Psyche sheets are up from Men's Div I NCAA to be held the weekend of March 25th at the "Goodwill Games" Pool on L.I.
You can check them out at: www.collegeswimming.com/
This year, they will compete SCM (as we discussed elsewhere our esteemed leaders decided not to compete LCM until more schools had 50 meter). The meters option is only for Olympic years.
The meet is likely to produce a number of NCAA records and a few world records (relays and some standout individuals).
Predictions for top five finish? Here's mine:
1) Auburn (Marsh accomplishes first back-to-back double/double)
2) Texas (proof that this is truly a team sport...you need more than 3 big horses to win)
3) Standford ("hollywood" of US swimming cannot win the big prize again)
4) California (the "other" bay area program with some truly incredible sprinters)
5) Florida (my heart's with Minn but have to pick the once again strong Florida program)
BTW, Kenyon men win their 25th consecutive title--the most successful NCAA program ever. Only one close is the Kenyon women 20 out of 21 national titles and Auburn wins narrowly over Georgia.
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Absolutely,
He came to me in football shape, about 30 pounds overweight, not looking like swimmers do. High school boy swimmers all have 6 packs by the time they are seniors, broad shoulders, you know.
This guy comes in about a month after football is over, more talent in his little pinky. I mainly worked on his turns, his butterfly and his push off on freestyle. I even worked on his breaststroke, did a lot of body dolphin butterfly. He drove with a couple of his classmates 60 miles to my clinics. He was a true joy to coach. All he did at California CIF Championships is win the 50 in 21 low or 20 high, can't remember, win the 100 in 45 and anchor his free relay to a win, plus swimming a great leg of fly in the medley relay. I think he did 22 high on that leg. Not bad for a swimmer who only swam 3 months a year.
His only problem was he was too talented, was starting end on the high school championship team. He was a leader, even beat the strongest lineman in an arm wrestling match!!! Super flexible, almost double jointed.
Absolutely,
He came to me in football shape, about 30 pounds overweight, not looking like swimmers do. High school boy swimmers all have 6 packs by the time they are seniors, broad shoulders, you know.
This guy comes in about a month after football is over, more talent in his little pinky. I mainly worked on his turns, his butterfly and his push off on freestyle. I even worked on his breaststroke, did a lot of body dolphin butterfly. He drove with a couple of his classmates 60 miles to my clinics. He was a true joy to coach. All he did at California CIF Championships is win the 50 in 21 low or 20 high, can't remember, win the 100 in 45 and anchor his free relay to a win, plus swimming a great leg of fly in the medley relay. I think he did 22 high on that leg. Not bad for a swimmer who only swam 3 months a year.
His only problem was he was too talented, was starting end on the high school championship team. He was a leader, even beat the strongest lineman in an arm wrestling match!!! Super flexible, almost double jointed.
