Poll on competitive history pre-Masters

Jim Matysek, our very kindly and sagacious high technology wizard, has added the category I did not add originally, i.e., "I didn't swim competitively until adulthood." Please, if you are one of the many posters here that have mentioned this describes you, go back and vote accordingly if it allows you to. Thanks! So far, it seems like a very nice distribution of past histories of swimming, with the median point seeming to be somewhere around 1 year of college swimming--with half of us reporting more, half of us less reporting less, younger swimming experience. If the folks who haven't swum at all till adulthood add their votes, it might tilt things slightly in the "less experienced" direction. In any event, I think it's very cool that our sport brings together people with so many different backgrounds in the sport. And I would also like to point out how helpful the really great performers have been to the rest of us--guys like Ande and Chris Stevenson are just a few of the greats that pop immediately to mind! Thanks!

Jim Matysek, our very kindly and sagacious high technology wizard, has added the category I did not add originally, i.e., "I didn't swim competitively until adulthood." Please, if you are one of the many posters here that have mentioned this describes you, go back and vote accordingly if it allows you to. Thanks! So far, it seems like a very nice distribution of past histories of swimming, with the median point seeming to be somewhere around 1 year of college swimming--with half of us reporting more, half of us less reporting less, younger swimming experience. If the folks who haven't swum at all till adulthood add their votes, it might tilt things slightly in the "less experienced" direction. In any event, I think it's very cool that our sport brings together people with so many different backgrounds in the sport. And I would also like to point out how helpful the really great performers have been to the rest of us--guys like Ande and Chris Stevenson are just a few of the greats that pop immediately to mind! Thanks!