re: Kara Kopcso (Swimming) breaks two 17 year old Natatorium records.

@ Mavocato

I'm Fritschers age as we likely know one another or had the same swimming friends

I swam for the Bolts from around 78-84 , got burnt out during my Jr yr of HS and quit swimming all together

my son currently swims for Crawfish Aquatics as it has brought back lots of memories ... including meets at the old Huey P Long pool on LSU campus

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Hmm, well I can think of a particular swimmer (a guy) whose best ever performance was a :54 100 back who was brought in by Schmitt and then cut by Geyer, so...

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Hmm, well I can think of a particular swimmer swimming for Geyer who is routinely beat by Louisiana high school sophomores, so.....

LSU has gone the cheap route in the last few hires. almost forced to until some facility improvements are made. a top, established coach will come to these facilities. period. an no, LA does not produce enough elite swimmers to make LSU competitive in the SEC. The names that were thrown out earlier spanned 20 years. And Ashley Tappin was from Florida, not LA. I know her personally.

While I think Dave is a good coach, he needs to work on his people skills. dude comes across as an arse too many times. He is just dry.

Before you start responding with stupid pictures, no I am not on LSU's staff. Just one guy's humble opinion.

Congratulations to Kara for breaking the records. She must be a damn fine swimmer. I will throw out my 2 cents bout the Natatorium and recruiting. I'm sure a new facility would help with recruiting but in the end, swimming is an individual sport. Swimmers come for the coaching. When I kept up with LSU swimming, the coaches were Sam Freas and Eddie Sinnott. There were some great swimmers at LSU who were there for Eddie. Most of them were not Louisiana kids. I don't keep up with LSU swimming anymore but I'm sure if the LSU swimmers like the coach, he will get his fare share of solid swimmers, regardless of where they reside. As for age group swimming in Louisiana, it looks pretty much the same to me. In the mid 1980's, LSU Aquatics had caught up to the Bolts which had long dominated the swimming scene. Crawfish Aquatics looks to be carrying on a strong tradition of Baton Rouge producing good swimmers.

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And Ashley Tappin was from Florida, not LA. I know her personally.

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you obviously don't know her well enough, ask her where she went to high school

I bet you she says St. Martin's Episcopal in Metairie

she graduated in 1993 THEN started her collegiate career at FLA and later transferred to Arizona

I've gotta say... I never thought I would see a thread about swimming stay on the front page of the Tiger Rant consistently for a week. Pretty impressive.

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Given LSU probably has the worst natatorium in major college swimming, the coaches have done a solid job

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Yep, swimming is very underfunded at LSU, but makes Kopcso's accomplishments even more impressive.

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Good afternoon Mr. Kopcso

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To the guy in favor of dropping the swim program for men's soccer?

What in the world did they do with the $1.8 Million in renovations?

Both of my boys swam for Dick Bower and Robbie Fritcher on the Elmwood Sharks team. Robbie was loved by the kids. Coach Bower was a lot tougher back then. He mellowed when he and Barb move to The Woodlands after Katrina.