Wow all these Ivy Leaguers here...I never went to college until I was 29.
I graduated Fairfield University in 4 years and 1 summer semester, while working full-time and being a part-time husband and father.
OK well the last year I quit work to finish my degree and went FT at night, while looking after my 2yr old son during the day. Culminated in a gruelling 6 classes between December and May.
I didn't swim for them because I had no time..forget age issues!!! :rofl:
Texas A&M University - 1980, B.S. Computer Science
No college swimming. Swam intramurals every fall, got faster in 50s than I was in highschool. Made me frustrated that I wasn't a better swimmer in high school!
BA - Washington State University
MA - Louisiana State University - Shreveport
US Air Force - 20+ years, retired as a Major (worked as a Minuteman ICBM Launch Control Officer babysitting nukes, and as a Public Affairs Officer babysitting the media ... guess which job had the higher stress level?)
Now a computer networking guru ;) and stay-at-home Dad for my 7 year old soon to be age group swimmer (and skier, and so many other things that youth allows).
Competitive swimmer from age 8 to 17, but only middle of the pack good. Not many "wins". Now, at 56, going to get back to competing one day soon ... probably still won't "win" much, but since my goal is to just not embarrass myself, it will probably be OK!!
Ken
i'm not sure but I think that I'm the only one in this post who went to a really small school Knox College in Galesburg, IL. ther is much to say about swimmign at a small school. The coach is usually a recently graduated graduate student from, a good swimming school. He or she really loves to coach. And where whereelse can you take classes with 2 professors and 6 students? I visited friend at Harvard, Norhtwestern, Illinios State & Texas A&M they wer buried in large calsses where no one, even the profs knew who they were.
Big chalellenge!
I am currently a junior at Purdue University, (and yeah The US OPEN was awesome!!) majoring in Industrial Design with a minor in Furniture Design.
I am not swimming for the boilermakers since I had a pretty serious back injury back when I was swimming for my high school (got it from doing butterfly i think, my best events back then were 200 ***, 100 fly, 400 free, and any distance events). I have been swimming on my own to stay in shape and it has been helping me concentrate on school and all that. Expected to graduate in 2008, and hoping to get a nice job in San Francisco, and find a masters' club there. :woot:
many Gator fans and USC fans will riot.
I am a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park.
It was my (recent) era of student that showed the rest of the NCAA how to riot over sports happenings... though I can attest that the administration is not the proudest of this fact.
:drink:
Dartmouth has ever since held a fond place in my heart. How many swimmers today can imagine such adventures?
Terry:
Most young swimmers will not have these adventures. They are spoiled by state-of-the-art facilities.
Now that we are in agreement that Dartmouth is a great place and that anatomical factors can cause shoulder injuries, I have nothing to pick on you about except ... baseball. I see that you are a Mets fan. Judging by my alma mater and my New England heritage, you can probably guess that I am a Red Sox fan. :rofl:
P.S. I used your tip about a high cycle rate for SDKs in fly today. I took more SDKs than usual. I think it worked! How's that butterfrog going?
