[swimchickslam]

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!

[ayane.sempai]

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.

[ji-hae]

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

[InfiniteTime]

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

[lavachefolle]

^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.

[bohemianheart.]

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.

[swimchickslam]

^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.

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

[cyberfruit]

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.

[fu yuen]

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)

[ayane.sempai]

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

[lollypops]

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..

[donnalauj]

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

[stephaniemsja18]

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

[lovablekrnstar63]

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.

[lido0l_zen]

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 !!

[Kimx0x0]

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

[suki_*]

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

[hanie]

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? >.<

[swimchickslam]

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

[Shiwen]

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