By Ailish Dougherty, Swimming World College Intern.
Is a four-month swim season a blessing or a curse? For many DIII college swimmers, the adjustment from a year-round club swimming season to a winter-only season can be jarring. Because training is not necessarily mandated during the spring and summer months, it can be especially challenging for new college swimmers to stay in shape and motivated during their first extended off-season.
High school club swimmers are required to train constantly for about an 11-month season, so not having a structured training plan during the spring and summer in college puts the responsibility, for the first time, on the swimmers themselves to stay physically fit. There is no official punishment for not swimming during the off-season — except for the pain of returning to the pool for pre-season after a lazy summer — and this consequence can seem distant and unthreatening in February when the season ends.
Tufts junior Neil Spazzarini reveals a struggle that many swimmers face: “I couldn’t make myself practice early in the morning during the summer. All I swam all summer was 800 yards during a triathlon – I felt awful in the fall because I was so out of shape.â€
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