I'm a 21 year old male, 5'8, around 155 lbs, with 7-8% body fat. I've been swimming now for about 1 year total. My background is in cross country, basketball, and track. I've dropped my times quite a bit in a year;
50 free from 28 high to 26.69
100 free from 1:10 to 1:00.89
200 free from 2:24 to 2:16
500 free from 7:00 to 6:19
I'm from Missouri and I've got one more semester at a community college to get my associates degree, then I plan on transferring to Drury Univesity or Missouri State. I really want to walk on to one of their teams and I figure my best choice is to go the distance route, the 500 and up to have a chance at making one of these teams. Right now I'm swimming 30,000yds/m a week and doing dryland work (weights) 3x a week. My stroke is very solid, keeping me injury free (knock on wood), and I figure I can get up to around 50,000+ yds a week by the start of summer and train like a madman this summer before fall semester. I can swim with a masters team once a week without having to pay a monthly fee and the rest of my training is solo. My test meet will be the end of July, Show-me-State games in Columbia. Any words of advice?
SwimMann,
Don't be too discouraged by the times posted here.
Talk to the coaches at the schools you are interested in. They will tell you if the want you to swim at their school. I don't know the schools you mentioned. Some teams and coaches will have room in their programs for swimmers that are not able to make Nationals cuts.
Good luck!
SwimMann,
Don't be too discouraged by the times posted here.
Talk to the coaches at the schools you are interested in. They will tell you if the want you to swim at their school. I don't know the schools you mentioned. Some teams and coaches will have room in their programs for swimmers that are not able to make Nationals cuts.
Good luck!
