Swimming at the Next Level
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How did the intrasquad meet fair this weekend? I'm a little surprised Miami still shows 35 on their roster. Have they determined the travel squad yet for their MAC opener this Saturday? BTW, tell Sam to be really careful on his first turn. I hear the SIU walls are funky and can cause problems.
I will tell you all about it with an inbox message. The roster is down to 30 men now, 5 were cut. They just have not updated the website. Not sure how many are traveling, maybe 24, not completely sure.
For all the HS swimmers out there. The past 6 weeks of college swimming have been fantastic for my son. The unity of the team, the immediate base of support as a freshman in college and the new level of leadership has been a huge bonus to his swimming career. I certainly recommend trying it at whatever level works for you.
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ErikTheFly
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This Erik Risolvato I swim for Lima shawnee and have talked to the head coach of osu along with many other colleges and they are not just grabbing a bunch of walk ons. Osu is dedicated to building a sprint program and they have started doing so by bringing in the fastest seniors in the state most of those seniors going to osu are no walk ons they are getting some sort of scholarship money and it is more then room and board. the university of cincinnati is working on getting back there mens program and it looks like they will be giving out scholarship money with in the next year possible. I am a junior this year at Lima Shawnee and currently training for the olympic trials i hear a lot about the new things the colleges want to do with there programs because most every college in the country is trying to contact me and I have Gary Hall Sr. as an advisor to me it seems that ohio is a huge recruiting ground for swimming although most of the high school seniors are going to osu and local school many home schooled kids are branching out to bigger schools. OSU will defentally be a team to watch this year along with arizona and auburn and of course Cal and Texas but there are a few schools that will be moving up in the NCAA rankings this year that is for sure.
As a junior and not eligible to have any discussions regarding recruiting with colleges yet, be careful of your NCAA compliance. Here is a link to the NCAA calendar.
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/AMA/recruiting_calendars/2011/I/Other Sport Guide.pdf
Above all, keep your grades and test scores up.
ErikTheFly
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as of september first all division 1 schools are allowed to contact juniors no i do not talk to them about money but i can talk about swimming and the school and what im looking for i have a standard reply to all the colleges that contact me because i'm training for trials and dnt have time to focus on colleges and also i have my eyes locked on auburn.
Like preeder said, you need to keep your grades up. Here is a little math lesson 
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You say they are bringing in the fastest seniors in the state and MOST ...are getting scholarship and it is MORE than room and board.
Of the high school seniors they brought in, 21 show up as freshmen on their roster. MOST of 21 would mean at least 11 (because 10 or less would be less than half and not represent MOST of the number 21).
Room and board at OSU is listed as $10164, tuition is $9735. OSU is allowed 9.9 scholarships by NCAA rules. That means they have a budget of roughly $200,000 for their swim/dive team. I know that is not exact, and out-of-state tuition fees muddle things, and nobody publishes actual budgets and actual scholarship amounts, but it is easier to do math with numbers rather than adjectives.
If they give MORE than room & board to MOST of the freshmen, that would mean at least:
11 x $10164 = $111,804
That is over half their total scholarship budget going to a single class. But they have to share the total budget among sophomores, juniors and seniors. Do you believe someone that tells you Ohio State has spread their scholarship money like this:
freshmen: $110,000
sophomore: $30,000
junior: $30,000
senior: $30,000
total =$200,000
But if you can provide a list of eleven freshman from Ohio that receive over $10k in scholarship from OSU, I would be very impressed. Statistically on average, one-quarter of their scholarship budget is allocated to each class, for example, $50,000. That means that not even five freshman can be given MORE than room/board because that would be $50,820. But if they did give five freshman room/board, that would leave zero dollars for the other 16 freshman. That would imply 5 on scholarship and 16 walkon. Which makes more sense:
11 or more with over $10k or
most guys are either walk-ons or receive less than $2000 for books and sundries?
But realistically, you won't care what any college is offering other freshman. It will only matter whey they are offering to you.
I wonder, who told you that MOST of the freshmen are getting MORE than room/board? Maybe OSU has found another way to fund athletes (like boosters have been doing for the football team).
.You say they are bringing in the fastest seniors in the state and MOST ...are getting scholarship and it is MORE than room and board.
Of the high school seniors they brought in, 21 show up as freshmen on their roster. MOST of 21 would mean at least 11 (because 10 or less would be less than half and not represent MOST of the number 21).
Room and board at OSU is listed as $10164, tuition is $9735. OSU is allowed 9.9 scholarships by NCAA rules. That means they have a budget of roughly $200,000 for their swim/dive team. I know that is not exact, and out-of-state tuition fees muddle things, and nobody publishes actual budgets and actual scholarship amounts, but it is easier to do math with numbers rather than adjectives.
If they give MORE than room & board to MOST of the freshmen, that would mean at least:
11 x $10164 = $111,804
That is over half their total scholarship budget going to a single class. But they have to share the total budget among sophomores, juniors and seniors. Do you believe someone that tells you Ohio State has spread their scholarship money like this:
freshmen: $110,000
sophomore: $30,000
junior: $30,000
senior: $30,000
total =$200,000
But if you can provide a list of eleven freshman from Ohio that receive over $10k in scholarship from OSU, I would be very impressed. Statistically on average, one-quarter of their scholarship budget is allocated to each class, for example, $50,000. That means that not even five freshman can be given MORE than room/board because that would be $50,820. But if they did give five freshman room/board, that would leave zero dollars for the other 16 freshman. That would imply 5 on scholarship and 16 walkon. Which makes more sense:
11 or more with over $10k or
most guys are either walk-ons or receive less than $2000 for books and sundries?
But realistically, you won't care what any college is offering other freshman. It will only matter whey they are offering to you.
I wonder, who told you that MOST of the freshmen are getting MORE than room/board? Maybe OSU has found another way to fund athletes (like boosters have been doing for the football team).
RussRosler
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Collegeswimming.com shows Christopher Depietro, class of 2012, from Lancaster, commitment to Ohio State.
ErikTheFly
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Osu like most other schools is not going to use those full rides they are going to split them up with many swimmers unless your the top recruit in the country and then your getting a full ride I know a rival of mine just got a full ride with osu for swmming and will be with them next season. but what many programs do because they only have so much money is they go to the school and tell the academic boared to give the students money. I know many of the new recruits and they are getting more than room and bored. many of them will get only room and bored because they are freshmen yes but most will be bumped up after there freshmen year. i find it idiotic that a freshmen would get less money just because they are new on the team even if they are one of the fastest but I plan on having a full ride so that wouldnt apply to me (im not saying that in a cocky manor im just speaking my oppion)