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

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!!!!

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

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

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

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!

p.s. Fingertips First

Christmas Training

Final Standings

Please get me your shirt sizes ASAP:

1T. Kirsten B.
1T. Jerome D.
1T. Henry I.
1T. Jamie P.
1T. Katlin S.
6. Naa B.
7T. Chandler R.
7T. Sammy R.
9. Randy V.
10. Mila I
11. Taylor W.
12. Forres M.

Plan Ahead

Lubbock ISD Invite individual time standards are as follows:

Girls

200 free - 2:24.09
200 i.m. - 2:46.09
50 free - :29.49
100 fly - 1:20.49
100 free - 1:05.49
500 free - 6:42.49
100 back - 1:17.99
100 breast - 1:26.99

Boys

200 free - 2:08.99
200 i.m. - 2:28.99
50 free - :25.09
100 fly - 1:09.89
100 free - :57.09
500 free - 6:05.09
100 back - 1:08.09
100 breast - 1:15.09

Our travel squad to this meet will be determined after Christmas break.

An updated Christmas training schedule is posted on the our official site here.

We may take a few relay-only swimmers to Lubbock.

Make plans to train over the holidays so you don't miss out on this opportunity!

MISD Invite Finals

We wrapped up the meet with three (3) more Top Ten times, and two (2) new school records.

Devin S, Parker S, Henry I, and Pedro S set an new school record in the 200 medley relay.

Parker S set a new school record in the 200 individual medley.

The girls' finished 18th in team scoring and the boys were 15th.

B200MR - Devin S, Parker S, Henry I, Pedro S - 14th
B200IM - Parker S - 3rd
B50Fr - Jamie P - 20th
G100Fl - Kirsten B - 17th
B100Fl - Henry I - 8th
B100Fl - Zabdiel E - 20th
B100Fr - Devin S - 20th
B500Fr - Parker S - 5th
B200FR - Pedro S, Devin S, Parker S, Zabdiel E - 10th
G100Ba - Kirsten B - 12th
B100Ba - Devin S - 16th
B100Ba - Jamie P - 17th
G400FR - Naa B, Kirsten B, Melissa T, Katlin S - 18th
B400FR - Henry I, Jamie P, Zabdiel E, Taylor W - 14th

Prelim Results

90+% best times today!

No, not season bests - lifetime bests!!

We had twelve (12) new Top Ten times!

There were two (2) DQ's in the girls' 400 free relay. That moved our girls up to 19th!

Qualifying for tomorrow's finals were:

B200MR - THS A - 14th
B200IM - Parker S - 2nd
B50Fr - Jamie P - 19th
G100Fl - Kirsten B - 15th
B100Fl - Henry I - 8th
B100Fl - Zabdiel E - 17th
B100Fr - Devin S - 18th
B500Fr - Parker S - 9th
B200FR - THS A - 8th
G100Ba - Kirsten B - 14th
B100Ba - Devin S - 15th
B100Ba - Jamie P - 16th
G400FR - THS A - 19th
B400FR - THS A - 14th

We will splash for warm-up at 8:30 a.m. - please arrive early!

Eat a good dinner, get a good night's sleep, and we'll see y'all in the morning - ready for another day of fast swimmin'!

Fast Swimming

Two very fast meets are going on right now - USA Swimming National Champs (Atlanta/LCM) and Texas Invite (Austin/SCY). Both meets wrap up today.

Real time results and video from Atlanta are here.

Women's 50 free final:


Men's 50 free final:


Real time results from Austin are here. Several visiting teams are shaved & tapered.

Yesterday's prelim breaststroke swims were very quick.

USC's Kasey Carlson went a :58.69 in the morning. She won the final in :58.46.

Arizona's Kevin Cordes broke the Texas Swim Center pool record with an incredible :51.76. Cordes and his teammates finished 1-2-3 in finals.

Shose Swim

Shose (shoes/hose) results:

1050 - Kirsten B, Henry I, Jamie P
925 - Zabdiel E, Forres M, Taylor W
850 - Jerome D
800 - Chandler R
750 - Naa B
600 - Cameron N

Quick Notes

Our Friday morning group will train with Summit HS. There will not be a Friday afternoon dry-land session.

Entries for the MISD Invite are due Friday. If you have qualified for an individual event and haven't let me know what you'd like to swim, let me know ASAP.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and
innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful
lesson from someone who has.



Cael Norman Sanderson

Today's 25 Free Results

1st - Devin S (1:23.3)
2nd - Henry I (1:18.8)
3rd - Taylor W (:59.3)

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do
it to please someone else. It has to be yours.



Peggy Gail Fleming