Swimmers compete in HPER meet
“Swim fast. Have fun,” Scott Wamsley, campus recreation director, said to start off the intramural swim meet Saturday at the HPER.
Every year Campus Recreation holds a swim meet for students and non-students. Wamsley said they tried to hold it once a semester, but trimmed it back to try and get more swimmers to participate.
“We average about 15-20 swimmers now,” Wamsley said. “I’d like to average about 25-30. We’ll keep working at it.”
Saturday’s meet had 14 swimmers, both men and women, and consisted of nine events including 50, 100, and 500 meter freestyle, 100 meter backstroke, breaststroke, and fly, two relays, and the 100 meter individual medley where swimmers demonstrate all four strokes.
Wamsley said that most of the kids that participate swam in high school and just come to have fun. Many swimmers said they had been looking forward to the event. Darcy McMullin was one of them.
“As soon as I got in the water I loved it. I think the chlorine seeps through the skin. You just can’t get enough,” McMullin said.
McMullin, like many swimmers, competed in five different events and she was the only female swimmer of the 100 meter fly.
“It’s the fly. It doesn’t mater if you are tired or not. Once you get started you’re going to die anyway,” she said.
There was a $5 entrance fee for students and an $8 fee for non-students. Wamsley said the fee goes to pay for lifeguard and the staff that runs the meet.
Winners receive a USU intramural t-shirt, which Wamsley said, could be picked up some time this week.
-mikayliek@cc.usu.edu