Just as we thought, swimming and diving weren't included in the "Spring Sports Preview," just as they weren't included in the "Fall Sports Preview." We begin practice on the first day of classes, begin meets in early October, continue practicing through Christmas and have most of the team finish up their season in late February with competition at the ACC. But no one knows that because we can't even get "previewed." Our sport spends double the time practicing and competing than any other sport on campus, aside from wrestling, which was also left out of the fall and spring previews.
It really isn't surprising that we were left out as a "fall" sport, because half of our meets are in the spring, including ACCs. Of course it really isn't surprising that we were left out as a "spring" sport either. We may not be NCAA title contenders, and we may not receive monthly checks from the athletic department paying us back for being their athletes, but we practice two times a day five times a week, and we compete in home and away meets just as every other team on campus does.
With the trouble of labeling swimming and diving and wrestling as a fall or spring sport, just call us winter sports, and we can get our own little add-in in The Chronicle.
Good luck to us at ACCs, Feb. 20-22 for the women and Feb. 27-March 1 for the men. And good luck to the wrestling team on losing weight, and competing at their ACC competition, and hopefully NCAAs for both teams. Wake up The Chronicle, you are leaving two of the hardest working teams on campus out of your "previews."
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