Anna Breck
Math being used in sports is becoming more common over the years. For instance take swimming, swimming has two different seasons, short course(25 yards) and long course (50 meters), to have beginning season long course times the coach will often take the short course time and convert it. Most commonly a good estimation of a long course time is adding 10 seconds per one hundred to the short course time. This would mean if I swam a 1:00 100 freestyle, my long course time should be around 1:10. These conversions help kids to be placed where they will be challenged the most. The right competition can help them go faster. These conversion times also help kids qualify for meets that they made in short course without having to go through the stress of qualifying again. For example, in short course I qualified for an age championships, my conversion time from qualifying has allowed me to go again for long course.
Anna Breck
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Megan Huston
5/4/2016 12:16:59 pm
This is true that swimmers have to use math in their practices. We have to also calculate when to go if the interval is 1:45. Just like you said, the coach gives you a time to make base on your short course time. It is funny how much math we us on a daily bases while swimming.
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Blake Summers
5/4/2016 01:54:05 pm
GOOD JOB ANNA!!! I like how you used swimming because you also swim. There is some math when it comes to swimming, I do agree. I think it's interesting how they make swimming pools and how they have to determine the length of the pool like with the depth. I have not gone swimming in so long. I couldn't even imagine going as fast as you were saying in your post. But good job overall.
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5/4/2016 02:56:52 pm
I am surprised to see how much math goes into calculating the position of a swimmer. Since I knew nothing about professional swimming before, this helped to clear up some confusions. You did a good job of explaining how people are placed based on their times in certain courses.
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Caroline Foy
5/4/2016 03:09:14 pm
Good post Anna! I liked how you connected math into something you do on a daily basis. In my opinion, that is how you learn better. When you connect something to something to remember it. It's also cool how math can be in sports as well.
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Navya Dixit
5/4/2016 03:26:02 pm
Great post, I can relate to your post as well. Since this was my first time swimming long course for my age division, our coach took my 12 year old regional qualifying time for the 100 back and converted it to long course, like he did with yours. However, I was slower than this time because I could not do a flip turn at the middle walls. That said, do you think conversion formulas in swimming are always accurate or do you think they depend on the swimmers ability in long course?
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Anna Breck
5/5/2016 06:47:42 am
I honestly think it depends on the swimmer because during longer distances it is harder for people, including myself, to keep up their endurance.
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Emma
5/4/2016 06:56:09 pm
I'm not really familiar with how swim teams/meets work, so this was interesting to read. That's cool that you can use math not only for measurements or times, but to help you figure out where you need to improve or what events would fit you best (if I understood you correctly.) It makes sense that you enjoy both math and swimming, since they're related. ;)
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Caleb Whitted
5/5/2016 04:46:09 pm
Being someone that is interested in swimming next year I found this really interesting. I did not realize that times could be converted so easily and could be accurate. Great post!
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Blanca Pineda
5/5/2016 06:27:59 pm
Many sports use math and I find interesting how coaches can just convert the short course to long course in order to find out how long the swimmer would take. It is easier that way for them instead of having the swimmer actually do a long course and so it ends up being time efficient.
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Daniela
5/6/2016 06:10:36 am
Great post. It'seems interesting see how many people did there blog post on things they do. You are right, when people swim they do need to calculate the distance and the time.
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Abi Lewis
5/6/2016 06:29:28 am
I did not know a lot about swimming and I found it interesting how you can determine the long course time by taking the short course time. Very good post.
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Christa Casidsid
5/6/2016 07:10:21 am
I did not know there was a way to test a swimmer for a long swim using a short course. But it is pretty cool to know how much they can stand a chance to win at competitions for the long courses. They can even strive to improve rather than practicing without a goal.
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Bryce Garner
5/6/2016 07:17:15 am
This was a very interesting post! It was cool to see how the math used in swimming helps to place different people into categories. Also it was interesting how in a sport where you would think no math is involved besides time, their is actually math involved!
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