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 swam as an age grouper, then for HS and YMCA teams, and finally swam 2 years of Div. III at Trenton State College, after which I thought I had had enough swimming to last me a lifetime. I was wrong, apparently, though I did have a 14 year layoff (I came back to swimming last year). I never made NCAAs and in fact swam slower in college than I did in high school. I now swim as fast (in 100s) as I did in high school and faster than I did in college. 200s are a different story, but I'm close to as fast as I was in college while doing about 20-30% of the training I did in college. It can't all be the suits these days, can it?
I swam as an age grouper, then for HS and YMCA teams, and finally swam 2 years of Div. III at Trenton State College, after which I thought I had had enough swimming to last me a lifetime. I was wrong, apparently, though I did have a 14 year layoff (I came back to swimming last year). I never made NCAAs and in fact swam slower in college than I did in high school. I now swim as fast (in 100s) as I did in high school and faster than I did in college. 200s are a different story, but I'm close to as fast as I was in college while doing about 20-30% of the training I did in college. It can't all be the suits these days, can it?
