Swimmer Research Project Sunday March 29th

What do you know about USA Top Athletes?

Project time!  Sometimes knowing a little more about your sport can help you take things to the next level.  We can often look at more experienced athletes and draw some motivation from them in so many ways.  How they have climbed to the top, struggles that they may have overcome along the way and a look inside their way of thinking can often help us all in different ways.

• Step 1:  Pick a top USA athlete.  It could be an athlete in your favorite stroke/event if you don't already have one.  This can be a current or retired athlete.
• Step 2:  Write which club and/or college team they swim for.
• Step 3:  Write their best times in their top 1-4 events for Long Course.
• Step 4:  Write your best times in those events for Long Course.
• Step 5:  Find out how close you are to the next time standard (B? BB? A?) or how close you are to FLAGS?
• Step 6:  Write down a quote that they have somewhere from an interview that you think shows what kind of athlete they are.
• Step 7:  Write any "greatest hits" or other fun facts that you may find.  Have they been to the Olympics?  World Champ Team?  World/American records?  NCAA Championships?  Do they have a pet?
• Step 8:  Include a great picture of them in the water as well as out of the water.  

Put this all together on a word document and send it to your coach!
Here are some links that may help you:

• 2019 USA World Champ Roster
• 2016 USA Olympic Team Roster
• USA Swimming SWIMS Database Times Lookup
• Time Standards Page