Hey!
I just noticed there's an official _________ thread for like everything..
but there's no swimmers here! D:

anyway!
post here w/ what team you swim on!
and your fastest times.
or your best stroke.
or just whatever really
and whether you swim all year round or just summer

about me!
haha I've been swimming competitively since i was 10 (i'm almost 15 now).. but I think I've gotten slower D:
I don't even have a JO anymore! sighh..
but once i turn 15, i will x) i love how standards go down after 14.
and I'm a backstroker yay for backstroke. 1:08 for my 100 short course D: can't break it!
and i still haven't broken a minute for my 100 free either it's been boarderline forever!

im really mad because they're no swimming clubs at my place really so i get so mad. swimming is like one of my faves and no one really likes to swim.. grr. those stupid people.

i swim for my school. i used to swim year-round except for winters.

i do the 500 and 200 free. sometimes the 100

i started when i was 14 but i improved a lot from there

my 500: 7:00 (too lazy even try to break it now)
200: 2:31 (i didn't even touch it at all this season)
100: 1:08 (broke my 1:12 after two years)
50: 31

i pretty much suck at strokes =(
i didn't try too hard this year because it didn't matter to me anymore. i'm quit competitive swimming after may 4th =D

I'd love to swim, thought I don't know how. I can't even float! Ony as a ball.

^best way to learn is to suck it up and swim to alcatraz


I have a buddy who swims in international competitions and the like. sounds like an exciting life.

I used to swim competitively ; last year for my school.
& kinda still. But yeah. It's lots of hard work to do. Practice six days
a week. I've been swimming ever since i was like five and loving it! LOL.

ooh. i was gonna do that but i can't swim long D:
i have some friends who placed in that last year (or the year before? i forget) though

I used to swim competetively, then I stopped when I moved to a new school. I really hate meets ><;. I still love to swim, though. I started swimming competetively when I was...14? Yeah.

My favorite stroke is Breaststroke, my worst is Backstroke, but my best is Freestyle.

Yay, I swim competitively too!

Let's see...I swim year round. lOL no such thing as an off season for us. ^^U
I've been swimming competitively since 9/ 10 years old...and it's been almost 6 years for me.
My favorite stroke is butterfly and backstroke. I'm an okay breastroker, but I really really dislike freestyle ( I suck at it lol ).

I also swim for my high school, and I'm really proud this year because we won championships and we're undefeated! <3
Sadly, swimming is a a really unappreciated sport here. T^T
I swim the 200 IM and 100 Fly for school.

My times really suck though, lol.
The rest of you are so fast! x)

im mad because my school has no swimming team, and seriously i would choose swimming over any sport.

I'm on the JV swim team but our season just ended
I just started this year, at the last meet I got a 33:12 on my 50 free! which is really good for me..

No.. I just swim for fun.. I think I might
drown if I swim competively.. hahha

i swim competitively and im considered pretty slow in my state which is CA because its lik the home for swimmers and yeah i swim the really long events lik the 200, 500, 1000, and 1650 free and the 400 IM...and i've been swimming since i was lik 5 so its kinda getting tiring but yeah i'm kinda burned out right now cuz i've been going:
58 low in the 100 free
2:01s in the 200 free
5:22 in the 500 free
and my coach is nagging me on how im too slow....evil woman

i swim for my school
varsity for two years (kinda sorta)
i had to sit out this season b/c i injured my right shoulder.
let's see...
i swam the butterfly, IM, breastroke. i hate freestyle & i suck at it.
anyways.
yep. dont remember my times though & they're not very accurate b/c it was when my shoulder was injured.
so yep.

AHAHAHAHS.
i remeber i competed.
I ended first;
bhut i think they desqualifired me coz i done froggie first.
damnit !!
i wanna learn how tooh swimm fasterr.
and tooh be an olympian !!

me too... swam for school since... i was 10...
but acually a synchronized swimmer... but just join swim meets anyway...
I'm pretty slow actually

50 free: 36 seconds
50 breast: 41 seconds

i hate butterfly! its so tiring...
my coach keeps nagging on how i'm slow... ah well

I use to swim competitively for the town's aquatic club. Practices start at 5am in the morning and then i have school at 9am. the training was brutal i don't even know how i survived. we had to wear drag suits and swim lanes in them... and weights.

i did this for a few years until i had to stop due to shoulder injuries. i liked doing the pyramid, butterfly and freestyle.

i was on school swim team too, which made competition alot more easier

now, i'm trying to get rid of the broad shoulders and the thighs

hmm...i'm thinking about joining the swimteam this fall - how are the 'tryouts'? there are clinics right?

i mean - my friend said that an amateur can make it , but she's been swimming since she was 4.

is it different for every school? or do i just...swim? >.<

well club teams normally accept everybody. they don't really have tryouts.
and if you swim club, making your school team shouldn't be hard at all

i'm embarrassed
there's girls here who swim faster than me! hehe
i use to do training and was on the school team for 4-5 years.

50 free: 29 secs
50 breast: 37secs
50 fly: 32 secs
50 back: 35

Yeah i know i'm not that fast

I do competitive swimming but stopped in mid-July this year . I stopped to prepare for a major exam . Pfttt , so I'm expecting myself to go back lifeless and slow ! Lol !

I started training competitively when I was 9-10 , but yeah , I wasn't serious until 12 . HAHA ! I only treated it as a keep-fit programme my parents were making me complete but erm , yeah , I only started taking competitions seriously when I was 12 .

There aren't any four seasons here in Singapore so we literally train everyday . Hmmm , during school breaks , trainings usually step up alot . Like maybe two sessions a day and all .

I peaked when I was 13-14 but my timings have been going downhill since then . LOL ! It's probably because the passion has died down . I'm starting to get tired ! Signs of buring out I suppose ? Hmmm . I suppose I'm alright in all areas but I usually take the 200IM and 100 backstroke events . My timings are like ..... bad but I usually qualify for top eight in school vs. school events . Puahaha .

aw, i'm so jealous of you swimmers):
I TOTALLY FORGOT TO GO TO THE MEETING IN THE SUMMER ------

blegh, next year, next year....

i swim xD

for competitions i do 100m adn 50m freestyle cause i don't like long-distance.. =.="
breastrokeand butterfly for 50m

and i train every/nearly every sunday xD

I've gotten so much slower. I swear I'm going slower and slower every year. lol.

In 5th-7th grade, I used to swim for the town rec. team. The season was from Nov. to May.
I swam the 50 breast and 50 free.
50 breast: high 38 to low 39.
50 free: 31.??

I've been swimming for my school team from 8th grade up till now (11th), which only lasts from mid-August to first week of Nov.
I only swim the breast for the Medley, and the 100 breast.
100 breast: 1:24.09

I'm a swimmer

I've been swimming my whole entire life, but I took a few years off in middle school because I burned out. I started swimming last year again for my school's varsity team as a freshman. I'm still trying to get back into it, but my times are very slow. I'm hoping to make it to districts my senior year (I'm a sophomore right now)

50 free: 34.39
100 free: 116.08
100 fly: 124.54

I am so not a sprinter, but my coach won't put me in any distance events. I would LOVE to try the 200 free and the 200 IM.

It sucks though, I have really bad asthma and practices kill me =/

yup, i swim for my high school. my last season! ~tears~ ha, not. this season's dragged on way too long.

anyway, fastest times ever:

50 free: 26.1 secs
100 free: 1:05.23
100 breast: 1:20.23 <--slooooooooooow
50 fly (for medley relays): 31.21

wow lots of asian swimmers! i swam compet. ever since the 5th grade.
I joined the national YMCA team in high school, but i never made it to trials...
My senior year was my fastest year.
I used to swim 100 back; pr: is like around 1.12-13...
it was considered my best after the obvious 50...and my 50 pr: is 27.48 exactly.
i wasn't very good to continue my swim career..TT...but i still swim; for rec~
jliu6190 are you a girl or a guy?! your times are pretty good! esp. if you're a girl!
STILL! GOOD if you're a guy too! haha

edit: i came in and posted to see times for my bro~ haha yay~

i just ended lessons and started getting serious this year.
im on the JV girls swim team for james logan high.
im super slooowww D; i did back pretty good, until i switched
over to breast. Dx darn. now im an IMer

100 free; 1:40 dropped 8 seconds at MVALS.
100 IM; dunno, but i DID drop 10 seconds at MVALs.
100 back; dunno
100 breast; clueless *__*
i havent kept tabs on my times but i know im realllllyy slow!

i know forsure i cant sprint, and im pretty good at distance
but i think i might choke if i do the 500 free o__o

Lol, my school doesn't have a swimming team. T.T. I don't swim competitively but, I took and finished my swimming lessons in 6th grade. I remember when I used to go swimming every week, and would race my sister. She would always win because I was REALLY fat (lol). I don't swim anymore due to my laziness and I hope I still remember how to swim! Swimming helped my allergies a lot.

I used to swim LOL. Was in a team ever since i was 5 yrs old .. 5 or 6? anyways afterward i stopped after reaching regional comp.. I so regret it and now im too lazy... looking back at those days i won so many medals had soemthing to be proud of now??? im a couch potato with nothing LOL ...
so out of shape -,-

when i was in college... freestyle and backstroke.

o.o i love swimming, my best stroke is the breaststroke and my worsest stroke is the back stroke ...i still haven't leanred the butterfly stroke yet...

Well this is an old thread, but I felt like I should reply.

I'm a breast person, worst is back.

Want all my times? Ok, if you insist

yards
50 fr- 23.06
100 fr- 52.52
200 fr- 1:58.66 (LOL)
500 fr- 5:40.82 (2 years old...but LOL)
100 bk- 1:09.70 (2 years old...but LOL)
200 bk- 2:29.11 (2 years old...but LOL)
100 br- 1:04.23
200 br- 2:27.65 (supposed to be like 10 seconds faster)
100 fly- 1:01.10 (coming straight out of a 200fr)
200 fly- 2:32.51 (2 years old...but LOL)
200 im- 2:13.81 (back kills me)
400 im- 4:53.42 (back kills me)

Notice that the longer a race is, the slower I go. Want my long course times? Ok, if you insist

meters
50 fr- 26.42
100 fr- 1:00.94
200 fr- 2:24.84
400 fr- 5:30.16
1500- 20:01.04
100 bk- 1:25.46
100 br- 1:16.31
200 br- 2:55.76
100 fly- 1:11.80
200 im- 2:39.31
400 im- 5:38.41

all from 2 years ago...

man i love this ego

I learned how to swim when I was 11, then jumped straight into the local USS program

Swim Team: West Coast Aquatics and High School Swim Team
Fastest Time: 1:10 - 100 IM
1:10 - 100 Back
1:09 - 100 Free
0:31 - 50 Free
Best Stroke: 200 IM, 100 Free, 50 Free, 100 Back, 500 Free, Relay Sprints

anybody use those polyurethane swimsuits?



Speaking of which, is going to be banned next year in all national/world competitions

Only competed in High School. Had to stop in college cuhs my college doesn't have a swim team

Here are my best times ^^
50 fly: 28.2 sec.
100 fly: 55.3 sec.
50 fly for the medley relay: 27.9 sec.
200 free: 1 min 50 sec.

My worst:
200 back: 2 min. 15 sec. <--- DON'T ASK! I hatteeeee back stroke. I always feel like im drowning and the blinding sun doesn't help AT ALL.

o_O Wahhhh omgd you guys are alll sooo fast!
I LOVE swimming, but I don't really swim competitively.
I've been swimming (like learning) since like 5 yeaars old and then I completed all levels when I was in like Grade 4 or 5? (not including the patrols/lifeguarding of course; not planning on doing those). But yeah, after that completing the levels, I actually stopped swimming for a LOONNNGGGG time until LAST year when I decided to join my school's swim team.
I figure I should really start swimming regularly, but I'm just a lazy bum.

Unfortunately probably won't be continuing on the team when school starts cuz it clashes in with tutor : (
However, I DO plan on trying to swim each week or something ^^

You guys are amaazinglyyy faast! 20+ secs for 50 free o_O and a bit past a minute for 100m!?!?

must be the swimsuits! lol

Hey, I swam West too! LOL

Oh man, I stopped swimming junior year of high school [would have swam senior year ... but I got sick -.-]
50 Free - 26.8
100 Breast - 1:16.xx
100 Free - 1:03 LOL Don't ask why it's so slow compared to my 50 free XD
50 Breast [relay split] - 34.x

Wish I had been able to keep up with swimming ): I miss it.

our times for fly are pretty same!
i can go around 1:19 for 100fly if i use the starting block / have a good start LOL.
i love butterfly and i've now started to appreciate backstroke (i've always swam backstroke just cause everyone who swim it suck on my teams).
freestyle is alright as well

BREAST STROKE IS MY WORST ONE EVER. i swear i don't even move.

the whole suit ordeal has started to become so big especially after beidermann outswam phelps in the 200 freestyle? or was it 100.. i forget.. but phelps' coach BOB was talking (or threatening ish) to take out phelps from competitive swimming sport until FINA puts the ban on for good (it was suppose to be banned by jan 2010 but apparantly they're moving it further away).

i'm a girl, and i really really want fastskins ):
anyone know any other good swimsuits both for practicing and competitions?
i usually use dolfin uglies and speedo axcel / criss cross back. clubswim suits tend to stretch out too easily for me.

i'm swimming for my school varsity swim team and trying out for Cross Island Y barracudas (USS affiliatedd yay)

I'm not a girl, but I'd take the endurance suits for practice over anything.

I really really envy the girls in the suit ruling. They don't really lose much, we're getting cut off at the waist and knees.

I use to training was very brutal, but i quit at 15 I never liked swimming? was pretty much forced by parents into swimming and then excelled into competition level.
I... regret quitting now, I miss swimming. Thinking if i kept going at it, dam I would've been so toned ._.
Favorite was breaststroke, lol simply because it was the easiest, fastest would be freestyle, and i hate backstroke and somewhat enjoyed Butterfly, it felt as if i was flying? LOL