Swimming Recruiting?
by SwimTexas on Mar 6, 2009 9:23 PM CST
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That is right, a small but stellar class for the Men's Swim Team.... but the surprise is the women's recruiting class this year. No out of State problems here! I have seen several of these kids swim and they are awesome. It is great to see the women's team get in the game on some of the top recruits like this.
I apologize for the formatting mistakes. I couldn't fix them.
As for the current team, Nationals is in a few weeks. It is in College Station this year. The men are favored, although I am still skeptical. But we will see. I will write something up as the event gets closer.
Hookem
University of Texas Women
2009 – 2010 Recruiting Class
6 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have placed in an A Final and/or multiple B Finals at last year’s NCAA Division I Championships. This means they can already score at Nationals next year. There are 14 swimmers in the country at this level this year.
High school: The Hockaday School;
Club: Dallas Mustangs;
Location: Dallas, TX
A Final - 100y breast 1:00.66; 200y breast 2:10.51.
High school: Liberty;
Club: Atlantis Aquatic Club;
Location: Bethlehem, PA
B Final - 100y back 0:53.60; 200y back 1:55.74.
High school: n/a;
Club: Bluefish;
Location: Providence, RI
A Final - 100y breast 1:00.70; 200y breast 2:11.09.
5 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have placed in a B Final and/or multiple Qualifying Marks (last year's slowest qualifying time per event at DI NCAAs). Also, swimmers with long course meter times that would give them multiple U.S. Olympic Trials Cuts. There are 27 5-Star girls in the country this year.
High school: duPont Manual;
Club: Lakeside Aquatics;
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Olympic Trials - 100m fly 1:01.34; 200m fly 2:14.42
4 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have given them a Qualifying Mark (last year's slowest qualifying time per event at DI NCAAs) and/or multiple B Cuts at last year’s NCAA Division I Championships. Also, swimmers with long course meter times that would give them a U.S. Olympic Trials Cut. There are 29 4-star girls in the country this year.
High school: n/a;
Club: Ithaca Aquatics;
Location: Ithaca, NY
Olympic Trials - 100m breast 1:11.84.
High school: n/a;
Club: Ithaca Aquatics;
Location: Ithaca, NY
Olympic Trials - 100m breast 1:10.92.
University of Texas Men
2009 – 2010 Recruiting Class
6 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have placed in an A Final and/or multiple B Finals at last year’s NCAA Division I Championships. This means they can already score at Nationals next year. There are 2 swimmers in the country at this level this year. (Stanford got the other one)
High school: n/a;
Club: n/a;
Location: Andover
A Final - 200y IM 1:44.18; 400y IM 3:43.36.
5 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have placed in a B Final and/or multiple Qualifying Marks (last year's slowest qualifying time per event at DI NCAAs). Also, swimmers with long course meter times that would give them multiple U.S. Olympic Trials Cuts. There are 29 5-Star boys in the country this year.
High school: Friendswood;
Club: FLEET;
Location: Friendswood Tx
Olympic Trials - 100m back 0:56.44; 200m back 2:03.03.
High school: St Paul's School for Boys;
Club: North Baltimore Aquatic Club;
Location: Baltimore, MD
Olympic Trials - 100m back 0:56.97; 200m back 2:02.14; 200m IM 2:02.60; 400m IM 4:24.07.
4 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have given them a Qualifying Mark (last year's slowest qualifying time per event at DI NCAAs) and/or multiple B Cuts at last year’s NCAA Division I Championships. Also, swimmers with long course meter times that would give them a U.S. Olympic Trials Cut. There are 16 4-star boys in the country this year.
High school: Stratford;
Club: Cypress Fairbanks;
Location: n/a
Olympic Trials - 200m back 2:03.45.
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spindrift?
thats a sweet name
Ian Johnson gets on one knee.
Sam Bradford gets on both.
by acho81 on Mar 6, 2009 10:18 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I met Hunter Bayley a couple of years ago.
Good kid. He’s wanted to be a Longhorn forever. Idolizes Aaron Peirsol, so he’s coming to the right place.
by bassale47 on Mar 7, 2009 7:47 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Thanks. It is nice to have some info on other sports. Texas excels at so many…
by dimecoverage on Mar 7, 2009 10:38 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
You chose to open it...
Then you chose to read it. Then you chose to take the time to write something, and this is what you wrote? Get over yourself.
"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese
P.S. 45-35
by SwimTexas on Mar 7, 2009 5:54 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Sorry.
Both of you are right I apologize…..I couldn’t help myself.
by Longhorny on Mar 8, 2009 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
accepted, i was only half kidding (hey, i swam in college, gotta defend an awesome sport)
by Displaced Longhorn on Mar 9, 2009 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Was your favorite discipline the self stroke?
-rBr-
by run Bevo run on Mar 9, 2009 2:11 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
freestyle all day and all night
by Displaced Longhorn on Mar 9, 2009 11:27 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dax is awesome...
But I had not heard that he officially committed. 6’8’’ kid who chose swimming over basketball…. pretty crazy.
"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese
P.S. 45-35
by SwimTexas on Mar 7, 2009 5:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm not sure...
I have a source on the team tell me that he committed shortly after his official visit
by BlinkOneGun on Mar 7, 2009 6:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Sweet. nt whills
"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese
P.S. 45-35
by SwimTexas on Mar 7, 2009 7:07 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Ahem
Nationals is in a few weeks. It is in College Station this year.
Can we please do whatever it takes to ensure that a Longhorn measures the pool before the meet begins, during and after? We want the records we set to actually count, not be disqualified because some aggy measured the pool incorrectly.
Quoting TAMU AD $Bill Byrne from November 2008:
Last weekend, our swimming and diving teams hosted the Art Adamson Invitational, and several top 25 teams traveled to College Station to participate.
Our No. 8-ranked women finished in second place as Triin Aljand won the 100-yard freestyle on Sunday and became the fifth-fastest performer in NCAA history with a 47.35 showing just one day after becoming the fourth fastest performer ever in the 100 butterfly. Our women won more races (9-of-18) than any other women’s team at the meet. Our men finished in fifth place.
Following Friday night’s NCAA record setting performance in the 50-yard freestyle by Triin, an official measurement of the competition pool found it was just over one inch short. The pool passed pre-meet measurements two days earlier, but following the post-meet inspection all records were thrown out.
For the second time in the last year, we have been embarrassed because the Student Recreation Center natatorium pool has failed a post-meet measurement after records have been broken.
We are told the Rec Center is working with the manufacturer of the bulkheads which help alter the pool size based on the particular meet’s distance requirements.
We spend almost $650,000 each year in rent so our men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams can train and compete at the Rec Center Natatorium, as well as almost $50,000 more for hosting meets. Teams which come to compete in our meets and national championships expect the pool be regulation size. Just like basketball teams expect the court at Reed Arena to measure 94 feet and football teams expect Kyle Field to be 100 yards long with a pair of 10-yard endzones, we expect the same results at the Rec.
After they meet with the bulkhead manufacturer, we will meet with the Rec Center staff to get this fixed so it doesn’t occur again.
by horndude on Mar 7, 2009 11:45 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
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