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
Parents
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Fort, tuition is outrageous for in state schools as well. You are better off buying into a 529 than thinking your kid can get a scholarship and spending dollars on a sport or musical instrument.
My DD will probably last longer as a recreational swimmer because she enjoys the exercise, and friends. Interestingly, whatever college she goes to will probably have a women's swim team if she wanted to walk onto it. Not true of boys.
It is a GOOD thing that women have opportunities they did not have when I was in HS, very good. It is NOT a good thing that if you are not a football or basketball player, you will not get very much money, male or female.
Outside of the extremely talented athletes, most minor sport athletes will not get full scholarship.
With the price of tuition, books, and board, any bit sure helps.
Great NYT series on college athletic scholarships makes a lot of these points. Here's the first article:
www.nytimes.com/.../10scholarships.html
Fort, tuition is outrageous for in state schools as well. You are better off buying into a 529 than thinking your kid can get a scholarship and spending dollars on a sport or musical instrument.
My DD will probably last longer as a recreational swimmer because she enjoys the exercise, and friends. Interestingly, whatever college she goes to will probably have a women's swim team if she wanted to walk onto it. Not true of boys.
It is a GOOD thing that women have opportunities they did not have when I was in HS, very good. It is NOT a good thing that if you are not a football or basketball player, you will not get very much money, male or female.
Outside of the extremely talented athletes, most minor sport athletes will not get full scholarship.
With the price of tuition, books, and board, any bit sure helps.
Great NYT series on college athletic scholarships makes a lot of these points. Here's the first article:
www.nytimes.com/.../10scholarships.html
