Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Quote of the Day

 
No matter what hyenas sound like,
they are not actually laughing.
George Robert "Bob" Newhart
 

Friday, July 19, 2024

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Quote of the Day

 
Wit must be foiled with wit:
cut a diamond with a diamond.
William Congreve

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Mid-July Jobs Update

 

 
Cypress Lakes HS assistant water polo, Tyrone Carter
 
Stony Point HS head swim, Allison Coburn
 
Southwest ISD aquatics director, Peter Wagner
 
Capital of Texas Aquatics (COTA) assistant age group coach
 
YMCA of Metro Ft. Worth aquatics director
 
Trinity University assistant swim
 
Villa Sport (The Woodlands) competitive swim team
 
North Texas Nadadores (NTN) assistant swim
 
Academy of Texas Aquatic Champions (ATAC) head age group coach, Chris MacCurdy
 
 
 
Previous jobs posts here
 
 

Quote of the Day

 
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible,
the easier the sailing will be.
Ella Maillart
 

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

I don't bother...

...chasin' mice around...
 
 

Quote of the Day

 
Man has demonstrated that he is master
of everything except his own nature.
Henry Valentine Miller 

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Monday, July 08, 2024

A Couple More Jobs

 
 
University of Texas Permian Basin head swim coach
 
Lamar HS (Arlington) head swim coach, Kim Peach
 
 

Mark Onstott

 
In our latest episode, we visited with legendary high school swim coach Mark Onstott.
 
Listen to Part I here

00:01 – Disclaimer & banter

01:44 – Endless Pools plug

02:30 – Introducing Mark Onstott

02:55 – Road to the UNI Panther HOF

09:35 – Breaking into high school coaching

12:45 – Working the Jack Nelson camp

13:45 – Cypress, Texas calling!

16:10 – Brian Seifert “taper”

18:13 – Escape from CFHS

22:04 – New Trier hiring process

28:06 – TNT?

29:20 – Dave Robertson era

31:38 – Evanston rivalry

36:40 – Texas vs. Illinois high school rules

41:30 – Onstott Part II Preview

 

Don't Act Surprised

 
You knew this was next:
 


Quote of the Day

 
About morals, I know only that what is moral
is what you feel good after and what is
immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Miller Hemingway
 

Sunday, July 07, 2024

Quote of the Day

 
I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've
never gone around telling people
things that aren't true about me.
Joesph Robinette "Joe" Biden Jr.
 

Friday, July 05, 2024

Quote of the Day

 
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.  I travel
for travel's sake.  The great affair is to move.
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
 

Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Just a Few New Listings

 
Rock Hill HS (Prosper) assistant swim/polo, Jeff Smith
 
Paetow HS (Katy) multi-school diving, David Hicks
 
Seguin HS (Arlington) head swim, Kim Peach
 
Montgomery HS head swim
 
 
City of New Braunfels assistant aquatics supervisor

Ursuline Academy (Dallas) junior varsity swim, Stefanie Hill

University of Texas Permian Basin assistant swim
 
 
 
 
Previous jobs posts here
 
 

Quote of the Day

 
The good man is the man who, no matter
how morally unworthy he has been,
is moving to become better.
John Dewey
 

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Saturday, June 29, 2024

I'll bet she misses the sunrise...

...and Mrs. Baird's fruit pies...
 
 

Quote of the Day

 
I found one had to do some work every
day, even at midnight, because either
you're professional or you're not.
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth
 

Friday, June 28, 2024

Thursday, June 27, 2024

So maybe it's an end...

...'cause this don't feel like a start...
 
 

Quote of the Day

 
We never really know what stupidity is until
we have experimented on ourselves.
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
 

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

I'll know right away...

...by the look in her eyes...
 
 

Quote of the Day

 
Let him that is without stone among you cast
the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Lee Frost
 

Monday, June 24, 2024

The "Other" Indy Meet

 
Former Bay City HS athletes Keith Hill ('92) and Blake Holden ('95) raced in the USMS National Championships in Indianapolis this past weekend.

Holden (2nd from left) & Hill (right) in Lucas Oil Stadium for the "other" meet

Results for Hill, including a win in the 50-54 100 breaststroke (1:02.12) are here

Holden (results here) won four (4) events in the 45-49 age group with a sub-2:00 clocking in the 200 individual medley.


On to Paris

 
 

Team USA (by events) at USA Swimming here
 
Open Water head coach Ron Aitken will have Corey Chitwood on board to assist.
 
Head coaches Todd DeSorbo (W) and Anthony Nesty (M) will be joined by assistants Carol Capitani, Dave Durden, Braden Holloway, Chris Lindauer, Greg Meehan, & Chris Plumb.
 
Complete Trials results (via Omega) are here
 
 

A Few More Swim Jobs

 
Blue Tide Aquatics (BTA) lead group coach Matt Sanspree
 
Bishop Gorman Catholic School (Tyler) MS/HS swim coach
 
VillaSport (Katy) swim team coach
 
 
Grapevine Faith Christian School assistant swim coach
 
 
 
 
Previous jobs posts are here
 
 

Hillbilly Moon Explosion

Do I Love You?
 
 

Quote of the Day

 
I will seize fate by the throat;  it shall
certainly never wholly overcome me.
Ludwig van Beethoven