Daniel Russotti '19 Recruiting Profile

Dear Yet To Be Met Swim Coaches, 

My goal in life is to be a Physician assistant.  All my life I have had to deal with celiac disease and lactose intolerance, so this this is an area I have personal experience.  I feel my experience will help me in this field.  However, if this career choice doesn’t work out, I am open to anything in the medical field.   After my swimming career, I would like to be a swim coach.  However, I would also like to educate myself in the other areas of aquatic sports; diving, water polo, rowing, and open water swimming are some areas of interest when it comes to coaching.  A jack of all trades if you will. 

I am an Eagle Scout.  I achieved this rank in the spring of 2018.  I might not be as fast as you might want me to be now, but I am eager to learn and get faster.  Working 1 on 1 or small group work to prefect my stroke helps a lot.  I have also spent a lot of time outside the pool stretching and working on my flexibility.

I have one heluva personality, I try to be the funny yet serious kind of swimmer.  I also have a very sarcastic personality that goes along with it.  Currently, I’m well liked on my team.  I have many inside jokes with swimmers and coaches alike.  For example, in my sophomore year of swimming, I flexed for the team picture and everyone thought it was hilarious.  I also got a paper plate award for it.  However, during meets, I respect those who swim against me as if they were a friend that I have never met before.  As for athletics and academics, I will do everything to the best of my ability to balance the two in a healthy way.