A Thought on High School Swimming

Just something I was thinking about recently...

With many swimmers also competing on club teams, swimming is one of the few sports at the High School level where teams do not typically practice together. Many coaches see the club swimmers on their teams once a week, or only at the meets, often encouraging these swimmers to go to the other teams, where the workouts are often of higher intensity. On one hand this might lead to disunity on the team, but on the other hand, it leads to faster swimming by the club swimmers, and an increased ability for the coaches to focus on the high school only swimmers. Now, obviously swimming does not have the teamwork factor like maybe basketball, where teamwork is so essential to winning a game. Is there really one conclusive answer? I would say not, but logically it seems to make more sense for the club swimmers to practice mainly with their clubs, and occasionally go to the high school practices and meets to check in with the coaches, and make sure all is well.
For my next post, I am going to attempt to take a look at some of the downstate schools as best as I am able, considering I have an admittedly limited knowledge of the schools south of New Castle County.