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

 

NISCA All-America Lists

 

 

The 2023-24 NISCA All-America lists are here

 

Results by state are here

 

 

Nostra-Ramaswamy

 

Then:

Now:

Sometimes...

...Bad is Bad...

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Half of the troubles of this life can

be traced to saying yes too quickly

and not saying no soon enough.

Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings

 

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

 

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

 

You Need Clem.

Clem Needs Benefits.

 

 

Midnight Oil

Surf's Up Tonight

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles John Huffam Dickens

 

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

 

NITRO age group 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

 

A hero or a hooligan?

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Women are angry if other women

think too little of their lovers, and

furious if they think too much.

via Last on Earth

Minna Thomas Antrim

 

I'd rather be different...

 

...than be the same.

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

The worst of doing one's duty

was that it apparently unfitted

one for doing anything else.

Edith Wharton

 

Too much lipstick...

 

...too much rouge...

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates

both the holder and beholder.

Aldous Leonard Huxley

 

More June Jobs

 

Providence Classical School (Klein) assistant swim coach, Melvin Roberts

 

HTX Swim (Houston) age group coach, Jason Wedlick 281-627-2418

 

Tuloso-Midway assistant swim coach, Anna Alaniz 361-903-6730

 

Frisco ISD assistant swim coach, Melissa Howard

 

Hays YMCA aquatics director

 

 

Find more jobs posts here  

The Smiths

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the

nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Robert Lee Frost

 

You Broke My Heart...

 

...in 17 Places.

 

Breakaway:

 

Quote of the Day

 

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports.

What is tough, is being good every day.

Willie Howard Mays Jr.

 

The less we say about it the better...

 

...make it up as we go along.

 

Quote of the Day

 

An archaeologist is the best husband a

woman can have.  The older she gets

the more interested he is in her.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie

 

Annie Lennox

 

 

Where's the NIL $$$?

 

Never did get my NIL money...

Photo by Steve Clark

Quote of the Day

 

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

via Wikipedia

William Blake

 

Baby, when I kiss your hair...

...I see electricity in the air.

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Find someone who is having a hard time, or is

ill, or lonely, and do something for him or her.

Thomas Spencer Monson

 

Quote of the Day

 One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

via Wikipedia

Dudley Field Malone

A Mid-June Jobs List

 

Arlington Aquatic Club (AAC) head swim coach

 

City of Midland Aquatics (COM) executive director

 

First Colony Swim Team (FCST) assistant/lead swim coach

 

Southern Methodist University aquatics facility manager

 

Azle HS assistant swim/dive coach, Michael Sain

 

Johnson HS (Buda) head swim coach, Stephen Hoffman

 

Hays HS (Buda) head swim/water polo coach, Mark Torres

 

Rock Hill HS head water polo/assistant swim coach, Tommy Sacco

 

Walnut Grove HS head water polo/assistant swim coach, Tommy Sacco

 

Mesquite HS head swim coach, Kody Groves

 

Oak Ridge HS head water polo/assistant swim coach, Mark Schmid

 

Foster HS head swim/water polo coach, Shane Hanks 832-223-3963

Northside ISD various head/assistant positions (swim, polo, dive), Anthony Plummer

Anderson HS head swim coach, Donald Hatcher 214-507-4759

 

Emerson HS head swim coach, Melissa Howard

 

 

 

Find past jobs posts here

 

 

Sometimes you're the windshield...

 

...sometimes you're the bug.

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Every man should have laws of his own, I should

think;  commandments of his own, for every

man has a different set of circumstances

wherein to work - or worry.

Gilbert Parker

 

Lucky Number

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas

is to live like ants instead of like men.

Mortimer Jerome Adler

 

Camp Longhorn's Bill Robertson

 

Listen to Episode XLVII, featuring Bill Robertson, here

 

 

 

 

Job Descriptions

 

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained

not by its growth, but by washing

away from it all that is not gold.

Count Lev Nikolayevich "Leo" Tolstoy

 

Quote of the Day

 

The freedom to criticize judges and other public 

officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Texas Swimming Fantasy Foosball - Year XX

 

Texas Swimming Fantasy Foosball XX

 

Interested?  Sign up here

 

Draft is scheduled for Labor Day.

Our fourteen-team league has two (2) openings for the 2024 season!

Texas Swimming legend Keith H will be trying to add to his league-record three championships.

League Champions

2005 - Keith (dirtybuttcrackheads)
2006 - Keith (dirtybuttcrackheads)
2007 - Montoya (The Slum Lords)
2008 - Bobby (YouAllSuck-JustQuit)
2009 - Bobby (YouAllSuck-JustQuit)
2010 - Tonya S. (sugar hiccups)
2011 - Button (Mansfield Maulers)
2012 - Katie (Smack&Cheese)
2013 - Katie (Smack&Cheese)
2014 - Button (Bait Campers)

2015 - Pa-Check-OH (Shock-taws)

2016 - Tin Cup (Crossfire 'Canes)

2017 - Mike (AfterDeath)

2018 - Blake (Snipe Hunter)

2019 - Keith (Touchdown Monkeys)

2020 - Tim (Tim's Great Team)

2021 - Mista Mann (Noble Criminal)

2022 - Pa-Check-OH (Shock-taws)

2023 - Mike (AfterDeath)

2024 - ??? 

Kate & Iggy

 

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in

which liberty is exercised that ultimately

determines whether liberty itself survives.

 

Dorothy Thompson

 

I Wanna Be a Lifeguard

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

It is on our failures that we base a new

and different and better success.

Henry Havelock Ellis