2008 Big 12 Conference Swimming & Diving Championships
psych sheet
www.texassports.com/.../sw_big12_psych.pdf
Results
www.tsc.utexas.edu/.../index.htm
videos
www.flocasts.org/.../coverage.php
Records
www.usaswimming.org/.../Rulebook Records - Feb 18 2008.pdf
WHAT: 2008 Big 12 Conference Swimming and Diving Championships
WHERE: Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center – Austin, Texas
WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 27 through Saturday, March 1 (complete schedule below)
ADMISSION: $5 for adults and $2 for students, per session; all-session passes will be available for $20 for adults and $8 for students; NOTE: There is no admission charge for Wednesday’s events; doors will open and tickets will be available 1 hour prior to the start of each session.
PARKING: www.tsc.utexas.edu/.../
LIVE RESULTS: Click here for live results.
DEFENDING CHAMPIONS: The Texas men have won the previous 11 Big 12 Championship meets and set a new meet record with 1,114 points at the 2007 meet in College Station. The Texas A&M women edged the Texas women, 931-930 at the 2007 meet.
COMPLETE BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
Wednesday, Feb. 27
PRELIMINARIES
4:30 PM
One Meter Diving - Men
FINALS
6:00 PM
200 Medley Relay
One Meter Diving - Men
800 Freestyle Relay*
* The 800 free relay will begin 45 minutes after the conclusion of the 200 medley relay
Thursday, Feb. 28
PRELIMINARIES
10:00 AM
500 yard Freestyle
200 yard Individual Medley
50 yard Freestyle
*15 minute break
400 yard Medley Relay
1:00 PM
One Meter Diving - Women
FINALS
6:00 PM
500 yard Freestyle
200 yard Individual Medley
50 yard Freestyle
One Meter Diving - Women
400 yard Medley Relay
Friday, Feb. 29
PRELIMINARIES
10:00 AM
200 yard Freestyle Relay
400 yard Individual Medley
100 yard Butterfly
200 yard Freestyle
100 yard Breaststroke
100 yard Backstroke
11:30 AM
Three Meter Diving - Women
2:15 PM
Three Meter Diving - Men
FINALS
5:00 PM
Three Meter Diving - Women
6:00 PM
200 yard Freestyle Relay
400 yard Individual Medley
100 yard Butterfly
200 yard Freestyle
100 yard Breaststroke
100 yard Backstroke
Three Meter Diving - Men
Saturday, March 1
PRELIMINARIES
10:00 AM
200 yard Backstroke
100 yard Freestyle
200 yard Breaststroke
200 yard Butterfly
*15 minute break
400 yard Freestyle Relay
11:30 AM
Platform Diving - Men
2:30 PM
Platform Diving - Women
FINALS
5:00 PM
Platform Diving - Men
6:00 PM
200 yard Backstroke 100 yard Freestyle
*1650 yard Freestyle 200 yard Breaststroke
200 yard Butterfly Platform Diving - Women
400 yard Freestyle Relay
This is a continuation of what began in the late 70's when they started dropping after school activities at elementary and high schools. It has been cascading to the higher levels of learning. They dropped swimming as a collegiate sport all together where I went to college in the late 80's (CSU Chico).
...... assuming they still get the chance to go to a University. That dream of financial assistance through secondary sports scholarships is crashing at many universities.
John Smith
From the NCAA website:
About $1 billion in athletic scholarships are awarded each year. Over 126,000 student-athletes receive either a partial or full athletic scholarship. However, these scholarships are awarded and administered directly by each academic institution, not the NCAA.
I would hardly call this the death of a dream.
I think you would just be a happier person if you just admitted that you don't like sharing the scholarship money with the girls. When you went from having 98% of the money to now just over 50%, it makes you sad and grumpy. All those educated and athletic women running about these days gets under your skin. What's next - women lawyers? Holy cow, that would be very scary indeed.
In 1972 there was a mere 30,000 women participating in intercollegiate athletics. At present there are more than 160,000 competing female athletes. In the last 20 years female intercollegiate athletic participation has increased by more than 80 percent, with a 66 percent increase in female athletic teams (Lapchick 2003).
This is a continuation of what began in the late 70's when they started dropping after school activities at elementary and high schools. It has been cascading to the higher levels of learning.
Some of what began in elementary through high school was (at least in California I believe) a result of the passage of Prop 13.
Of those scholarships listed above, how many are being awarded to students who are actually academically qualified to attend college?
All of them...if you believe the Prop 48 requirements represent someone being academically qualified."
"The unfair treatment in college sports prepares students for the unfair reality they will face in the real world. Quite a good program actually...however unintentional it may have been. "
...... assuming they still get the chance to go to a University. That dream of financial assistance through secondary sports scholarships is crashing at many universities.
John Smith
"The unfair treatment in college sports prepares students for the unfair reality they will face in the real world. Quite a good program actually...however unintentional it may have been. "
...... assuming they still get the chance to go to a University. That dream of financial assistance through secondary sports scholarships is crashing at many universities.
John Smith
I know far more people going to school with student loans and academic scholarships than with athletic scholarships. Point being, the absence of an athletic scholarship is no reason to miss out on college.
...... assuming they still get the chance to go to a University. That dream of financial assistance through secondary sports scholarships is crashing at many universities.
I put myself through school, ok well 50% of it. If I had not left my emplyer I could have got it all paid for but I wanted to move on with my life so I bit the bullet.
Everyone can go to school in this country, whether you get a 4 year party break on mummy and daddy's dime, pay your own way, or get a job with tuition assistance...everyone can do it--heck you can even join the military and get a degree.
With all due respect, I'm not going to worry too much about how hard anyone's kid trained and wring my hands because they didn't get a scholarship--regardless of the sport.
One sport shouldn't get all the scholarship pie I fully agree but lack of a scholarship is a poor excuse not to get an education. Even if you have to wait a few years.
I put myself through school, ok well 50% of it. If I had not left my emplyer I could have got it all paid for but I wanted to move on with my life so I bit the bullet.
Everyone can go to school in this country, whether you get a 4 year party break on mummy and daddy's dime, pay your own way, or get a job with tuition assistance...everyone can do it--heck you can even join the military and get a degree.
With all due respect, I'm not going to worry too much about how hard anyone's kid trained and wring my hands because they didn't get a scholarship--regardless of the sport.
One sport shouldn't get all the scholarship pie I fully agree but lack of a scholarship is a poor excuse not to get an education. Even if you have to wait a few years.
:wine: Chuck Norris would be proud of that post.
