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.
Cynthia,
I did not attack you. In fact, I thought I agreed with you that past discrimination probably has something to do with there being more men than women in Masters swimming. That's why I brought up Title IX. (To be fair, I also pointed out that USMS is very NONdiscriminatory.)
You did not make it clear at all that you meant that most of the elite Masters swimmers swam as kids. No argument there. But there are more than 40,000 members of USMS, and most of them do NOT have a competitive background, as Emmett pointed out. And, as Emmett also pointed out, you have to be careful when you cite polls to back up your position. If it's not a scientific poll, the results are meaningless.
I'm sorry you don't have a big salary. Neither do I! (I work for the state of Kentucky, after all!) But I don't know what that has to do with the current topic.
I had no intention of hurting your feelings, and I'm sorry if I did. I thought the purpose of a discussion forum was to express different points of view.
Cynthia,
I did not attack you. In fact, I thought I agreed with you that past discrimination probably has something to do with there being more men than women in Masters swimming. That's why I brought up Title IX. (To be fair, I also pointed out that USMS is very NONdiscriminatory.)
You did not make it clear at all that you meant that most of the elite Masters swimmers swam as kids. No argument there. But there are more than 40,000 members of USMS, and most of them do NOT have a competitive background, as Emmett pointed out. And, as Emmett also pointed out, you have to be careful when you cite polls to back up your position. If it's not a scientific poll, the results are meaningless.
I'm sorry you don't have a big salary. Neither do I! (I work for the state of Kentucky, after all!) But I don't know what that has to do with the current topic.
I had no intention of hurting your feelings, and I'm sorry if I did. I thought the purpose of a discussion forum was to express different points of view.
