Swim Dawgs

Best of luck to our 2009 Lady Swim Dawgs, who begin their run at yet another team national championship tomorrow. We are one of only three teams which will bring a full (18-swimmer) roster to Texas A&M's natatorium; our team is unusually young, carrying five freshman. Two of those freshmen, however, Allison Schmitt and Wendy Trott, were Olympians in 2008.

LET'S GO DAWGS!! BRING THAT TROPHY BACK TO ATHENS WHERE IT BELONGS!

A little word here about Coach Jack Bauerle...can you say enough about this guy? National titles, SEC titles and an Olympics under his belt? Man alive are we lucky to have coaches like what we have at Georgia.

Hope that spills over into our search for a Men's Basketball coach!

dapolla, my youngest son age 23 was a swimmer in high school and had scholarship offers to continue in the pool. Swimming is an incredibly tough sport that has to be practiced everyday. My son swam 6 days a week, 2 hours a day for six years. The returns from that have aided him both mentally and physically. Think football is tough training wise, try swimming. . . .

dapolla wrote:
A little word here about Coach Jack Bauerle...can you say enough about this guy? National
title
s, SEC
title
s and an Olympics under his belt? Man alive are we lucky to have coaches like what we have at Georgia.
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dapolla, in my opinion, Coach Bauerle is the best in the business. Records speak for themselves.

Buc, I used to be a swimmer. I was a sprinter (50 free, 100 free, 100 back), but I also swam the long-distance events in meets. I was on the Olympic training model until I realized that, in fact, I was NOT Olympic material and just swam for my high school, but on that model you swim five to six hours per day five days a week and three to four on Saturdays. In my book, swimmers are the most athletic and finely-tuned athletes in the world. I might be the teensiest bit biased, as might you.

Think about it this way: I swam all that time, was a three-year letter-winner in high school. I went to Emory for undergrad, where as you may know the swimming teams are perennial D3 dominators. I lived on the same hall as several swimmers that year...couldn't even keep up with them, let alone swim with them. Shows you what training PLUS natural talent can do for you.

Oh, and my graduate alma mater, Georgia, kills my other alma mater quite often in the pool.

At any rate, GO DAWGS!

Extremely interesting dapolla. You truly know what the word \"training\" means as you have described in your post. We live just a short distance from Cocoa Beach and that was the \"off-season\" training site (if there is one) of the Auburn Swim Team (and other universities). I am also talking about their teams when they were right there with UGA fighting for the National Championship. Incredible what the guys and gals go through to represent their schools. I love swimming and being around young folks that are willing to put that much time into a sport and still keep up with the academics. Will note that swimmers usually carried high GPA's, never worried about being released because of relaxing during the school hours.

One extra mention. My son's swim team, a traveling team, swam in meets that were also attended by Ryan Lochte. Of course those involved in swimming know that Ryan has gone on to make quite a name for himself.

After Day One, Georgia is in second place at the NCAA championship meet, trailing only defending national champ Arizona. Georgia's 133 points is only 65 points lower than the 198 points they scored at last year's meet overall. That's a tremendous improvement. Too, Georgia went without an individual national champion last year, but this year Allison Schmitt won the 500 freestyle championship right off the bat.

GO DAWGS!!! SHOW 'EM WHO'S BOSS!