OK this thread is going to be part SD Championship and part being proud of the Marshall turn around. The SD championships just wrapped up at the McAuley Aquatic Center on the campus of GA Tech.

Marshall finished 2nd behind nationally ranked FIU. While scoring 222 points in 3 days. This is a huge step for Marshall considering only 4 years ago I was EMailing Mike Hamrick about once a week to implore him to shut SD down. Marshall had just finished the SD season without a win and without scoring at least 10 points in 4 meets. The program was in shambles. Then stepped in Bill Tramel, associate SD coach at Minnesota.

By the end of his 1st year there was a drastic change. In is 1st year there was 19 Marshall records had fell and 31 individual records fell in the season. This week alone Marshall medaled 16 times.

CUSA has swimming and diving? News to me.

Something something carrot.

(02-26-2016 10:00 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  Something something carrot.

Something something dumb***

(02-26-2016 09:53 PM)DogsWin1 Wrote:  CUSA has swimming and diving? News to me.

Yes we do. FIU swim women, as our beat writer calls them, wrapped up the back to back championship before the final day of competition tomorrow.

(02-26-2016 10:27 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(02-26-2016 10:00 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  Something something carrot.

Something something dumb***

Good one.

(02-27-2016 10:46 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-26-2016 10:27 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(02-26-2016 10:00 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  Something something carrot.

Something something dumb***

Good one.

Just don't let them in your bed! Or near your wallets!

Quote:
"It's pissy pissy time time time! It's pissy pissy time time time! Now where she go? Where she go? Where she go? With my money? My money? My money?"

All I can say is, be glad WKU axed our swimming team, or we would have won it. Again.

Our swimming and diving used to be great till someone cried to mommy about hazing

The original poster is wrong. Marshall finished third, Rice did finish a close second ahead of Marshall. The results online had it wrong right away as Marshall swam two relay teams in the final race and only one team's results count in the scoring.

Congrats to the top three teams (which clearly were ahead of places 4-6). FIU has a quality team with a lot of foreign swimmers. Rice is young this year but I think has a chance to challenge FIU next year for the title (even though we don't have a diving program). Marshall obviously has improved a ton as the other posters have said.

Swimming is an up-and-coming sport among young athletes (I have two girls who are swimmers myself). It's astonishing to see how many really good young swimmers there are in my part of Texas.

(02-28-2016 03:11 AM)SigNuTopper Wrote:  All I can say is, be glad WKU axed our swimming team, or we would have won it. Again.

Rice women won 2014 (and all the years before that ), FIU women won 2015 & 2016. What is this "Again" that you speak of?

(02-28-2016 03:59 PM)FIU4Ever Wrote:  

(02-28-2016 03:11 AM)SigNuTopper Wrote:  All I can say is, be glad WKU axed our swimming team, or we would have won it. Again.

Rice women won 2014 (and all the years before that ), FIU women won 2015 & 2016. What is this "Again" that you speak of?

We won the men's.

(02-28-2016 07:24 PM)SigNuTopper Wrote:  

(02-28-2016 03:59 PM)FIU4Ever Wrote:  

(02-28-2016 03:11 AM)SigNuTopper Wrote:  All I can say is, be glad WKU axed our swimming team, or we would have won it. Again.

Rice women won 2014 (and all the years before that ), FIU women won 2015 & 2016. What is this "Again" that you speak of?

We won the men's.

Mermen don't belong in a carrot thread!

Come on, everyone knows the best divers all play soccer.