If you put some time in the pool you could do it.
To that comment. I guess I am going to get on my "soap box" about this... since I have been hounding my boyfriend on this topic.

Swimming is ALL ABOUT FORM. If you have good form, you will get fast and you will have endurance. There is no reason to swim laps... if you want to get faster and compete... unless you have worked on your form.

Yes, that sounds a little harsh... but let's think about it.

There you are in the pool... thrashing about... trying to make it to the other end.... it's hard, and miserable. But you keep doing it. Lap after lap. Pretty soon you find a way to make it all work, but it's horribly wrong and you get worn out quickly.

Then, you decide to work on your form. Now, you have to spend the time CORRECTING the form you have "made" work. It's easier to start with a clean slate... versus having to erase that horrible form from your "memory".

There is hope though, once you get good form, and HAVE IT. I haven't been in a swim team in 15 years... but my form is still there. It's ingrained into my body.

*Takes a breath*

OK... maybe that was a tangent? Sorry.

*Steps away from the keyboard*