Updates

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Shanghai World Champs are coming to a close.

Swimming World's coverage is here.

FINA official results page is here.

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The beautiful thing about learning is
nobody can take it away from you.



Riley "B.B." King
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If you didn't take advantage of today's MISD physical offering at Summit HS, please schedule with your family physician right away.

Doctors are very busy with athletic physicals at this time of year. You'll need to take the new (and improved!) MISD paperwork with you. You can print it out here.

There is plenty to read, initial, and sign - so get an early start on your 2011-12 paperwork!!

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Our swimming/diving UIL alignment is the same as last year's. View the 5A alignment here.

Start getting motivated for 2011-12 by checking out last season's district and region results.

2011 District 9-5A Results

2011 Region III-5A Results

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Here's a little re-post. It's one of my favorite backstroke videos. Watch Ryan's rotation - he gets almost completely onto his sides while keeping his head back and stationary.



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Mansfield HS's Ian Betts ('11) qualified for USA Swimming's Junior Nationals earlier this week. Check out all of the MAC results from championship meets:

Sectionals

TAGS

Shanghai World Champs

Television coverage of the 2011 Shanghai World Championships is available from NBC and Universal Sports.

Schedule:

July 24 through 31 - 7:00 p.m. - Universal

July 30 & 31 - noon - NBC

Yesterday, both 400 meter free champions swam incredibly well-paced races. Check out these splits:

Federica Pellegrini - 2:02.30 - 1:59.67

Tae Hwan Park - 1:51.02 - 1:51.02

That's right. Pellegrini negative split the race and Park even split it - right down to the hundredth of a second!

Parker S.

The Texas Age Group Swimming (TAGS) long course championships are being held in Austin right now.

Congratulations to Parker S.!

In yesterday's prelims, Parker qualified him for next week's USA Swimming Sectional meet in Conroe.

He finished 9th in the 200 meter butterfly with a time of 2:20.71.

Wonder what that'd be in yards? According to the Swimming World conversion utility, that would be a 200 yard fly time of 2:01.85.

Check out all the results here.

New College Program

Dallas Baptist University will be adding both men's and women's swimming.

Keep an eye on the DBU Athletics website for more announcements.

The addition of the Patriots means there are now eleven (11) men's and fourteen (14) women's college programs in Texas.

When you do the common things in
life in an uncommon way, you will
command the attention of the world.



George Washington Carver