It's a swim thing, and they don't understand. This picture of one of the boys on the high school team I help coach appeared in yesterday's local paper based on his outstanding performance at the County Swim Meet. The caption under the picture was:
Water Girl
Arggh!
Actually, I'm not sure it's that the editors are overworked....I think most of them just don't know diddly about swimming. In our local paper a couple of years ago there was a wonderful picture of a high school swimmer doing a beautiful butterfly and the caption read something like "...John Doe swimming breaststroke".... Then they had a picture of someone standing in a diving position on top of the starting blocks at the beginning of a relay and a caption saying that this was the record-breaking "medley" relay.... And, this is Ann Arbor....a SWIMMING TOWN!! But football and basketball get most of the press.
Sally
Actually, I'm not sure it's that the editors are overworked....I think most of them just don't know diddly about swimming. In our local paper a couple of years ago there was a wonderful picture of a high school swimmer doing a beautiful butterfly and the caption read something like "...John Doe swimming breaststroke".... Then they had a picture of someone standing in a diving position on top of the starting blocks at the beginning of a relay and a caption saying that this was the record-breaking "medley" relay.... And, this is Ann Arbor....a SWIMMING TOWN!! But football and basketball get most of the press.
Sally
