
If not California then I would have to say my second choice would be on the
East Coast because I love their culture and it's absolutely beautiful there. I
think it would be fun to go to a big school because I am at a rather small High
School now and you just get to know everyone to easily. I know that no matter what,
college is on a much grander scale most of the time, but it's always good to
meet someone new and make new friends.        

            Right
now I am pretty certain that I want to major in Cultural Anthropology. I love
to learn about the different cultures out there and that once existed and to
see how they reacted to the same things but in different ways. It really just fascinates
me and how we are all the same, but so much different, everybody is different.
This is really just an incredible thing to study. I also am recently rather
interested in oceanography because, being at the beach is probably when i am
most happy and I love the water. Ever since I was a kid I've loved going to
swim and getting in the ocean, so much so that when I was two it swallowed me
up and drowned me, luckily I was saved and live to tell the tail. I also
drowned in the river that is in our town and that I was old enough to remember.
You gain a certain respect for something that is so calm and beautiful, but at
the same time has no feeling and shows no mercy. It is true, what doesn't kill
you makes you stronger.

            Ok, last part, I promise. My goals
as an athlete, or rather a swimmer is to reach my life goal of a 52 100 fly.
I've dreamed for so long to swim that fast, and I'm looking for a school that
can get me there and if so desired by the coaches beyond that. I will reach a
goal that is set out for me by someone if I am given a fair amount of training
to do so. I love to be able to please the coaches and myself. I know that swimming
in college or doing any sort is very time consuming and deserves that
commitment that you promised when you signed up, it is intense. But If
necessary or wished, I will go beyond the regular requirements as to reach a
goal set out for me and train hard until I reach that goal. I let myself and my
team down once before when I couldn't get a 54 at our SCL's, however I promised
myself that it wouldn't happen again. I love to swim so much and it would be an
honor to be able to continue to do it in college under professional coaches and
with a new team that hopefully loves it as much as I do.