Emory Swim Team Featured in Swimming World Magazine

The men's and women's swimming team was featured in an article in Swimming World last week.

The article discusses the unique opportunities Division III athletics gives student athletes and highlights the team trip to Italy.

From Swimming World:

Division III schools are typically some of the best academic schools in the country, and many offer specialty classes for specific majors that students cannot get anywhere else. They can also offer solid programs that are free from some of the problems of larger schools. So how does a Division III program standout?

Emory has done it in many ways but there is one thing they do every three years that almost no other school has offered, they offer their athletes the trip of a lifetime.

At the beginning of August, the teams packed their bags and headed overseas for a nine-day foreign tour through Italy. The trip began in Milan and took the team through cities such as Tuscany, Florence, Rome and a few others.

Every day started with a workout at a local pool and then the team participated in various tours and activities. This year, they took a boat tour and even hiked through the Alps. Each class was responsible for researching one of the cities they were visiting, the students would then plan out and lead the tour for the day...

Howell says this trip means something different to each of his athletes. Some have never been out of the country before and just leaving the U.S. was exciting, for others that have extensive travel experience, this trip is a chance to spend time with teammates and coaches without the stresses of everyday college life.

"I get to enjoy being with them and they get to enjoy being with each other without a real heavy load of training and without the day to day life of being a student-athlete," said Howell. "They are not running off to study for a test, they're not on a winter training trip where the training is really hard and the focus is almost exclusively on the training. "

For the full story, visit the Swimming World website.