This statement is FALSE. Rowdy swam for a summer swim club team until he was 10 years old. It was not AAU or USS swimming but it was the typical summer club league swimming. I have proof of this because I have a USS Swimming calendar from 1992 and he was featured in one of the months and it shows a picture of him at 10 years old at a swim meet. You are correct in that he started back to swimming in his Jr. year of High School swimming for Winter Haven HS and just missed making an All American HS selection.
He was 2nd at his State Championship to a swimmer named Steve Allbritton from Clearwater HS and swims masters at the present time in Florida with Randy Nutt. .
I think that Rowdy would say that he swam summer league. But, there are some people that will put it out there that since they didn't do winter swimming until high school, they will say "Oh, I didn't start swimming until high school!" Geesh, that is so great to hear when you have been doing winter swimming since before you knew what winter swimming was!!! Be honest and stay you did summer swimming since you were ten. Also, you are never going to hear a distance swimming go from nothing to something special from 9th to 11th grade. It is always those sprinters and breaststrokers(ie Ed Moses).
This statement is FALSE. Rowdy swam for a summer swim club team until he was 10 years old. It was not AAU or USS swimming but it was the typical summer club league swimming. I have proof of this because I have a USS Swimming calendar from 1992 and he was featured in one of the months and it shows a picture of him at 10 years old at a swim meet. You are correct in that he started back to swimming in his Jr. year of High School swimming for Winter Haven HS and just missed making an All American HS selection.
He was 2nd at his State Championship to a swimmer named Steve Allbritton from Clearwater HS and swims masters at the present time in Florida with Randy Nutt. .
I think that Rowdy would say that he swam summer league. But, there are some people that will put it out there that since they didn't do winter swimming until high school, they will say "Oh, I didn't start swimming until high school!" Geesh, that is so great to hear when you have been doing winter swimming since before you knew what winter swimming was!!! Be honest and stay you did summer swimming since you were ten. Also, you are never going to hear a distance swimming go from nothing to something special from 9th to 11th grade. It is always those sprinters and breaststrokers(ie Ed Moses).
