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7th place STO 169.5 – OC 92.5 = Olaf sets the stage by going 1-2 in the 4 medley relay, the relay they picked. There are a few close events here and there but the bottom line here is Olivet is over matched in this tournament. Olaf wins both relays and 9 individual events. Olivet … Read more Scoring Proposal #1 – Women’s Championship
Taking a bus down to Florida instead of a plane was a foreign concept to me. I tried to mentally prepare myself for the monotonous hours spent sitting in the uncomfortable seats. Twenty-two hours on the road, going through West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia before having to travel through most of Florida … Read more Training Trip Bus Ride
Winners Bracket (1) K-Zoo 181 – (4) Hope 113 = We’ll get to see this matchup for real very soon, but tapered, it was no contest. Hope’s only wins were the distance events…Rose and Shade flip flop 1-2 finishes in the mile and 500. Hazekamp wins the 2 bk, Hunt wins the 1 fly and … Read more Scoring Proposal #1 – Round 2 Men
Many teams will be going through rigorous training during the next month to get in shape for championship season, and as the swimming all starts coming together the team starts to come together as well. For some training trips just ended, for others training trips are about to begin. While the in water workouts and … Read more The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
Winners bracket: (4) Chicago 146 – (1) UWSP 138 = Winning isn’t everything in a dual meet, even with college meet scoring. Despite top seed UWSP winning 9 of 16 events (both relays included), they couldn’t overcoming the 32-0 hole left from diving. (3) WashU 163 – (2) Carthage 99 = Carthage is good, but … Read more Scoring Proposal #1 – Round 2 Women
Part I Josh: Do you agree, Jake? Jake: Oh my good friend and former roommate, Coach Hamstra… I’ve got a few things to say. First things first, yes, the finances are limited. But the faster ‘B’ cuts don’t have ANYTHING to do with the number of athletes actually invited to the meet. The per diem … Read more Are the ‘B’ Cuts Too Fast?? – Part II
So last week I proposed a midseason dual meet format. You can find this post here. Just to see what happens, I decided to score them out based on this year’s midseason meet results. I did my best to move people around and spread the points. The results are interesting and maybe they will change … Read more Scoring Proposal #1 – Round 1
Hope swimmer Ashley Jasperse channels father’s work ethic into being her best Link
First, I have been a fan of D3swimming.com since 2007. The delay in my appreciation is due more to my ineptness on the internet than it not being a viable site. It is that and more, and now my goal is to bring it to the attention of not just the Northwest Conference, but to … Read more The Great Northwest
Chris and Jake will discuss this item back and forth to make their case. You can decide for yourself who won and who lost. Josh: Hey Guys, are the B cuts too fast now? Jake: I, for one, think the individual ‘B’ cut times are too fast. We can talk about relays later if we … Read more Are the ‘B’ Cuts Too Fast?? – Part I
The Duel of Duals What? 8 Women’s Teams 8 Men’s Teams 24 Dual Meets 3 Days 1 Champion per sex Lots of cuts Lots of excitement Where? I’ll set the stage with our host, the University of Chicago. While the seating is limited, you swim wall to wall and this swims you towards the crowd, … Read more Dual Meet Tournament – Proposal #1
We intend for “Featured Forum Post” to become a regular article on the site. Today, in the first installment, the post comes from Bocephus. The forum topic is Avidasports Rankings. Reading some of the forums on CollegeSwimming.com and talking with swimmers elsewhere, it seems as though no one is buying these rankings–mostly due to the … Read more Featured Forum Post
Part I. Power – The stronger you are, the more water you can pull, the faster your propulsion. That is the basic theory behind power training. This incorporates aspects of technique, intensity, and volume into the training. This year the team has used power towers and parachutes on a regular basis, and the team and … Read more The Key to Fast Swimming – Part II
Every year brings a new crop of swimmers to D3 swimming – some of whom have been state champions in high school, some of whom were just finding their stroke when high school ended, some of whom may only want to have a group to be part of as they begin living away from home … Read more Freshman A-Cuts – Women
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The key to fast swimming is in the volume of yards you swim. Or is it about the intensity of those yards? Maybe the key to swimming fast is about the efficient use of energy through technique. But being strong and powerful is important to swimming fast as well. Well if power and strength are … Read more The Key to Fast Swimming – Part I
At the end of this winter the NCAA D-III Swimming and Diving Championship meet will be hosted at The University of Tennessee’s fantastic new Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center, completed in 2008. Since it is a new site for our championship meet it may be useful to take an introductory glance before we all head … Read more Our National Host
Dear D3 swimming coaches and voters, I’ve got a lot of problems with you people, and now you’re all gonna hear about it! The most recent Collegeswimming.com poll came out and the Kenyon women are ranked ahead of Emory, albeit by 3 points (god knows I have no idea how the scoring works). The fact … Read more And Now for the Airing of Grievances…
The latest CSCAA Top 25 Poll has been released and if you don’t look close, you’ll likely have to venture outside the top 10 to see beyond the parity. The top three schools in both polls are Kenyon, Emory and Denison and 9 of the top 10 teams are ranked in both polls. That’s right, … Read more D3 Dual Meet Poll