Happy Birthday, Bobby

 

Wishing our youngest a happy 33rd.

The late - and great - Sam Kendricks made this call in prelims of the 2013 U.S. Open in Irvine:

Recycled Quote of the Day (05/13/10)

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.



Ralph Waldo Emerson

Has it really been ten years?!?!

 

Bobby and I went for a "walk in the woods" back in 2015.

We started in Georgia on February 7 and had a very tough go of it early on.

Around April, we were moving along well.

We stumbled out of Maine's 100 Mile Wilderness in July and wrapped up our Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike on the 30th.

Here's the Trail Journal entry from that day:

Day 174, 7/30

Up early and on the trail at 5:30. It didn't take long for the trail to become very challenging. Toughest terrain on the entire AT. Plenty of great views on the ascent. Got to the summit around 9:30. Spent a half hour taking pictures, smoking celebratory cigars, enjoying the view, and chatting with a few others who'd made the early climb. Descent was very difficult. Took almost as long as the climb. Once down, we headed out to the park road and tried hitching. We'd hoped to get to Millinocket tonight and then would try for Medway and Bangor tomorrow. No luck until Butch & Co. pulled over and we climbed into the back of his truck. We'd seen them on the trail earlier. As we talked with his daughter, Elizabeth, Butch drove through Millinocket, past Medway, and all the way to Bangor! Refused gas money. Hands down the best hitch of the dozens we've gotten.

Recycled Quote of the Day (05/11/12)

 

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human

when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

 

Eric Hoffer

Singapore World Champs

 

Links to follow the 2025 World Aquatics* Championships:

Pool Results

Open Water Results (complete)

Pool Schedule**

*Formerly FINA

**May help you better navigate results

Recycled Quote of the Day (06/01/12)

 

To punish me for my contempt for authority,

fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein

Recycled Quote of the Day (06/26/12)

 

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has

become the modern form of despotism.

Mary Therese McCarthy

Recycled Quote of the Day (07/22/12)

 

You can tell the ideals of a

nation by its advertisements.

George Norman Douglas

Quote of the Day

 

To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers,

take your vitamins, and you will never go wrong.

Terry Gene Bollea, a.k.a. Hulk Hogan

Three New Jobs

 

Great Hills Aquatic Rush assistant coach

 

Pearland Aquatics (PEAK) full-time assistant coach, John Burke

 

Blue Tide Aquatics (BTA) assistant coach, Matt Sanspree

 

 

 

Go back in time to view opportunities you may have missed!

 

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

I am glad that I wrote something that

brought joy to millions of people.

Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione 

Recycled Quote of the Day (12/06/09)

 

The only reason I'm coming out here

tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

George Lee "Sparky" Anderson

Swim Jobs Update

 

University of the Incarnate Word artistic swimming grad assistant (synchro)

 

YMCA of Metro Ft. Worth senior aquatic director

 

City of Richardson (COR) Garland site age group coach

 

Villa Sport Katy (Cinco Ranch) assistant swim coach

 

Fast Fins Elite assistant coach (age group)

 

 

 

Back up to view opportunities you may have missed!

 

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

It's the people who try to be clever

who never are;  the people who are

clever never think of trying to be.

Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker

Quote of the Day

 

It's easier to go down a hill than up it

but the view is much better at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher

Recycled Quote of the Day (01/15/11)

 

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.



Harry S. Truman

 

Recycled Quote of the Day (08/06/11)

 

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when
you don't have a dime in your pocket.



Lee Buck Trevino

 

Recycled Quote of the Day (09/29/11)

 

It is extremely important to know
what you don't want to find.



Leon Marcus Uris

...but wait..there's more!!

 

Austin Country Club* head swim coach

 

First Colony Swim Team (FCST) assistant swim coach

 

Lamar HS (Houston) assistant swim/dive, Stuart Webb

 

Hill Country Aquatics (HCA) head age group coach

 

North Texas Nadadores (NTN) developmental coach, Jason Roberts

 

 

*Yeah, you've seen this one before...coordination must not have been seamless...

 

Travel back in time to view opportunities you may have missed!

 

 

 

(From 04/25/20): Looking ahead to...

...fall in-service training...

Recycled Quote of the Day (12/30/11)

 

When a sinister person means to be your enemy,
they always start by trying to become your friend.



William Blake

Quote of the Day

 

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer

in so doing, than to incur the reproach

of our consciences and posterity.

Robert Edward Lee

 

Recycled Quote of the Day (02/02/18)

 

I feel sorry for those who live without competition...

fat, dumb, and unhappy in cradle-to-grave security.

Donald Mcintosh "Don" Kendall

 

Recycled Quote of the Day (12/14/11)

 

I can work up a moral indignation quicker than
a fat tennis player can work up a sweat.



Dwight Macdonald

 

Quote of the Day

 

Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.

William West Anderson, a.k.a. Adam West

 

Latest Openings

 

via KTLA5

 

The deadline for Texas public school resignations is here.

 

There may be new vacancies posted on individual school district sites that haven't made it onto other sites.

 

 

Premier Aquatics Club of Klein (PACK) senior & age group coach

 

Belton ISD & Tiger Sharks of Texas head high school/assistant club coach

 

 

See others you may have missed here

 

 

Recycled Quote of the Day (07/03/08)

 

There is nothing worse than a

brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Easton Adams

 

Cheater League

 

Heard about the Enhanced Games?

It's a chance for cheaters to make money through sports - nothing new for some, right?

 

Disappointed - but not surprised - to see former Auburn head coach Brett Hawke involved.

Hawke's the head swim coach of Team Anything Goes (TAG).  He's also the host of a podcast:  Inside with Brett Hawke.

 

One of his former swimmers is Brazilian Cesar Cielo, current "official" world record-holder in the 50 LCM Freestyle.

 

Hawke's latest "star" is Kristian Gkolomeev (Greece) - who "broke" Cielo's "record" (:20.91) back in February (:20.89).

 

Helping with financial backing for the 2026 Enhanced Games in Las Vegas is a group known as 1789 Capital, led by Donald John Trump Jr.

 

As Hank Hill would say, that boy ain't right...

 

Recycled Quote of the Day (07/21/08)

 

Years ago, it meant something to be crazy.

Now, everyone's crazy.

Charles Manson

 

Recycled Quote of the Day (08/10/08)

 

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level

of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Dr. Alfred Adler

 

Recycled Quote of the Day (08/22/08)

 

Communism has never come to power

in a country that was not disrupted

by war or corruption, or both.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

 

Knocked Down

 

from Back in Time by The Hillbilly Mood Explosion

 

  

Quote of the Day

 

Think for yourselves and let others

enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

François-Marie Arouet, a.k.a. Voltaire