Mustang Monthly- Internet Edition
November 2007
Meet Recaps
Little Splashers Unclassified (Oct 6 –
7)
This “unclassified”meet for 10 & unders
was held at Loos Pool and our Mustangs swam
great. An unclassified meet is one with
no time standards so anyone can swim in it.
Fifty-two of our Mustangs did choose to swim in it. Out of 227 individual Mustang swims, 214 were
best times! We finished 6th
out of 15 North Texas teams in the overall standings and showed typically great Mustang team
spirit while swimming fast which is a great way to start out the season!
Those
swimmers who scored points in their respective age groups are listed below –
Parker
Benn (8), Bianca Bowring (9), Carolina Campbell (8), Anna Crowling
(9), Erika Echaniz (8), Megan Fitzgerald (7),
Caroline Florence (10), Tiffany Futscher (10), Seth Gerstenfeld (7), Jacob Jum (8),
Kenny Jen (9), Alvin Jiang (8), Brian Jiang (6), Pauli Kerr (9), Avery Kesterson (10), Kenzie Murphy
(10), Molly Pospichal (10), Jake Varela (7),
Elizabeth Wessman (8), Rebecca Wessman
(8), William Wessman (9), Isabella Yepes (6)
Way to go Mustangs!
11
& Over “A” Meet (Oct 6 – 7)
This
meet is held at Loos during the same dates as the
Little Splashers but during different sessions. Our team swam well, finishing 2nd
out of 14 teams with many Mustangs winning their heats and racing well. The meet was put on by COPS and was run well
despite a large number of entries and somewhat lengthy sessions. Since it was an “A” meet those entered in
three or more events had to have a minimum of three “A” time standards.
Each
Mustang who scored points for the team is listed below. Those who won at least one individual event
are italicized. Congratulations to all of our Mustangs for great efforts and
some really nice swims!
Allison Arnold (15), Spindrift Beck (16), Jack Beckwitt (16), Luke Blaylock (12), Megan
Ernst (14), Hannah Ferrin (16), Erin Florence (12), Eric Futscher
(12), Laura Gray (12), Audrey Gruber (11), Leah Jones (15), Caitlin Klemme (11), Fernando Lara (16), Will McNamara (14), Max
Murphy (17), Lauren Murski (12), Jordan Newman (15),
Courtney Nichols (11), Natalie Rathjen (11), Lauren
Roth (17), Andrew Tran (16),
Harrison Tran (12), Caleb Veazey (16), Jake Watters (12), Keegan Watters
(15), Scott Weeks (15)
DM
Haunted Hat BB/B/C (Oct 19 – 21)
We ran
two divisions of this meet and had as many people as we’ve had entry-wise in
several years. Meet Director Greg Robuck did a great job of organizing the troops and many of
our old standbys like Adele Wherry, Wendy Begg, Tom Grubb, David Saliba,
and the Maloufs seemed to be everywhere getting
things done effectively as usual. We
finished 4th in a tightly contested team race out of 12 teams. The haunted hat contest was pretty strong
this year with some really scary entries!
Thanks to all of our volunteers (safety marshals, timers, hospitality,
awards, etc) who helped make this another successful Mustang team effort in and
out of the pool!
Those
Mustangs who scored points in either the BB, B, or C
Division are listed below.
Harrison
Armstrong (11), Davis Benn (10), Parker Benn (8), Bianca Bowring (9), Parker
Capron (10), Elsie Cardenas (16), Kristie Cheng (7), Stephen Cheng (8), Eliza
Cope (11), Anna Crowling (9), Nolan Daniels (10),
Patrick Daniels (9), Alex Diduck (12), Clare
Donaldson (10), Sara Duke (9), Kendall Ernst (11), Luis Estrada (12), Caroline
Florence (10), Erin Florence (12), Caroline Forbess
(7), Amanda Fugate (10), Sara Granger (13), Joe Gray (10), Audrey Gruber (11),
Olivia Gruber (8), Kaylan Hardin (10), Jon Hoffman (13), Jacob Hum
(8), Madison Hutts (8), Gabi Jackson (11), Kenny Jen
(9), Alvin Jiang (8), Molly Kamuyu (15), Siobhan
Kelley (12), Pauli Kerr (9), Morgan Koranda (12),
Simone Lalvani (14), Tara Lalvani
(9), Sofia Lara (7), Cameron Malakoff (10), Mika Malouf
(10), Mary Katherine Mangin (12), Boni
McVey (10), Ishan Mistry
(7), Gordan Montgomery (8), Andrea Mora (10), Natalie
Morris (10), Conner Mullen (11), Lauren Murski (12),
Reese Myers (12), Courtney Nichols (11), Jeffrey Nichols (13), Sydney Patterson
(13), Grace Pospichal (10), Molly Pospichal
(10), Laura Rathjen (11), Natalie Rathjen
(11), Rodrigo Reyes (15), Mady Rhodenbaugh
(10), Spencer Rhodenbaugh (6), Hector Riveria (11), Mead Robuck (12),
Charlotte Rolfe (10), Yui Sato (13), Jena Seidemann (10), Mary-Carolyn Sloan (9), Alex Tcheng (8), Carolyn Thomas (12), Virginia Tiernan (8), Maria Tovar (8), Annelyse
Tullier (10), Dana Valelly
(9), Jake Varela (7), Jo Jo Veazey
(11), Catherine Ward (14), Elizabeth Wessman (8), Rebecca
Wessman (8), William Wessman
(9), Jaclyn Zhou (12), Max Zotos (11)
Mustangs Rock!
All-Star
Meet
During the weekend of November
10-11, 14 of our age group swimmers will travel down to
Eric Futscher,
Jake Watters, Luke Blaylock, Christopher Alkire,
Connor Mullen, Will McNamara, Audrey Gruber, Emma Gruber, Courtney Nichols,
Natalie Rathjen, Erin Florence, Lauren Murski, Caitlin Klemme, Taylor
Temple
Message from our Meet
Director
The Haunted Hat Meet hosted over
800 BB, B, and C swimmers. We received many compliments at that meet about all
aspects of how it ran. Special thanks go to the Malouf
family for all their long hours of tedious work with meet entries, psych
sheets, computer work, and results. Their work was high quality, efficient, and
professional. Many thanks also to the Veazey family,
who helped work several aspects of this meet, including Jeff kicking off our
Coffee Sales drive. Shannon Veazey did an excellent
job, as usual, of feeding several hundred meals to our volunteers in
Hospitality. Barb Beckwitt in Awards did a great job.
She helped judge our Haunted Hat contest, with over 60 swimmers entering
various hats. She even ordered some very special ribbons that we presented to
the top finishers. Many others helped in thankless ways, officiating, selling
heat sheets, working as safety marshals, and numerous other duties.
After GCAT withdrew hosting
their fall meet, we hastily bid and were awarded that meet. This DM Fall “A”
Meet saw over 500 ‘A’ swimmers competing in some very fast swimming. Again,
many parents came together to volunteer, and they put on another high quality
meet. Thanks go to Nancy Beck, who had a large banner made for Mook. We presented this to Mook
just before the start of the Sunday session, recognizing his prestigious award
of TSA’s 2007 Coach of the Year. Special thanks to
Adele Wherry, who quietly worked many long hours with
meet entries, psych sheets, computer work, and results. I think her most
surprising skill is her uncanny ability to answer my questions just before I
ask them, earning her the nickname, “Radar”.
And our head of Hospitality, Kristin Mullen, raised the bar up a couple
of notches from the already good food we usually expect at meets. She went way
beyond all expectations, with decorations, candles, delicious late afternoon
snacks, and even cards with food descriptions. She treated our Hospitality
guests in a special way.
Many of you may not know that
David Saliba is the person in charge of the meet
setup. He tirelessly runs cables, hooks up electronics, tests the systems, and
does flags, ropes, and a lot of other equipment setup at two pools for every
meet. Then, after the meet, he does a complete teardown, inspection, and
storage of all this unwieldy equipment. Like a good magician, he makes it all
look simple, but I can testify to you that it is very time-consuming, tedious
work, requiring a large amount of specialized knowledge. Next time you see
David, please tell him how much you appreciate his behind–the-scenes work!
As usual, we had at least four
Mustang parents working as officials, standing on deck for many endless hours
at many sessions. Keep in mind that these dedicated professional people work
many other meets beyond ours, often with little thanks.
To all of you who gave time and
effort at these meets, my sincere thanks. Along with the coaches, you are the
ones that make this team great!
We could certainly have used
more volunteers at both meets. For those of you who didn’t contribute time and
effort for these two exciting meets, I encourage you to talk with those who
did. I think you’ll find that volunteering is fun, easy, rewarding, helpful,
necessary, and doesn’t have to take more than a few hours of your time. I would
like to see every Mustang family involved in volunteering at our upcoming ‘A’
and ‘BB’ Championships Meets in February.
As always, I’m glad to discuss
any aspect of volunteering with you, at 214-351-0715 or greg23@swbell.net.
Sincerely,
Greg Robuck
Meet Director
Hotel Information
Many of our National swimmers will
once again travel to Oklahoma City to compete at the annual Chesapeake Elite
Meet (formerly known as the Kerr McGee Elite Meet) to be held December 13 –
16. The team has secured 20 rooms at the
Phone – 405-682-3900
Erin.vecchiarelli@hyattselect.com
Directory News
For those of you who have asked
about this year’s directories, the database has been updated and we are
currently working on inputting the information for our directory. They should be
ready in the next couple of weeks.
HP Pool Closings Reminders
Reminder that there will not be practice at
Thursday 11/8
Tuesday 11/13
Tuesday 12/4
Gold swimmers may practice at Loos from 5:30 – 7:30, Silver at Loos
from 6:00 – 7:30 and Bronze at Loos from 6:15 – 7:15.
New Tuition Policy
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. 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 annually or monthly. Monthly Tuition must be paid via electronic bank draft or credit
card only. NO checks will be
accepted at any pools or through the mail.
NO EXCEPTIONS. Annual tuition may
be paid by check submitted with your registration form.
·
Tuition is due from
September through July.
·
Leave of Absence (LOA) is available only for injury and
medical reasons.
·
There will be a
$10.00 per month discount for the second and subsequent swimmers in the same
family. The fourth swimmer is free.
·
If dues are paid
annually, there will be a $110.00 discount for the second swimmer and a $220.00
discount for the third swimmer. If there are more than 3 swimmers; the three
highest tuition rates will be billed and the 4th and subsequent
swimmers are free.
·
A swimmer
transferring from another team must be in good standing with their old team.
·
Tuition is due the
first of every month. There will be a $5.00 per family late fee after the 10th
of the month for non-zero balance accounts.
·
There are no tuition refunds, tuition paid for the month or the
year commits you for that period.
·
Written
communication to the DM Treasurer is required to change or stop automatic
billing.
·
The swimmer(s) may
be barred from swimming if there is an aged account balance is excess of 60
days.
Any questions regarding billing should be
addressed to the team treasurer via e-mail: treas@dmswim.com
Meet Entry Policy:
Meet
entry fees will be paid by credit card only.
Your credit card will be charged monthly. There will be a $1.00 surcharge per meet per
swimmer added to the fee. Meet entry
fees will be charged separate from tuition charges. All swimmers must maintain a current and up
to date meet entry account. Swimmers who do not provide valid credit card
information for meet entry fees will not be allowed to enter swim meets.
