Swimmers are a different breed. My boys went that route from age 5. One went on to Puget Sound University team as a walk-on, he liked it so much (that cost us some travel money!!) - he was the worst one on the team, of course, the rest of them having swim scholarships.
For the most part, swimmers don't talk trash like foot-ballers or wrestlers (the other of my swimmers also did wrestling in HS - the PSU kid did track in HS). We kept busy, those years....
There was this one memorable event at State when the wrestler mojo over-took the swimmer persona..... cracked the whole team up - in fact, both adjoining teams as well, including the perp's... but the other guy started it.
The exact quote, as related to me by Ty's team member was (delivered dead-pan, poker-faced, even-toned, without inflection after several provocative statements) was, "You couldn't beat me if you had a rocket strapped to your ass."
He couldn't, either (sans rocket). This was in the 50 Free. Ty finished second behind his team-mate. Later, swimming Free in the 400 Relay, Ty beat his team-mates earlier 50-Free time, helping secure 200 Relay first place. Soldotna tied with Juneau at State that year for overall first points to 4 decimal places. They had to make another first place trophy, in no small part to the relay finish.
OK - I'm 15 years late bragging on that kid.....
Did my time in flip-flops and whistle myself, Mike. Good times.
Well- maybe except for the first State Bartlett meet we went to. As I recall, we spent 3 days in Anchorage and $1,000 (about half at Costco) to watch Blake swim for 30 seconds.... .
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