Quote of the Day

 

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and

an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

Arnold Eric Sevareid

Quote of the Day

 

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes

down rat holes with baited breath.

William Claude Dukenfield, a.k.a. W.C. Fields

More Jobs

 

Blue Tide Aquatics (BTA) head coach & lead coach

Yates HS head water polo coach, Greg Wise

Victoria East HS head swim coach, Spencer Gantt

Weiss HS (Pflugerville) head swim coach, Karen Huffman 512-594-1452

McDonald YMCA (Fort Worth) aquatics coordinator

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD assistant swim coach, Daniel Jau

Long Creek HS (New Braunfels) head swim coach, Mauricio Craig 830-627-6057

Turner HS (Carrollton) head swim coach, Renee Putter

Bryan HS head swim/water polo Ricky Tullos

Cypress Christian School head varsity swim coach

Incarnate Word (Corpus Christi) assistant swim coach, Kevin Steen

More jobs listings here

Quote of the Day

 

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous.

The other day she looked at my calendar

and wanted to know who May was.

Jacob Cohen, a.k.a. Rodney Dangerfield

Bleeding Purple

 

TCU legend Richard Sybesma joined us over the weekend on Swim Talk A2B.  Listen here

 

00:00 – Disclaimer & banter

01:47 – Introducing TCU’s Richard Sybesma

02:55 – Getting started Andrews, Texas

05:23 – On to Texas Tech

07:58 – Coaching start in Monahans

09:22 – TCU:  Right Place/Right Time

11:37 – Sticking with the Horned Frogs

13:15 – Remembering the AIAW years

15:25 – ’96 Atlanta w/Walter Soza

16:22 – ’02 Salt Lake City torch runner

17:05 – Conference USA All-Sport COTY

18:06 – Nathan Lin signing at TCU

19:18 – Facility:  Doing more with less

20:24 – Into the Big XII

21:15 – New facility on the horizon?

22:04 – It can be done:  Forest Park Pool

24:01 – Fort Worth Swimming Frogs

26:54 – Balmorhea State Park Pool

29:20 – International travel & connections

32:11 – Richard’s Coaching Family Tree

35:30 – Dana’s UT assistant years

37:52 – Look like an athlete!

38:40 – Sneaking fun into the work & travel

41:15 – Altitude/Attitude

42:45 – Navy Seal Training

44:18 – Lessons & water safety

46:35 – Retirement = Work

48:13 – Wrapping it up

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker

 

Quote of the Day

 

What I am looking for is a

blessing not in a disguise.

Jerome Klapka Jerome

Quote of the Day

 

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at

whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Sarah Spark

Quote of the Day

 

I was highly attracted to chess for

forty or forty-five years;  then, little

by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp

Another List of Job Postings

 

Cypress Ridge HS assistant aquatics (polo & swim), Andrew Shanle

Jersey Village HS head swim/polo, Jonathan Mayer

YMCA of Greater Houston associate association aquatics director

City of Temple aquatics program coordinator

Holcomb YMCA masters swim coach, Toriana Valentine

City of Dallas aquatics programs supervisor

More jobs here

Quote of the Day

 

Problems are the outward signs

of unused inner possibilities.

Rollo Reece May

Quote of the Day

 

There's nothing scarier than

a reckless prosecutor.

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson

Quote of the Day

 

Power is always dangerous.  Power attracts

the worst and corrupts the best.

Edward Paul Abbey

Another Jobs List

 

Hightower HS assistant swim coach, Antoinette Santiago 832-661-2457

Frisco ISD assistant swim coach, Melissa Howard

Wilson HS (Dallas) head swim coach, John Fish

Grapevine Faith Christian School swim coach

Prestonwood Christian Academy head swim coach

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Quote of the Day

 

I cannot and will not

cut my conscience to

fit this year's fashion.

Lillian Florence Hellman

Quote of the Day

 

An administrator in a bureaucratic world

is a man who can feel big by merging his

non-entity in an abstraction.  A real

person in touch with real things

inspires terror in him.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

A Few More Jobs

 

HTX Swims age group coach

Alamo Heights HS assistant swim/polo coach, Norm Collins 210-724-8855

City of Lake Jackson assistant aquatics coordinator

The Woodlands HS assistant swim coach, Jeremy Wade

North East Aquatics Team (NEAT) swim coach

Legacy HS (San Antonio) head swim/polo coach, Rene Rodriguez

More jobs posts are here

Quote of the Day

 

There are some enterprises in which a careful

disorderliness is the true method.

Herman Melville

Quote of the Day

 

If there were no bad people, there

would be no good lawyers.

Charles John Huffam Dickens

Quote of the Day

 

You might as well fall flat on your

face as lean over too far backward.

James Grover Thurber

Even More Jobs

 

Angleton HS head diving coach, Jennifer LaRaia 512-203-4437

Texas A&M Commerce coordinator of aquatics & facility operations

City of Pharr TAAF swim coach

University of Texas assistant swim/dive coach

Lake Highlands YMCA aquatics coordinator, Eric Cooper

Greater Austin YMCA aquatics director

Nitro Swimming age group coach

Briggs Branch YMCA (Victoria) aquatics director, Rosalinda Ramirez 361-575-0511

City of Austin summer swim coach (30)

City of El Paso aquatics supervisor

YMCA of Metro Dallas head & assistant swim coach (numerous), Eric Cooper

Clear Springs HS head swim/polo & assistant swim/polo (anticipated) 

Clear Lake HS swim/polo (anticipated)

Dripping Springs YMCA swim coach

Clear Falls HS assistant swim/softball

Long Creek HS swim coach

Holcomb YMCA (Spring) head swim coach, Toriana Valentine

Perry YMCA (League City) head swim coach, Tristan Emig 346-614-5280

Vic Coppinger YMCA (Pearland) head swim coach, Natalia Lutz 281-485-6805

Schertz YMCA assistant swim coach

Dickinson HS head swim/dive coach, John Snelson

Episcopal HS (Houston) head girl/boy swim coach

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Quote of the Day

They're just jokes, people.  They can't all be funny.

Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III, a.k.a. Theo Von

More Job Postings

 

Here are a few more job listings:

Bellaire HS assistant swim coach, Gloria Clarke

Waterloo Swimming lead age group coach

Shalom Austin multiple coaching positions

Bridgeland HS assistant swim/polo coach, Bob Perkins

Gregory-Portland HS head swim coach, Mark Chester

Keller HS assistant swim coach, Jamie Shults

Clear Brook HS assistant swim/dive/polo coach, Sam Savell

Grand Oaks HS assistant swim/polo, Shaun McDowell

YMCA of Greater Houston youth development director - aquatics

Quote of the Day

 

If I have someone who believes

in me, I can move mountains.

Diana Ross

Unparalleled Success

 

Eddie Reese retirement dinner was fantastic!  Thanks to DJA for letting me tag along!

Left to Right:  Ian Carbone, Madison Wenzler, Patrick Murphy, & Bobby Button

One of my "Eddie stories":

Dana Abbott and I were watching an Orange/White meet when Cole Cragin was disqualified for a 15m violation.

I turned to Dana and said "I wish one of my kids could get DQ'ed for going too far underwater."

Eddie looked at me and said "Well, that's on you, coach."

Ouch!!! He was absolutely correct - it was on me.

So, that Timberview HS team worked on underwater dolphin kicking more than any group I'd ever coached.

A guy named Henry Isobi ended up breaking Bobby's school record in the 100 butterfly that year - and it was because he was great underwater!

Quote of the Day

 

Listening, not imitation, may be

the sincerest form of flattery.

Dr. Joyce Diane Brothers

Quote of the Day

 

The longest absence is less perilous to love

than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

Work Chronicles

 

Quote of the Day

 

I want to cultivate the seed that was placed

in me until the last small twig has grown.

Käthe Kollwitz

Quote of the Day

 

I don't care what the haters and naysayers

say.  If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh

because they'll probably be funny.

Paula Ann Hiers Deen