Texas Swimming: February 2019

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Speechless

If you missed the two (2) Texas stops, you might want to hurry up and book a flight out west.

Monday's Sugar Land performance was...impossible to describe..I guess you had to be there...

West-coast readers, don't miss Sarah's Hymn tour. She's headed your way.

Sarah Brightman Tickets

Thank me after the show.

Quote of the Day

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea

is like life, the outside, the unknown.

via Re-Format

Stephen Gardiner

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Coaching Swimming, Teaching Life

The 200 copy run of the Legacy Edition is sold out. Printers will be cranking out regular editions soon. Get yours here

SEC & Big 10

Aggie women took SEC title again:

SEC Championships (M/W)

Indiana women on top of Big 10:

Big 10 Championship (W)

2019 State Meet Results

5A

6A

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows,

daws, and starlings that flock together.

via National Portrait Gallery

John Webster

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

Two dangers constantly threaten

the world: order and disorder.

Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry

Monday, February 11, 2019

Quote of the Day

They say that in the end truth will triumph, but it's a lie.

via Knight Lab

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Weakly Demotivator

Mathletics a Thing of the Past?

via Skeptical OB

This morning Yahoo! has this:

Anger at Trump over dip in average tax refunds

Non-mathletes are outraged!

The nerve of our Trump-led government!

How dare they keep less of our earnings!!

Quote of the Day

We must believe in luck. How else can we

explain the success of those we don't like?

via Famous Authors

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau

Saturday, February 09, 2019

Quote of the Day

A man never knows how to say goodbye;

a woman never knows when to say it.

via Wikipedia

Helen May Rowland

Friday, February 08, 2019

Quote of the Day

At least when it's in French, I won't

know what the heck they're saying.

via Pinterest

Frank Robinson

Thursday, February 07, 2019

Quote of the Day

Trust not him that seems a saint.

via World History

Thomas Fuller

Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Is That You Mo-Dean?

State Meet Tickets

NEW THIS YEAR: Online tickets will be available this year at, 2019 UIL State Swimming & Diving tickets. Onsite tickets will still be available on the day of the meet. The Box Office and gates will open an hour and a half prior to the start of each session on Friday (8:30 – 6A session; 4:00 – 5A session) and an hour prior to the start of each session on Saturday (8:30 – 6A session; 2:30 – 5A session). Please note, ALL tickets for the State Meet are General Admission and saving seats will not be permitted. Re-entry is not allowed unless an ALL-MEET ticket is purchased.

Ticket Prices (Cash and Credit Cards ONLY. No checks will be accepted.)

Student (session) $7.00

Adult (session) $12.00

All-Meet $30.00

Quote of the Day

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

via The Telegraph

Douglas Noel Adams

Sunday, February 03, 2019

UIL Official Call-Ups

Links to UIL Official Call-Up Lists:

5A

6A

Noticed Region VIII-5A boys' backstroker John Delostrinos of Harlan is 7th on UIL site, but listed as DQ on Meet Mobile. Shows DQ for both prelim & final.

Anyone in Region VIII-5A care to enlighten us? He's shown on newspaper site as 3rd w/time UIL has listed.

Edit: Appears to be Meet Mobile issue. Official result shows he qualified first in prelims and finished 3rd in finals w/:53.40.

Also, why in the world did they show diving call-ups on the 5A list? No such thing!

Region Meets, Part II

Last year's post-region meet posted post is here

Let's kick off this year's post-region posting with links to 5A & 6A Unofficial state meet call-ups. These are pre-scratch and unofficial. If you spot errors/omissions, please get those to me ASAP.

Okay, now for the fun stuff.

Time to share "irregularities" that we experienced at our region meets.

Please, allow me to go first:

via Pinterest

1. Scoreboard flickered a few times, then "died" early in prelims. During that time Meet Mobile wasn't active, so fans were more than a little unhappy.

2. Remember that new rule about marking sides of pools for 15m? Well...traffic cones...

3. Swimmer patiently paying attention to coach in love with sound of own voice. Meanwhile, 30 yards away, event is on the blocks...but missing just one kid. You guessed it, motor-mouth's kid is now a no-show. Meet referee was kind enough to make it a "delay of meet" DQ. Could have easily been out rest of meet for NS.

4. Meet director told of late scratch in medley relay, which created open lane in championship finals. Went ahead and swam consols as originally seeded. Put 17th place team in championship final open lane. Compounded error by allowing consolation winners to move up to 8th place and score additional four points. Went to meet committee and they backed meet director. Rule book clearly states consolation finalists can score no higher than 9th place (a.k.a. The Death Seat) points. My rule book is now in a dumpster somewhere out back of the facility...

5. Coaches shocked when they receive email showing a six-hour+ timeline for finals. Must have forgotten diving was the night before.

6. Official setting out lap counters for finals. Pauses to turn each one to "red" before placing neatly on bulkhead. Apparently it was opposite day.

7. About that scoreboard...reanimated late in finals session...

Your turn:

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

The discipline of the written word punishes

both stupidity and dishonesty.

via Wikipedia

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.

1st Draft 6A (corrections in bold red)

Please let me know of any errors or omissions ASAP!

G2MR

1:47.11 Stratford

1:47.70 Allen

1:47.76 Rockwall

1:47.91 Round Rock

1:48.31 Heath

1:48.50 Clements

1:48.74 Cinco Ranch

1:49.34 Vandergrift

B2MR

1:35.65 Flower Mound

1:36.15 Klein

1:36.35 Strake Jesuit

1:36.41 Stratford

1:36.71 Lake Travis

1:37.07 Cy-Fair

1:37.21 McNeil

1:37.32 H. Memorial

G200

1:51.97 Traipe Dawson

1:51.97 Simpson Rockwall

1:52.72 Zettle Carroll

1:53.38 Follis Seven Lakes

1:53.77 Clark Taylor

1:54.03 Merriott Heath

1:54.06 Yin Round Rock

1:54.10 Kruchten The Woodlands

B200

1:40.06 Hickman-Chow The Woodlands

1:40.48 Graham Heath

1:40.72 Lindley Carroll

1:40.95 Flynn Vista Ridge

1:41.42 Romero Plano West

1:41.42 Dix Flower Mound

1:42.19 Darnell Oak Ridge

1:42.24 Mitchell Seven Lakes

G2IM

2:03.96 Wozniak Flower Mound

2:04.24 Cormack Carroll

2:04.52 Evert Kingwood

2:05.99 Alvarez Taylor

2:06.94 Hoffman Dulles

2:07.24 Rausch Lake Travis

2:07.97 Roberto Vandergrift

2:08.03 Morse Pearland

B2IM

1:52.60 Repice Carroll

1:53.32 Weaver Rockwall

1:53.39 Kopp Taylor

1:53.44 Pickering Kingwood

1:53.48 Czelusta H. Memorial

1:53.99 Valdez Lake Travis

1:54.39 Mason Clear Lake

1:54.41 Riser Westwood

G50

:23.71 Hennig Klein

:23.80 Bernal Cinco Ranch

:24.09 Williams Klein

:24.13 Burchett Cedar Ridge

:24.18 Dalbey Flower Mound

:24.28 Guerra Westlake

:24.30 Scott Clear Springs

:24.30 Forbes Central

B50

:20.93 Oderinde Klein Oak

:21.17 Garcia Reagan

:21.24 Chang Clements

:21.30 Butler Anderson

:21.41 Doehring Kingwood

:21.46 LaPrade Cinco Ranch

:21.46 Broad Pearce

:21.47 Kuo Plano

GFly

:56.51 Everett The Woodlands

:56.69 Lax Bowie

:56.72 Eckhart Cy-Creek

:56.89 Edmundson Flower Mound

:57.04 Balint Carroll

:57.10 Dieckert Round Rock

:57.15 Harrop The Woodlands

:57.25 Armistead Allen

BFly

:49.83 Oderinde Klein Oak

:50.12 Repice Carroll

:50.94 McNiece Cain

:51.01 Pinckney Mansfield

:51.08 Miller Arlington

:51.13 Langley Kingwood

:51.17 Stallworth Clark

:51.18 Mason Strake Jesuit

G100

:51.53 Truong Westwood

:51.88 Burchett Cedar Ridge

:51.93 Birlin Vandergrift

:52.02 Ebert Kingwood

:52.04 Hultquist Rockwall

:52.32 Scott Clear Springs

:52.46 Taylor Anderson

:52.47 Casas Taylor

B100

:46.08 Holt Clear Creek

:46.26 Hickman-Chow The Woodlands

:46.42 Broad Pearce

:47.07 Mowles Marcus

:47.10 Pope McNeil

:47.28 Russell Strake Jesuit

:47.31 Sheppard Plano East

:47.32 Clark Tyler

G500

4:53.21 Kizek Morton Ranch

5:00.28 Dafoe Cy-Fair

5:00.61 Rausch Lake Travis

5:00.95 Roberts The Woodlands

5:01.66 Barrientos The Woodlands

5:03.70 Zettle Carroll

5:04.24 Bennett Cy-Ranch

5:04.57 Walpole Reagan

B500

4:29.59 Dickey Plano East

4:31.91 Dement Bridgeland

4:32.93 Lindley Carroll

4:33.06 Ahn Seven Lakes

4:33.89 Williams Carroll

4:35.01 Yu-Kisselbach Heath

4:35.13 Flynn Vista Ridge

4:35.70 Lund Klein Oak

G2FR

1:37.54 Anderson

1:37.88 Allen

1:38.15 Vandergrift

1:38.25 Ridge Point

1:38.47 Stratford

1:38.57 Clements

1:38.67 Deer Park

1:38.71 Keller

B2FR

1:25.69 Seven Lakes

1:26.14 Klein

1:26.22 Round Rock

1:26.33 Stratford

1:26.52 Westwood

1:26.59 Ridge Point

1:26.74 Clear Falls

1:27.06 Vandergrift

GBack

:56.13 Clark Taylor

:56.44 Stanford Cy-Woods

:56.53 Lloyd Kingwood

:56.76 Tran Tompkins

:57.77 Barrientos The Woodlands

:58.15 Pineda Keller

:58.31 Burcham Reagan

:58.51 Bosuro Lake Ridge

BBack

:51.06 Jennings Spring Woods

:51.14 Green Kingwood

:51.19 Graham Heath

:51.40 Brockette Lake Highlands

:51.89 Conklin Clear Falls

:52.00 Mohseni Lake Ridge

:52.03 Taylor Oak Ridge

:52.09 Kennedy Madison

GBreast

1:04.57 Cormack Carroll

1:05.13 Schlegel Clear Lake

1:05.19 Sippel Tompkins

1:05.49 Fields The Woodlands

1:05.62 Migault Coppell

1:05.84 Brown Rockwall

1:05.95 Evans Taylor

1:05.97 Simpson Bowie

BBreast

:56.60 Mason Clear Lake

:57.88 Van Lier The Woodlands

:57.94 Pickering Kingwood

:57.94 Kogucki Kingwood

:58.40 Bates Strake Jesuit

:58.42 Scott The Woodlands

:58.56 Beladi Keller

:58.69 Rytting Lamar

G4FR

3:32.95 Round Rock

3:33.54 Bowie

3:33.92 Vandergrift

3:33.92 Cinco Ranch

3:34.34 Allen

3:34.65 Westlake

3:34.65 Seven Lakes

3:36.28 Byron Nelson

B4FR

3:07.04 Klein Oak

3:10.57 Anderson

3:10.85 Heath

3:10.95 Westwood

3:11.21 Taylor

3:11.88 Bellaire

3:12.46 Clements

3:12.65 Stratford