Mustang Monthly - Internet Edition
April 2004
Loos Bronze Group Moves to CFB Natatorium Beginning April 13th
The Loos Bronze I and Bronze II groups will relocate to our Carrollton-Farmers Branch Natatorium location beginning Tuesday, April 13th. Please note that this is a change from the email that was sent out and is due to the CFBISD holiday schedule. On April 12th, Bronze 1 & 2 will practice at Loos from 5:30-6:30pm. The Bronze groups will swim at our CFB location from 5:30 – 6:30 PM Monday through Friday evenings. This change will coincide with the re-configuration of the pool at Loos to a 50-meter pool with 8 lanes, rather than the current 2 25-yard pools with 16 lanes. Normally, the pool at Loos remains configured as 2 25-yard pools until very close to the end of the school year when we begin our summer workout schedule. This year being an Olympic year, has made it necessary to change the configuration of the pool in April to facilitate those athletes training for Olympic Trials.
While we know that this may be a small inconvenience for
some team members, we feel it will enable us to provide the most beneficial
workout/training for all team members.
Coach
Meet Reports
“A” Championships
This season’s North Texas “A” Championships were held at the Grapevine Colleyville Natatorium on February 20-22, 2004. For some, this was the big “shave and taper” meet of the season and those swimmers were trying to extend their season by qualifying for higher level meets in the weeks to come. For others, it was the last chance to sharpen skills in preparation for TAGS (Texas Age Group Championships) and United States Sectionals. Congratulations to our swimmers on a great meet and a great season!
Point Scorers (event winners in boldface):
Caitlyn Koranda,
Hannah Ferrin, Keegan Watters, Jordan Newman, Des Godfrey, Ellyn Baker, Kelsey
Hendricks, Spin Beck, Alicia
Stevens, Melanie Futscher, Beverly Weickgenant, Meg Austin, Nicole Keller, Audrey Rogers, Jessica Shaw, Brittany Harvey-Lemons,
Liam Veazey, Eric Futscher, Jake Watters, Patrick Crowling, Tim Moore, Jack Beckwitt, Malin Kenny, Paul Gerard, Clint Hallum, Eric Gusa, Timmy French,
Michael Smalley, Clark Davis, Robert
Withers, and Travis McDaniel.
Top Ten Team Scores –
1 City of
2
3 City of
4
5 Metroplex Aquatics MTRO-NT 472
6
7 Rockwall Riptides YMCA ROCK-NT 373
8
9 Fort Worth Area Swim Team FAST-NT 317.50
10 Grapevine-Colleyville A T GCAT-NT 309
Greater Southwest Invitational
This meet was hosted by COPS at Loos on January 30-February1, 2004.
Point scorers (event winners in boldface):
Caitlyn Koranda, Megan Ernst, Catherine Ken, Elisabeth Mayer, Hannah Ferrin, Des Godfrey, Keegan Watters, Ashley Willeford, Maddie Steiner, Spin Beck, Kelsey Hendricks, Beverly Weickgenant, Alicia Stevens, Stephanie Martin, Meg Austin, Meredith Higgins, Emma Gunning, Alex Weber, Kelsey Craggett, Meaghan Watters, Tori Beckman, Adriane Devereux, Bri Barfield, Megan Daniel, Alex Jennings, Meredith Monroe, Maggie Marshall, Molly Bollen, Liam Veazey, Patrick Crowling, Luke Balylock, Jake Watters, Jack Ken, Jack Beckwitt, Malin Kenny, Paul Gerard, Will McNamara, Clint Hallum, John Bannon, Caleb Veazey, and Michael Smalley.
Correction
Stephanie Futscher was left out of the Kerr McGee results by mistake. She was one of our individual scorers. Sorry Steph.
BB/B/C Championships (Feb. 27 - 29)
The Mustangs rolled into the Champs with almost 80
competitors. It was held at
Those swimmers who competed for the team are listed in alphabetical order below. Their ages are listed immediately after their names in italics. Those that placed first in their division (BB, B, or C) in at least one event are listed in italics. Several Mustangs swam well enough to make some hard to get “A” times. Special congratulations to Morgan Bowser, Haley Bybee, Paul Gerard, Leah Jones, Maddie Nieberlein, and Trayce Womack for achieving at least one “A” time at the meet. Awesome job Mustangs!
Kendel Ahnell (11), Kristen Arnold (10), Stephanie Arnold (7), Alethea Atkins (12), David Beasley (13), Tori Beckman (13), Cassidy Beckwitt (11), Caroline Blaylock (6), Luke Blaylock (8), Sarah Blue (13), Morgan Bowser (13), Hannah Bush (8), Haley Bybee (11), Ellen Chaljub (10), Yunkun Chen (11), Elyse Chevallier (11), Katie Clemens (10), Andy Collins (13), Kylee Craggett (11), Elizabeth Crowling (8), Patrick Crowling (10), Julia Cuaderes (11), Katie Curtis (14), Susan Duncan (10), Megan Ernst (11), David Escamilla (15), Alex Fraley (10), Caelan Freeman (6), Aly Fuqua (9), Eric Futscher (9), Lydia Gerard (10), Paul Gerard (12), Sarah Gerard (14), Scotch Gorman (7), Sarah Gregory (11), Hayley Heiner (9), Shelbi Hendricks (9), Lauren Hill (13), Becca House (12), Steve House (10), Craig Hunter (9), Katy Hunter (10), Leah Jones (12), Meagan Keesee (14), Malin Kenny (11), Christie Kimm (13), Morgan Koranda (8), JD Lantz (11), Kristine Larsen (10), Miyo Malouf (10), Elyse Mayer (9), Amber McLaughlin (9), Bradley McLaughlin (10), Meggy McVey (10), Andy Miller (17), Jordan Newman (12), Courtney Nichols (8), Alicia Nicoud (14), Maddie Nieberlien (12), Sydney Patterson (9), Julie Pitch (12), Patchi Ravi (14), Pinky Ravi (10), Megan Reardon (13), Clyde Rembert (15), Anna Riley (12), Rosy Rios (12), Charlotte Rolfe (7), Delaney Rolfe (12), Matney Rolfe (14), Alyssa Rusch (9), Nicholas Saliba (13), Kyle Savage (14), Callie Scheffler (9), Christian Sharp (12), Rio Shirey (11), Dakota Smith (13), Erin Smith (13), Evie Thompson (8), Lisa Van Amburgh (12), Jake Watters (8), Ward Weber (10), Jeff Wherry (16), Melissa Whitley (14), Burke Wiggins (13), Alexus Williams (12), Daniel Withers (11), Michael Withers (14), Trayce Womack (15), Vicky Wu (10), Joyce Yee (13), Max Zotos (7)
TAGS Short Course Champs (March 4-7)
The 2004 Short Course Texas Age Group Championships was held at the friendly confines of Alfred J. Loos Natatorium. While we were not fortunate to earn a coveted banner this winter, your Mustangs finished a hard fought and well-swum 13th place. One of our strongest swimmers Lauren Roth had to miss the meet due to a shoulder injury that kept her from competing in the 13-14 Girls individual and relay events. Other teams might have encouraged her to swim “through the pain” but we encouraged her to be ready for another day so that she did not injure herself further. We are pleased that she now is back in the “swim” of things and looks forward to a strong showing this summer.
While we didn’t have as many scoring opportunities as we would have liked, we were very proud of the many swimmers who did don their Mustang caps, suits, and T-shirts in support of our efforts. It was nice to see many future and past TAGS swimmers in the stands cheering on their fellow team members. That is just one of the many things that make our team so great. There were many kids who made the meet as a relay only swimmer this year that got a taste of the “big-time” and they liked it.
Great role models Spin Beck and Matt Thompson led the team in individual points, although Matt’s did not count for the team since he only had recently joined the team to compete as a Mustang. Congratulations to Spin who achieved her first US Open qualifying time in the 200 breast with a time of 2:20.00. Although Spin got second in that event she broke the previous TAGS record for that event and also acheived a T16 time!
Below is a listing of those swimmers who qualified for the meet. Those whose names are italicized qualified in individual events. Bolded names represent swimmers who scored individual points. All swimmers have their age listed in the parenthesis following their names. Way to go Mustangs!
Meg Austin (13), John Bannon
(14), Spindrift Beck (13), Jack
Beckwitt (12), Kelsey Craggett (13), Elizabeth Crowling (8), Patrick
Crowling (10), Hannah Ferrin (12), Melanie
Futscher (13), Eric Futscher (9), Paul Gerard (12), Emma Gunning (14), Clint Hallum
(14), Kelsey Hendricks (14), Shelbi Hendricks (9), Meredith Higgins (14), Catherine Ken (10), Malin Kenny (11), Caitlin
Koranda (10), Stephanie Martin (13), Elyse Mayer (9), Tim Moore (12), Lauren Roth (14), Nicholas
Saliba (13), Kyle Savage (14), Alicia Stevens (14), Matt Thompson (13), Caleb Veazey (13), Liam Veazey (10), Casey
Watters (10), Jake Watters (8), Meaghan Watters (13), Alex Weber (13), Catia Weickgenant (13).
Dallas
This year’s short course TAGS Championship meet was hosted by our LSC and held at Loos. The Mustangs had a rather sizeable chunk of volunteer spots to fill (setting up before and tearing down after the meet was over), providing many, many timers and providing one computer operator for every session run. Our sincere thanks to all of you who volunteered your time and supported our team in this undertaking. We not only filled our required spots for timers but filled in for other teams. Many of the parents who worked the meet did not have any swimmers in the meet at all! Additionally, the “older” swimmers (15 and up) were visible in their volunteer efforts and cheering as well. So thank you swimmers and parents for your continued support of the best team in this LSC!
Upcoming Social News
It is April and the premier social event of the year is just around the corner. Have you turned in your Dallas Mustang Swimmer Banquet request? If not, do no wait as April 22nd is the last day that reservations will be accepted. This year promises good food, swimmer recognition and awards for all swimmers who attend, recognition of graduating seniors,a guest speaker and the ever popular slide show of our very own Dallas Mustang swimmers! Please submit your reservation form (found at the pools or at website www.dmswim.com) along with a check for $23 for each swimmer and family member attending. See you there.
Any questions? Call Maryann Martin @ 214-821-7588 or any of your coaches.
Photos for the slideshow
This is the last call for photos for the slideshow. If you have any photos that you think would be good for the slideshow, please contact me. I very much prefer digital photos (can be emailed to me or put on a CD) but will take actual prints to scan in (better still if you scan them and then save them as jpeg files and send those to me!). Scanning lots of pictures just takes time and in years past I have spent hours scanning in pictures. In general, it seems that I need more photos from HP and CFB. Also, if you are a graduating senior and would like to be included in the slideshow, please submit 5-6 photos (from younger to recent years) to me ASAP.
Please remember to put pictures in an envelope if they are prints and put your name on the envelope – they will be returned to you the night of the banquet.
Contact Wendy
Begg (972-307-3128 or vp@dmswim.com).
Raffle Items
We are going to be selling raffle tickets at the banquet as
a quick fundraiser for the team. If you have an item that you would like to
donate to be raffled off, please contact either Harmon Bollen or Nancy Beck
(fundraising chairpersons). Items that might be appropriate are restaurant
coupons, gift certificates, airline tickets, a weekend at a time-share condo
etc. Harmon can be reached at harmen@sbcglobal.net
and
DM Tuition Policy Reminders
Billing statements were mailed out at the end of February. If you did not receive a statement or are unsure if your account has been paid in full, please contact our Treasurer, Shannon Rusch by email at treas@dmswim.com. Please remember the following tuition policies:
- Tuition
is due the first of every month/quarter.
- There
will be a $5.00 per family late fee after the 10th of the month for
non-zero balance accounts.
- Should
you choose to leave the team – it is your responsibility to contact the
treasurer or registration chairman.
(Informing the coach does not fulfill this responsibility!)
- The
swimmer(s) may be barred from swimming and team activities if there is an
aged account balance is excess of 60 days.
- If
there is a problem with your billing, please contact the treasurer.
- Should
circumstances prevent full payment of your tuition, please contact the
president. Scholarships and
alternate payment plans will be addressed on a case by case basis. (Please Note: Lack of communication is
not an option!)
Hotel Reservations for Travel Meets
Senior Circuit #2,
15 rooms reserved at the Hilton,
979-693-7500
Senior Circuit Long Course
Championship Meet, UT Austin Texas, June 17th -20th
15 rooms reserved at Embassy Suites, Austin North. Please use DMU group code to get a special rate.
5901
512-454-8004
TAGS Long Course Championships, UT
Austin Texas, July 21st-25th
30 rooms reserved at Embassy Suites, Austin North. Please use DMU group code to get a special rate.
5901
512-454-8004
Long Course Sectionals Championship,
UT Austin Texas, July 29th-August 1st
40 rooms reserved at Embassy Suites, Austin North (10 double/30 singles). Please use DMU group code to get a special rate.
5901
512-454-8004
Team Trip
Every summer in years past, the Mustangs have gone on a team
trip somewhere outside of the state of
Meet Account
Please remember that all swimmers must maintain a current and
up to date meet entry account, by attaching a check for the meet entry fees to
each meet entry submitted. Should you need to submit your meet entry via email,
a check for the meet fees must be placed in the meet entry box/folder at the
pool during your next scheduled workout. Meet entry checks must be separate
from your dues/supply checks. All checks for your meet entries should be
made payable to “
Summer Schedule
Effective Tuesday, June 1st:
National - 7-9am @ SMU M-F, 3:30-6:15pm @ Loos M, T, Th, F
All Gold - 7-9am @ SMU M-F, 4-6pm @ Loos M, T, Th, F
HP Silver - 5-6:30pm @ SMU M, W, 4:30-6pm @ HP T, Th, F
Loos Silver 6-7:30pm M-F
HP Bronze - 6-7pm @ HP M-F
Loos Bronze I & II - 6:15-7:15pm @ Loos M-F
CFB Red and Blue - 4:30-5:30pm at CFB M-Th
Note: practices at SMU are outside and may be cancelled due to weather
Long Range
Parents, if you are interested in becoming more involved in our team and the direction in which it is headed, why not consider becoming a member of the Long Range Planning Committee? This committee will define new goals and refine other standing beliefs of our team. If this sounds like something that’s of interest to you, please contact either Adele Wherry at 972-418-1544 or pres@dmswim.com or Mook Rhodenbaugh at mook@dmswim.com.
