I have a theory that Masters has more males than females is because high school and college programs in the past spent their time on male swimmers. I remember my high school having only distances like 25 yard butterfly and the 50's of the other strokes and only the 100 for freestyle and IM. This was up to my sophmore year. And at the Jr year, the girls finally had 200 yard Im and 500 yard freestyle and the 100's of the other strokes like the boys. Also, I remember that the community college workout for women was a lot less yardage than that for guys. The California community college had the 100 and 50 distances for women and the 100 and 200 yard distances for men. The women did vote to keep the sprints and California community college is the only college system with the 50 sprints for other strokes besides freestyle. Anyways, college scohlorships for women came available starting mainly with the 1970's in swimming. Now at the age group level for USA Swimming girls outnumber boys. So in the future masters swimming will probably end up with more women.
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Sorry, everyone I lost my temper. I agree that single parents do have it harder in some ways and getting involved in exercise whether swimming or other actvities is harder. I also agree that I was talking about the people that attend the meets more than just workout at the master teams. I think we should drop this topic and it doesn't matter if the 45 to 49 age group has more male than female swimmers. But its true about the high school and college situation 30 years ago. Title IX came about to to give girls the same more opportunities in school sports. People are now of course agruing if it went too far since some boy sports have been ax in order to equal with the girl sports.
Sorry, everyone I lost my temper. I agree that single parents do have it harder in some ways and getting involved in exercise whether swimming or other actvities is harder. I also agree that I was talking about the people that attend the meets more than just workout at the master teams. I think we should drop this topic and it doesn't matter if the 45 to 49 age group has more male than female swimmers. But its true about the high school and college situation 30 years ago. Title IX came about to to give girls the same more opportunities in school sports. People are now of course agruing if it went too far since some boy sports have been ax in order to equal with the girl sports.
