When I swam in HS 27yrs ago, girls my age were swimming 100yd free in just under 59.0. Now I look at HS times and I'm blown away on how fast they are swimming and at younger ages.
What has changed?
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Interesting thought Allen. What else can a great swimmer do to promote the sport to increase attendance and stop the drain to soccer and other sports? Seems like swimming doesn't promote itself as well as other sports. No doubt money and marketing are the reasons, but how many great swimmers in our lifetime spend as much time as say, Rowdy, promoting the sport that made them great to begin with. Arguably the greatest swimmer of all, Spitz, is seldom seen in the national media positively addressing or promoting the sport for its own sake. Perhaps this discussion is best left to another thread.
John Smith
Interesting thought Allen. What else can a great swimmer do to promote the sport to increase attendance and stop the drain to soccer and other sports? Seems like swimming doesn't promote itself as well as other sports. No doubt money and marketing are the reasons, but how many great swimmers in our lifetime spend as much time as say, Rowdy, promoting the sport that made them great to begin with. Arguably the greatest swimmer of all, Spitz, is seldom seen in the national media positively addressing or promoting the sport for its own sake. Perhaps this discussion is best left to another thread.
John Smith
