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.
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I was vaguely aware of masters swimming as a kid and even swam unofficially at a masters meet at age 14 (just to get a seed time for a USS meet, it didn't count for the masters meet of course). My USS team worked out at a university pool. Our coaches at the time were grad students who were also former college swimmers, and had some ties to the masters team.
On another USS team, we actually had an adult swimming with our group at 5:00AM. Our coach introduced him, said he was a masters swimmer, and encouraged us to participate in masters swimming when we got older.
In H.S. swimming I don't remember masters swimming being mentioned at all. After H.S. swimming I took a 20 year break.
I was vaguely aware of masters swimming as a kid and even swam unofficially at a masters meet at age 14 (just to get a seed time for a USS meet, it didn't count for the masters meet of course). My USS team worked out at a university pool. Our coaches at the time were grad students who were also former college swimmers, and had some ties to the masters team.
On another USS team, we actually had an adult swimming with our group at 5:00AM. Our coach introduced him, said he was a masters swimmer, and encouraged us to participate in masters swimming when we got older.
In H.S. swimming I don't remember masters swimming being mentioned at all. After H.S. swimming I took a 20 year break.
