Why not create and organize some new teams by college names under separate USMS affiliations to help create additional interest in Masters Swimming an potentially recruite former swimming alumni for relays?
I know several 40+ Texas alumns that could crush old SMU (pigmy horses) in a 200 medley.
John Smith
Could those of us who went to really small schools just gang up on everyone else? I went to one of the largests high school, at the time, in Illinios. Then I went to one of this great state's smallest colleges. Maybe we could get handicapped depending on where US News & World Reports ranked our college?
Craig.....one of the things John and I have done is badger people we swam with a different stages of our lives to make a "comeback" if you will with masters. In Coral Springs John didn't swim relays with Colorado because he had gotten his 11-12 year old relay team from Ohio back in action! The possibility of having people reunite with college, high school....whatever to me makes this fun and gets more people participating.
Yes we have also chosen to swim for teams that pissed people off here such as Team TYR at worlds.....but for me there was no second thoughts given what so ever....to swim with guys that I competed against but never with during college and USS years was awesome. The reality is for me is that as serious as I am as a competitor...I don't take "competing" in masters as serious (make sense?).....the friendships, rivalries, smack talk with Geek and wine chats with Fort keep me coming back when many times I'd rather be sitting on the couch eating pizza...wait I still do that.....is cholesterol on the banned list?!
Could those of us who went to really small schools just gang up on everyone else? I went to one of the largests high school, at the time, in Illinios. Then I went to one of this great state's smallest colleges. Maybe we could get handicapped depending on where US News & World Reports ranked our college?
Craig.....one of the things John and I have done is badger people we swam with a different stages of our lives to make a "comeback" if you will with masters. In Coral Springs John didn't swim relays with Colorado because he had gotten his 11-12 year old relay team from Ohio back in action! The possibility of having people reunite with college, high school....whatever to me makes this fun and gets more people participating.
Yes we have also chosen to swim for teams that pissed people off here such as Team TYR at worlds.....but for me there was no second thoughts given what so ever....to swim with guys that I competed against but never with during college and USS years was awesome. The reality is for me is that as serious as I am as a competitor...I don't take "competing" in masters as serious (make sense?).....the friendships, rivalries, smack talk with Geek and wine chats with Fort keep me coming back when many times I'd rather be sitting on the couch eating pizza...wait I still do that.....is cholesterol on the banned list?!
