Illinois Wesleyan offers a wide variety of strong academic programs, as well as a nationally competitive swimming and diving team. We work hard to ensure every Titan has the best possible all-around student-athlete experience, helping you achieve your academic and career goals while continuing to improve and competing for championships.
As a Titan swimmer/diver, we see academics as your top priority, and athletics as your top extracurricular priority. Expect balance, and expect to be challenged in both. Our training program is quality-based and event-specific, with additional focus on dryland training and technique (on both a team and individual basis). Helping you get faster and building a team that continues to be competitive at the conference and national levels is important, and your coaches are also there to provide guidance and support outside the pool.
Our ultimate goal as coaches is to see you graduate in four years, well-prepared to pursue either your chosen career or a graduate degree, while being able to look back on your swimming/diving career knowing that you worked hard to achieve both team and individual goals and created lifelong memories.
The basics: You need to be a strong enough student to be successful at IWU (think A’s/B’s in honors and AP classes), and you should be able to contribute to the team, either at the conference or national level. The recruiting standards on this page are a loose guideline only. In reality, we have many swimmers come in as freshmen who are much faster than those times, and we have others who may have started swimming in high school or were multi-sport athletes who are close to those times and can reach and surpass them early in their college careers.
The most important things: Our swimmers place an extremely high priority on team culture. If you are someone who likes to challenge yourself in practice, and if you are committed to being a great teammate who is supportive of others and brings a positive attitude every day, you’ll do well here. It’s a lot of fun to come to practice when you’re with a close-knit group that knows how to work hard and have fun together at the same time.
To learn more about IWU, please contact Asst. Coach Tommy Gilbert (tgilbert@iwu.edu). TGOE and Go Titans!
Cost includes tuition, living costs, books and supplies, and fees minus the average grants and scholarships for federal financial aid recipients.
Depending on the federal, state, or institutional grant aid available, students in your income bracket may pay more or less than the overall average costs.
Family income | Average cost |
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$0–$30,000 | $19,523 |
$30,001–$48,000 | $20,640 |
$48,001–$75,000 | $23,050 |
$75,001–$110,000 | $27,952 |
$110,001+ | $34,642 |
Graduated | 79% |
Withdrew | 19% |
Transferred | 2% |
Making progress | 39% |
Paid in full | 18% |
Not making progress | 18% |
Deferment | 16% |
Forbearance | 6% |
Student population | 1,646 |
Undergraduate enrollment | 1,646 |
Graduate enrollment | – |
White | 70% |
Hispanic | 10% |
Black | 7% |
Asian | 7% |
Non-resident alien | 3% |