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
1986 - 170K members, 2600 clubs
2007 - 251K members, 2700 clubs
There's your figures, again. I also said I extrapolated the m/f figures so that was my best estimate. There is no disputing membership gains for males in the past year, where there are stats kept. Why don't you read for yourself, dang it!
So, let me get this straight. You hate Title IX because it unfairly got rid of men's swimming (which it absolutely did not as Chris has pointed out). Then, to remedy the situation, let's call it Title Smith, you want a program that will boost men's swimming. So, on one hand you loathe programs that level the playing field (for women) while on the other you propose a program to level the playing field (for men). Hello, McFly.
When do you think you might stop blaming women for wanting to participate and start blaming the ADs at your school for having 85 scholarship football players? That might be a better place to start than berating the fairer half.
1986 - 170K members, 2600 clubs
2007 - 251K members, 2700 clubs
There's your figures, again. I also said I extrapolated the m/f figures so that was my best estimate. There is no disputing membership gains for males in the past year, where there are stats kept. Why don't you read for yourself, dang it!
So, let me get this straight. You hate Title IX because it unfairly got rid of men's swimming (which it absolutely did not as Chris has pointed out). Then, to remedy the situation, let's call it Title Smith, you want a program that will boost men's swimming. So, on one hand you loathe programs that level the playing field (for women) while on the other you propose a program to level the playing field (for men). Hello, McFly.
When do you think you might stop blaming women for wanting to participate and start blaming the ADs at your school for having 85 scholarship football players? That might be a better place to start than berating the fairer half.
