Just Some Odds & Ends

Follow SEC conference meet (schedule, live video, & real time results) here

Big XII conference meet (24th - 27th) info is here

Men's and women's CSCAA D-I, D-II, & D-III polls are here

UIL state meet schedule is here

Directors' Cup standings for NCAA D-I, D-II, & D-III and NAIA are here

UIL Lone Star Cup standings are here

Registration is now open for the 2016 Cap2K

Great Hills Country Club needs an assistant coach.  Job posted on ASCA here

Veterans HS (Corpus Christi) needs an assistant coach.  Contact Veronica Fair at 361-878-4880

Cypress Park HS needs a swim coach

Leander ISD needs three (3) coaches:

Glenn HS
Vista Ridge HS
Rouse HS

Contact Rodney Vincent and/or Jonathan Lamb

That Was Me You Ran Over by Gale Garnett:

The 2016 Legends of Texas clinic info is here

Quote of the Day

Everything faded into mist.  The past was erased,

the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

via Writing as I Please

Eric Arthur Blair, a.k.a. George Orwell

Quote of the Day

There are occasions when it pays better to

fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

via pinterest

Eric Arthur Blair, a.k.a. George Orwell

Quote of the Day

The real division is not

between conservatives

and revolutionaries but

between authoritarians

and libertarians.

via The Vantage Point

Eric Arthur Blair, a.k.a. George Orwell

More on Nathan Lin

Quote of the Day

Computers are to design as

microwaves are to cooking.

via boston.com

Milton Glaser

TCU Signs Nathan Lin

Horned Frog head swim coach Richard Sybesma getting a commitment from Five Star recruit Nathan Lin while mom, former TCU swimmer Cathy Lin, looks on.

Texas Christian University swim team welcomes their new teammate!

Thanks to Bobby for sending pics.

More (including video of Nathan's first swim with the Frogs) at the TCU Magazine twitter feed here

Quote of the Day

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

via tumblr

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Quote of the Day

Learn to say 'no' to the good so

you can say 'yes' to the best.

via L2L

John Calvin Maxwell

Official Qualifiers Lists

The UIL has posted official lists of 2016 state meet qualifiers:

5A Auto

5A Call-Up

6A Auto

6A Call-up

Quote of the Day

Discipline is the concrete that

allows you to be creative.

via The Herald-Dispatch

Verna LeMasters Gibson

2016 Call-Ups

Find this year's state meet call-up lists over at Texas Swim Meet Results

If you have region results for Scott, email him here

Quote of the Day

Being a socialist is easy because they

can give away what they don't own.

via YouTube

Gregory John Gutfeld

Quote of the Day

I think the climate has been

changing for billions of years.
 

via This Day in Aviation

Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr.

Quote of the Day

It's real easy to manufacture what

you think the people want to hear.

But that's not very honest.

via lifehacker

Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr.

Quote of the Day

Make the hard ones look easy

and the easy ones look hard.

via The Memorial Tournament

Walter Charles Hagen

Quote of the Day

How strange that the world
should change because of
words, and words change
because of the world.

via Southword

Louis de Bernières

Sometimes...

...I actually DO miss the AT...

Ponytail Paul:


Posted a few "found" pics from February of '15 over at the thru-hike blog here

Quote of the Day

I slow down when hiking.  The rhythm of

nature is more leisurely.  The sun comes

up, it moves across the sky, and you

begin to synchronize to that rhythm.

via inc

John Mackey

Madison's Turn

via Lubbock Online

Must be Longhorn week over at USA Swimming.  Read the Madison Cox feature here.

“College has also taught me about balance, and happiness is a big component of that,” Cox said. “So you have parts that almost catch you off guard, where the light shine through and you are so happy.”

A lot of that happiness comes from pushing herself to do things she has never done, and to embrace new challenges, which includes making new friends. Though she is from Lubbock, Texas, that is nearly 400 miles away.

Quote of the Day

One can prove or refute anything at all with words.

Soon people will perfect language technology to

such an extent that they'll be proving with

mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

via The Famous People

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quote of the Day

I had chosen to use my work

as a reflection of my values.

via Movie Morlocks

Sir Sidney Poitier

Kubik Featured

via WETS

Eddie's right hand man in Austin, Kris Kubik, is featured in this week's USA Swimming Square Root of 400 Question Tuesday.  Read here

4. The Longhorns have quite a special place in swimming under you two -- what does all that history and the NCAA titles you have been a part of winning and creating mean to you?

Kris: Most of what has happened here is because of Eddie. Through Eddie, I have patterned the way I coach and teach to be much like him, though certainly I have -- and with his encouragement -- developed in my own way as well. As far as winning, our goal truly has never been to win a National Championship. The goal is for each individual on our team to improve every year. If we have the right blend of people and we do improve, then we are in the mix for a National Championship. But we preach weekly if everyone does their best and we end up 10th or 12th, we will shake hands with all the teams that placed higher than us and we will be very, very proud that we did our best.

Quote of the Day

Everybody looks at the negative effects of

global warming, but with the ice melting,

the Northern Passage has opened up.

via mySA

Paul Richard LePage

2016 State Meet Call-Ups

My excuse last year was "I'm a goin' hikin'!"

This year, it's "I gots ta coach!"

For the second straight year, Scott Scofield has volunteered to compile and post the high school state meet call-up lists for swimmers, coaches, and parents interested in finding out before the UIL posts their official list.

Thanks in advance for providing Scott with results and support.

Here's the site where he'll be posting that info (along with some other meet results):

Texas Swim Meet Results

You can contact Scott via email

Quote of the Day

 

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my

physical ability, it was my mental ability.

 

via The Oregonian

 

Caitlyn Marie Jenner, a.k.a. Bruce Jenner

Quote of the Day

To me, business is the ultimate sport.

It's always on.  There is always

someone trying to beat me.

via Parade

Mark Cuban

via Indexed

Quote of the Day

My songs grow on people - like warts.

via Eagles Online

Glenn Lewis Frey

Quote of the Day

We kind of made everybody aware that God's back

yard is something that should be taken care of.

via What ever happened to...

Dan Haggerty

via Indexed

Quote of the Day

The world is full of magic things, patiently

waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

via Cuadrivio

William Butler Yeats

Quote of the Day

Baseball has done more to move America in the

right direction than all of the professional

patriots with all their cheap words.

via National Baseball Hall of Fame

Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin

Quote of the Day

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

via onlipix

Lucius Annaeus Seneca,

a.k.a. Seneca the Younger

Yes Sir/Ma'am!

via Indexed

Quote of the Day

I decided that adventure was the

best way to learn about writing.

via Lloyd Alexander Documentary Film

Lloyd Chudley Alexander

Quote of the Day

Fame itself...doesn't really afford you anything

more than a good seat in a restaurant.

via Doll Poupee

David Robert Jones, a.k.a. David Bowie

Quote of the Day

In fact, climate change is directly

related to the growth of terrorism.

via SALON

Bernard "Bernie" Sanders

via Indexed

Quote of the Day

Writers who have nothing to say always

strain for metaphors to say it in.

via RICOCHET

Florence Virginia King

Another Swim Dumper at A&M

via Seattlepi

The Aggies are hiring another athletic director.  He is Scott Woodward.  He was at the University of Washington, where he cut the men's and women's swimming programs.  More here.

This will make Woodward the second swimmin'-cuttin' athletic director at A&M.  Bill Byrne (dumped men's swimming at Nebraska) was Aggie AD from 2003 to 20012.

The Byrne hiring made A&M swim fans nervous.  Bringing in Woodward will make Aggie swim faithful have at least a little bump in their blood pressure, right?

Quote of the Day

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the

highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -

but it does not keep him from doing it.

via Wikipedia

Frank Clark

Quote of the Day

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

via The Sunday Times

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Bay City HS Swimming/Diving Alumni

Blackcat Swim/Dive Alumni,

First, I'm working to restore our program's history and am looking for the most recent copy of our "Top Ten" list.

Now that we're back in Bay City, I'd hoped to do a quick update.  I last updated in 2007 and left records with someone here in town.  Unfortunately, they're unable to find them!

Rather than sort through old meet results* and reconstructing the list from scratch, I'm hoping to get hold of a fairly recent copy of the Top Ten list and just doing an update.

Also, we're planning to start a Facebook page in the spring to help former swimmers/divers/coaches reconnect with the program.

Finally, we'd like to do a combined Blue/Gold and Alumni meet to start our 2016-17 season.  More info on that once we get that Facebook page going.

Thanks for any help y'all can provide in helping us recognize all the great kids that helped put Bay City Swimming on the map over the years.

Swimcerely,

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*Many of which have gone missing

Coaches, Swimmers, & Parents:

Another competitive swimmer has died in what appears to be a shallow water blackout incident.

Dartmouth's Tate Ramsden was attempting a 100 yard underwater in a YMCA pool when he passed out.  More here



Please remind swimmers of the dangers of shallow water blackout.  More info is here.

Do this TODAY!!

Thanks,

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Quote of the Day

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid

of the dark;  the real tragedy of life is

when men are afraid of the light.

via The Imaginative Conservative

Plato

Quote of the Day

Be who you are and say what you feel,

because those who mind don't matter,

and those who matter don't mind.

via WishesTrumpet

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Bobby's Back in North Texas

Bobby will be helping out with the Horned Frog swim program while working on his masters.  Story is here

Quote of the Day

A true champion knows how to overcome

doubts and manage those doubts and

turn them into motivation.

via SwimVortex

Misty Dawn Marie Hyman

AT Post

Found this just now.  '15 AT thru-hiker Nick "Click" Reichard took tons of pics on his six-month hike.  Click started a month later than us but, since he hiked at about the same pace, didn't catch us.

His Instagram link is here, his store link is here, and a short vid is below:

Quote of the Day

You can't measure the mutual affection

of two human beings by the number

of words they exchange.

via Vitro Nasu

Milan Kundera

Quote of the Day

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop

bucket would be elected swineherd

every time, no matter how much

slaughtering he did on the side.

via Wired

Orson Scott Card

Nope: That horse ain't dead yet!!

Okay, maybe I am beating a dead horse...so what?

Via last night's USA Swimming Coaching Connection:

“STOP LOOKING AT YOUR PHONE!” yells Tasha, a point guard on the 6th grade YMCA basketball team I was coaching.

Immediately, I smile and start to explain to her that I forgot my watch and I needed to make sure we were on schedule. Tasha rolled her eyes, clearly unimpressed with my response.

“No big deal,” I had thought to myself on the way to practice when I realized I forgot my watch, “I’ll use my phone.” Fifteen minutes into practice, I had pulled out my phone to make sure we were on schedule. Big mistake.

“Can you believe the nerve of that girl?” I thought. “Here I am, the volunteer head coach, staying up late watching videos on drills and strategy, planning practices on my lunch break, staying late for players who parents are delayed picking up their child…and now some kid is telling me to put my phone away when all I am doing is making sure practice is on schedule?”

Reflecting back on that practice later that night, though, I asked myself what did Tasha really want? What was she really asking for?

I realized that she was looking for the one thing kids crave more than anything else. She wanted me to be there, in that moment, in that drill, watching her and her teammates. She wanted my attention.

She didn’t simply want me to care for her, or love her, or teach her how to play the game. She wanted more.

She wanted me to see her!

The rest of this James Leath post is here