By Julia Cunningham, Swimming World College Intern
I will preface this article by explaining that I am in no way articulating anyone else’s viewpoint but my own personal one.
I am a female, Chinese-American athlete. I also am adopted, so without seeing me, I could be Caucasian. I have competed for club, high school and collegiate teams in Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Jersey, and New York, and, while I have never faced any racial discrimination as a minority, there are some things that I have noticed through my experiences.
Swimming, of course, is expensive and time-consuming. By default, then, it traditionally is a middle, upper-middle class sport: a “white person†sport. While it is moving away from that stereotype at the lower levels, the statistics in colleges are still appalling. Data collected during the 2014-15 school year shows 19 percent of DI swimmers, and 21 percent of DIII swimmers are non-white.
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