I'm always interested in hearing about the USMS demographics, but I couldn't find any information on USMS and college swimming. I was wondering roughly what percentage of US Masters swimmers swam in college and at what level. I also wanted to hear from you where you went, when, and what you loved / hated most about college swimming.
I was 4 years at a Div I school,but that is misleading as it was Rice(then the smallest D-I school) with no scholarships in the late 60s and we weren't very good.
Almost ditto, except for the smallest part, and we were Notre Dame.
Disliked not being able to swim varsity the first year, as our varsity breaststrokers were bad. As a minor program, had to share pool time with everything else on campus. Sick of swimming by Senior year, as it was 13th year of swimming. Took complete 5-year break from swimming until Masters came along.
Liked seeing different campuses and trip to Canada (Western Ontario U.) for meet in the middle of Winter!
I was 4 years at a Div I school,but that is misleading as it was Rice(then the smallest D-I school) with no scholarships in the late 60s and we weren't very good.
Almost ditto, except for the smallest part, and we were Notre Dame.
Disliked not being able to swim varsity the first year, as our varsity breaststrokers were bad. As a minor program, had to share pool time with everything else on campus. Sick of swimming by Senior year, as it was 13th year of swimming. Took complete 5-year break from swimming until Masters came along.
Liked seeing different campuses and trip to Canada (Western Ontario U.) for meet in the middle of Winter!
