A pioneer of the Johns Hopkins Wading Team looks back
The Johns Hopkins Wading Team, perennial leaders in the sport of intercollegiate kiddie pool wading, lists its founding date as January 22, 1446, "30 years before the university was [established]," which suggests an absence of math or history majors among its varsity lineup. Or maybe they're spoofing; hard to say. Be that as it may, the team is a genuine, university-sanctioned student club, and we've not heard any challenges to its claim of the longest-running rivalry in intercollegiate sports with Harvard's waders, the Sea Urchins. Home matches on the Beach are a popular student attraction, and for three years running, the team perched at the top of the annual U.S. News national wading rankings, beating out such perennial powers as El Camino College, Duke, MIT, and L'Academie de Cuisine. At least, that's what the team says on its Facebook page, so it must be true.