Swimmers

u§ername · 08-16-2008, 04:08 AM

I know MIT doesn't focus on sports, but how fast are swimmers at MIT?

for free/back/breast/fly and male/female (basically everything)

Oh and preferrably 50M or 100M

molliebatmit · 08-16-2008, 10:25 AM

There are swimming records posted here, but I don't see typical meet stats on the swimming website.

I don't know that I'd say MIT doesn't focus on sports -- about 20% of undergrads participate in varsity athletics, and about 80% participate in intramural or club sports. Certainly many students are focused on sports.

rainynightstarz · 08-17-2008, 01:58 AM

my supervisor from my internship went to MIT. He played football in high school, and still enjoys sailing and tennis.
If you visit, you can probably see people flying frisbees around in front of student center, playing soccer on Killian court, throwing footballs around dorm row, or playing capture-the-flag after midnight in the dark XP.
There are people at MIT that are into sports, but they probably didn't come to MIT for sports.
MIT provides a big range of different sports for students to try. PE classes like sailing, skiing, and pistol can't be found at every college.

u§ername · 08-17-2008, 03:01 AM

ummm i just meant they didn't recruit like the ivies or stanford does. Ofcourse people are into sports....

thanks molliebat... wow they're that fast? that's like olympic level....

jessiehl · 08-18-2008, 10:11 AM

Is that yards or meters? Some of those distances are kinda strange for meter races.

electronblue · 08-18-2008, 04:54 PM

Yards. If you follow the links from the swim team page you can find full meet results from last year. MIT has some very fast swimmers. My daughter would like to continue swimming in college but tends to think she's not fast enough for MIT. Does anyone have any insight into trying out for the swim team as a walk-on? Are they all recruits?

molliebatmit · 08-18-2008, 08:28 PM

I very much doubt they're all recruits, and even sports which recruit a great deal (that is to say, to a moderate degree

) have walk-ons.

jessiehl · 08-19-2008, 09:16 AM

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Yards.

To the person who was saying that the swimmers were Olympic-fast...there's the catch.

MIT does have a very strong team, though.

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Does anyone have any insight into trying out for the swim team as a walk-on? Are they all recruits?

I can't really answer this, but the large majority of MIT varsity sports consist largely of walk-ons. In some sports, many of the walk-ons had never played the sport before. She should contact the coaches and ask them what they think of her chances.

u§ername · 08-19-2008, 06:23 PM

wait how much is a yard? I don't understand the arbitrary US measurements...

Mcubed23 · 08-19-2008, 06:43 PM

does mit favor those who are in varsity sports?

molliebatmit · 08-19-2008, 09:18 PM

A yard is 0.91 meters.

A varsity sport is a great extracurricular for an MIT application, but it's not automatically a better extracurricular than something else. Since MIT is division III, athletes are not recruited in the traditional sense. All admitted varsity athletes are held to the same standards as other admitted students.

u§ername · 08-20-2008, 04:42 AM

wow that's still VERY fast.... a lot faster than me...

anyone know why there's only up to 2004 results? and why the 9th place is like 20 seconds slower than the rest?

I need to start practicing again... haven't swam in a while.

thanks again mollitbat!

thunderbird1990 · 08-22-2008, 12:24 PM

Ok, so the MIT swim team is excellent; consistently top ten or so of Division III schools nation-wide.

Here are a few times posted by some of MIT's top swimmers this best year:

100 Breast: 54.97
50 Free: 21.56
500 Free: 4:51.40
100 Fly 53.21
200 Breast 2:09.96
200 Free 1:45.43
200 Fly 2:00.99

*Keep in mind, these are times posted in news articles on the MIT athletics website, so--for example--a 23-second 50 free may well make the team.