The College of William & Mary needs your help reversing a troubling trend in college swimming. The decimation of Olympic sports at the college level has begun picking up steam during the past few months and just became a reality for the College of William & Mary men’s and women’s swim teams, also known as Tribe Swimming.
These two highly successful teams were eliminated in a six-minute Zoom call, along with women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s track and field, and men’s and women’s gymnastics. The College of William & Mary swim teams are extraordinarily successful in athletics and academics.
The dwindling number of opportunities to swim at the college level is a trend that we want to reverse now, starting with the College of William & Mary. Swimming has great value for young athletes, whether they are the stars of their teams, striving to improve, or just love the sport. Top swimmers should not be the only ones who benefit from continuing their swimming career into college. A mid-major program like the one at the College of William & Mary provides opportunities for still-developing swimmers. Most athletes will not swim on a power-five conference team, but the swim program at the College of William & Mary provides hard-working athletes with the balanced academic and athletic college experience that so many desire.
Our swimmers need the chance to achieve their dreams in the pool, in the classroom, and in life.
