Industry News: United States Masters Swimming and College Swimming Coaches Announce New Program
I like the concept and have always felt that there was an opportunity to coordinate more with colleges when they are in the vicinity of masters teams...will be interesting to see how it works out. I still however believe that just as big of an opportunity exists to partner with High School swimming. My impression is that high school grads who don't go on to swim in college generally have no idea that masters swimming exists.
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../19073.asp
The team I swim with is affiliated with the University of Washington. We practice immediately after the UW team in the evening and our coaches are their assistant coaches. However, for the most part, we haven't attracted recent varsity swimmers to the team. There's the odd one or two who swim with us, but usually they're gone pretty quickly. We'll also get college students who want to swim but couldn't or didn't want to swim on the college team, but that's still a very minor percentage of the masters team. Most of our long term members are people who have been out of college for a few years, at least.
The team I swim with is affiliated with the University of Washington. We practice immediately after the UW team in the evening and our coaches are their assistant coaches. However, for the most part, we haven't attracted recent varsity swimmers to the team. There's the odd one or two who swim with us, but usually they're gone pretty quickly. We'll also get college students who want to swim but couldn't or didn't want to swim on the college team, but that's still a very minor percentage of the masters team. Most of our long term members are people who have been out of college for a few years, at least.
