www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../19679.asp
The most substantial change, of course, is that suits would no longer be allowed to extend past the knee.
My personal opinion is this is sort of an arbitrary change. What really should be changed--if anything--is what types of materials are allowed and maybe testing protocol to approve a suit. I don't really think requiring suits to end at the knees would affect much.
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If it hadn't of been for after school sports, I would have done nothing in school. If I didn't have swimming after school, I certainly wouldn't have been studying.
After school sports made me more disciplined to do well in school, because without doing well in school, I wouldn't have been able to compete in swimming.
Kid's doing after school sports doesn't hurt their grades.
Hey Thewookiee
If you don’t appreciate the intrinsic value of going to school just for the purpose of getting an education and you need athletics as an enticement to stay there, your reasoning is terribly, terribly flawed.
If the availability of an athletic program is your main priority for going to school, I seriously doubt that you are really interested in getting an education and picking up marketable job skills.
Being competitive in today’s employment market (in the technical fields especially) requires a person to prioritize about 16 hours to instruction, on the job hands on training, or studying per day. With my salary of $120K per year at stake, I devote every bit of my spare time to upgrading my job skill set and managing my finances and I have absolutely no intention of wasting time on athletics.
Considering the very poor state of the U.S. educational system, it wouldn’t be an absurd idea at all to just drop athletics at all publically financed institutions. Of course there would be howling and crying so the country will continue down the path to economic oblivion. :badday:
Dolphin 2
If it hadn't of been for after school sports, I would have done nothing in school. If I didn't have swimming after school, I certainly wouldn't have been studying.
After school sports made me more disciplined to do well in school, because without doing well in school, I wouldn't have been able to compete in swimming.
Kid's doing after school sports doesn't hurt their grades.
Hey Thewookiee
If you don’t appreciate the intrinsic value of going to school just for the purpose of getting an education and you need athletics as an enticement to stay there, your reasoning is terribly, terribly flawed.
If the availability of an athletic program is your main priority for going to school, I seriously doubt that you are really interested in getting an education and picking up marketable job skills.
Being competitive in today’s employment market (in the technical fields especially) requires a person to prioritize about 16 hours to instruction, on the job hands on training, or studying per day. With my salary of $120K per year at stake, I devote every bit of my spare time to upgrading my job skill set and managing my finances and I have absolutely no intention of wasting time on athletics.
Considering the very poor state of the U.S. educational system, it wouldn’t be an absurd idea at all to just drop athletics at all publically financed institutions. Of course there would be howling and crying so the country will continue down the path to economic oblivion. :badday:
Dolphin 2
