Incredible performance by Team USA and especially Team UVA!
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Swimmers can keep prize money?
This used to be a (really stupid) issue with college tennis players when they would get into major tournaments and win some money.
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Gretchen keeps making her case for the best short-course swimmer ever - yards or meters.
She will only get better and learn to finish stronger in long-course over the next few years leading up to LA 2028, too.
She loses some of her underwater advantage, but given what weāve heard from her, sheāll be determined to overcome that.
The training partnership with Douglass, Alex and Curzan has to be incredible.
And I really hope Curzan can get her shot again, too.
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F is short course?
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25m pool instead of 50m. College competes in 25m, Olympics are 50m pool.
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Ah got it and thank you
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college racing is primarily 25 yard pools, but a lot of pools in the US are also 25 meters.
Itās raced less, and most international-level meets are 50-meter pools.
International swimmers love to criticize US colleges for swimming in the ābathtubā.
Until they get their ass kicked by Walsh and Douglass.
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Kind of.
They can keep their expenses. The rest gets funneled through USA Swimming, and back to the athlete in ways allowed by the NCAA.
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Gretchen better book herself business class on the way home them. Maybe go the other direction and connect through Tokyo, for expense reasons.
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Itās Hoo we are now.
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Theyāre holding the 2028 LA Olympics swimming events at SoFi Stadium, where the Rams and Chargers play. Iām sure we could use Scott for better purposes than football. Or JPJ. Kidding, not kidding?
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Those with the deepest pockets get to keep their stadium
The James River is free. Or better yet I have a nice 1/4 mile stretch Iād been willing to lend for a price
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Gretchen Walsh made more in seven days in Budapest than any of our current football players will make next year in the NFL (they wonāt make a dime; Walsh garnered about $300K).
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Sankerās gonna get drafted. 300k is the signing bonus of a mid 5th round pick. Minimum salary is just short of a mil.
But then again, none of that is guaranteed. If a guy can make 500k+ for an extra year in college, Iād absolutely sign up for that over uncertain draft prospects and potentially getting cut at any time.
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To each their own, but I donāt understand the rejection of a gold-standard UVa program. I think we should celebrate all of themā¦even the non-revsā¦when they deserve it.
Iām hopeful we can turn a corner in revenue sports, but that aināt a game weāve demonstrated we know how to play yet. For now, weāre a swimming, baseball, lax, and tennis school.
It was nice to be a basketball school for a while. Hope we get back there. Juryās out of football until we see how our Hessians do vs everyone elseās.
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Soccer and Field Hockey also very good
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Good point
It is becoming a funny thing right? If I were being devils advocate I would say āgreat. Swimmers take Virginia resources etc and be great and all but they dont really give anything back the the Universityā perse.
I saw the ādual meetā was sold out etc So whats that? 2000 people there (I dont know).
I totally know what you mean but end of the day what does having a swimming dynasty for UVa really mean? For the actual swimmers even that just need a pool
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Also menās cross country finished 21st in the last rankings and the women finished 14th.
That was their placing also in the National Championshipsā¦. Pretty good!
Menās Soccer finished ranked 17th
Womenās soccer finished ranked 26th
Menās Swimming currently ranked 17th
Women #1
Field Hockey finished ranked #4 and lost in the madness to the eventual champion Northwestern
Volleyball just finished 21-11 - most wins since 2006
Softball won 34 games and also won 2 games in the madness
Track and Field
Men finished ranked #8
Women finished ranked #40
Lacrosse
Men finished 4th
Women finished 14th
Tennis
Men finished #4
Women finished #8
Womenās Doubles team just won the national title Nov 24
(CollardChervinsky)
Both are preseason top 10 - men largely on reputation as they lost a ton of talent and best recruit went pro instead
Wrestling -
Dylan Cedeno just named ACC wrestler of the week!! Letās go!!!
Letās go Hoos!!!
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Do they even charge for a swim meet ticket?
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