Hi Everyone,
I'm writing an article about swimmers and career success, and I'm wondering what you all have to say on the topic.
Do you think swimmers achieve greater career success than other types of athletes?
If so, why?
I'm going to run a poll, but I also welcome responses here in this forum or privately.
Thanks in advance for your responses,
Bill
Parents
Former Member
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
I'm not sure what you mean by this statement. What level was your engineering class that you m ention? How did you do when you took higher level social studies classes.
Since the thread is about swimmers and "greater career success", I was just showing a personal example of a career oriented curriculum (electrical engineering) where there was a high percentage of swimmers. I was not a swimmer at the time, but it was notable that the only type of athlete represented in my engineering classes were swimmers. That covered freshman through senior years.
Engineers were not required to take the high level social studies classes, so I can't comment on that, but in the low level introductory classes, that's where I would find other athletes from football, baseball, and basketball, none of whom I ever saw in engineering classes.
It was an interesting contrast that I witnessed personally. It was just meant to add another piece of data to the debate about whether swimmers achieve greater career success. I don't think that generalization has been decided conclusively. It was not meant to debate the virtues of various college curriculums.
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
I'm not sure what you mean by this statement. What level was your engineering class that you m ention? How did you do when you took higher level social studies classes.
Since the thread is about swimmers and "greater career success", I was just showing a personal example of a career oriented curriculum (electrical engineering) where there was a high percentage of swimmers. I was not a swimmer at the time, but it was notable that the only type of athlete represented in my engineering classes were swimmers. That covered freshman through senior years.
Engineers were not required to take the high level social studies classes, so I can't comment on that, but in the low level introductory classes, that's where I would find other athletes from football, baseball, and basketball, none of whom I ever saw in engineering classes.
It was an interesting contrast that I witnessed personally. It was just meant to add another piece of data to the debate about whether swimmers achieve greater career success. I don't think that generalization has been decided conclusively. It was not meant to debate the virtues of various college curriculums.
