Texas will again lift it's head and stand
among the nations. It ought to do so,
for no country upon the globe can
compare with it in natural advantages.
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| via thinglink |
Sam Houston
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Quote of the Day
History isn't a sculptured cup; it's
more like a sieve through which
so many stories pass and disappear.
more like a sieve through which
so many stories pass and disappear.
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| via here & Now |
Julie Checkoway
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Quote of the Day
A person always doing his or her best becomes
a natural leader, just by example.
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| via The Sports Post |
Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr., a.k.a. Joe DiMaggio
Monday, October 26, 2015
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Results & More (but not much more)
College Results
North Texas vs. A&M (W)
Rice Invite (W)
Ouachita Baptist vs. Incarnate Word (M&W)
Wayland Baptist Invite (M&W)
Southwestern vs. UTPB (M&W)
McMurry vs. Trinity (M&W)
Club Results
PACK Open
ESA/Sharks/SST
Gulf Senior
Piney Woods
COPS 2/3
Spooky Splash
AQTX
AAAA Progressive Series II (real time)
High School Results
Oak Ridge Intrasquad
Lewisville/Guyer/Denton/Ryan
Georgetown Cup #2
Leander/Georgetown/East View
Arlington ISD Invite
Atascocita Early Bird Invite
Kingwood/Cy-Creek/Taylor
Kingwood vs. Klein Oak (V & JV)
Atascocita vs. Klein (JV)
Klein vs. Westside
San Antonio Duals 1
San Antonio Duals 2
San Antonio Duals 3
San Antonio Duals 4
Trojan Invite
Lake Travis/Westlake/Westwood
Link to UIL press release on the approval of "24 to state" is here.
The Jewish Community Center (Dallas) needs an aquatics manager
The City of Pearland needs an aquatic supervisor
Mansfield Aquatic Club needs a head age group coach
Interesting story out of Mansfield highlighting inequities in athletics here. As usual, MISD found a way to spin it.
WADA banned substances & methods list for 2016 is here.
USA Swimming has implemented "no faster than" times for all Sectional meets. View those "maximum" time standards here.
Check out links list (to the right of this page) for updates to Time Standards for 2015-16.
Still have more time to waste?
...no need to thank me, just doin' my job...
Quote of the Day
You can't be brave if you've only had
wonderful things happen to you.
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| via biography |
Mary Tyler Moore
Thursday, October 22, 2015
One Million
It took ten years, but this blog finally broke through the one million page view barrier.
Yay texasswimming.org
Let's celebrate with fire!
All Over the Map
Front page of this morning's Victoria Advocate sports section:
Read the online version here
Special thanks to sports writer Mike Forman for not printing my starting weight!
Cory Wells, of Three Dog Night fame, passed away yesterday. One of their many hits:
Good news out of Austin is - drum roll, please - TISCA's decades-long quest for "Twenty-Four to State" will be implemented by the UIL for the 2016-17 season. Better Nate than lever, right?
Palo Alto College needs a club team swim coach
Life Time Fitness (southwest Houston region) needs an age group coach
Quote of the Day
We had the number one record in the United
States, and we had just filed for welfare.
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| via Fox News |
Emil Lewandowski, a.k.a. Cory Wells
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Quote of the Day
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling,
truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
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| via Deseret News |
James Esdras Faust
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Quote of the Day
The point of cool is to erase your ability to
say no. Saying yes buys you cool cachet,
but it always ruins your life later.
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| via vipWiki |
Gregory John Gutfeld
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Mxide Rstlseu & More
Leon's hoping to land a big one down at Sharkathon this weekend. Event was nearly cancelled due to Red Tide. More here
Coppell YMCA needs a swim coach
Duncan YMCA needs a youth development director - aquatics
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| via Rock Star Triathlete |
After a race, hopping in for a good cool down and grabbing a snack and a recovery drink are nearly universal practices. Massage is more common at the elite level for older athletes, and cold water immersion is growing in popularity. There is a hierarchy of recovery practices, and it is probably never a good idea to sacrifice something at the top of the list for something on the bottom.
LAC Intrasquad
DADS Open
MAC Open
SSN Open
Aledo vs. Granbury
Grapevine-Colleyville Sprint Invite
Tiger Relays
Georgetown Sprint Invite
Georgetown Cup
MAC (NT) head age group coach Justin Doherty is moving on. They'll certainly miss him! The guy has an incredibly high "actively coaching to looking at phone" ratio. Count him as one more guy who wouldn't play foller the "leader"...
Summit/Granbury/Timberview/Cedar Hill
Spring vs. Conroe
Caney Creek vs. Conroe Park (JV)
The Woodlands Intrasquad
Florida/Indiana/Texas (M&W, LCM)*
Today's meet (SCY) starts at 10:00 a.m. Real time results here
Katy ISD Sprint Invite
Klein vs. Collins (JV)
LCAT Pecan Classic
Del Norte #1
SWATOberfest
CFSC IMX
Texas Terrapins Quad
Gulf Open Water
LAC BB+
Spin Beck's chat with UT women's coach Carol Capitani is here
MAC L2 D1
A&M vs. Kentucky (M&W)
McMurry vs. Austin (M&W)
UH Intrasquad (W)
TCU/Incarnate Word/Liberty (M&W)
UNT/Liberty/Incarnate Word (W)
Dual-a-Palooza 1 (W)
SMU Classic (W, Real Time)
Weslaco RGVSCA
AAHSSL "C" Dual 1
AAHSSL "D" Dual 1
Northside Pentathlon (N)
Northside Pentathlon (S)
Legacy/Mansfield/Keller/Martin
Kingwood Intrasquad (DC vs. Marvel)
Cinco Ranch vs. Kingwood (JV)
Seven Lakes/Taylor/Klein
*Wait! No Michigan?!?!
Quote of the Day
I'm wary of the gotcha nature of discourse that
turns all debates into a battlefield. We are now
all experts at divining what's in people's hearts.
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| via ccj SYMPOSIUM |
Gregory John Gutfeld
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Quote of the Day
Each minute we spend worrying about the
future and regretting the past is a minute
we miss in our appointment with life.
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| via the mindfulness bell |
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Monday, October 12, 2015
Quote of the Day
Science is the belief in the
ignorance of the experts.
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| via Scientific American |
Richard Phillips Feynman
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Quote of the Day
The world hates change, yet it is the
only thing that has brought progress.
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| via pinterest |
Charles Franklin Kettering
Monday, October 05, 2015
Quote of the Day
Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but
of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.
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| via patheos |
Thomas Merton
Saturday, October 03, 2015
Quote of the Day
The only vice that cannot be forgiven
is hypocrisy. the repentance of a
hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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| via Wikipedia |
William Hazlitt
Friday, October 02, 2015
Quote of the Day
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people but the
silence over that by the good people.
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| via Huffington Post |
Martin Luther King, Jr.
