Greetings all! Yes, I found the other swim parenting thread, but it's two years old, so thought I'd start a different one.
Our daughter is currently a junior with decent swim times. We've started getting letters from D3 schools interested in her swimming for them. Thus, questions abound.
a) Is there such a thing as D2 schools? Our DD has great times (as a junior!) to place and in some instances win D3 meets right now, but she is nowhere near D1 times. Where is D2?
b) So far, the two states we want her to look at (Texas and Virginia) have many D3 schools, but only one total (in VA) state school. If you have a child going to a D3 private school, how much financial aid (percentage of total cost is fine) did you get from the school? (Yes, I know that D3 schools don't give athletic scholarships, but I'm learning, at least for other sports, they will find money to get your kid there.)
c) Does the financial support come with a guarantee to 4 years of support? What if my child gets injured?
d) Is there such a thing as financial support for College Club swimming? (I only just learned of CCS in another thread.)
e) Anything I'm not thinking of with respect to a child competing in a varsity sport in college? Holidays ruined? Required living arrangements? Practices taking precedence over studies? I don't even know where to begin.
I thank you all in advance. This'll be our first of four we're self-supporting. (Previous one used my GI Bill and the other two both joined the military.) Our current college kid knew exactly where he wanted to go and (thankfully) got accepted there. Our daughter isn't sure where she wants to go or exactly what she wants to study. (We've recommended a gap year and she is not for that at all!)
Cheers all and stay healthy!
Forgot to mention that pesky 20 hour rule. Yeah depending on how serious the program is that your child goes to will determine how strictly they adhere to it. At Davidson we were swimming or lifting 19.45 to 19.55 of the 20.00 (if we didn’t just hit 20.00 on the dot). Two of my siblings went to a smaller D3 school where they used about 17-18 hours of the 20 hour week. I don’t know any other sport that devotes so much of their 20 hours to actual physical activity. Had a football roommate freshman year and he had video sessions T/H mornings, but that counted towards his 20 hours, as did offensive meetings on M/F mornings.
time spent at the trainer or such doesn’t count towards that 20 hours and while I definitely regret not making better use of the training staff, I’d be willing to bet I spent closer to 24 hours a week on my sport.
Forgot to mention that pesky 20 hour rule. Yeah depending on how serious the program is that your child goes to will determine how strictly they adhere to it. At Davidson we were swimming or lifting 19.45 to 19.55 of the 20.00 (if we didn’t just hit 20.00 on the dot). Two of my siblings went to a smaller D3 school where they used about 17-18 hours of the 20 hour week. I don’t know any other sport that devotes so much of their 20 hours to actual physical activity. Had a football roommate freshman year and he had video sessions T/H mornings, but that counted towards his 20 hours, as did offensive meetings on M/F mornings.
time spent at the trainer or such doesn’t count towards that 20 hours and while I definitely regret not making better use of the training staff, I’d be willing to bet I spent closer to 24 hours a week on my sport.
