All,
I'm building a "business case" to start a high school swim team at my daughters' charter high school. The school is very academically oriented (which I love) and has not had sports programs. However, I've got initial support from some teachers and parts of the administration to explore this. Being a lifelong swimmer, I know how valuable sports can be, but I need some external validation of this (school was founded by two, PhD economists).
I'd love any input on the following:
Does there exist academic research (or even strong case studies) that demonstrates the value of high school swimming relative to:
academic performance
college admission
Can anyone point me to a list (or lists) of the kinds of academic + athletic award programs that exist for high school swimmers that can then be further used to bolster their admission opportunities to top tier universities?
Thanks for any help.
Another idea but it might require some legwork. Maybe check with age-group coaches to find out how many of their former high school swimmers have gone on to college? If this was mentioned earlier I apologize.
It's anecdotal, but I seem to remember that most if not all of the swimmers I graduated with from high school went on to college. I at least remember overhearing of where they got accepted to. It seemed to be a fairly focused group. I even wound up in college and got a graduate degree (I was not a stellar student in high school but came around in college).
Some interesting ideas here: does the discipline of swimming help people to apply that discipline in other areas of their life, does the discipline aspect of swimming attract students who already possess this internal drive to achieve, combination of both, and other items?
:banana:
Another idea but it might require some legwork. Maybe check with age-group coaches to find out how many of their former high school swimmers have gone on to college? If this was mentioned earlier I apologize.
It's anecdotal, but I seem to remember that most if not all of the swimmers I graduated with from high school went on to college. I at least remember overhearing of where they got accepted to. It seemed to be a fairly focused group. I even wound up in college and got a graduate degree (I was not a stellar student in high school but came around in college).
Some interesting ideas here: does the discipline of swimming help people to apply that discipline in other areas of their life, does the discipline aspect of swimming attract students who already possess this internal drive to achieve, combination of both, and other items?
:banana:
