I am curious how many of the posters here swam in high school, college, etc. and how close to the top you got. Thus the following not terribly detailed poll.
I wanted to keep the number of categories from getting too lengthy, so I figured that anyone who swam in the NCAAs and did really well would probably have gone to Olympic trials, too. I am curious if you qualified for these, elise, and opted not to go; or if being All American does not automatically qualify you for Olympic trials.
I swam Division III. No, not good enough to qualify for Olympic Trials. There was, however, a girl on our relay, who swam in the Olympic Trials in 1980 or 1984 - Julie Ginden. At the time she swam for us she was Julie Hogan - married to Pat Hogan, the Dynamo swim coach. I believe she originally started out swimming DI, but transferred because she got married.
It would be interesting to find out the number of those that swam in Division III that did qualify for Olympic Trials. Some of the top two finishers might have, but I suspect most who had the talent to qualify for Olympic Trials would have swam DI.
I wanted to keep the number of categories from getting too lengthy, so I figured that anyone who swam in the NCAAs and did really well would probably have gone to Olympic trials, too. I am curious if you qualified for these, elise, and opted not to go; or if being All American does not automatically qualify you for Olympic trials.
I swam Division III. No, not good enough to qualify for Olympic Trials. There was, however, a girl on our relay, who swam in the Olympic Trials in 1980 or 1984 - Julie Ginden. At the time she swam for us she was Julie Hogan - married to Pat Hogan, the Dynamo swim coach. I believe she originally started out swimming DI, but transferred because she got married.
It would be interesting to find out the number of those that swam in Division III that did qualify for Olympic Trials. Some of the top two finishers might have, but I suspect most who had the talent to qualify for Olympic Trials would have swam DI.
