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
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Former Member
Geek,
I have news for you..... This forum is ALL ABOUT GRUMPY OLD MEN...... ie. it's MASTERS SWIMMING.
Let me translate that to you.......... We are old !
As for the 1970s....... Dude...... you are trespassing on hollowed ground with nasty comments about Fleetwood Mac. Evil Smith and I will pick out a meet in your neck of the woods and show up one day.
John Smith
John,
Speaking of grumpy old men, I raced right next to you many times growing up in Ohio - starting back to when you were on the Maplewood Club Team, the at Water Works, and then when you were at Firestone and I was at another school. You wouldn't remember me. I was seeded immediately next to you a hundred times, and lost every one...argh! I remember one time, we were 11 - you may have been 12 - and you looked over at me on the starting blocks and said something like "I'm gonna beat your pants off." You did it too. I have to tell you 30+ years later that that wasn't very good sportsmanship. You were one fast kid.
Geek,
I have news for you..... This forum is ALL ABOUT GRUMPY OLD MEN...... ie. it's MASTERS SWIMMING.
Let me translate that to you.......... We are old !
As for the 1970s....... Dude...... you are trespassing on hollowed ground with nasty comments about Fleetwood Mac. Evil Smith and I will pick out a meet in your neck of the woods and show up one day.
John Smith
John,
Speaking of grumpy old men, I raced right next to you many times growing up in Ohio - starting back to when you were on the Maplewood Club Team, the at Water Works, and then when you were at Firestone and I was at another school. You wouldn't remember me. I was seeded immediately next to you a hundred times, and lost every one...argh! I remember one time, we were 11 - you may have been 12 - and you looked over at me on the starting blocks and said something like "I'm gonna beat your pants off." You did it too. I have to tell you 30+ years later that that wasn't very good sportsmanship. You were one fast kid.
