Duncanville Non-Region

Several of our swimmers are eligible to travel to Duncanville this Saturday for their non-region qualifier meet.

Entries are due Tuesday, so please let me know what you'd like to swim ASAP.

If you're attending the meet, you'll need to be at the MISD Natatorium at 6:00 a.m. Saturday.

You'll travel wearing your team warm-ups.

Mansfield, Summit, and Timberview are sharing a bus.

Coach Bold will be in charge on this trip. Be on your best behavior.

Meet will start at 9:00 a.m.

Map to host facility is here.

District Results

Team scoring:

Girls

Mansfield - 218
Legacy - 114
Duncanville - 66
Timberview - 49
Cedar Hill - 32
South Grand Prairie - 29
Grand Prairie - 4

Boys

Legacy - 160
Mansfield - 150
Timberview - 110
South Grand Prairie - 61
Duncanville - 32
Cedar Hill - 23

Top eight finishers in each event scored team points. Top six finishers in each event advanced to region.

G200MR - 4th - Kirsten B, Naa B, Katlin S, Lauren H
B200MR - 3rd - Devin S, Parker S, Henry I, Pedro S

G200Free - 8th - Melissa T
B200Free - 5th - Jamie P, 9th - Taylor W, 13th - Dallis D

G200IM - 5th - Kirsten B
B200IM - 2nd - Parker S, 8th - Randy V

G50Free - 10th - Lauren H
B50Free - 4th - Forres M, 5th - Pedro S, 7th - Jerome D, 8th - Zabdiel E

G100Fly - 8th - Katlin S
B100Fly - 2nd - Henry I, 6th - Zabdiel E, 12th - Cameron N

G100Free - 12th - Melissa T
B100Free - 5th - Devin S, 6th - Forres M, 8th - Pedro S

G500Free - 7th - Lauren H
B500Free - 2nd - Parker S, 11th - Cameron N

G200FR - 6th - Naa B, Lauren H, Katlin S, Meliss T
G200FR - 2nd - Zabdiel E, Henry I, Taylor W, Jamie P

G100Back - 2nd - Kirsten B
B100Back - 1st - Devin S, 2nd - Jamie P

G100Breast - 3rd - Naa B
B100Breast - 6th - Henry I, 7th - Taylor W, 10th - Randy V, 13th - Dallis D

G400FR - 3rd - Naa B, Kirsten B, Katlin S, Melissa T
B400FR - 2nd - Pedro S, Devin S, Jamie P, Parker S

Region Meet Info

Entry Deadline: Sunday, February 5th, 6:00 p.m.

Psych Sheet: by Tuesday, February 7th, noon (here)

Swimming Prelims: Friday, February 10th, 3:30 p.m.

Swimming Finals: Saturday, February 11th, 3:30 p.m.

Notes & Schedule

District meet went very well for us. We had a couple of new school records and nineteen (19) new top ten times. Our shaved/tapered kids swam over 90% lifetime bests. More on that later.

Congratulations to the Legacy boys and Mansfield girls for their district team championships.

Timberview did a great job of providing timers for the 4A meet last night. Congratulations to the Summit boys for their boys' district team championship.

I'll get together with each swimmer this week to discuss our region relays (we will have a few changes) and the new taper schedule.






This week's general workout schedule (individual taper schedules will vary):

Mon. - swim 6:00-8:00 a.m., dry-land 3:00-3:45 p.m.
Tue. - swim 6:00-8:00 a.m.
Wed. - swim 6:00-8:00 a.m., dry-land 3:00-3:45 p.m.
Thu. - swim 6:00-8:00 a.m.
Fri. - swim 6:00-8:00 a.m.

Even if you were 7th or 8th at the district meet, plan to train on the above schedule.

Region entries aren't due until Sunday, February 5th. We won't know until then if any of the top six finishers in our district are giving up their region spots.

Check out last year's region results here.

If you weren't in the top eight at district, you will splash at 7:00 a.m. each morning this week. We may add another meet to our schedule for y'all.

Duncanville plans to host a non-region qualifier meet on Saturday, February 4th. If we can arrange transportation, we may send a few to that meet.

Once again we had great fan support for our athletes:

Thankyou Timberview Fans!!!!

Timers Needed

Coach Huckabay emailed each high school coach this a.m. and asked us to provided four (4) timers for tomorrow's 5A district meet and Saturday's 4A district meet.

We should have plenty of swimmers to help Saturday, but Friday may be a stretch. Please recruit your brothers & sisters to help us out tomorrow.


Thanks!

2011 District/Region Results

Take a look back at last year's district and region meets:

2011 District 9-5A Results

2011 Region III-5A Results

Week of 1/23/12

Monday - morning group splashes at 7:00 a.m., afternoon group out at 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday - morning group splashes at 7:10 a.m., afternoon group out at 2:20 p.m.
Wednesday - morning group splashes at 7:20 a.m., afternoon group out at 2:10 p.m.
Thursday - morning group splashes at 7:30 a.m., afternoon group out at 2:00 p.m.
Friday - morning group splashes at 7:40 a.m., afternoon group out at 1:50 p.m.

We will start our district meet warm-up at 3:30 p.m. Please be here no later than 3:15 p.m. Meet starts at 4:30 p.m.

Tapering Guidelines

• Cut back on the caloric intake (you will be burning fewer calories than you were during heavy training)
• Cut back on outside activities (we'll rest at the pool - you rest while away from it)
• Pay more attention to the "little things" (training intervals will be easier and you'll have a chance to "sharpen" while getting more rest)
• Conserve energy (you'll have excess energy that you've not had for months - don't waste it)
• Stay positive (both about your upcoming races and your teammates')
• Visualize races (take yourself through your races from before the start to after the finish)

Shaving Guidelines

• Allow plenty of time and take breaks while shaving for your championship meet
• Electric shavers and Nair are not used in this process
• Have plenty of new razors/blades available before you begin
• Start by using clippers on exposed body hair
• Carefully shave exposed body hair
• Be especially careful around shins, wrists, elbows, knees, forearms, and ankles
• Change blades/razors often

Attack!

Here's video of Dallas Jesuit's Matt Thompson setting a national high school record in the 200 i.m. Thompson now swims for Stanford.

Swimming Videos on Floswimming

District Meet Schedule Change

Our district swim meet will be Friday, January 27. Meet is scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m.

They were busy as...

...you get the idea...

If/when y'all grab some firewood, feel free to walk around out back and visit the Lake Ridge Dam Darn:

Altitude Adjustments

Elevation in Lubbock is a little over 3,200 feet above sea level.

USA Swimming allows for time conversions for events of 200 yards or longer swum at elevations above 3,000 feet.

If you swam the 200 free, 200 i.m., and/or 500 free, your times would be adjusted as follows:

200 free/individual medley: subtract 0.50 second

500 free: subtract 2.50 seconds

The Lubbock ISD Invite was an observed meet, meaning times swum were sent into the USA Swimming database.

2012 registered athletes should find official times - along with any altitude adjustments - already in SWIMS.

Lubbock ISD Invite Results

Top sixteen finishers at the Lubbock ISD Invite:

B 200 MR - 9th - Devin S, Taylor W, Henry I, Jamie P
B 200 Free - 5th - Parker S
G 100 Fly - 10th - Kirsten B
B 100 Fly - 6th - Parker S & 12th - Henry I
B 100 Free - 12th - Devin S
B 500 Free - 11th - Jamie P
B 200 FR - 12th - Henry I, Zabdiel E, Taylor W, Parker S
G 100 Back - 7th - Kirsten B
B 100 Back - 7th - Devin S & 12th - Jamie P
B 100 Breast - 13th - Henry I
B 400 FR - 6th - Zabdiel E, Jamie P, Devin S, Parker S & 16th - Chandler R, Randy V, Jerome D, Forres M

Girls' team scoring - 15th
Boys' team scoring - 7th

Monday Workout Schedule

Swim (7:00 - 9:00 a.m.)
Dry-Land (9:15 - 10:00 a.m.)

Lake Ridge High School

The district has posted important information on Lake Ridge High School. It may impact several of our Timberview High School swimmers.

New attendance zone map, transfer options, paperwork links, athletics info, etc. are here.

Lubbock Trip Update

We will not have a wake-up swim Friday morning.

The bus will roll from the natatorium at 5:00 a.m.

That means you should arrive at the pool no later than 4:45 a.m.

Prepare for your trip early Thursday so you can get a good night's sleep.

Have everything packed before you go to bed.

We're not going on safari, so don't overpack.

Have a plan for Friday breakfast before you go to bed.

Set an extra alarm before you go to bed.

Wear your competition suit to bed.

Just kidding on that one.

Goal should be to have everything ready to go, so you can be snoring away Thursday evening by 8:00 p.m.

Not kidding on that one.

This Week Notes & Schedule

Monday

Morning Group - Swim 6:00 - 8:00 a.m., Dry-land 3:00 - 3:45 p.m.
Afternoon Group - Swim 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday

Morning Group - Swim 6:30 - 8:00 a.m.
Afternoon Group - Swim 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday

Morning Group - Swim 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Afternoon Group - Swim 1:30 - 2:15 p.m.

Thursday

Morning Group - Swim 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Afternoon Group - Swim 1:30 - 2:15 p.m.

Friday

Wake-Up Swim - TBA
Bus Departs - TBA
Prelims Begin - 1:00 p.m.

Saturday

Finals Begin - Noon

A Few Notes

We missed a birthday swim over break, didn't we? Let's make that up tomorrow!

We will not have dry-land today, but we will have dry-land Wednesday & Friday.

If you missed this morning's story-time presentation of "The Precious Present" by Spencer Johnson, catch up here.

Randy V. is the only one who's given me a shirt size. Please get those to me so we can order your special Christmas training shirts. It's a very limited edition - just twelve will be ordered!

More on Schedules

The latest from our head counselor:

Please do not go to the Counseling Office for schedule change forms.

They will work from our current rosters and call swimmers in if there are any issues to work out.

p.s. Fingertips First