I think its worst for girls to be denied decent practice. Many high school programs still have girls practice as much or even less yardage than master teams. I read this on the net, that one girl commented that they only practice 2,000 yards, while the boys I remember in high school had workouts of yardage between 5,000 to 10,000 befored they tapered. So, this ruling hurts girl swimmers more. This is the state of Missouri of course. This is from Phillip Whitten on the swimming world news on the internet. We complain about college programs being elimnated for boys or young men but what about the unfair treatment of girls in high school sports that can't practice on a USA swim Team during their high school years.
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Jeff,I know what you mean by recruiting. Irvine High school won the mythical title in the girls because they had at least two girls from National Teams like Sinepore or Hong Kong. Granted, I understand why some top swimmers from Asia and Latin America want to swim in the US. But Canada and Europe, that have more the facilities should not be encouraged at the high school level. Matt, in my state the worst swim teams our in heavy hispanic neighborhoods and the best in more Anglo schools. California is also that way except asians are also apart of swimming. Phillip Whittten wrote about the LA CIF being the slowest, these are schools that are mainly hispanic with some of them having large black populations. On the whole, hispanics and blacks in California are not in as demanding teams as white or asians.
Jeff,I know what you mean by recruiting. Irvine High school won the mythical title in the girls because they had at least two girls from National Teams like Sinepore or Hong Kong. Granted, I understand why some top swimmers from Asia and Latin America want to swim in the US. But Canada and Europe, that have more the facilities should not be encouraged at the high school level. Matt, in my state the worst swim teams our in heavy hispanic neighborhoods and the best in more Anglo schools. California is also that way except asians are also apart of swimming. Phillip Whittten wrote about the LA CIF being the slowest, these are schools that are mainly hispanic with some of them having large black populations. On the whole, hispanics and blacks in California are not in as demanding teams as white or asians.
