s mood is just ruined. Or is it? Calm before the storm :) I’ve long ago realized that it is a lost battle to try to educate every single person about the etiquette of public pool lane swimming. Instead of joining the online rants about how people should get a clue about what it means to swim in a fast lane, how lifeguards should enforce certain rules and be angry half the time, I decided to make the...
...these jobs pay! Birnam Wood Swim Team Bellaire HS assistant (contact Kris Wingenroth at 713-302-6784 ) Omni Barton Creek Resort San Antonio aquatics specialist Buda YMCA aquatics coordinator ...
(via Fort Bend Star ) Read it here . “I learned a lot about myself at Olympic Trials after watching some of the more veteran swimmers,” said Manuel, a member of First Colony Swim Team. “I wasn’t very happy with my performance, and I reflected upon on the experience. “I knew I needed to make some changes if I wanted to swim at that same level. From that point forward, my outlook and attitude were completely...
Thanks, Anonymous! 2014 A&M SC Sectional Results ...
Here is a video of the women from Bowdoin, Bates, and Colby swim teams doing the Maine Cheer at Women's NESCACs on February 15th 2014. ...
17, Sophia Walker '17) record fell in the morning, Holly Rudel '17 broke the 50 & 100 backstroke records, and Helen Newton '14 broke the 50 breaststroke record! Saturday night started off with the senior ceremony (celebrating Helen Newton, Maeve O'Leary, and Caitlin Hutchinson-Maddox) and got more and more exciting. Holly Rudel '17 broke her own 100 back record from the day before, Helen Newton...
t get me started on how in the world she wasn't voted swimmer of the meet on the women's side... 2014 Big XII event and time trial results are here . Quite a few "B" cuts were made at time trials today. It was last-chance day for the ladies. View here . Check out The Jack Benny Program from about fitty years ago. The Peter, Paul, & Mary show: Meanwhile...the swimming world...
I surf, I can play an alto sax so I gotta like this guy....
all will find this absolutely shocking, so brace yourselves: Some district meet directors still haven't gotten their results/awards in for posting on the TISCA site! Check out what they've got so far: District/Region/State results link is here . State meet awards link is here . Can ya stand yet another shockin'? How about a repeat 1-2-3 finish that occurred in the boy...
Both meets begin today: C-USA Championship Central C-USA Results (real time) Big XII Championship Central (w/results)...
t really like this architect very much for I find her designs a bit repetitive but the London Olympic pool is a majestic spectacle and I look forward to swimming it. China on the other hand really dropped on their grand aquatics center. Gala to see England is more industrious. SCAQ may challenge Great Britain's masters swimmers to a meet. (Ooops! did i just say that? The keyboard may have been...
TEXAS SWIMMING Save the Males - Reform Title IX NOW!!! Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Town Lake YMCA Aquatics Coordinator at Town Lake YMCA Labels: Jobs posted by Button @ 5:20 PM 0 Comments: Post a Comment About Me Name: Button Location: Texas, United States Swimmer, swim coach, and swim parent. Feel free to comment... View my complete profile Follow @texasswimblog Links ASA ASCA Athletic Foodie Ricky...
s your club doing in the Virtual Club Championship ? Never heard of it? Okay, how about retaining your athlete members? Not your problem? Snap out of it, coach! Them...
Info for this week's Big XII conference meet is here . Psych Sheet ...
Registration for the May 3 Cap 2k in Austin is now open. Event page is here ....
The City of Austin needs to fill thirty (30) summer league coaching positions. Info here ....
t . If you're easily offended by "colorful" language (and gestures), don't view it here . Between "I'm gonna pass out" and "Odds of winning zero in ten thousand", it's pretty intense. Then came the 2012 Trials , where he just missed qualifying for the London Games . Since then, it...
Texas A&M finished atop the podium in all four women's events today at the Southeast Conference Champs . Cammile Adams won the 200 fly in an SEC-record time of 1:52.19. Paige Miller took the 100 back in :50.91. Breeja Larson took the 100 breast in :57.28 to set a new American record. Miller, Larson, Caroline McElhany , and Liliana Ibañez capped off the night with a victory in the 400 medley relay...
DADS club head age group coach Jason Devine is featured in USA Swimming's "Coaches You Should Know" here . (via DADS ) Devine (here with Jessica Hardy ) was recognized as Gulf Age Group Coach of the Year in 2012. What is your swimming background? “I started out in summer league of course; that is how most people start. And then I stopped swimming for a number of years—I was that little kid who was...
s Forum (catch up here ), some in the media just can't get through the Sochi Games without touting Title IX as the reason for success in athletics for females. They slapped together a handful of facts, left out a bazillion of 'em, then threw in a bucket of opinions to come up with this joke of an article . But despite continued Olympic achievement for the United States' women's teams in this year's...