^^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’s Div I Swimming and Diving programs may offer a total of 14 full scholarships per schools, and the Men’s Swimming and Diving programs, 9.9. Considering the number of schools with women’s swim teams-- close to 200 for any given year--and the number with men’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’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Scholarship Options
This makes recruiting quite challenging for schools. Each year a D1 mens swimming & 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'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 & 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's class started with over 500 students his fr year and but by the first semester of his sr year there were around 325.
Atlantic 10 has live streaming on their site.
Results are here:
www.atlantic10.com/.../index.htm
The Spiders are swimming well so far, hopefully they'll take back their title.
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 & 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'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 & 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's class started with over 500 students his fr year and but by the first semester of his sr year there were around 325.
The school still keeps its standards unless they are lower than the NCAA (which are pretty low)
Yes. But from what I'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't usually the same for all sports, either.
I'm voluteer timing at Men's ACC'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.
I'm voluteer timing at Men's ACC'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.
Pac 10 Men'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.
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