Poll on competitive history pre-Masters

I swam summer league the summer before my Freshman year and asked my parents why I had never heard of the swim team before? Started USS in the middle of my Freshman year and was shocked how many fast swimmers there were. My HS team wasn't fast, and I was dropped in Sr 2, with Sr 1 kids usually having at least one Jr.'s cut. Man I was scared. Swam USS for 2.5 years and HS for 3 years. Didn't swim for multiple reasons my senior year for HS or USS. Ended up getting recruited by a Div 3 school (CMU), to swim based on my Sophomore and Jr. times. I was recruited because CMU is slow, not because I am fast, and ended up swimming for a week when the coach and I got into an argument that reminded me why I stopped swimming in the first place. Swimming Master's is fun again. I work much harder on all the things I didn't want to work hard on as a kid, because it is for me now. So, 2.5 USS as a kid. No cuts worth mentioning, no college swimming. No top 10 times in Master's yet either :)

I swam summer league the summer before my Freshman year and asked my parents why I had never heard of the swim team before? Started USS in the middle of my Freshman year and was shocked how many fast swimmers there were. My HS team wasn't fast, and I was dropped in Sr 2, with Sr 1 kids usually having at least one Jr.'s cut. Man I was scared. Swam USS for 2.5 years and HS for 3 years. Didn't swim for multiple reasons my senior year for HS or USS. Ended up getting recruited by a Div 3 school (CMU), to swim based on my Sophomore and Jr. times. I was recruited because CMU is slow, not because I am fast, and ended up swimming for a week when the coach and I got into an argument that reminded me why I stopped swimming in the first place. Swimming Master's is fun again. I work much harder on all the things I didn't want to work hard on as a kid, because it is for me now. So, 2.5 USS as a kid. No cuts worth mentioning, no college swimming. No top 10 times in Master's yet either :)