Hey all,
I learned how to swim from scratch during my senior year in high school with no intentions to compete - just wanted to learn. I ended up loving it, and I picked it up fairly well, so I swam summer league the following summer. I loved competing and getting better, despite my lack of experience. Now that I'm 18, I'm pretty devastated now that I did not start earlier, or get the chance to swim varsity for my school.
I love love loveeee breaststroke (: With less than a year of swimming and about 2 months of working on ***, I swam a :49 for the girl's 50m *** during that summer. I know that this is not the best time in the world, but for the amount of time that I'd been swimming, I'm really happy with myself. I found my sport kind of late you could say.
Now I'm a freshman in college and debating if I should join masters. I'm not sure how the program works. And I loved the camaraderie of swimming as well, and I'm not sure if many people my age swim masters and if I would feel out of place.
If any one has input, I would greatly appreciate it. (:
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I think that you would very much like it and enjoy it. Not only will you be able to do what you have recently learned that you loved, but you will make friends along the way and continue to bring that 49 sec down to a 45, then a 39 and so on as the coach(es) work with you and give you feed back.
I joined masters right after high school and it was a really great experience and Im 24 now and it still is great experience every time.
I would say join the masters team and on the off chance that you don't like, then at least you tried it.
Best wishes.
~Christopher
I think that you would very much like it and enjoy it. Not only will you be able to do what you have recently learned that you loved, but you will make friends along the way and continue to bring that 49 sec down to a 45, then a 39 and so on as the coach(es) work with you and give you feed back.
I joined masters right after high school and it was a really great experience and Im 24 now and it still is great experience every time.
I would say join the masters team and on the off chance that you don't like, then at least you tried it.
Best wishes.
~Christopher
