So we had a dual college meet yesterday, against a team we should have beaten (we did not). I got stuck swimming the 50 and the 100free, after having been told the day before I would be swimming the 200im and the 100fly, which I was excited about. So from the very beginning I was a little bummed, because I really wanted the chance to swim something different, but alas and alack...that is not for me.
So I anchored the 200medley relay and pulled us ahead for a win...okay cool.
I swam the 50 free and got 1st but did a pretty cruddy time which was
disappointing (27.1)
Then I had the 100 freestyle. I got up on my block and Idk if any of you have experienced this, but when the block is not square to the pool...like its a little crooked? But this block was, and I had noticed it when I was taking my mark on the 50 free, so now I was more tuned into it, and I was trying to adjust myself so that I was square to the water, even though the block was not. While I was doing this the official said take your mark, so I just moved my foot over an inch and took my mark, and then go. I swam the race, won it, did a horrific-ly bad time for me (58.5) and took my warm down lap. When I got out my coach is trying to tell me about how I have the strength I just need to get the speed, and idk my coach really was just irritating me so I said okay and walked away. I went to see my mom, and she says she thinks they're disqualifying me for a false start. So I go down to talk to my coach, who doesn't really know whats going on. Eventually he takes out the rule book and is reading over if they can do this, and he finds the rule and him and the assistant coach decide that I can not be disqualified, because it wasn't really a false start, I was moving on the blocks which should have warrented a "swimmers stand up" at which point if I had fallen in or dove in rather I would have been dq'd. By now the meet has been stopped for 10minutes while the officials are discussing this, but my coaches never approached them with their finding. During the break which was some 30minutes later, my coach goes to them and brings up the rulings and stuff, but the official says: he knows it was a bad call, but now it is after the fact and can not be revoked. So, whatever, that stinks. But what made me most angry was that later, after the meet, I asked the official about the ruling, and he said, in football, if theres a question about a ruling, the coach doesn't come over to the refs 30minutes later, they stop everything and go running over right then. Which basically, implied that if the call had been argued right from the start when it happened, it would have been overturned and we would have tied the meet. The only reason I am not super angry is because the time was horrible, so its not like I loss a really good time.
But yeah.
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My back is pretty much all better. Just a little residual tightness.
The ironic part about this whole college swimming adventure, is that I transfered to this school specifically for swimming. I loved the coach, I thought he was superb...and then I got here. My teammates all agree he has changed for the worse in the past few years, and a lot of them are discouraged as a result. I have no enjoyed a single practice in the past two years with him, he completely is against fun workouts...like stop watch workouts, or relay workouts and the likes-which is hard when your swimming with the same group, same coach 6days a week from late August to Mid February. He also is a distance freestyler, and while he has claimed to try and make more sprint oriented practices, I think when he tries that he over does it, and I am left dead and defeated because of his insane repetitions of all out sprints. I have spoken to him and discussed my concerns with the program and my participation in it, and while the team would be very limited without me, as there are only 11girls as it is, he has too much arrogant pride to change.
The loss of $8000 would stink, but it would not hurt me in any ways, it would just result in there being less money in my savings for graduate school...but...thats okay. I would actually still have a year of eligibility left if I didnt swim here next year, and could feasibly swim at my graduate school if I so desired. It's not a done deal yet, I don't live on campus--one of the sacrifices of being a transfer student to this school was no housing on campus--so i have an apartment by myself off campus. But as a result, I have not met many people on campus besides the team and my classmates. I feel if I quit the team I would be alienating myself from the team...but then again, I am often left wondering if the only reason I feel apart of the team is because it would be rude of them all to completely exclude me? :-(...
So the next few weeks will be a lot of debating I reckon. I am swimming a masters meet on my birthday actually the weekend of March3-4 and I think I will let that help me decide...because I will be training on my own or with a masters club in Albany if I can find one...and if I were to do well...that might be enough mojo to just say...forget this collegiate junk...masters is where its at!:-D
My back is pretty much all better. Just a little residual tightness.
The ironic part about this whole college swimming adventure, is that I transfered to this school specifically for swimming. I loved the coach, I thought he was superb...and then I got here. My teammates all agree he has changed for the worse in the past few years, and a lot of them are discouraged as a result. I have no enjoyed a single practice in the past two years with him, he completely is against fun workouts...like stop watch workouts, or relay workouts and the likes-which is hard when your swimming with the same group, same coach 6days a week from late August to Mid February. He also is a distance freestyler, and while he has claimed to try and make more sprint oriented practices, I think when he tries that he over does it, and I am left dead and defeated because of his insane repetitions of all out sprints. I have spoken to him and discussed my concerns with the program and my participation in it, and while the team would be very limited without me, as there are only 11girls as it is, he has too much arrogant pride to change.
The loss of $8000 would stink, but it would not hurt me in any ways, it would just result in there being less money in my savings for graduate school...but...thats okay. I would actually still have a year of eligibility left if I didnt swim here next year, and could feasibly swim at my graduate school if I so desired. It's not a done deal yet, I don't live on campus--one of the sacrifices of being a transfer student to this school was no housing on campus--so i have an apartment by myself off campus. But as a result, I have not met many people on campus besides the team and my classmates. I feel if I quit the team I would be alienating myself from the team...but then again, I am often left wondering if the only reason I feel apart of the team is because it would be rude of them all to completely exclude me? :-(...
So the next few weeks will be a lot of debating I reckon. I am swimming a masters meet on my birthday actually the weekend of March3-4 and I think I will let that help me decide...because I will be training on my own or with a masters club in Albany if I can find one...and if I were to do well...that might be enough mojo to just say...forget this collegiate junk...masters is where its at!:-D
