Mustang Monthly- Internet Edition

April/May 2006

           

Announcing our 2006-2007 Dallas Mustangs Board

 

Please join us in welcoming our new Board member Maryann Martin and our returning Board members Eric Futscher (President), Donna Watters (Vice President), Nancy Beck (Secretary), Jim Cuaderes (Publicity), Shannon Rusch (Treasurer), Paul Malouf (Fundraising), Larry Thompson (Travel), Victor Kimm (Officials), and Kira Gruber (Registration).  These individuals along with our dedicated committee chairman work behind the scenes on a daily basis supporting the Dallas Mustangs.  Our sincere thanks to all our Board and Committee Chairs for stepping up and accepting the responsibilities involved in continuing our proud Dallas Mustangs tradition as one of the top teams in Texas.  Many thanks also from the entire Dallas Mustangs team to our retiring Board members Mark Steiner and Stuart Roth for all their contributions to our team.

 

Meet Recaps

 

2006 National Spring Championships

 

The Mustangs traveled with ten swimmers to Seattle for this year’s United States Swimming Spring Championships.  Swimmers from all over the country competed in the five day competition and the Mustangs stepped up to the challenge with some quality swims.  We are extremely proud of our team’s seventh place finish.  It is an indication of the hard work and dedication put in by our swimmers this past season.  The following are the top ten team scores:

 

            1              North Baltimore Aquatic Club                                         NBAC-MD                                 425

            2              University of Southern Calif.                                            USC-CA                                     419

            3              Mission Viejo Nadadores                                               MVN-CA                                   373

            4              King Aquatic Club                                                          KING-PN                                   358

            5              Bolles School Sharks                                                      BSS-FL                                       322

            6              Rockville Montgomery Swim Club                                  RMSC-PV                                  154

            7              Dallas Mustangs                                                             DM-NT                                       122

            8              Swim Atlanta                                                                  SA-GA                                        113

            9              Cypress Fairbanks Swim Club                                        CFSC-GU                                   112

          10              Cincinnati Marlins                                                           CM-OH                                      110

 

Spindrift Beck and Matt Thompson led the Mustang charge at the meet.  Both qualified for the United States National Junior Team with their performances and Spindrift joined Matt in qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Trials.  Molly Bollen added a scoring swim of her own in the 100 fly.  And once again, our Mustang relays came through with some huge swims, notably the women’s 400 medley relay which finished third.  The following are the Mustang results from the meet (long course 50 meter course – scoring swims in boldface).

 

Clint Hallum                  1500 free – 16:13.71 (23rd)

                                    200 free – 1:58.94 (57th)

                                    400 free – 4:10.86 (45th)

                                    800 free – 8:29.39 (22nd)

Alyssa Landino             100 free – 59.95 (67th)

                                    200 free – 2:09.37 (67th)

Meredith Monroe         100 free – 1:00.98 (77th)

                                    200 back – 2:26.15 (42nd)

                                    200 free – 2:09.55 (68th)

                                    100 back – 1:08.33 (58th)

Spindrft Beck  200 breast – 2:32.65 (4th)

                                    100 breast – 1:11.12 (3rd)

                                    200 IM – 2:31.43 (89th)

Matt Thompson            200 back – 2:04.27 (7th)

                                    400 IM – 4:32.39 (10th)

                                    100 back – 57.25 (5th)

                                    200 IM – 2:09.28 (12th)

Max Murhpy                200 back – 2:10.01 (25th)

                                    100 back – 59.30 (19th)

                                    200 IM – 2:16.24 (46th)

Molly Bollen                 200 fly – 2:22.41 (42nd)

                                    100 fly – 1:03.06 (14th)

Kannon Betzen 100 breast – 1:14.65 (33rd)

                                    200 IM – 2:29.50 (85th)

 

Women’s 800 free relay (Landino, Lauren Roth, Beck, Monroe) – 20th

Men’s 800 free relay (Hallum, John Kalivas, Murphy, Thompson) – 14thT

Women’s 400 free relay (Landino, Roth, Beck, Monroe) – 18th

Men’s 400 free relay (Kalivas, Hallum, Murphy, Thomson) – 16th

Women’s 400 medley relay (Monroe, Beck, Bollen, Landino) – 3rd

Men’s 400 medley relay (Thompson, Hallum, Murphy, Kalivas) – 12th

 

CONGRATULATIONS MUSTANGS!!!

 

 

Plano A/BB Long Course Invitational

 

 

The 12 and Under Dallas Mustang swimmers started off the ’06 long course season April 22-23 at the annual COPS A/BB Invitational.  Both ‘A’ and ‘BB’ swimmers competed together but were awarded separately. The Mustangs finished an outstanding 2nd place in this early season meet with having little or no long-course training. DM swam very well with lots of best times, and a few new TAGS times and ‘A” times.

 

The following Mustang swimmers won at least one event in the ‘A’ division:

 

Taylor Temple, Kendall Williams, Jake Watters and Harrison Tran

 

Swimmers listed below scored in the ‘A’ division:

 

Elizabeth Crowling, Audrey Gruber, Lauren Murski, Natalie Rathjen, Taylor Temple, Kendall Williams, Emma Gruber, Harrison Tran, Jake Watters, Mead Robuck, Eric Futscher and Jon Hoffman.

 

Congratulations to the following point scorers in the ‘BB’ division (bolded names indicate winning an event):

 

Lauren Murski, Celia Holmes, Natalie Rathjen, Audrey Gruber, Elizabeth Crowling, Tanner Harris, Ann Weeks, Miyo Malouf, Ann-Claire Karalyos, Casey Watters, Mead Robuck, Christopher Alkire, Pablo Lara and Patrick Crowling. 

 

Way to go, Mustangs!!!

 

FAST 13 & Over A/BB Long Course Invitational

 

While the 12 and unders were busy competing in Plano, our older swimmers were out in Fort Worth at their season opening long course meet.  This meet was unusually formatted, providing sprint events the first day and longer, distance events on Sunday.   The Mustangs had many strong swims and best times for so early in the season.  Once again, the ‘A’ and ‘BB’ swimmers swam together but were awarded separately.  The following swimmers placed in the ‘A’ division (bolded names indicate winning at least one event):

 

Hannah Ferrin, Des Godfrey, Delaney Rolfe, Keegan Watters, Cassidy Beckwitt, Jordan Newman, Blake Osborn, Spindrift Beck, Maddie Steiner, Molly Bollen, Catia Weickgenant, Alex Weber, Meredith Monroe, Meaghan Watters, Grace Kittle, Lauren Roth, Fernando Lara, Nick Kalivas, John Kalivas, Nicholas Saliba, Burke Wiggins and Jack Beckwitt.

 

Congratulations to other Mustang swimmers scoring in the BB division:

Katie Radford, Kendel Ahnel, Pia Lara, Jessica Temple, Hadley Trautman, Katie Ische, Tori Beckman, Clay Taylor,  and Nate Nicholas   

 

Summer Schedule

Beginning, May 30th:


National - 7-9am @ SMU M-F, and 3:30-6:15pm @ Loos M, T, Th, F

Gold - 9-11am @ SMU M-F, and 4-6pm @ Loos M, T, Th, F

Silver - 4:30-6pm @ HP T, Th, F and

        5-6:30pm @ SMU M, W (long course - weather permitting) or

        6-7:30pm @ Loos M-F

Bronze - 6-7pm @ HP M-F

         6:15-7:15pm @ Loos M-F

Red and Blue - 4:30-5:30pm @ CFB M-Th

 

Team Trip

 

This year the Mustangs will be traveling to Wichita, Kansas the weekend of June 23-25. A bus will be leaving from Loos early Friday morning and returning late Sunday evening.  A detailed packet will be available shortly with more information.

Social News

Many thanks to Maryann Martin, our social chairperson, for an outstanding job on the team banquet.  The success of the banquet was in large part due to Maryann’s countless hours spent preparing for this event.  The guest speaker, Richard Quick, gave an outstanding speech and we were honored to have such a coaching legend in our midst.

Hotel Information for Summer Meets

1.  Sectionals - July 26-29 in Houston:

Courtyard Houston/Hobby Airport
9190 Gulf Freeway
Houston, TX, 77017
(713) 910-1700

Tuesday, 07/25/2006 - Sunday 07/30/2006
Rate $89.00/night

Reservations must be received on or before Monday, July 10, 2006

 

2.  Senior Circuit Champs in Austin - July 13-16, 2006   
Marriott Courtyard North
5660 North IH - 35
Austin Texas 78751
1-512-458-2340 
 
 Rate $ 89.00/night    
       

3.  TAGS at The Woodlands – July 19-23

The Woodlands Resort and Conference Center
281-367-1100

Thirty rooms booked for check in Wednesday, July 19th and check out Sunday, July 23rd at a rate of $129/night.

Any questions may be directed to our travel chairperson, Larry Thompson, at larry_thompson@msn.com.

 

DM Tuition Policy Reminder

The Dallas Mustangs is a competitive year round age-group swimming program.  As such we strive to provide consistent quality coaching and workout facilities.  To achieve this goal we establish pool rental contracts and salary commitments with our coaching staff for a full 12-month period. Tuition amounts are established based on the 12-month budget and divided into monthly or quarterly amounts to provide reasonable payment options for our Dallas Mustang families.  The Dallas Mustangs Swim Team is not, and was not designed to be a swim program where swimmers drop in one month and out the next.  Flexibility has always been important to us.  We try to work with each family on the team and we will continue to do so. 

 

Tuition may be paid quarterly: September, December, March, and June, or monthly.  Tuition paid monthly includes a $5.00 per month processing fee.  (If tuition for the quarter is not paid by the due date, monthly payment has automatically been selected.)

 

·         Tuition is due from September through August.  (If you swim in July, you are responsible for August tuition.)

·         Tuition is due on the 1st of each month/quarter.

·         Leave of Absence (LOA) is available only for injury and medical reasons.

·         There will be a $10.00 per month tuition discount for the second and subsequent swimmers in the same family.  The fourth swimmer is free, but all swimmers must pay the annual registration fee.

·         A swimmer transferring from another team must be in good standing with their old team.

·         Statements are only mailed quarterly. If you have chosen to pay monthly, it is your responsibility to remember to mail or drop off tuition by the first of each month that we do not send statements.

·         There will be a $5.00 per family late fee after the 10th of the month for non-zero balance accounts.

·         The swimmer(s) may be barred from swimming if there is an aged account balance is excess of 60 days.

·         Please indicate in the memo portion of all checks what the payment is for (i.e. Dues – swimmer’s name, meet account, supplies, etc.).

·         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!)

·         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!)

·         If you choose to leave the team for the summer, you must go through the tryout process in the fall. You may not return to workouts until you have attended the tryout, completed paperwork and paid your fees.  You are not automatically guaranteed a spot on the team. If your group is full, your name will be placed on the waiting list.  Any tuition/fee balances that were not paid when you left the team must be paid prior to re-joining the team. 

·         If you choose to leave the team at any point during the year, you MAY NOT represent the Dallas Mustangs at any swim meet or event that occurs after the date you have left the team. Should you choose to participate in a swim meet after you have left the team, you must register for the meet and swim as unattached (Team = UN).  

·         Tuition may be sent with the swimmer to the pool, or mailed to the Treasurer:

DM Treasurer – Shannon Rusch

603 Hood Dr.

Coppell, Texas 75019

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