Greetings
I know from reading many posts that some of you have swam in college. I am the parent of an age group swimmer who has his sights set on a college scholarship. I was a sportsmed guy in a a Div 1 school in college and all of us worked many long hours and traveled a great deal to earn our way through. The athletes worked very hard of course and really paid in time for the funds they received in the form of books and tuition. I would rather pay for his schooling and see him study rather than swim. I do not want to steal his dreams though as a result of my cynical view of the system. Have any of you swam in college and what was your experience? Do you view it as a worthy goal or would you have done it differently? Any coaches out there with insight? All advice welcome. This is a great forum!
Many Thanks
Spudfin
Parents
Former Member
"There are some very interesting schools, like UC-San Diego and Emory. Very strong swim teams, not Div-I, and strong academics."
I was the first water polo and swimming coach at UCSD back when they were just getting started, ('67 - '68). It was pretty low key, didn't even have water polo goals! Because we we so short handed, and the fact that the academic competition was particularly fierce, I was allowed to use graduate students in our water polo games, didn't matter much, we still got creamed every game. An interesting sidenote was that after the away games we'd stop for dinner and the grad students would go into the bar for a pitcher. You had to be 21 back then to drink alcohol and none of the undergrads were old enough. The funny thing was that I was only 20 myself. But never got carded!
Had one guy who made the NAIA National finals, 100 ***. He transferred to Cal Berkely and I went to coach for a couple years at San Diego State, where academics didn't interfere with sports.
"There are some very interesting schools, like UC-San Diego and Emory. Very strong swim teams, not Div-I, and strong academics."
I was the first water polo and swimming coach at UCSD back when they were just getting started, ('67 - '68). It was pretty low key, didn't even have water polo goals! Because we we so short handed, and the fact that the academic competition was particularly fierce, I was allowed to use graduate students in our water polo games, didn't matter much, we still got creamed every game. An interesting sidenote was that after the away games we'd stop for dinner and the grad students would go into the bar for a pitcher. You had to be 21 back then to drink alcohol and none of the undergrads were old enough. The funny thing was that I was only 20 myself. But never got carded!
Had one guy who made the NAIA National finals, 100 ***. He transferred to Cal Berkely and I went to coach for a couple years at San Diego State, where academics didn't interfere with sports.
