Below are the number of entrants for each event at the Junior Nationals for 2008. What do these figures mean for men's swimming long term? The number of boys in the sport trails girls quite siginficantly in many events. In relays where a team tends to show its depth, boys are out numbered by girls nearly 2:1
If things continue or get worse we've got problems ahead of us in 2 Olympics.
It's a good thing collegiate budgets aren't cutting mens swimming these days.... :-)
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.............Women Men
1650/1000... 78.. 75
Med. Relay... 97.. 51
100 free... 264.. 140
100 ***... 179.. 102
200 back... 173.. 111
200 fly... 149.. 91
800 fr rly... 81.. 43
50 fly... 170.. 106
50 ***... 151.. 82
200 free... 252.. 159
400 IM... 183.. 106
400 free rly... 84.. 45
100 back... 194.. 152
500 free... 188.. 112
200 ***... 152.. 82
100 fly... 242.. 161
200 fr rly... 84.. 45
50 back... 135.. 115
200 IM... 268.. 169
50 free... 282.. 153
800/1500 fr... 98.. 67
400 med rly... 105.. 54
Geek,
I'm not shelling out $500 bucks for another brain drain device in my house. PERIOD ! My son plays NASCAR 2 hours a day ! I'm ready to pull the plug.
Fortress.... sorry but I had to Google "Savonarola"... an Italian Dominican priest and leader of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. He was known for religious reform, anti-Renaissance preaching, book burning, and destruction of what he considered immoral art. He vehemently preached against what he saw as the moral corruption of the clergy, and his main opponent was Pope Alexander VI. He is sometimes seen as a precursor of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, though he remained a devout and pious Roman Catholic during his whole life.
The Evil Smith will tell you that I am DEFINITELY not like him. As for girls dominating a sport...... I could care less. More power to them. However.... boys attendance in the same sport being negatively affected for whatever reason..... then I do care.
Geek.... growing up in NE Ohio in the 1970s, there were ALWAYS equal or greater number of boys in age group swimming. Here in Denver, its about a 2/3rd ratio in many of the local meets of boys to girls. Also, don't for get to subtract out the percentage of general population growth over the decades in your numbers above. Things may be rosie in your neck of the woods, but its not that way nationwide.
John Smith
ALS: Atheist Liberal Sprinter
And JS..if you pull the plug on Clarks NASCAR games you know Tori will make you lose all your Michael Moore motivational tapes and take down all his posters!
Geek,
I'm not shelling out $500 bucks for another brain drain device in my house. PERIOD ! My son plays NASCAR 2 hours a day ! I'm ready to pull the plug.
Fortress.... sorry but I had to Google "Savonarola"... an Italian Dominican priest and leader of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. He was known for religious reform, anti-Renaissance preaching, book burning, and destruction of what he considered immoral art. He vehemently preached against what he saw as the moral corruption of the clergy, and his main opponent was Pope Alexander VI. He is sometimes seen as a precursor of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, though he remained a devout and pious Roman Catholic during his whole life.
The Evil Smith will tell you that I am DEFINITELY not like him. As for girls dominating a sport...... I could care less. More power to them. However.... boys attendance in the same sport being negatively affected for whatever reason..... then I do care.
Geek.... growing up in NE Ohio in the 1970s, there were ALWAYS equal or greater number of boys in age group swimming. Here in Denver, its about a 2/3rd ratio in many of the local meets of boys to girls. Also, don't for get to subtract out the percentage of general population growth over the decades in your numbers above. Things may be rosie in your neck of the woods, but its not that way nationwide.
John Smith
ALS: Atheist Liberal Sprinter
And JS..if you pull the plug on Clarks NASCAR games you know Tori will make you lose all your Michael Moore motivational tapes and take down all his posters!
