Michael Andrew goes pro at 14

He's the youngest US swimmer to go pro. Phelps was 15 when he went pro, but at that point he was already an Olympian. swimswam.com/.../ swimswam.com/.../ Michael is remarkable, 23.47 50 LCM fr at just turned 14 is incredible. He keeps improving and shows no signs of that stopping. I'm concerned with him going pro at 14. Unless the terms of his P2Life contract are incredible, why not just wait? Wait until he has even more ability and to the point that he is an obvious serious olympic contender. Wait until until his potential endorsement earnings would be much greater than a 4 year full ride to Stanford Cal or UT I'm curious to see how much faster, bigger and stronger he gets, If you look his times up on the USA Swimming Swims Data base www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx you can see his 50's are awesome, he's better short course than long course. His 50's are better than his 100's his 200's are worse than his 100's He does race pace speed based training. Doesn't seem like he's built a base. Hopefully going pro will prove to be a wise choice. Times will tell.

He's the youngest US swimmer to go pro. Phelps was 15 when he went pro, but at that point he was already an Olympian. swimswam.com/.../ swimswam.com/.../ Michael is remarkable, 23.47 50 LCM fr at just turned 14 is incredible. He keeps improving and shows no signs of that stopping. I'm concerned with him going pro at 14. Unless the terms of his P2Life contract are incredible, why not just wait? Wait until he has even more ability and to the point that he is an obvious serious olympic contender. Wait until until his potential endorsement earnings would be much greater than a 4 year full ride to Stanford Cal or UT I'm curious to see how much faster, bigger and stronger he gets, If you look his times up on the USA Swimming Swims Data base www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx you can see his 50's are awesome, he's better short course than long course. His 50's are better than his 100's his 200's are worse than his 100's He does race pace speed based training. Doesn't seem like he's built a base. Hopefully going pro will prove to be a wise choice. Times will tell.