Results & More (but not much more)

College Results

North Texas vs. A&M (W)

Rice Invite (W)

Ouachita Baptist vs. Incarnate Word (M&W)

Wayland Baptist Invite (M&W)

Southwestern vs. UTPB (M&W)

McMurry vs. Trinity (M&W)


Club Results

PACK Open

ESA/Sharks/SST

Gulf Senior

Piney Woods

COPS 2/3

Spooky Splash

AQTX

AAAA Progressive Series II (real time)


High School Results

Oak Ridge Intrasquad

Lewisville/Guyer/Denton/Ryan

Georgetown Cup #2

Leander/Georgetown/East View

Arlington ISD Invite

Atascocita Early Bird Invite

Kingwood/Cy-Creek/Taylor

Kingwood vs. Klein Oak (V & JV)

Atascocita vs. Klein (JV)

Klein vs. Westside

San Antonio Duals 1

San Antonio Duals 2

San Antonio Duals 3

San Antonio Duals 4

Trojan Invite

Lake Travis/Westlake/Westwood


Link to UIL press release on the approval of "24 to state" is here.

The Jewish Community Center (Dallas) needs an aquatics manager

The City of Pearland needs an aquatic supervisor

Mansfield Aquatic Club needs a head age group coach

Interesting story out of Mansfield highlighting inequities in athletics here.  As usual, MISD found a way to spin it.

WADA banned substances & methods list for 2016 is here. 

USA Swimming has implemented "no faster than" times for all Sectional meets.  View those "maximum" time standards here.

Check out links list (to the right of this page) for updates to Time Standards for 2015-16.

Still have more time to waste?


...no need to thank me, just doin' my job...

Quote of the Day

You can't be brave if you've only had

wonderful things happen to you.

via biography

Mary Tyler Moore

One Million

It took ten years, but this blog finally broke through the one million page view barrier.

Yay texasswimming.org

Let's celebrate with fire!

All Over the Map

Front page of this morning's Victoria Advocate sports section:

Read the online version here

Special thanks to sports writer Mike Forman for not printing my starting weight!

Cory Wells, of Three Dog Night fame, passed away yesterday.  One of their many hits:



Good news out of Austin is - drum roll, please - TISCA's decades-long quest for "Twenty-Four to State" will be implemented by the UIL for the 2016-17 season.  Better Nate than lever, right?

Palo Alto College needs a club team swim coach

Life Time Fitness (southwest Houston region) needs an age group coach

Quote of the Day

We had the number one record in the United

States, and we had just filed for welfare.

via Fox News

Emil Lewandowski, a.k.a. Cory Wells

Quote of the Day

Honesty is more than not lying.  It is truth telling,

truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

via Deseret News

James Esdras Faust

Quote of the Day

A lie has no legs, but a scandal has wings.

via Encyclopaedia Britannica

Thomas Fuller

Quote of the Day

The point of cool is to erase your ability to

say no.  Saying yes buys you cool cachet,

but it always ruins your life later.

via vipWiki

Gregory John Gutfeld

Mxide Rstlseu & More

Leon's hoping to land a big one down at Sharkathon this weekend.  Event was nearly cancelled due to Red Tide.  More here

Coppell YMCA needs a swim coach

Duncan YMCA needs a youth development director - aquatics

via Rock Star Triathlete

Wonder about our top athletes and their post-race recovery routines?  Read more at USA Swimming here

After a race, hopping in for a good cool down and grabbing a snack and a recovery drink are nearly universal practices. Massage is more common at the elite level for older athletes, and cold water immersion is growing in popularity. There is a hierarchy of recovery practices, and it is probably never a good idea to sacrifice something at the top of the list for something on the bottom.

LAC Intrasquad

DADS Open

MAC Open

SSN Open

Aledo vs. Granbury

Grapevine-Colleyville Sprint Invite

Tiger Relays

Georgetown Sprint Invite

Georgetown Cup

MAC (NT) head age group coach Justin Doherty is moving on.  They'll certainly miss him!  The guy has an incredibly high "actively coaching to looking at phone" ratio.  Count him as one more guy who wouldn't play foller the "leader"...

Summit/Granbury/Timberview/Cedar Hill

Spring vs. Conroe

Caney Creek vs. Conroe Park (JV)

The Woodlands Intrasquad

Florida/Indiana/Texas (M&W, LCM)*

Today's meet (SCY) starts at 10:00 a.m.  Real time results here

Katy ISD Sprint Invite

Klein vs. Collins (JV)

LCAT Pecan Classic

Del Norte #1

SWATOberfest

CFSC IMX

Texas Terrapins Quad

Gulf Open Water

LAC BB+

Spin Beck's chat with UT women's coach Carol Capitani is here

MAC L2 D1

A&M vs. Kentucky (M&W)

McMurry vs. Austin (M&W)

UH Intrasquad (W)

TCU/Incarnate Word/Liberty (M&W)

UNT/Liberty/Incarnate Word (W)

Dual-a-Palooza 1 (W)

SMU Classic (W, Real Time)

Weslaco RGVSCA

AAHSSL "C" Dual 1

AAHSSL "D" Dual 1

Northside Pentathlon (N)

Northside Pentathlon (S)

Legacy/Mansfield/Keller/Martin

Kingwood Intrasquad (DC vs. Marvel)

Cinco Ranch vs. Kingwood (JV)

Seven Lakes/Taylor/Klein



*Wait!  No Michigan?!?!

Quote of the Day

I'm wary of the gotcha nature of discourse that

turns all debates into a battlefield.  We are now

all experts at divining what's in people's hearts.

via ccj SYMPOSIUM

Gregory John Gutfeld

Quote of the Day

Each minute we spend worrying about the

future and regretting the past is a minute

we miss in our appointment with life.

via the mindfulness bell

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Quote of the Day

Science is the belief in the

ignorance of the experts.

via Scientific American

Richard Phillips Feynman

Quote of the Day

The world hates change, yet it is the

only thing that has brought progress.

via pinterest

Charles Franklin Kettering

Quote of the Day

The only vice that cannot be forgiven

is hypocrisy.  the repentance of a

hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

via Wikipedia

William Hazlitt

There's a Storm Brewin'!

...maybe that's it...maybe that ain't it...

Quote of the Day

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression

and cruelty by the bad people but the

silence over that by the good people.

via Huffington Post

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Adult Camp

More info here.

If you want to attend, you'd best register right away (here).

Quote of the Day

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

via Great Thoughts Treasury

Thomas Fuller

Quote of the Day

I couldn't wait for success,

so I went ahead without it.

via Variety

Jonathan Harshman Winters III

Click on Pics for Enlargificationing

These were posted on the Thru-Hike blog.  They're two of my favorites from the Maine section.

Bald Pate

Katahdin

When we had them, the views in Maine were fantastic!

What could go wrong?

Chilly reception at the NOC February 26

via Wikipedia

Seemed like every time we had a tough choice to make out on the trail, it turned out to be a mini-disaster.  Eventually, I began adding "What could go wrong?" after each decision.

Knowing how our leaders have tackled "Border Security", the "War on Poverty", and the "War on Drugs", how much faith do you have in their "War on Supplements"?  Read more here.

Insert:  What could go wrong?

Thanks to USA Swimming for sharing this funny...they don't really believe, do they?

In case you haven't seen them, here are the UT men's Orange/White meet results.  No, they weren't tapered/shaved.

Coach Reese recently spoke at the TISCA coaches' clinic in Austin.  As usual, he was both entertaining and informative.  His best "stuff" comes when he's gone off on a tangent, then follers that with another tangent (or three).

Check out combined results from yesterday's North Texas pentathlon meet.

Quote of the Day

If you are depressed, you are living in the past.

If you are anxious, you are living in the future.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

via Catalyzing Change

Lao-Tzu

Athletic Foodie Update

via Athletic Foodie

Olympic swimmer turned stunt cyclist Garrett Weber-Gale gives us the latest on his business in this Swimming World article.

Great results ain't easy, easy results ain't great.

SW: When did the idea for AthleticFoodie spring to mind?

GWG: We started AthleticFoodie in 2009, as a way to start helping athletes learn about sports nutrition, and use it to not only feel better, but improve overall performance. AthleticFoodie began as a blog that published nutrition content, a place where we shared healthy recipes, and put on events with sports teams and schools.

AthleticFoodie snacks became an idea in 2014 after interviewing over 120 athletes and their parents about the things they struggle with, regarding nutrition and performance. It was obvious that the parents didn’t have much time, and were not sure how to best fuel their athletes. The athletes also didn’t know much about nutrition, and it became apparent that we could really help them.

We came up with the concept of shipping snacks, designed specifically for a swimmer’s performance, directly to the swimmer’s doorstep. It has been amazing to hear such positive responses from the athletes and parents around the country who are shipped AthleticFoodie snacks. We knew this would be a way that we could help many athletes achieve better performance, while also making parents’ lives easier.

Quote of the Day

A nation can have a constitution or it can

have a bureaucracy.  It cannot have both.

via fanshare

François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand

Quote of the Day

I promise to play for the logo on the

front, not the name on the back.

via tinypic

Sidney Patrick Crosby

Quote of the Day

I never said most of the things I said.

via SB*Nation

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra

via TBW Productions

Quote of the Day

The way to get started is to

quit talking and begin doing.

via Walt Disney

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

Opportunities

KATY needs an age group coach.  Details at ASCA site here.

Dripping Springs (YMCA) needs a swim coach.  Info here.

Quote of the Day

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

via Huffington Post

Amelia Mary Earhart

Quote of the Day

I never thought I'd lead the NBA

in rebounding, but I got a lot of

help from my teammates -

they did a lot of missing.

via USA Today

Moses Eugene Malone

Quote of the Day

Wise men speak because they have something to

say;  fools because they have to say something.

via Unequally Yoked

Plato

Prescription Strength Nature

Found here

Labor Day Weekend

Let's salute the workin' man/woman this weekend:


Here's a pic from May.  Missed a turn in Pennsylvania and ended up lost for forty-five minutes out on Boulderfield Trail.  That's probably where my foot pain started going from just horrible to nearly unbearable...

Journal entry for the stretch that included that "adventure" is here

The Richardson Family YMCA needs a program director

The JCC Piranhas Swim Team (Austin) needs a head coach

Northstar School (Arlington) needs a middle/high school swim coach.  Contact Lisa Odom

TISCA clinic schedule is here.  The Doubletree is sold out, so you'll need to either pitch a tent or find a different hotel.  Let me know if you need a (very, very used) tent...

Edited 9/6/15, 9:30 p.m.:

While out on the trail, I heard the UIL was going to allow 24 qualifiers to state meet in each division.  Thought it was a done deal and we'd be seeing that happen this year.  Guess that may not be the case.  We'll see...

Quote of the Day

My former wife made me a millionaire.

I used to have three million dollars.

via HockeyGods

Robert Marvin "Bobby" Hull

Recent Fishin' Pics and More!

Bobby's blacktip shark and bull red:

Leon fighting and landing a ray:

A few jobs:

The YMCA of Abilene needs a swim team coach

Highland Village needs an assistant age group coach

TeamFINS needs an assistant head coach

We have room for four (4) two (2) one (1) more teams in our Fantasy Foosball league.  It's FREE and champion will get a trophy.  Info here

Quote of the Day

When everything is said and done

there is nothing left to do or say.

via The Times-Tribune

Darryl Dawkins

Quote of the Day

A window of opportunity won't open itself.

(via Twitter)

Dave Weinbaum

Quote of the Day

You measure the size of the accomplishment

by the obstacles you had to overcome

to reach your goals.

via biography

Booker Taliaferro Washington

Quote of the Day

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued,

is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you

will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Quote of the Day

Forget past mistakes.  Forget failures.

Forget everything except what

you're going to do now and do it.

via Buick Factory History

William Crapo "Billy" Durant

Quote of the Day

I got hit in the head pretty hard.  My

clock ran backwards for two years.

via NASCAR

Elzie Wylie "Buddy" Baker, Jr.

We're Back!

We hit the summit on July 30.  Got back to Texas on August 5.

Link to the blog (with plenty of pics from the thru-hike) is here.

Links to the journal:

Start (keep clicking on "Next" to read in order)

Finish (keep clicking on "Previous" to read in reverse order)

Links to the "bests" lists:

First Third

Middle Third

Final Third

Doctor visit this a.m. went well.  Lost sixty pounds and blood pressure has dropped a bunch.  Blood work and foot x-rays scheduled for tomorrow.

Quote of the Day

People remember Don being a country bumpkin,

which he wasn't, and Howard being a pain in

the ass, which he was.  I was the law and order.

via newstimes

Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford

Quote of the Day

The most common way people give up their

power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Malsenior Walker