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200 Medley Relay

Dawson                                                             1:50.65

Ridge Point                                                       1:51.08
Magnolia                                                           1:51.10
Magnolia West                                                1:51.97
Georgetown                                                     1:52.79
Montgomery                                                   1:53.02
Kingwood Park                                                1:53.19
Flour Bluff                                                        1:54.10

200 Free

Sloan/Magnolia West                                     1:51.34

Field/Magnolia                                                1:53.04
Ramey/Heritage                                              1:54.07
Woolley-MacMath/McCallum                      1:54.15
McDonough/Frisco                                         1:54.28
Fryar/Denison                                                  1:55.57
Rago/Vandegrift                                              1:56.14
Abraham/Gregory Portland                           1:57.04

200 I.M.

Lin/Frisco                                                          2:04.99
Acosta/Jefferson                                             2:07.06
Manly/Sunnyvale                                            2:09.86
King/Highland Park                                         2:10.41
Walz/Champion                                               2:11.06
Blanchard/Lone Star                                       2:11.38
Bassman/Vandegrift                                       2:12.03
Lin/El Paso                                                        2:13.47

50 Free

Prewit/Flour Bluff                                             :24.55

Dooley/Magnolia West                                    :24.59
Ream/Lovejoy                                                   :24.60
Nelson/Frisco                                                    :24.64
Avary/Stratford                                                 :24.79
Rowden/Decatur                                              :24.80
Mabile/Lone Star                                              :24.89
Schneider/Montgomery                                 :24.89

100 Fly

Lin/El Paso                                                         :57.49

Quentin/Summer Creek                                  :57.58
Fossati/Friendswood                                        :57.66
Sananikone/Cedar Park                                   :58.16
Forsberg/Wimberly                                          :59.16
Rosales/Brackenridge                                      :59.60
Rowden/Decatur                                              :59.70
Henson/Nelson                                                 :59.80

100 Free

Wu/Cedar Park                                                  :51.42

Ryan/Alamo Heights                                         :52.68
Schneider/Montgomery                                   :53.09
Prewit/Flour Bluff                                              :53.16
Moore/Tomball Memorial                               :53.17
Stephenson/Stratford                                       :53.28
Allen/Frisco                                                         :53.53
Recer/Pottsboro                                                :54.04

500 Free

Field/Magnolia                                                4:57.62
Murski/Highland Park                                    5:03.48
Woolley-MacMath/McCallum                      5:03.71
McDonough/Frisco                                         5:08.25
Alspaugh/Rouse                                              5:08.52
Fowler/Uvalde                                                 5:08.84
Walz/Champion                                               5:09.84
Manly/Sunnyvale                                             5:12.12

200 Free Relay

Highland Park                                                 1:39.72

Vandegrift                                                       1:40.59
Prosper                                                            1:40.96
Kingwood Park                                               1:41.57
Magnolia West                                               1:41.91
Heritage                                                           1:41.92
Dawson                                                            1:42.30
Montgomery                                                   1:42.58

100 Back

Allen/Frisco                                                       :57.73

Ibrahim/Vandegrift                                          :58.33
Garcia/El Paso                                                   :58.56
Mabile/Lone Star                                              :59.72
H Massman/Frisco                                          1:00.09
Wood/Ridge Point                                          1:00.47
A Massman/Frisco                                          1:00.49
Brown/Vandegrift                                          1:00.50

100 Breast

Baerg/Stratford                                                1:06.22

Fannin/Dodd City                                             1:07.11
Hartsell/Georgetown                                      1:07.67
Gurry/Friendswood                                        1:08.08
King/Highland Park                                         1:08.17
Blanchard/Lone Star                                       1:08.39
Byerly/Flour Bluff                                            1:08.60
Schlosberg/Aledo                                            1:08.63

400 Free Relay

Magnolia                                                          3:34.47

Stratford                                                          3:37.46
Cedar Park                                                       3:37.91
Frisco                                                                3:38.02
Vandegrift                                                       3:39.65
Legacy                                                              3:45.64
Lovejoy                                                            3:45.86
Flour Bluff                                                       3:47.27

 

Quote of the Day

The big lesson in life, baby, is never

be scared of anyone or anything.

 

(via The Original Winger)

 

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra

Quote of the Day

Man exists for his own sake, and

not to add a laborer to the state.

(via The Atlantic)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Title IX Scam at Radford

First, don't worry about men's swimming at Radford University - it doesn't exist.

The Highlanders have announced they'll dump women's field hockey (18 women), women's swimming (23 women), and men's track (32 men).

They plan to add women's lacrosse.

On the surface, it looks like a Title IX "win" for the women at Radford.

Assuming the new lacrosse team will have a roster of around thirty-five (35) women, they'll see a net gain of twenty-six (26) "opportunities", right?

Stop and think about that for a bit.  Are they really opportunities?

Don't you think that nearly all of the women on the field hockey team get to see actual game action?

Isn't it likely that almost all the women on the swim/dive team get at least an event or two in a meet?

How many women of the thirty or forty on a lacrosse roster actually need their jerseys laundered after a game?

If you guessed around half the team, you get a gold star.

So, Radford is going to jettison around forty women who actually participate in games/meets...so they can add about twenty who'll see action...and around another twenty who'll get to watch it.

Thanks, Title IX!

Y'all managed to actually wipe out twenty net participants while adding twenty non-paying fans.

This is yet another huge loss for women when it comes to actually participating in intercollegiate athletics.

The collateral damage?

It's also going to cost over thirty men their opportunities...

Quote of the Day

Walking with a friend in the dark is

better than walking alone in the light.

(via Independent Living Services)

 

Helen Adams Keller

Time to Catch Up!

Some of this stuff is a little old - things I didn't have time to get to until now.  Sorry!  Pretty long post, so here's some listenin' music from Peter, Paul, & Mary:



Info on this year's NISCA convention in Austin is here.

Buy this coffee mug here.  Lego bricks not included.

More pics here.  Bioluminescent plankton put on a great show for us once down at the beach (had a buddy was visiting from NY).  Pretty incredible.

Austin recently made the list of top ten fittest cities.  More here.

Former Horn Jimmy Feigen:

(via Twitter)

FCST's Simone Manuel interviewed at the Austin Grand Prix:


Vincent Van Gogh project:


HAPP Invite

CFB New Year Classic

Cutting high school swimming in one Virginia town would save the school district $29,000.  Doesn't sound like that'll do a whole lot to whittle down their $7 million budget shortfall.  Read more here.

UNT vs. A&M (W)

McMurry vs. Austin (M&W)

Austin vs. Centenary (M&W)

Houston vs. Incarnate Word (W)

LSU/Rice/Tulane/Houston (W)

Austin vs. McMurry (M&W)

UNT vs. SMU (W)

UTPB vs. Southwestern (M&W)

Rice vs. Arkansas (W)

Rice vs. UALR (W)

A&M vs. SMU (M)

Texas vs. Arizona (M&W) Day 1 Day 2

Pacific Lutheran Winter Invite

Colorado College Classic

USA Swimming has an article on Longhorn freshman Jack Conger here.

“So far, so good,” Conger said of his training and season so far this year. “It’s been a hard adjustment for me and really taxing on my body, but I know the uncomfortable condition I’m in now will pay off in the long run.”

The City of Garland needs a swim program supervisor.  Info here.

SHARKS needs a coach.  Info here.

Doesn't SHARKS assistant coach Ahmed H. Soliman look a lot like Nathan Adrian?

Ahmed H Soliman
Coach
Email

Coach Ahmed has been involved in swimming since he was 10. He swam in New Jersey and holds 5 team records with his former NJ team. He also swam 4 years in high school. Before coaching, Coach Ahmed was a pool lifeguard for 3 years and a beach lifeguard for a year on the Jersey Shore where he saved two lives. In 2013, he became the head coach at E.A Smith YMCA and an assistant coach in local CCSL summer league. He is currently studying at St Mary’s University, San Antonio, as Biology B.S major.

Syntal Capital Winter Invite

Del Norte #3

MAC Elite

Greater Southwest

South Texas BB Champs (South)

AAAA/NEAT BB+

AAAA C #5

Eddie relaxes before the Non-TCU dual:

Eddie discusses a couple of kids that "are gonna make me famous":


CSCAA Executive Director Joel Shinofield is concerned about the future of college swimming.  Read his Post NCAA Convention Thoughts here.  Thanks for the heads up, DJA!

I believe that at most we have 12 years, the life of this ESPN contract, to build the financial future of our programs. At the end of this contract, I have no doubt that the structure of college athletics will radically change. The larger conferences see autonomy as the mechanism to allow them to adapt to the new financial reality of college athletics and meet the needs of their institutions without having to engage in the current laborious legislative pathway or leave the NCAA. However, it is likely that at the conclusion of the 12 year contract these conferences will choose to separate from the NCAA, because the revenue for the next media deal will be more than sufficient to facilitate independence (especially with the inclusion of basketball).

Quote of the Day

A person often meets his destiny

on the road he took to avoid it.

(via Wikipedia)

 

Jean de la Fontaine

Tap the Brakes

(via The Nation)

Northwestern foosballers are talking union. Sorry, fellers, I just don't see that idear gettin' much traction.

One reason is that Title IX'ers won't let it happen. Read more here.

Take the University of Texas, for example. For the 2012-13 reporting year, the University of Texas’ athletics program brought in total revenues of $165,691,486. Of that revenue, $132,765,064 was brought in by men’s sports programs, while $5,603,325 was contributed from women’s sports programs. $27,323,097 of the revenue was not allocated by gender. Given these numbers and seeing how much of Texas’ revenue is driven by each gender, how would union leaders suggest that Texas’ athletics department share that revenue with its student-athletes?

I'm okay with them calling some programs at UT "revenue" sports. That's because some of them actually do take in more than the spend. That's not the case at an overwhelming majority of NCAA institutions.

If schools like Texas, Ohio State, and Michigan won't be able to afford this, who will?

Quote of the Day

 

One of the truest tests of integrity is

its blunt refusal to be compromised.

 

(via the guardian)

 

Albert Chinualumogu Achebe,

a.k.a. Chinua Achebe

Switcheroo?

Take a look at this psych sheet, created 1/19/14 at 12:42 p.m. and then look at these results.

Doesn't pass the smell test, does it?

Quote of the Day

The right word may be effective, but no word

was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

 

(via NPR)

 

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

 

If football taught me anything about business,

it is that you win the game one play at a time.

 

(via Twin Cities)

 

Francis Asbury "Fran" Tarkenton

Quote of the Day

 

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes

is to never open your mouth and sing.

What a mistake that would be.

 

(via Rolling Stone)

 

Peter "Pete" Seeger

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

My grandmother, Pearl Voorhees, turns 100 today!

Quote of the Day

Las Vegas is the only place I know where

money really talks - it says, "Goodbye."

 

 

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra

Quote of the Day

Without self-discipline, success

is impossible, period!

 

(via ND Football Now)

Louis Leo "Lou" Holtz

This was a First!

Had never seen this one.

Seems a school managed to get their district meet entries in and were on the heat sheet in nearly every event.

Then they failed to show for the district meet.

Schedule error had everyone scrambling to show up, but by the time they arrived kids had already missed events.

Y'all know what that means in championship meets, right?

Quote of the Day

 

On earth there is no heaven,

but there are pieces of it.

 

(via PA LO QUE HEMOS QUEDAO)

 

Pierre-Jules Renard

Quote of the Day

 

Everyone you will ever meet

knows something you don't.

 

(via Hillelsteinberg)

 

William Sanford "Bill" Nye

Quote of the Day

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

(via Higher Education)

 

Albert Camus

Quote of the Day

Award nominations and search

warrants are the only things that

wake celebrities up early nowadays.

(via NY Daily News)

 

James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel

Quote of the Day

 

Baseball must be a great game

to survive the fools who run it.

 

(via goldin auctions)

 

William Harold "Bill" Terry

Another Bullying Coach

From wstmudcat's comment on this thread on TOC (on bullying):

"You coach are a bully! You got everyone afraid of being late to offseason or making bad grades and I am fed up with it.."

Looks like it's time to lower the bar...if that's possible...

College Notes

Chase Kalisz is back.  The Georgia athletic department has cleared him to return to competition.  Kalisz sat out three (3) meets while they sorted out possible academic eligibility issues.  Read more here.

News wasn't so good for head coach Jack Bauerle:

When asked a follow up question by Swimming World regarding Bauerle's status, Georgia spokesperson Steve Colquitt responded:

Coach Bauerle's status remains unchanged and this is an ongoing matter.

The Communist News Network (CNN) recently looked into academic issues with NCAA athletes and claims that foosball and thump-thump players are reading at elementary school levels.  Read more here.

Mary Willingham at UNC:

"So what are the classes they are going to take to get a degree here? You cannot come here with a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade education and get a degree here," she told CNN.

NCAA president Mark Emmert responded to the story:

"That CNN story on our athletes only reading at a fifth-grade level was just so they could sell more papers.  They failed to point out the fact that we've seen an increase of nearly one full grade level in the past five years!  How about that?  Sounds like a ninety-something percent improvement to me!  Now, let's talk March Madness, shall we?"

What about whistle-blower Willingham?  UNC is shutting her down.  Read more here.

New Texas foosball coach Charlie Strong is about to shake things up in Austin.  Read more here.

Bobby Burton compiled a list of Strong's rules that will likely result in some roster changes.  His policy on missing classes:

If a player misses a class, he runs until it hurts.  If he misses two classes, his entire position unit runs.  If he misses three, the position coach runs.

A thread on TOC about Strong's program shake-up is here.  Worried about line coaches running, high school coach Hookem wrote:

Our OL coach sweats when he eats and has chest pains while changing clothes...

Yup, it could get ugly.

Check out Planning Fallacy 101 in the world's smallest classroom (via Inside Higher Ed):


Article in The Daily Cougar featuring UH coach Rich Murphy is here.

“I think Texas on the whole is a strong swimming state. There are other options within the state, and we think we compare favorably with most of those,” Murphy said. “I think through a combination of what we have, combined with our location in a major metro area as well as from a facilities standpoint, we’re very fortunate. It’s just a matter of growing and making the most of the resources we have.”

Murphy's program lost their diving coach, Jane Figueiredo.  She's London-bound so she can work with Tom Daley & Co.  Read more here.

"The opportunity to coach somebody as world class and elite as Tom Daley is something that I am really looking forward to," she said.

Aggie Paul-Marc Schweitzer is A&M's male nominee for the SEC McWhorter Scholarship.  AD Eric Hyman dropped by the pool to make the announcement (via Texas A&M Swimming Twitter & Facebook)

Quote of the Day

 

I don't like losing a ballgame any more

than a salesman likes losing a sale.

 

(via OOTP14)

 

Early Wynn, Jr.

Quote of the Day

 

If you're not settled spiritually, things can

be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

 

(via Grandstand Sports)

 

Emmitt James Smith, III

NCAA Approves Triathlon as Emerging Sport

Read more here.

Women’s triathlon was approved as an emerging sport by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I Legislative Committee, a step toward the sport achieving full varsity status.

Sorry, guys, but you won't be competing in any NCAA triathlon championships.

An emerging sport, a designation only given to women’s athletic programs, gains full varsity status if 40 schools add it within 10 years. Other current women’s sports that have followed that route to varsity status include ice hockey, water polo and rowing.

Adding women’s triathlon would create as many as 10 spots for female athletes at each college that fields a team. The addition would help schools meet Title IX standards requiring women to be offered the same opportunities as men. It also could have a far-reaching effect on the sport in the U.S., college coaches, USA Triathlon officials and triathletes have said.

Thanks, Title IX...

Quote of the Day

 

...I remember being given injections during

training and competition, but this was

explained to me as being substances to

help me regenerate and recuperate.

 

(via Itty Bitty Writer Publications)

 

Kornelia Ender

Quote of the Day

 

I watched my hard work disappear in a second.
I have never knowingly taken illegal drugs and
I would never embarrass my family, friends
and my country, and the kids who love me.

 

(via The Telegraph)

 

Benjamin Sinclair "Ben" Johnson

Quote of the Day

 

This is a deep reflection of an overachiever

that worked harder than anybody on

the planet to live his dream.

 

 

William Thomas "Bill" Romanowski

FINA Defines Hand Separation

(via WikiPaintings)

Wondering what constitutes separation of hands in breast and fly?  Don't worry, here comes FINA to the rescue!

Here's what Dan McAllen shared with us today via email:

The FINA Technical Committee met in Bangkok, Thailand on December 6-7, 2013. At the meeting there was a discussion of the term “separated hands” as it relates to the rule adopted by FINA at its August, 2013 Congress.

The discussion resulted in the following interpretation:
“Separated means that the hands cannot be stacked one on top of the other. It is not necessary to see space between the hands. Incidental contact at the fingers is not a concern”

Accordingly, the separated hands in breaststroke and butterfly interpretation issued by me on October 8, 2013 is hereby expressly revoked and is replaced by the FINA interpretation above. A picture of the legal and illegal separated hands position as defined by FINA can be found on the Rules & Regulations page of the USA Swimming website as an attachment to this memo. Below is the link to the Rules & Regulations page and the document is posted under the heading “Interpretations, Legislation & Bylaws.” http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1636&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en

Quote of the Day

 

I have always taken tremendous pride in my

image and my reputation in being a role

model and handling myself the right

way and doing things the right way.

 

(via Blogging Mets)

Ryan Joseph Braun