US Naval Academy '85-'89
Swam all 4 years in the Black Lanes (distance swimmers rule). Thank you Coach Lawrence for keeping me on the team!
When I swam USS in highschool, a teammate and I trained two or three times with the men's Navy team so we could get some long-course in before Olympic Trials. This was fall of 87, I think. I remember them putting me in the distance lane and all of them making me lead some set of 3 800s. I was 17 and scared out of my mind! I was probably in your lane.
Swam in my first college meet when I was 15 and still a junior in HS. Bob Horn was coaching at Cerritos JC and let me swim unofficially in the outside lane against Peter Daland's mighty USC Trojans. I actually managed to beat a couple guys.
Swam and played polo at San Diego State four years starting in the fall of '63. Had a lot of fun. Our workouts were open to some of the local high school stars and even some older guys. Dr. Ransom Arthur was a regular, found out later he was one of the founders of masters swimming. Also our water polo coach, Bill Phillips, who later became a standout masters swimmer was usually in the mix. We did lots of speed work, never more than about 3500 yards/day. We managed to win the NCAA Div II title twice, but partying was where we really made our mark.
THE Ohio State University. Swam as a walk-on in 1973-74. Was honored to have the likes of Olympians John Kinsella and Mike Stamm of IU swim past me like I was using a kickboard. Big transformation going from a High School team that did 3000 or so yards to doing 12k – 15k daily as a distance swimmer at OSU. Daily routine….. Get up….eat…swim….eat…sleep….eat….swim…eat…sleep…. repeat…. You'll notice I didn’t mention going to class much…..:rofl:
Anyone know if the old natatorium is still there, or was it torn down for the new one?
GO BUCKS…..
Columbia University in the late '70s. Received a B.A. in English.
Swam all four years at Columbia. Competed in the aforementioned Dartmouth and Brown pools, too.
University of Texas at Austin from '79 to '81. Spent a year in graduate school studying Journalism, ended up going back undergrad and getting a B.A. in Computer Science.
Swam for a year for Paul Bergen and Eddie Reese in a failed attempt to qualify for the 1980 Olympic Trials.
Why are they getting rid of the bubble? I'm curious because I swim under a bubble in the winter.
Anna Lea
During the summer months the air temperature was well over 105 degrees in the pool room by noon. They had to close the pool every afternoon and evening.
If you only have to deal with the bubble in the winter you should be fine.
Swam a year at Citrus College in So Cal.....had a scholarship for Nebraska through my Aunt and Uncle (Long story) turned it down and joined the Army, and as Robert Frost so aptly put it......
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
US Naval Academy '85-'89
Swam all 4 years in the Black Lanes (distance swimmers rule). Thank you Coach Lawrence for keeping me on the team!
Graduated and took my commision in the Marine Corps.
Beat Army!
Brown unveiled a state of the art pool in 1973 that hosted the NCAA's a couple of years later. The pool complex had a beautiful wooden roof/ceiling. Last year the entire complex had to be torn out as no dehumidification system was built into the complex.
Did not know that... guess I should be paying more attention to the alumni mails. :doh: Don't know if it was still there, but there used to be a painting of a cartoonish bear churning water on the far wall. A Harvard student was inspired to draw it for the newspaper after a particular water polo match ("Bruins Swim Over Harvard") and did such a good job that it became the official Brown swimming and water polo t-shirt design.
I was impressed by the Yale pool. With the intense spotlight and dark colliseum seats, it seemed like a place for a secret Tribunal to make judgements.
