Does anyone know anything about high school swimming?
High school swimming is very competitive in some parts of the country, and nonexistent in others. A high school swim program is a great opportunity to be part of a team while challenging yourself with individual goals. Also, since swimming is one of the best sports for utilizing all of your muscles plus conditioning your heart and lungs, it is a great sport that you can continue practicing your entire life to maintain excellent health. In high school, all teams practice a daily after-school workout that consists of between 2,500 and 4,000 yards of lap conditioning. Interspersed with swimming laps, you will practice racing starts, flip turns, breast and butterfly turns, plus drills that build stroke, kick and breathing skills. Many schools hold early morning workouts on school days as well, in order to get enough yardage in to achieve the best possible conditioning for the athletes. Your school will host swim meets for competing high schools, and your team will travel to other pools for meets as well. Your coach will determine which team members will compete in each race, and events will include races from 50 yard sprints to 500 yard distances. The four strokes included are freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly, plus team relays in freestyle and IM–individual medley including all 4 strokes–and individual IM races. If you have a winning team, you can progress to the regional meet and some of your swimmers may qualify for state competition. Swimming on a high school team can be a great experience in comradery, team play, and individual challenges.
Hope this helps, HS swimming is very fun, their is usually no limit unless their is an absolutely a large amount of people wanting to join the team. I would also expect early morning practices some schools do that and then others have after school practices for about 1 hour 30 minutes to about 2 hours or longer and you just basically do drills the entire time, their are sprints and those are killer, and theirs all the strokes, breast, free, back, fly, and a state qualifying time is around 22 seconds give or take, but thast just what it is around for most states in a 50 free. It depends on what strokes your good at, and I would highly recommend working on your breathing and seeing how mayn strokes you can take without breathing for free, as for breast you have to breathe every stroke, and fly it just depends on when you need to breathe. I would also work on flip turns if you have no clue what they are you migth need to learn, just start them at the T at the bottom of the pool, and if yo
