Hey,
I haven't had a good swimming workout since December 2002 when my High School swim team fell through. Thats about 8 months without a good workout. I was pretty good in high school a few county appearances and almost a state. I swim all the strokes and I want to improve but I know that I will need a lot of work also. I want to start swimming again this year in college and maybe join the University swim team by next year. My question here is does anyone have any good tips for someone who has been out of swimming for awhile and to stay motivated while swimming? And my second question is does anyone have good swimming or dryland workouts or tips that I could use to make the college team by next year? You could email me at mfruth1625@hotmail.com...
Thanks,
Matt
Former Member
Hey Matt-
I was reading all the replies and I say just go for it! There seems to be some debate about CC and whatnot. I'm from MN and there aren't too many CCs here that have swimming teams, either lack of funding or interest I suppose. Anyway, I swam USS and high school and then went on to swim 4 years NCAA at a D3 school. Definitely not the fastest, but not the slowest either. I learned so much swimming at the college level even at a D3 school. I learned a ton about teamwork, hard work, and dedication. I got to the point where I enjoyed a tough workout even more than I enjoyed competition. I met some of my best lifelong friends on my college team. And our team wasn't half bad either. We were conference champs two years in a row and one of our women qualified for Olympic trials and is taking the year off to train. College swimming is an amazing experience and if you can have the chance to do it I would definitely recommend giving it a shot. You sound like you are willing to work and that is really what it takes to make it at the college level. At least where I went.
Good luck!!
Nina
Community Colleges have swim teams? Where!? What states? They must be intramural teams, eh?
I was a 3x a week 'recreational' summerfree swimmer. I made the state meet my Jr and Sr years in hs, but never made it to finals (only trials). My fastest HS times were 1:01 *** and 54 in fly. Went to Marist College my Soph year, spoke to the coach as a walk on, who sounded like Cinc here. "You can join if you want. Not sure how well you'll do here, I'd say your career is about over." By spring of that same year, I was going 57.0 *** and 50.0 fly (qualifying for Phillips 66). (oh yea, 21.0 free right up to 1:45 200). I still hold records there, from 1990.
So, don't go telling anyone that they may not make it in a new program. Especially to someone who is a 'part time' swimmer. It's very different if you have a swimmer who swims 6x a week(30,000yds/week) who doesn't quite 'cut the mustard' (whatever that phrase is) who is looking for improvement in college vs. the former.
Get in there, and do it!
Joe Bubel
"a little bit of lovin goes a long long way"
