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ACC Championships

SEC Championships</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/159149?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:54:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:076cda4b-4aaf-4b42-b2b3-573a4b24f307</guid><dc:creator>That Guy</dc:creator><description>MONSTER ANCHOR by Nathan Adrian
 
 Event 21  Men 400 Yd Free Relay
==================================================================================
       Pac 10: P 2:47.86  2007      ARIZ, ARIZ
                          Subirats, Nilo, Townsend, Ritter
  Pac 10 Meet: M 2:48.32  2009      Stanford, STAN
                          A. Coville, J. Allen, J. Dunford, D. Dunford
         NCAA: N 2:46.54  3/17/2007 Auburn, Auburn
                          J. Andkjaer, G. Louw,  M.Target , B. Lindquist
                 2:52.47  NCAA
                 3:01.09  CONS
    School                           Seed     Finals       Points 
==================================================================================
  1 CAL-PC  &amp;#39;A&amp;#39;                   2:54.05    2:48.16MNCAA    40  
     1) Moore, Graeme J SR            2) Daniels, Josh L SR           
     3) Shields, Tom A SO             4) Adrian, Nathan G SR          
                 19.92        42.43 (42.43)
        1:02.71 (20.28)     1:25.71 (43.28)
        1:45.64 (19.93)     2:07.54 (41.83)
        2:26.76 (19.22)     2:48.16 (40.62)
  2 STAN-PC  &amp;#39;A&amp;#39;                  2:53.97    2:48.51 NCAA    34  
     1) Coville, Alex SR              2) Allen, Jake R SR             
     3) Wayne, Aaron W SO             4) Staab, Austin K SR           
                 20.45        42.78 (42.78)
        1:02.66 (19.88)     1:25.14 (42.36)
        1:44.85 (19.71)     2:07.12 (41.98)
        2:26.90 (19.78)     2:48.51 (41.39)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/159125?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:30:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:2c426764-aa34-43d0-a473-6cf6412258be</guid><dc:creator>That Guy</dc:creator><description>Also, this happened a few minutes ago in the 200 ***:
 
16 Steel, Kevin FR ARIZ-AZ 2:02.80 2:14.21 1 
24.94 53.58 (28.64)
1:34.80 (41.22) 2:14.21 (39.41)
 
Mr. Steel slightly improved his already-impressive 100 *** time from last night and with that he also improved his chances of getting an invite to NCAA&amp;#39;s. Now look at his 3rd and 4th 50 splits, where he&amp;#39;s warming down and just making sure to finish the event legally. See those times? OK. I did this 2 weeks ago:
 
1 Guy, That 2:37.96
36.46 1:17.90 (41.44)
1:58.45 (40.55) 2:37.96 (39.51)

My race-pace breaststroke is the same speed as his warmdown breaststroke! :bow:&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/159105?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:14:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:512b2381-39e4-4d52-af7e-568af82288fc</guid><dc:creator>That Guy</dc:creator><description>Whoa, Tom Shields just lowered the NCAA record in the 200 fly!
 
 Event 19  Men 200 Yd Fly
=========================================================================
       Pac 10: P 1:41.52  2010      Tom shields, STAN
  Pac 10 Meet: M 1:41.84  2010      Bobby Bollier, STAN
         NCAA: N 1:40.75  3/28/2009 Shaune Fraser, Florida
                 1:42.95  NCAA
                 1:48.09  CONS
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Shields, Tom A   SO CAL-PC            1:44.21    1:40.31NNCAA    20  
                 22.53        48.48 (25.95)
        1:14.11 (25.63)     1:40.31 (26.20)
  2 Bollier, Bobby   JR STAN-PC           1:42.58    1:41.60MNCAA    17  
                 22.69        48.62 (25.93)
        1:14.50 (25.88)     1:41.60 (27.10)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/159077?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:24:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:d88e6075-87ea-4bfb-8ecc-879f492f6dfb</guid><dc:creator>That Guy</dc:creator><description>Mid-American Conference men&amp;#39;s champs are this weekend as well.
 
&lt;a href="http://mac-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9400&amp;amp;KEY=&amp;amp;ATCLID=205072248"&gt;mac-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml&lt;/a&gt;
 
This must have been an exciting relay to watch:
 
Event 13 Men 800 Yard Freestyle Relay
Championship: 6:37.42 C 1998 UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO
Rosepapa, Fullins, Powells, Draeger
Pool: 6:36.23 P 2006 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Waked, McGee, Hedo, Santoro
6:23.26 AUTO
6:42.42 CONS
Team Relay Finals Time Points
1 Buffalo, State University of N A 6:37.12C CONS 40
1) Aronica, Phil FR 2) Heine, Jared JR 3) Proudfoot, Simon JR 4) Hogan, Matt SO
23.14 48.94 (48.94) 1:15.58 (1:15.58) 1:42.88 (1:42.88)
2:04.82 (21.94) 2:29.76 (46.88) 2:55.60 (1:12.72) 3:21.57 (1:38.69)
3:44.27 (22.70) 4:09.11 (47.54) 4:34.68 (1:13.11) 5:00.60 (1:39.03)
5:22.40 (21.80) 5:47.15 (46.55) 6:12.23 (1:11.63) 6:37.12 (1:36.52)
2 Southern Illinois University A 6:38.24 CONS 34
1) Parsons, Matt JR 2) Badrawi, El JR 3) Jordan, Chris JR 4) Kruse, Matt JR
22.65 47.24 (47.24) 1:12.80 (1:12.80) 1:38.65 (1:38.65)
2:02.11 (23.46) 2:27.55 (48.90) 2:53.35 (1:14.70) 3:19.66 (1:41.01)
3:41.80 (22.14) 4:06.41 (46.75) 4:32.66 (1:13.00) 4:59.49 (1:39.83)
5:21.82 (22.33) 5:46.58 (47.09) 6:11.81 (1:12.32) 6:38.24 (1:38.75)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/159046?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:55:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:32a363a6-5a68-41fc-a891-faa288062dda</guid><dc:creator>That Guy</dc:creator><description>And we get to see a rematch at NCAA&amp;#39;s...
 
 Event 9  Men 100 Yd Fly
=========================================================================
       Pac 10: P 44.18  2008      Austin Staab, STAN
  Pac 10 Meet: M 44.66  3/4/2011  Austin K Staab, STAN-PC
         NCAA: N 44.18  3/27/2009 Austin Staab, Stanford
                 46.04  NCAA
                 48.34  CONS
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Staab, Austin K  SR STAN-PC             45.52      44.66MNCAA    20  
                 21.06        44.66 (23.60)
  2 Shields, Tom A   SO CAL-PC              45.32      44.78 NCAA    17  
                 21.02        44.78 (23.76)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/159018?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:40:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:10712841-85c7-44c9-942c-621b78e140d9</guid><dc:creator>That Guy</dc:creator><description>Also this weekend:
 
NJCAA: &lt;a href="http://www.star-meets.org/results/NJCAA/2011/index.htm"&gt;www.star-meets.org/.../index.htm&lt;/a&gt;
NAIA: &lt;a href="http://naia.cstv.com/livestats/m-swim/index.htm"&gt;naia.cstv.com/.../index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158989?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:10:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:18ee26c0-e09d-4e47-8cdd-4bd68b6ec89c</guid><dc:creator>osterber</dc:creator><description>Men&amp;#39;s Ivy Champs:

&lt;a href="http://www.meetresults.com/2011/ivies/"&gt;www.meetresults.com/.../&lt;/a&gt;

-Rick&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158953?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:01:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:101da462-6797-4702-8b09-9932f2656682</guid><dc:creator>ande</dc:creator><description>there were some fast splits tonight

1  Men 200 Yd Medley Relay
==========================================================
Pac 10: P 1:22.50  2009      California, CAL
                          Barnea, Dugonjic, Moore, Adrian
Pac 10 Meet: M 1:23.92  3/2/2011  Univ of CA - Berkeley, CAL-PC
                          G Barnea, D Dugonjic, G Moore, N Adrian
NCAA: N 1:22.36  3/27/2009 Auburn, Auburn
                          J. White, M. Silva, M. Targett, G. Louw
                 1:25.66  NCAA
                 1:29.94  CONS
    School                           Seed     Finals       Points 
==========================================================

1 CAL-PC  &amp;#39;A&amp;#39;                   1:25.39    1:23.92MNCAA    40  
1) Barnea, Guy M SR              2) Dugonjic, Damir SR           
 3) Moore, Graeme J SR            4) Adrian, Nathan G SR          
21.74        45.05 (23.31)
        1:05.42 (20.37)     1:23.92 (18.50)

  2 STAN-PC  &amp;#39;A&amp;#39;                  1:27.99    1:25.42 NCAA    34  
     1) Swanston, Matthew J SO        2) Lovelace, Curtis C JR        
     3) Staab, Austin K SR            4) Coville, Alex SR             
                 21.96        46.17 (24.21)
        1:06.34 (20.17)     1:25.42 (19.08)

  3 USC-CA  &amp;#39;A&amp;#39;                   1:26.88    1:26.01 CONS    32  
     1) Karpov, Nick SO               2) Connolly, Dillon B SR        
     3) Bloch, Chase E FR             4) Morozov, Vlad V FR           
                 22.14        46.36 (24.22)
        1:07.38 (21.02)     1:26.01 (18.63)


Event 2  Men 800 Yd Free Relay
==========================================================
       Pac 10: P 6:11.82  2009      Arizona, ARIZ
                          Basson, Nilo, Shapira-Or, Greenshields
  Pac 10 Meet: M 6:14.82  2009      Arizona, ARIZ
                          Basson,  Nilo,  Shapira Bar-Or, Greenshields
         NCAA: N 6:10.16  3/27/2009 Texas, Texas
                          D. Walters, R. Berens, S. Jostes, M. Klueh
                 6:23.26  NCAA
                 6:42.42  CONS
    School                           Seed     Finals       Points 
==========================================================

1 STAN-PC  &amp;#39;A&amp;#39;                  6:32.66    6:19.17 NCAA    40  
     1) Bollier, Bobby L JR           2) Stoehr, Mitch D FR           
     3) Priestley, Morgan P JR        4) Andrews, Rob A JR            
                 21.82        45.26 (45.26)
      1:09.71 (1:09.71)   1:34.97 (1:34.97)
        1:56.66 (21.69)     2:20.27 (45.30)
      2:45.20 (1:10.23)   3:10.86 (1:35.89)
        3:32.71 (21.85)     3:56.93 (46.07)
      4:21.04 (1:10.18)   4:44.87 (1:34.01)
        5:06.04 (21.17)     5:29.98 (45.11)
      5:54.50 (1:09.63)   6:19.17 (1:34.30)

2 USC-CA  &amp;#39;A&amp;#39;                   6:22.61    6:20.88 NCAA    34  
     1) Lefert, Clement SR            2) White, Patrick P JR          
     3) Wagner, Jack S FR             4) Colupaev, Dimitri FR         
                 22.05        45.32 (45.32)
      1:09.01 (1:09.01)   1:33.37 (1:33.37)
        1:55.33 (21.96)     2:19.69 (46.32)
      2:44.94 (1:11.57)   3:11.00 (1:37.63)
        3:32.68 (21.68)     3:56.94 (45.94)
      4:22.05 (1:11.05)   4:47.18 (1:36.18)
        5:07.87 (20.69)     5:31.00 (43.82)
      5:55.51 (1:08.33)   6:20.88 (1:33.70)

3 CAL-PC  &amp;#39;A&amp;#39;                   6:31.68    6:21.13 NCAA    32  
     1) Shields, Tom A SO             2) Metz, Samuel A FR            
     3) Howell, Isaac L JR            4) Hinshaw, Ben S SO            
                 21.43        44.66 (44.66)
      1:08.64 (1:08.64)   1:32.88 (1:32.88)
        1:54.74 (21.86)     2:19.10 (46.22)
      2:44.13 (1:11.25)   3:09.34 (1:36.46)
        3:31.15 (21.81)     3:55.04 (45.70)
      4:19.70 (1:10.36)   4:44.91 (1:35.57)
        5:06.65 (21.74)     5:30.45 (45.54)
      5:55.24 (1:10.33)   6:21.13 (1:36.22)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158848?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:50:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:ee17a4f3-2a5a-4a0f-a0dc-b26256f2f674</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>Div 1 Womens Swimming and Diving Programs are allowed to have 14 scholarships

Div 1 Mens Swimming and Diving Programs are allowed to have 9.9 scholarships

  

This makes recruiting quite challenging for schools.  Each year a D1 mens swimming &amp;amp; Diving program has around 2.5 scholarships to divvy up. Pretty much everyone on the mens team has partial scholarships, except for walk ons. I believe Books count as a 1% of a scholarship.  Most of the womens team are on full scholarships. 

If an athlete receives a partial scholarship, then the school&amp;#39;s academic admission standards for that athlete shift from whatever the school requires to the NCAA minimum standards which is a sliding scale that looks at the students  GPA &amp;amp; SAT score.  The higher the students GPA the lower the required SAT score.  The 
2010-2011 Guide for the College Bound Student Athlete shows the scale on page 6. 

As an example UT is pretty tough to get into, most students need to be in the top 10% of their classes to be accepted. Plus high school classes tend to shrink due to drop outs.  I think my son&amp;#39;s class started with over 500 students his fr year and but by the first semester of his sr year there were around 325.

How can most of the women swimmers have full scholarships when the roster size is typically double the number of scholarships? Perhaps 1 or 2 superstars have a full or near full, but I have been told that in Div 1, most are still partial. I know a diver offered a full at Iowa St this fall but she declined it for a different school.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158811?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:52:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:de4f38b6-85a0-40f4-9c15-0d94da15bafe</guid><dc:creator>ande</dc:creator><description>Pac 10 Men&amp;#39;s Swimming and Diving
Date: March 2-5, 2011
Venue: Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool 
Location: Long Beach, Calif.

Pac 10 Womens were 
Date: February 23-26, 2011 
Venue: Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Complex 
Location: Federal Way, Wash.
RESULTS&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158734?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:10:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:93872b91-2660-472e-9c52-8cbc2018d629</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>I&amp;#39;m voluteer timing at Men&amp;#39;s ACC&amp;#39;s. Tonight kid from UVA went 1:32.5 in 200 Free. Dusted the field.  Another UVA kid went 3:41 in 400 IM.
 
Timing tomorrow night too. Fun to watch some really fast swimming once in a while.

Have fun!  We enjoyed timing at the SECs.  The times were just unbelievable.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158637?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:30:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:6c5b219a-89a8-4be0-91c9-17daf30c64de</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>I&amp;#39;m voluteer timing at Men&amp;#39;s ACC&amp;#39;s. Tonight kid from UVA went 1:32.5 in 200 Free. Dusted the field.  Another UVA kid went 3:41 in 400 IM.
 
Timing tomorrow night too. Fun to watch some really fast swimming once in a while.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158594?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:57:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:1881f7fc-bb42-44e5-b60f-f1a812513cc2</guid><dc:creator>Chris Stevenson</dc:creator><description>The school still keeps its standards unless they are lower than the NCAA (which are pretty low)

Yes. But from what I&amp;#39;ve seen (a small sample size, admittedly) school standards for athletes are usually not the same as they are for non-athletes. And they aren&amp;#39;t usually the same for all sports, either.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158562?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:56:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:6ece2a1c-3020-425b-87bc-09857f495b09</guid><dc:creator>oldwahoo</dc:creator><description>The school still keeps its standards unless they are lower than the NCAA (which are pretty low)

Div 1 Womens Swimming and Diving Programs are allowed to have 14 scholarships

Div 1 Mens Swimming and Diving Programs are allowed to have 9.9 scholarships

  

This makes recruiting quite challenging for schools.  Each year a D1 mens swimming &amp;amp; Diving program has around 2.5 scholarships to divvy up. Pretty much everyone on the mens team has partial scholarships, except for walk ons. I believe Books count as a 1% of a scholarship.  Most of the womens team are on full scholarships. 

If an athlete receives a partial scholarship, then the school&amp;#39;s academic admission standards for that athlete shift from whatever the school requires to the NCAA minimum standards which is a sliding scale that looks at the students  GPA &amp;amp; SAT score.  The higher the students GPA the lower the required SAT score.  The 
2010-2011 Guide for the College Bound Student Athlete shows the scale on page 6. 

As an example UT is pretty tough to get into, most students need to be in the top 10% of their classes to be accepted. Plus high school classes tend to shrink due to drop outs.  I think my son&amp;#39;s class started with over 500 students his fr year and but by the first semester of his sr year there were around 325.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158546?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:33:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:803e35ba-1292-49ac-a6bd-baf9b9691e55</guid><dc:creator>Chris Stevenson</dc:creator><description>Atlantic 10 has live streaming on their site.

Results are here:

&lt;a href="http://www.atlantic10.com/livestats/c-swim/index.htm"&gt;www.atlantic10.com/.../index.htm&lt;/a&gt;

The Spiders are swimming well so far, hopefully they&amp;#39;ll take back their title.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158518?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:03:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:acfcbb82-5c9f-49b2-a1f4-ff531def3f42</guid><dc:creator>KEWebb18</dc:creator><description>Atlantic 10 has live streaming on their site.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158496?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:52:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:113f31d7-063e-4872-b644-6a2ad37cf738</guid><dc:creator>Speedo</dc:creator><description>Nice prelim swim in the CAA this morning:
 
 George Mason University                         2/24/2011 - 13:20PM
              2011 CAA Swimming &amp;amp; Diving Championship               
            Sponsored by Marriott Hotels of N. Virginia             
 
 Event 3  Women 500 Yard Freestyle
==================================================================
 CAA Meet Rec: # 4:36.85  2/24/2011 Meredith Budner, Towson
 CAA Top Perf: ! 4:36.85
 CAA Top Perf: ! 4:36.85  2/24/2011 Meredith Budner, Towson
                 4:38.46  A
                 4:52.41  B
    Name           Year School               Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Budner, Meredit  SR TOWSON                       4:36.85#A      
    r:+0.81  25.35        52.27 (26.92)
        1:20.11 (27.84)     1:48.35 (28.24)
        2:16.22 (27.87)     2:44.36 (28.14)
        3:12.52 (28.16)     3:40.85 (28.33)
        4:08.92 (28.07)     4:36.85 (27.93)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158443?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:01:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:5b57cfc9-67ec-4af4-a25c-99ee58e88594</guid><dc:creator>ande</dc:creator><description>^^Yes, I definitely agree with the above regarding depth.  I think the amount of scholarships available makes a difference.  My college team had 3 - 4 full scholarships that were split between the mens team.  For the big teams such as Auburn, Texas.etc. how many scholarships are usually allocated for the team?

Div 1 Womens Swimming and Diving Programs are allowed to have 14 scholarships

Div 1 Mens Swimming and Diving Programs are allowed to have 9.9 scholarships

How Many Swimming Scholarships ARE Available?
The NCAA Women&amp;#8217;s Div I Swimming and Diving programs may offer a total of 14 full scholarships per schools, and the Men&amp;#8217;s Swimming and Diving programs, 9.9. Considering the number of schools with women&amp;#8217;s swim teams-- close to 200 for any given year--and the number with men&amp;#8217;s swim teams, at about 140, the total number of swimming and diving scholarships available to Div I swimmers and divers is over 4,000. from Men&amp;#8217;s and Women&amp;#8217;s Swimming and Diving Scholarship Options
   

This makes recruiting quite challenging for schools.  Each year a D1 mens swimming &amp;amp; Diving program has around 2.5 scholarships to divvy up. Pretty much everyone on the mens team has partial scholarships, except for walk ons. I believe Books count as a 1% of a scholarship.  Most of the womens team are on full scholarships. 

If an athlete receives a partial scholarship, then the school&amp;#39;s academic admission standards for that athlete shift from whatever the school requires to the NCAA minimum standards which is a sliding scale that looks at the students  GPA &amp;amp; SAT score.  The higher the students GPA the lower the required SAT score.  The 
2010-2011 Guide for the College Bound Student Athlete shows the scale on page 6. 

As an example UT is pretty tough to get into, most students need to be in the top 10% of their classes to be accepted. Plus high school classes tend to shrink due to drop outs.  I think my son&amp;#39;s class started with over 500 students his fr year and but by the first semester of his sr year there were around 325.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158471?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:41:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:3c8fdb86-9fdf-4df5-8cdc-dcd1e48a1ef4</guid><dc:creator>KEWebb18</dc:creator><description>Ande thanks for the info on scholarships. 
I also forgot to add your link to the Big 12 champs this weekend.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158337?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:34:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:7c090876-e1b3-4057-aae6-de9dba8722c7</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>The SEC Championships will air on ESPNU as follows:

Men: Sunday, February 27th, 6:00 pm
Women: Tuesday, March 1st, 5:00 pm&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158413?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:df051bef-f28c-4a45-8096-97d958b30698</guid><dc:creator>Atlantic</dc:creator><description>The SEC Championships will air on ESPNU as follows:
 
Men: Sunday, February 27th, 6:00 pm
Women: Tuesday, March 1st, 5:00 pm
 
 
Thank you! 
 
:)
 
Looks like women&amp;#39;s Big 10&amp;#39;s will be on Saturday Feb 26th @ 11am, EST (on The Big Ten Network).&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158310?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:39:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:17ec7a09-e721-4825-a2c6-e375989197ea</guid><dc:creator>KEWebb18</dc:creator><description>The number of scholarships are determined by the NCAA. In swimming, there are 9.9 for men, 14 for women in DI. There are different rules for each sport, however. Football is a whole different monster and so is title IX:worms:&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158292?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:27:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:2aabc493-da5e-4f5e-b0ae-d6c7a0f1bf9f</guid><dc:creator>KEWebb18</dc:creator><description>I&amp;#39;ve seen that most conferences do get faster year in and year out; I think that we are over the tech-suit assisted swims for the most part in NCAA swimming and are seeing who can really bring it in the water. 

I think that the main difference between the bigger and smaller D1 conferences is not necessarily the speed. You will always have a few standout swimmers in the smaller conferences making NCAA cuts. It is the depth on the teams, from team to team, from top to bottom that sets the bigger schools apart.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158079?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:09:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:5dec8f0b-4cbd-4e8d-b71e-a49e8cab898f</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>Oddly enough, she swam the exact same time in finals.  46.81.

Her name is Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace and she was a 2008 Olympian for the Bahamas.  We timed her in the finals last night where she swam the 46.81 a second time.  Later she anchored Auburn&amp;#39;s 400 Free Relay, where I believe her split may have been slightly faster (but, of course it was a relay start).&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: 2011 College Conference Championships</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/158267?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:22:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:520b0ac5-77b3-4834-9118-794826e3a31b</guid><dc:creator>KEWebb18</dc:creator><description>Does anyone know when some of these meets are going to be televised?

Usually the Big 10 conference televises them at some point on their network. I am not sure when, or if it is live. 
You can always check with the conference championships websites; some places have live streaming of the events (usually just finals from what I&amp;#39;ve seen).&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>