Sunday, December 30, 2018
Quote of the Day
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips, a.k.a. Dear Abby
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Quote of the Day
My pitching philosophy is simple; you gotta
keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
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Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Quote of the Day
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news
kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor.
The bad news is, now you're the mayor.
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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr.
Monday, December 17, 2018
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Quote of the Day
Measure not the work until the
day's out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Sunday, December 09, 2018
Quote of the Day
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending
on what I think will help our election most.
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George Herbert Walker Bush
Sunday, December 02, 2018
Quote of the Day
Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.
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Joseph Henry "Joe" Garagiola, Sr.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Sunday, November 25, 2018
Quote of the Day
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut
down a redwood tree, then mount the stump
and make a speech for conservation.
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Golden Goggles
Pflugerville's Micah Lawrence Sumrall:
For 145 meters, it was all about King. At least the Golden Goggles voters knew outstanding swims when they saw them. Sumrall was honored with this year's Perseverance Award.
Earning the Perseverance Award was 2012 Olympian Micah Sumrall (Pflugerville, Texas/Chattahoochee Gold Swim Club), who bounced back in a big way with a gold-medal performance in the 200m breaststroke at the Pan Pacific Championships. After missing the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team, she took time away from the sport before resurfacing with Chattahoochee Gold Swim Club earlier this year. Buoyed by the support of the age-group swimmers she coaches, Sumrall won the 200m breast title at Phillips 66 Nationals and took third in the 100m breast in Irvine to qualify for her first international roster since 2015. In Tokyo, she nearly matched her career-best time in the 200m breast en route to gold, her first at a major international competition.
Complete Golden Goggles recap is here
2018 Pan-Pac 200 breast:
Quote of the Day
The most important thing a mayor does
is hire talented people to run the city.
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John Wright Hickenlooper, Jr.
Monday, November 19, 2018
Quote of the Day
Those who do not want to imitate
anything, produce nothing.
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto
Dalà i Domènech, a.k.a. Salvador DalÃ
Sunday, November 18, 2018
Catching Up
Results of Texas A&M's intra-squad time trials are
Just one day remaining in the Golden Goggles Silent Auction
USA Swimming sent out a link to Dr. David Hoch's article Dealing with parental interference in coaching. You might be surprised to learn that Step 1 isn't Ban the Parent. Tap the brakes, buddy, that's Step 8.
Eddie's work with Joseph Schooling on the "Fifth Stroke" paid off in the FINA World Cup. Schooling set a new Singapore national record in the 50 SCM back (:24.08) while leading off a medley relay. More here
Sunday, November 04, 2018
Quote of the Day
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Thursday, November 01, 2018
Quote of the Day
Ballplayers, like everyone else, like
to get told they did something right.
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Willie Lee McCovey
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Misc.
Several open water events have been dropped due to flooding.
ASA's Lake Travis Relay and Highland Lakes Challenge have both been "Cancelled due to historic flooding" and the swimming portion of the Waco Triathlon was scrapped as well.
“Ironman has strict safety benchmarks in place that have been surpassed, including the rate of water flow,” race officials said in an email message sent to the 3,000 athletes registered to compete in the race. “The abundance of rain created additional flow with a rate higher than the limit deemed safe for swimming in the Brazos River.”
More at the Waco Tribune-Herald here
Arlington-Mansfield Area YMCA association director of aquatics
Lackland AFB tactical athlete coach - swim
Missed an excellent article on Linkedin last year:
Why hire the swimmer who swam all four years of college?
Have you ever worked hard on a project for an entire week and finally presented a seamless masterpiece to your client that brought you great recognition? What if this masterpiece only lasted twenty seconds and what if your hard work lasted 22 weeks? Would it be worth it? This swimmer has lived this scenario and has done it for most of their life. The ability to work towards a goal for such a long time is something that's not found in most people, which could be an asset for multi-year projects.
What doesn’t always happen is being successful, but this swimmer comes back year after year to achieve greatness.
Full article here
The CSCAA TYR Top 25 October polls:
Division I
Division II
Division III
Former Longhorn Brendan Hansen is organizing a benefit clinic in Austin. The clinic will feature Olympic medalists and collegiate All-Americans.
Who: Athletes of all ages & abilities
What: age group swim clinic, masters swim workout, nutrition sessions, etc.
When: Sunday, November 4 from 8 a.m. to noon
Where: Rollingwood Pool, 4801 Rollingwood Drive
How: Preregister via email here
“When the University of Texas swimming and diving family heard of the Carter’s situation with their twin babies, it affected all of us as if it were our own kids,” said Brendan Hansen, an event organizer and clinic coach. “We wanted to put together an event to share our skills with the Austin fitness community that not only would have an immediate impact for the family financially, but also for them to know we stand behind them through this process. That’s what family does and the overwhelming response up to this point shows how strong the Longhorn family is.”
Full Statesman article here
Facebook page here
gofundme page here
Quote of the Day
If I'm honest with you, you might not like me for a day or
two. But, if I lie to you, you're going to hate me forever.
Joseph John "Joe" Maddon, Jr.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
2019 Clinics
Legends of Texas, April 4 - 7, Ft. Worth
ASCA, September 2 - 8, Dallas
TISCA, September 19-22, Austin
News from the UIL Legislative Council Meetings
Those pushing for a third conference might point out that swimming/diving is the only UIL activity* divided into two (2) conferences. Even Team Tennis is a three-conference sport in Texas.
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The Standing Committee on Policy authorized the UIL staff to monitor several proposals, including sanctioning water polo.
The committee
- sanctioning disc golf,
- adding a competitive stomp season,
- sanctioning bowling, &
- adding archery.
The entire UIL press release is here
*That includes not only Athletics, but also Academics and Music
Quote of the Day
Most of what we call management consists of making
it difficult for people to get their work done.
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Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Rocktober (edited 11:15 a.m.)
Looks like Rocktober has been rough on the guys:
Florida/Indiana/Texas (M&W, real time)
A week ago, everyone in town knew a cold front was coming in. Not only isn't the heater in the city pool working, but they didn't put tarps on until Monday. By then, the water was 74 degrees.
In the 60's now. So tired of the old "one step up and two steps back" routine here...
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Was that a light bulb I saw flash over her head? Is this really happening?
The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box citizenship already checked “Yes,” according to new complaints filed Thursday asking prosecutors to see what laws may have been broken.
More at The Washington Times here
Lutheran South Academy needs a MS/HS swim coach. Contact Susan Paling
Richardson YMCA needs a swim coach
City of Lakeway needs a swim center assistant manager
City of Texas City needs an aquatics coordinator
USA Swimming Sport Development Division survey
See where swimming ranks (overall and in specific categories) among high school sports:
Girls
Boys
Looking for Pictures
Greetings, 'Horns and Friends of 'Horns! Two of Eddie's first assistants from 1978-80, Chuck Warner and Dana Abbott, are writing a book about Eddie's 40+ years on the Forty Acres, the working title is "Eddie Reese: Coaching Swimming, Teaching Life". A good chunk of the net proceeds will go to the Reese/Kubik Legacy Campaign. Chuck and Dana have a good book in writing but need photos from the earlier years, primarily 80s and 90s. If you have some you can share with them, contact Dana at reese-book@outlook.com and we can work out how to share. If digital, they need to be at least 300dpi (right-click on the image, select Properties, then look under the Details tab, scroll down to Image and look at the numbers for horizontal and vertical resolution, 300dpi is what the publisher needs for digital photography). If film prints, the larger the print the better, and NEGATIVES or SLIDES are better still. Happy to send a list of names of swimmers, coaches, and other parties mentioned in the book if you will contact Dana at reese-book@outlook.com, but ANY good photos are welcome and could get included. All photographs used will be acknowledged in the book (and returned), here's your chance to be semi-famous beyond your swimming careers! With gratitude and appreciation in advance from the authors!!!
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Misc.
Back in the day, our Blue/Gold intrasquad meet was a pretty competitive affair. We started off each season with this "practice" meet. It was good for our swimmers, officials, and volunteers.
After the team went to "zero" in '15 (did not send anyone to district meet), I unretired to help restore our program. Our early teams have been pretty small, so an intrasquad would have been more like a time trial.
Several alumni suggested we add former BCHS swimmers & divers to the mix and host a Blue/Gold & Alumni meet. It's been working out great.
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Feel free to let former BCHS swimmers/divers who might now know about the meet to join
Louisville took this year's SMU Classic (W)
San Antonio Veterans Memorial HS needs a head swim coach. Contact Richard Mendoza at 210-619-0220
Houston's Bridge Bats needs several coaches
I'm not able to fit this year's Highland Lakes Challenge into the schedule, but those of you who're interested can get more info here
Sunday, October 07, 2018
A&M's Tanica Jamison
Article on former Longhorn Tanica Jamison - now associate head coach for Aggies - is here
Together, she and Bultman and their team have developed the Aggies into a perennial swimming powerhouse.
After four-straight fourth-place finishes at the NCAA Championships from 2013-16, the Aggies tallied their highest NCAA finish ever in 2017 with a third-place effort at the NCAA Championships.
They equaled that feat again in 2018, and all of Texas A&M’s swimming school records have been bettered since Jamison’s arrival in College Station.
Quote of the Day
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
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Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard