Amen Rob. I am an ex Southwest Conference Swimmer. Not only is my team gone, our conference disappeared also! I did swim in the Big 8 for a year also and that team is also gone. (Arkansas and Nebraska)
I hope the tide (no pun intended) is turning a bit. It seems the rate that programs were being cut in the mid to late 90's is slowing down.
One funny thing, I saw the University of Missouri media guide for swimming and one of the highlights for the men is that they finished third in the Big XII conference last year! Can't blame them for trying to but the best spin possible on a pretty baad situation...
When I first saw this I couldn't believe the disappearence of the College swim porgarms. The Big Ten so far has kind avoided this with the Illinois Men team as the only college program dropped from the Big Ten Conference. On futher analyzing this I thought on the Men's side that 14 programs were cut from the original Southwest and Big 8 Conferences and only 3 had remained. But then I forgot that TCU and Houston are now in Conference USA and have teams. That still 5 programs gone from the original 9 teams in the Southwest and 7 programs gone from the Big 8 with Missouri the only remaining school from that original conference.
The Women duplicate the Men from the original Southwest Conference but have 4 (half) from the original Big 8 Conference. The net loss here is 9 programs with Nebraska, Kanas, and Iowa State for the Women in the original Big 8. I thought SMU had a team posssibly in another conference. Whats confusing about this is the transfering of schools to different conferences and not keeping track of them. TCU has gone from SW to WAC to Conference USA. Its mostly with the old SW Conference because 3 schools apiece went to the Big 8 and WAC. And one went to each of the SEC and Conference USA with the original breakup.
Rob, did you happen to swim for Bob Groseth who is now the coach of Northwestern. I think he was at Iowa State in the late 70's and early 80's.
That 200 medley relay by Stanford had some killer splits.
18.67 is super fast for a relay split on a 50 yard free!
Not to mention the 21.45 lead off for the back...24.11 seconds for the breastroke leg!... and 20.59 for the fly!
There must have been some smoke on the water when they were done. :eek:
Thanks Ande for posting the links.
Good lord! There's smoke coming out of my computer just from the times mentioned on this post, let alone smoke on the water....
Eeee-gads that's fast.
(...."smoooookkkkeeee on the water...a fire in the sky..." - or in this case - a fire in the pool!)
:eek:
Cal had an awesome 4 x 50 fr relay
the previous record was
Pac 10 Meet: # 1:16.93 1994
STANFORD Schell, Retterer, Mayfield, Hudepohl
Event 7 Men 200 Yard Freestyle Relay
1 Univ of California Berkeley 'A' 1:16.77
1) 19.34 Draganja, Duje SR
2) 19.08 Cavic, Milorad JR 38.42
3) 19.17 Tilly, Jonas SO 57.59
4) 19.18 Gimbutis, Rolandis SR 1:16.77
Ok Wayne this is my last shot. I think its maybe David Lundberg who was 3rd at the 1988 Olympic Trials in the 100 ***. He has been swimming in masters for many years and he also swam for Harvard. I think that was the clue you gave in the first post but I might be wrong because he would seem so old to still have a split/record this long.
