Ann Arbor Named #1 City for Swimming
For the second consecutive year, a study commissioned by USA Swimming tabbed Ann Arbor, Mich., as the country’s best swimming city.Ann Arbor has the largest percentage of top USA Swimming athletes per population and the second-highest number of pool facilities per population of any city in the country. More than 60 Olympians came through the University of Michigan’s swim program, including 2012 Olympic champion Tyler Clary and fellow gold medalist Tom Dolan.
Weird because according to their map the best city is Flint.
There's also a minor typo in the second paragraph (corrected in the OP). Yay Sports Illustrated!
"Ann Arbor’s has the largest percentage of top USA..."
That's Bay City.
Close but the map to me more like Tuscola County.
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To be fair, of course, a good long swim up and down the Cass River probably wouldn't be all that bad....well, OK, the ducks and geese and the general related items, but a challenge all the same, I am sure. The good news is that if you can manage to work your way westward from the lake, you'll eventually end up in Frankenmuth.
Nice!
I would have figured Atlantis, but then again, maybe nobody from there could swim.
Didn't Michael Phelps train at Michigan too? By many measures, he's the best swimmer in the history of humans.
Yup. Was in my freshman year psychology lecture as well. This was when he was a big deal, but before he was a "greatest Olympian of all time" big deal (2005).
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Michael did train here, but the majority of his training was arm curling at Touchdown's and Rick's.
SI included a slideshow/gallery of Phelps, which shows this 2005 cover:
Odd that a city in Michigan not next to a Great Lake is deemed the best swimming city.
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The Huron river isn't that deep and you can use your feet to run while making swimming motions.
but who's #1 for drowning?
Pioneer, Huron, Skyline, Saline, Dexter, Chelsea HS all have been top 5 in their respective divisions. Many of the top HS kids swim at top D1 schools. Pioneer has an incoming freshman, the second on the roster, at UM which is an international swim program this fall. Very impressive.
Interestingly, Pioneer was just dominant for years, but the addition of Skyline really cut into the heart of the Pioneer pipeline taking kids who started swimming at AACC, HVSC and Barton. Funny how coach Hill retired right when Skyline opened. But it made things much more competitive now that Pioneer isn't just smoking everyone anymore
But it's pretty impossible to compete with
Catholic and private schools who recruit athletes.
Pioneers new coach, the former UM asst women's swim coach, will keep them on their winning ways.
I'm a big swimming fan and all, but let me know when Ann Arbor is the #1 football city in the country.
For me, the endless stream of articles and rankings hailing Ann Arbor as one of the best places to live jumped the shark today with this poll about swimming -- an activity that breeds good health and a dominant Olympic sport – that rated as, well, just a strange poll.
I would agree about the best place to live articles, but this was in a swimming magazine for swimmers.
Although being the U-M HC he thinks globally in regard to swimming.
I was thinking Lapeer...
as #1 swimming city.
thats the biggest pool in the survey....
Could have told you that. I did a pretty sweet cannonball at the Buhr Park Pool last weekend
and immediately thought "Yeah... so you've never seen the Huron have you?"