Thanks for providing the exposure this sport deserves. Hopefully this will spur on other media to jump in and broadcast some of our international competitions.
My daughter started out in this sport with park and rec and moved to the competition level about 4 years ago. she has never been forced to participate. For 7 years this has always been her decision and her passion has not diminished.
We are from a small team which strives to stay afloat financially. Most people think that swimming would be inexpensive, NOT!! For a small team of about 35 swimmers our pool fees range about $3,000 a month, no break from the city. Sometimes we even have trouble getting a pool to swim in. Between water polo, speed swim, diving, and synchro our fairly large desert town does not have enough space to accommodate all of us. Great coaches and choreographers cost money too (they are not volunteers). Parents are always volunteering to help out, but the expertise required in this sport, does not really allow us to do any volunteer coaching. By the way, one of our best choreographers and coaches is male and many of the former Olympic synchro swimmers do go on to swim in Cirque Shows. This is a great, no fabulous sport which gets very little media attention. This is unfortunate!!! It would be great to get coverage on ESPN or the major networks, if just for our larger international competitions. The girls love watching their National Teams compete and at this time we are lucky to see it on a webcast. By the way youtube has the National Team combo routine in full from the world cup in Russia.Ti's awesome.
My daughter started out in this sport with park and rec and moved to the competition level about 4 years ago. she has never been forced to participate. For 7 years this has always been her decision and her passion has not diminished.
We are from a small team which strives to stay afloat financially. Most people think that swimming would be inexpensive, NOT!! For a small team of about 35 swimmers our pool fees range about $3,000 a month, no break from the city. Sometimes we even have trouble getting a pool to swim in. Between water polo, speed swim, diving, and synchro our fairly large desert town does not have enough space to accommodate all of us. Great coaches and choreographers cost money too (they are not volunteers). Parents are always volunteering to help out, but the expertise required in this sport, does not really allow us to do any volunteer coaching. By the way, one of our best choreographers and coaches is male and many of the former Olympic synchro swimmers do go on to swim in Cirque Shows. This is a great, no fabulous sport which gets very little media attention. This is unfortunate!!! It would be great to get coverage on ESPN or the major networks, if just for our larger international competitions. The girls love watching their National Teams compete and at this time we are lucky to see it on a webcast. By the way youtube has the National Team combo routine in full from the world cup in Russia.Ti's awesome.
