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There are some enterprises in which a careful

disorderliness is the true method.

Herman Melville

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If there were no bad people, there

would be no good lawyers.

Charles John Huffam Dickens

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You might as well fall flat on your

face as lean over too far backward.

James Grover Thurber

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They're just jokes, people.  They can't all be funny.

Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III, a.k.a. Theo Von

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If I have someone who believes

in me, I can move mountains.

Diana Ross

Unparalleled Success

 

Eddie Reese retirement dinner was fantastic!  Thanks to DJA for letting me tag along!

Left to Right:  Ian Carbone, Madison Wenzler, Patrick Murphy, & Bobby Button

One of my "Eddie stories":

Dana Abbott and I were watching an Orange/White meet when Cole Cragin was disqualified for a 15m violation.

I turned to Dana and said "I wish one of my kids could get DQ'ed for going too far underwater."

Eddie looked at me and said "Well, that's on you, coach."

Ouch!!! He was absolutely correct - it was on me.

So, that Timberview HS team worked on underwater dolphin kicking more than any group I'd ever coached.

A guy named Henry Isobi ended up breaking Bobby's school record in the 100 butterfly that year - and it was because he was great underwater!

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Listening, not imitation, may be

the sincerest form of flattery.

Dr. Joyce Diane Brothers

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The longest absence is less perilous to love

than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

Work Chronicles

 

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I want to cultivate the seed that was placed

in me until the last small twig has grown.

Käthe Kollwitz

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I don't care what the haters and naysayers

say.  If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh

because they'll probably be funny.

Paula Ann Hiers Deen

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I've known ambitious people with no aptitude

for the thing they did.  Most of whom,

rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman

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There is nothing noble in being superior

to your fellow man.  True nobility lies in

being superior to your former self.

Ernest Miller Hemingway

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The only difference between a rut

and a grave are the dimensions.

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

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The thing about school is that if you're forced into

learning stuff, you're not going to be into it.

Jeffrey Ross Hyman, a.k.a. Joey Ramone

 

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I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

Joan Alexandra Molinsky, a.k.a. Joan Rivers 

She's Really Outa Sight

 

FOX Business watchers know!

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Raymond Adams

 

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From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

 

via Biography

William Boyd Watterson II

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Examinations are formidable even to the best

prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more

than the wisest man can answer.

via planksip

Charles Caleb Colton

What the heck?

Yesterday's post on TISCA All-State Lists made me wonder about who might be upset if they'd been denied their TISCA All-State First Team ranking, so I looked at the TAPPS boys' 400 free relay, where HCYA is #1.

 

Would CHSM be disappointed that they'd been bumped down to Second Team by a homeschool group?

 

No, I doubt Christian Homeschool Sports Ministries will mind...

HOW DID WE GET HERE?!?!?!

 

TISCA Constitution & Bylaws

 

View the TISCA Constitution & Bylaws here

 

To amend the constitution:

 

To amend the bylaws:

 

If you youngsters are okay with the direction our organizations is heading, just sit back and let a handful of your peers decide for you.

 

If y'all don't like what's happening in TISCA, it's time to find enough of your fellow member coaches to chart a different course.

 

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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without

going over.  Out on the edge you see all the kinds

of things you can't see from the center.

Kurt Vonnegut

TISCA All-State Lists

Preliminary TISCA All-State lists are here

Please look at the TAPPS list and explain:

 

Why are athletes from Homeschool Christian Youth Association (HCYA) included?

This is not a school!

 

Rather, it's an athletic organization for kids who attend neither public nor private schools.

I'm all for folks who want to educate their children at home.  If public or private schools don't work for your child, that's an option for y'all.

We strive to provide a "level playing field" for our student/athletes, right?

 

It's increasingly "out of level" in recent years, isn't it?*

Do you support placing athletes in our All-State lists that don't attend a school?

 

If yes, would you feel the same if your athlete lost a spot on those lists?

 

Should HCYA athletes be included on our Academic All-State list?**

 

 

 

 

*Have you noticed that charter schools are dominating some UIL sports?  How about the guy who won a state championship in girls rasslin'?

**Before you answer that, recall that these kids' grades are determined by their parents...

 

 

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The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes,

but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

Lewis McDonald Grizzard, Jr.

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Untutored courage is useless

in the face of educated bullets.

 

George Smith Patton, Jr.

 

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must

choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia

Bowman to Texas OFF!!!

 

 

After what many say was the greatest aquatics April Fools' joke of all time, legendary University of Texas men's head swim coach Eddie Reese has admitted that no, he will not be retiring after all!

UT and Arizona State University put together an elaborate hoax today, claiming that ASU head coach Bob Bowman would take the reins in Austin, leaving assistant Herbie Behm to take over in Tempe.

Bowman stated "Herbie really played along with it well.  The guy acted as if he was actually taking over the program.  Our SID let him in on the joke yesterday...at least I think he did..."

Reese, known to be a man of few words, responded to an inquiry from SwimScam with "JK, JK!"

2024-25 UIL Swim Alignmnets

 

View alignments here

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You may live to see man-made horrors

beyond your comprehension.

Nikola Tesla