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



Peggy Gail Fleming

The difference between a successful person and
others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather a lack of will.



Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi

Notes

This weekend we'll be hosting several college teams at the natatorium.

Friday (6:00 p.m.) and Saturday (noon) will be the Southwest Collegiate Plunge. Men's squads from Missouri, Southern Methodist, Texas, and Texas A&M will compete.

A dual meet between women from Missouri and Texas A&M will follow Saturday's men's meet (estimated start time is around 3:00 p.m.).

Admission is FREE! Fans can watch some of our nation's best collegiate male and female swimmers/divers in action.
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Our next meet will be at Highland Park HS on November 1. Let's continue to work harder...and smarter!
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Results from last week's Highland Lakes Challenge are here.
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Log books will be due after Friday morning practice. Several of you still owe yardage for missing last week's deadline. Take care of that tomorrow, please.
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The more you discipline yourself, the
less you will be disciplined by others.



Napoleon Hill
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Team pictures are scheduled for Thursday, November 3 at 3:00 p.m. We will wear our team warm-ups over our gray dry-land shirts. If you haven't been issued warm-ups yet, we'll loan you a set for picture day.

Time is free, but it's priceless.
You can't own it, but you can use it.
You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.



Harvey Mackay

Plenty of news...after the pics!

First, more clinic pics! Thanks to Shannon Sheppard!

GWG in the Water with MAC:


High Elbow & Clean Entry:


Time to Race:


Devin Takes the Back:


Coach Porter (Summit, '06) with GWG:


Swimmers will wear their own suits for the Maroon/Black meet Saturday.

Saturday's order of events is slightly different from a normal dual meet. We'll alternate girls' heats (THS followed by SHS) with boys' heats in the following order:

200 Medley Relay
200 Freestyle
200 I.M.
50 Freestyle
100 Butterfly
100 Freestyle
100 Backstroke
100 Breaststroke
200 Freestyle Relay

Each swimmer may enter a maximum of two (2) individual and two (2) relay events. Each team may enter a maximum of three (3) swimmers/relays per event. 1st through third place relays will be scored 8-4-2. 1st through fifth place individuals will be scored 6-4-3-2-1.

Captains will help with warm-up, set line-ups, and coach for their teams in Saturday's Maroon/Black meet. Coach Salazar and I will announce team scores and start events.

I'll be available at the pool from 12:30 to 1:30 Saturday to meet with any parents that were unable to attend our parent meetings.

We'll issue meet suits, drag suits, warm-ups, and backpacks in time for the October 11 home meet vs. Cedar Hill. Swimmers and diver, please let me know your sizes ASAP. We need suit, warm-up top, and warm-up bottom sizes.

This year, both styles of team caps are black. We'll issue regular latex team caps in time for our first meet. Anyone wishing to purchase the special order silicon team cap may do so for $5.

There is no one magic move or secret that
creates victory, but lots of little items that
when added together can make you victorious.



William Anthony "Bill" Toomey

If you'd like to purchase your drag suit, they're $25 each. We still have some new suits available.

Check out Kathleen Hersey in the 200 meter fly. Makin' it look easy!


Finally, if you missed earlier posts of GWG's nutrition vids, check them out:

Parts I & II

Parts III & IV

Olympic champions are NOT extraordinary
people. They are ordinary people who
have discovered the way to accomplish
extraordinary results in the area of
life that matters most to them!



John Phillips Naber

Those who are blessed with the most talent
don't necessarily outperform everyone else.
It's the people with follow-through who excel.



Mary Kathlyn Wagner, a.k.a. Mary Kay Ash

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

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



George Washington Carver

You never know how a horse will pull
until you hook him up to a heavy load.



Paul William "Bear" Bryant

To be great we need to win games
we aren't supposed to win.



Julius Winfield Erving II, a.k.a. Dr. J

I don't think there's ever a time where I
step back and say I wish I was something
different. I'm doing what I love to do.



Sidney Patrick Crosby

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds
seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying;
I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.



Arnold Daniel Palmer

Life is often compared to a marathon, but
I think it is more like being a sprinter;
long stretches of hard work puncuated by
brief moments in which we are given the
opportunity to perform at our best.



Michael Duane Johnson

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.



Louisa May Alcott

Accept the challenges so that you
may feel the exhilaration of victory.



General George Smith Patton, Jr.

It is thus with farming: if you do one thing
late, you will be late in all your work.



Marcus Porcius Cato, a.k.a. Cato The Elder

Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.



Albert Einstein

You're born an original - don't die a copy.



John Mason

Luck is the residue of design.



Wesley Branch Rickey