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High Schools
Links to High School Swim Teams in CO and around the USA
Arapahoe Girls Swimming
Creek Boys
Creek Girls
CHSAA - governing body for high school sports
Preparing to Swim in College
NCAA Eligibility
Where to go to begin the process of swimming in college
Restrictions on Recruiting for Athletes
A pdf file detailing the recruiting guidelines for sports other than the revenue sports (sports that don’t charge admission).
Recruiting Regulations
A PDF file detailing the regulations of a college coach when recruiting a potential student athlete.
BeRecruited.com
A website geared towards assisting potential student athletes and college coaches in the recruiting process - free to register, but you must pay for all the whistles and bells. It can be worth it.
American College Connection
A site geared towards connecting coaches with prospective athletes - not necessarily formulated for swimmers, but good nonetheless
College Swimming
A site dedicated to the world of college swimming. Provides detailed information on pretty much every level of college swimming from Junior College to Division I
General Swimming related sites
USA Swimming
The governing body for USA swimming - details on Michael Phelps and other athletes as well as important instructional categories for coaches, parents and swimmers.
Swimming World Magazine
the Foremost publication when it comes to swimming - Age Group to College to Masters
FloSwimming
a site with tons of video clips from top coaches and swimmers
Swim News
A world site with information on every meet ever, plus tons of great articles on other fast swims in other countries
The Psych Sheet a blog by one of our swim parents - Olivia Mayer - about swimming and all the subtle nuances - a great resource for new and returning parents
The International Forbidden Drug List - this is a list of drugs etc that cannot be used in sanctioned competition - usually Sectionals or above (although if you are caught at a swim practice or swim meet by a registered official, they can limit participation)
Photos
Bierstadt photos
This is a link to my photos from yesterday’s Bierstadt hike, on Google’s Picasa web site
Estes Park 2009
Here’s a link to some photos from Estes Park this past weekend.
Swim Clubs
Links to other swim teams in CO and across the USA
Colleges - Links to schools where we have swimmers attending & competing
Colorado School of Mines Krista D'Innocenzo
Texas Christian Jenny Oster
University of Nebraska - Omaha Chelsea Hartman
Colorado College Julia Rubinstein & Jeff Nadel
Saint Louis Tom Costigan
University of South Dakota Taylor Adams
Mesa State Matt Ramey
Videos of Swimming
Three Types of Freestyle From the Race Club - listen carefully to the description of when they use each stroke and how it's used. Note too, that these swimmers are much older and stronger when they start to use the non hip driven strokes.
200 IM Final - Men's - 2009 US Open From Seattle - notice how they are all wearing Speedos & the winner breaks the US Open record. (fastest 200 IM on USA soil) - Season of the Speedo 2009!!!!
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