What is your Swimming Nick Name?

What is your Swimming Nick Name? What is the nick name your team mates gave you? What is the story behind it? Muppet... There may or may not be a large quantity of fur on top of my head. :dunno: But anyways, origins: We were at this meet back in '01 I think, and one of our more diplomatic teammates was talking to Ray, a guy from a neighboring LMSC. Being the diplomatic guy he is, he introduced us all to Ray. Went around the circle: this is Jim, this is Bob, this is Mike, etc. And he comes to me, points, pauses, and says "That's Muppet." Laughter ensued from my teammates who had never heard that before. And the name stuck. :banana:

And yes, the obvious plays on my nickname Bork were also hard to escape as well. Pretty sad stuff don't you think?:( :( Its amazing how normal I turned out after all that social ridicule growing up.....LOL!!:banana: :banana: Newmastersswimmer Normal???? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

My feet were blessed with the name "Aquabrakes" in college. Kinda funny. My teammates would joke that every time I dove in, they could swear they heard a screeching sound as my unflexible ankles severly stopped my momentum. Anyway, there's another nickname which had a bigger impact: Honey Bear. I wasn't as fit as most of my teammates at Texas. Just days after arriving there my freshman year, Shaun Jordan took it upon himself to christen the nickname. Think about those jars of honey made in the shape of a bear holding a honey pot, and you'll get the idea. It stuck for FIVE YEARS. Actually, it still lasts today. I still get e-mails from former teammates that open with that name. Over time, I managed to lose the gut, so the name's significance was passed on to my large hands. The funny thing is, incoming freshmen didn't know my real name for a long time because I was introduced to them as Honey Bear.

Since I know that all of you are very mature and kind posters that would never stoop to the obvious juvenile jokes in making slight modifications to my nickname (except for one sloppy limerick slinger who's name I will not mention), I will go ahead and reveal my number one nickname growing up as a swimmer (which some have already referred to me as including Ande, Cruise and The Fort)....and that is "The Bork" (or simply as "Bork")....I think that it should be rather obvious how I acquired that nickname since my real last name is a little long and hard to pronounce.....The nickname followed a similar evolution as was the case for the Raz I suspect. It started as "Borkow" when I was around 10 years old...and a couple of years later it evolved into the much sleeker version that it is today....A nickname that eventually followed me through 4 years of high school and 4 years of college as well. In case you never read my most embarrassing swimming moment from a thread from way back when....I will share it with you again: When I was around 12 or 13 years old or so, (the exact age I cannot really remember now), I arrived at a swim meet in which I noticed immediately that all my fellow teammates were pointing and laughing at me when I walked by.....I asked one of my friends what it was all about only to discover that someone had mistyped my name all throughout the heat sheets as Jim Dorkowski instead of Jim Borkowski:.....It was hard to ever live that one down. And yes, the obvious plays on my nickname Bork were also hard to escape as well. Pretty sad stuff don't you think?:( :( Its amazing how normal I turned out after all that social ridicule growing up.....LOL!!:banana: :banana: Newmastersswimmer p.s. (ALA The Muppet)....Sorry if telling my embarrassing story again was a little like beating a dead horse :dedhorse: :dedhorse: ...LOL!!:thhbbb: :rofl:

In high school, my relay teammates and I nicknamed ourselves the "Animal Relay" because we were supposed to be the B team and we unseated the A team handily. My teammates also called me "Ice" like the gladiator because even though I was tiny for a swimmer (even shorter than you Fortress!), I was always willing to try things that were hard.

thanks to Muppet, Honey Bear, Bork, Ice, and Chaquita Burrita by the way Chaquita Burrita, the smokin' hot boy probably thought you were too those are all great, thanks to everyone who contributed Today I decided to broaden this thread a little by including the following Also tell us about other swimmers nick names tell us the story behind them? today i was talking with an ex swimmer at rotary he said that bob saeger, rich saegers brother's nickname in high school was TitLets because he had massive pecs or Steve Lundquist was Lunk I look forward to reading more posts, Raz

I'll post my son's nickname given to him by his non-swimming friends. It's also a play on our last name. "Fish"

A lot of my friends I swam AAU with had moved from the north to the Atlanta area. They all spoke with a northern accent. I have a very southern accent so they called me Scarlet....but they would say "Well hello MISS SCAAAALET!" ;)

Disclaimer - I did NOT come up with these nicknames. There's nothing like a good dose of teenage boys to come up with these. These nicknames were derived from my last name Ulveling: Ovary Ovulating Uvula Ulkeyveling And finally, Chaquita Burrita. The boy who came up with this was smokin' hot, so I tolerated it. Although my mother wasn't too pleased at the time. . . :rolleyes:

I don't have a swimming nickname. It'll have to be born at Zones...unless Some_Girl has an idea...she's seen me swim. ...I used to be called Rabbit. I had a tendency to talk a lot (can you believe that?) Rabbit is a British colloquialism for talking...