Mustang Monthly - Internet Edition
May 2009
Meet
Recaps
DM
A Champs (Feb 20 – 22)
Approximately
60 DM swimmers competed at Loos to take one more crack at knocking down some
more A times, some TAGS cuts, and even some Sectional
cuts. Since many were going for specific
cuts most of our swimmers only swam 1 day of the meet. We still finished 5th out of 18
teams despite not swimming any relays or with what definitely could be called a
“partial squad.” We hosted a great meet
and were glad we didn’t run both the A and the BB meets at the same time again!
Below
is a list of those Mustangs who scored points for the team. Congratulations to those that made best times
and especially to those that made new time standards!
Chris
Alkire (15), Rebecca Brandt (9), Michelle Chow (40), Erin Florence (14),
Tiffany Futscher (11), Des Godfrey (16), Audrey Gruber (12), Jacey Hodan (15),
Alvin Jiang (10), Pauli Kerr (10), Caitlin Koranda (15), Jordan Malone (10),
Madeleine Marcos (13), Alyssa McElya (15), Logan McGill (13), Will McNamara
(16), Connor Mullen (12), Kenzie Murphy (12), Lauren Murski (13), Jeffrey
Nichols (15), Connor Nolan (16), Alex Ober (10), Blake Osborn (15), Natalie
Rathjen (13), Alex Robinson (15), Nicholas Saliba (18), Graham Smitham (17),
Jeremy Steward (17), Andrew Tran (18), Harrison Tran (13), Jasper Van
Cauwelaert (10), Claire Walters (13), Max Walters (16), Keegan Watters (16),
Michelle Wessman (12)
TRS
BB Champs (Feb 27 – Mar 1)
We traveled out to Grapevine for
TRS’s BB Champs and had a great meet.
Almost all of our forty-four swimmers achieved at least one best
time. A few even got TAGS cuts at this
meet! We finished 6th in a
tightly bunched team race out of twenty-one teams. Those that walked away with points for the
team are listed below. Great job
Mustangs!
Parker Benn (9), Caroline
Blaylock (11), Clare Donaldson (11), Kaitlin Dorey (14), Sara Granger (15),
Farrell Guest (11), Jon Hoffman (15), Mason Kelly (11), Tara Lalvani (10),
Jordan Malone (10), Mika Malouf (11), Alex McElya (11), Alyssa Moino (13),
Gordon Montgomery (10), Natalie Morris (11), Whitney Pettijohn (11), Laura
Rathjen (13), Charlie Shaw (12), Timothy Simenc (12), Annie Smith (16), Felix
Van Cauwelaert (9), Jasper Van Cauwelaert (10), Jo Jo Veazey (12), Jake Watters
(13), Elizabeth Wessman (9), William Wessman (11), Kristen Whitaker (12), Max
Zotos (12).
LAC B/C
Champs (Mar 6 – 8)
We had a nice team effort and
showing at this LAC hosted meet at their new facility located in The
Colony. The Mustangs finished 4th
out of 21 teams and had almost 70 kids show up to try and finish up the season
with a bang! That we did, all but one of
our swimmers got at least one best time!
Below is the list of those whose
efforts at these championships were worthy of awards and points for the
team. Nice job Mustangs!
Connor Berry (11), Parker Capron
(11), Abby Cartwright (12), Stephen Cheng (10), Harrison DuBose (9), Emilee
Gant (10), Alex Gerner (11), Gordon Guest (8), Christianna Haas (11), Nicholas
Hemingway (11), Ishan Mistry (8), Arjun Nair (12), Griffin Olesky (12), Ellie
Pfeiffer (10), Ethan Pittson (8), Eli Recinos (10), Hannah Reifsnyder (12),
Charlotte Rolfe (12), Sam Schoenecker (12), Jena Seidemann (11), Maddie
Stevenson (8), Abby Tchoukaleff (7), Ailish Tierney (7), Max Van Cauwelaert
(7), Lauren Walters (10), James Welch (11), Kennedy Wiegand (7), Anna Wilcox
(9), Sophia Wilcox (9), Jackson Yancey (9), Meagan Yancey (12)
2009 TAGS
Short Course Championships (Mar 12 – 15)
The good news is that we swam great;
the bad news is that we missed out on a coveted top ten finish by a scant 3.5
points. We actually got knocked out in
the last event of the meet after rallying past the 10th place team
with 3 consecutive 2nd place relay finishes in the 10 & under
boys, 10 and under girls, and the 13-14 girls.
Thanks to those of you who volunteered since
Those below qualified for this
prestigious meet in at least one individual event. Those whose names are bolded and in italics
won at least one individual event. The
swimmers that are in italics only (not bolded) scored points at the meet.
Luke Blaylock (13), Clare
Brandt (14), Rebecca Brandt (9), Caroline Florence (11), Erin
Florence (14), Eric Futscher (14), Tiffany Futscher (11), Audrey Gruber
(12), Emma Gruber (14), Conor Guest (13), Tanner Harris (14), Jacob Hum
(9), Alvin Jiang (10), Mason Kelly (11), Pauli Kerr (10), Avery
Kesterson (11), Ellis Ko (11), Madeleine Marcos (13), Alex McElya (11),
Logan McGill (13), Kenzie Murphy (12), Lauren Murski (13), Alex Ober (10), Adam
Rathjen (11), Hector Rivera (12), Kristen Stempak (14), Annelyse Tullier (12),
Dana Valelly (10), Jasper Van Cauwelaert (10), Claire Walters (13), Jake
Watters (13), William Wessman (11)
Summer Schedule
Summer schedule (June 1-August
14, possible changes to some group times in August):
Nationals 7-9
am @ SMU M-F, 3:30-6:15 pm @ Loos M-Th
*Gold 9-11 am
@ SMU M-F, 3-5 pm @ HP M-Th, and 4-6 pm @ Loos M-Th
Silver 6-7:30
pm at HP M-Th, 6-7:30 pm @ Loos M-Th, 5-7 pm @ SMU F
Bronze 5-6 pm
@ HP M-Th, 6:15-7:15 at Loos M-Th
Red/Blue
4:30-5:30 pm @ CFB M-Th
*Those
swimmers that are waitlisted for the Gold group and are currently swimming with
the silver group may swim in the Gold practice this summer that is being
offered from 3:00 - 5:00 at
Please note that the Knights of
Columbus pool will not be available to us beginning May 21 (last day of normal
practices at KC is Wed., May 20). Those swimmers may swim with any of the
appropriate groups at the other locations
Mustangs Welcome New Coaches
Please welcome our 3 new coaches
joining our staff beginning in May:
Sean Sell will be
joining us as a Loos Silver and CFB Red/Blue coach - Earned a BS Business
degree from UTD and an EMBA from SMU. Sean grew up swimming for the
Dallas Aquatic Club (one of the two clubs that merged together to form the
Dallas Mustangs) and coached with the Colorado Springs Swim Team.
Candace Blackman will
be joining us as a HP Silver and Bronze coach - Graduate of SMU. Candace
is a past member of the Dallas Mustangs swim team, where she qualified for the
2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympic trials, and was an All-American at SMU. She
has worked with the SMU lesson program for the past three years.
Nicole Hay will
also be joining us as a HP Silver and Bronze coach - Currently is a law
student at SMU. Nicole swam competitively in
Upcoming Swim Meets
The Mustangs are hosting the Texas Senior Circuit Meet at
SMU this weekend and we are still in need of a few more volunteers. This
meet is smaller than most of the meets we host, so the sessions will be only
for a few hours. If you are available to help for a few hours this
weekend, we would greatly appreciate your assistance! Contact Jay
Brandt or use the online signup form at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=drvg4hc_8cgcqnmcq
to volunteer. Remember, if your child is participating you
must volunteer for at least one session.
The Annual DM Classic is
our Fabulous Fun Summer Outdoor meet and we will be looking for many
volunteers to make this meet a success again this year. The meet will be
held at SMU June 5 - 7, so please mark your calendars and come out and support
the Mustangs! Volunteer sign ups will be online the last week of June.
Go MUSTANGS!
Updated Volunteer Policy
As
a reminder the following is a copy of our updated volunteer policy which took
effect in January and was published in our January newsletter and was sent out
separately via e-mail in January.
Every family is required to volunteer in at least one session per year at a Mustang hosted meet. In addition, if your child is competing in a Mustang hosted meet you must work at least one session in that particular meet. We host 5 meets a year, one B/C meet (October), two 'A' meets (February and May), one Senior Circuit meet (a higher level meet than the 'A' meets…June) and one summer league recreational meet (July). Many of the 'A' swimmers will be competing in 3 of these meets which means those families must volunteer at 3 sessions. If your child (specifically BB swimmers) does not compete in any of these 5 meets you still must volunteer at least one session in one of the meets. All swimmers get the benefit of the coaches’ attention and all should be expected to volunteer. If you do not sign up for a session our meet directors will assign you one. If you do not show up your credit card will be charged $100 and you will be assigned a position at the next meet.
Swim-a-thon Update
This year the Just Keep Swimming
2009 swim-a-thon raised $26,487.85, with more donations coming in every
day. What a fantastic job our swimmers
did in raising this money! The winning
workout group was the Silver group, raising $8,404.01, followed by Bronze at
$7,245.56, Gold at $6,473.28, and Nationals at $4,365.00. Silver will be receiving pizza parties at
their pools in the next few weeks.
We had 169 swimmers participate
in the swim-a-thon fundraising effort, showing great participation by our
club. The top eleven fundraisers for the
club included: Liam Veazey, Connor
Mullen, Spin Beck, Virginia Tiernan, Hashim Elwazir, Madison Mueller, Zoe McCollum
and Pauli Kerr. Our top three money
makers were Kathryn Stouffer, at $880.00; Jordan Malone, at $1140.00; and
Alyssa McElya at $1409.10. What an
accomplishment for these swimmers. The swimmers who raised over $100 for the
club are listed below, in group order.
Brooke Allen, Zoe Allen, Katie Beakey, Catherine Blaylock,
Ryan Brockette,
Jordan Carl, Owen Dunston,
Lauren Ferguson, Ian Fitzgerald, Jose Gomez,
Jackson Harris, Julia Helton,
Nick Hemingway, Brian Jiang, Sofia Lara, Miya Malouf,
Griffin Olesky, Ned Pfeiffer,
Ethan Pittson, Eli Recinos, Kiki Rhodenbaugh, Spencer Rhodenbaugh, Caroline
Savage, Olivia Schoenecker, Alex Segal, Annika Squires, Maddie Stevenson, Abby
Tchoukaleff, Nyomi Thomas, Ailish Tierney, Maria Tovar, Jake Varela, Katherine
Welch, James Welch, Colin Wiegand, Kennedy Wiegand, Anna Wilcox,
Stephan Chang, Gabrielle
Schirmer, Angie Huang, Madison Mueller, Bianca Bowring, Rebecca Brandt,
Carolina Campbell, Harrison Dubose, Jon Erickson
Caroline Florence, Audrey
Gruber, Kaylan Hardin, Andrew Helmbrecht, Jacob Hum
Benjamin Hurst, Alvin Jiang,
Mason Kelly, Tara Lalvani, Pauli Kerr, Sarah Lewis, Seth Loveall, Jordan
Malone, Mika Malouf, Addison McElya, Alex McElya, Gordon Montgomery, Whitney
Pettijohn, Ellie Pfeiffer, Christy Purnadi, Charlotte Rolfe,
Sam Schoenecker, Kathryn
Stouffer, Virginia Tiernan, Naimh Tierney, Madeleine Tovar, Annelyse Tullier, Dana Valelly, Jonas
Veazey, Elizabeth Wessman,
Rebecca Wessman, William
Wessman, Jono Womack, Megan Yancey, Jack
Arnold
Parker Benn, Emily Allton, Luke
Blaylock, Kim Bray, Nick Chong, Devin Compan, Coral Davenport, Kendall Ernst,
Megan Ernst, Erin Florence, Alex Fontenot, Anne Beth Gruber, Emma Gruber, Kaity
Hillgartner, Caitlin Klemme, Simone Lalvani, Maddi Mailliard, Miyo Malouf,
Madeleine Marcos, Alyssa Mcelya, Logan McGill, Connor Mullen, Lauren Murski, Courtney
Nichols, Blake Osborn, Sydney Patterson, Alex Robinson, Sheila Salopek, Jeremy
Steward, Jake Watters, Michelle Wessman,
Allison Arnold, Spindrift Beck,
Jack Beckwitt, Claire Brandt, Mark Faubion, Hannah Ferrin, Jacey Hodan, Greg
Hoffman, Jon Horak, Fernando Lara, Will McNamara,
Alison Moffit, Delaney Rolfe,
Matt Roney, Nicholas Saliba. Ali Smith, Graham Smitham
Marilyn Toledo, Caleb Veazey,
Liam Veazey, Keegan Watters.
If you still have money
outstanding, please do go ahead and bring it in. The team can still use your support, and we
have plenty of extra T-shirts. If your
child won a top ten award or a T-shirt, please e-mail me at mullen.kristin@gmail.com
and we can arrange to get those items to you.
A special thanks goes out to all
our coaches who worked so hard with the kids on this event and managed the
pledges and collections so well. And I
have another big thank you to the stalwart moms who stepped in to help out the
night of the swim-a-thon. But the
biggest thank you goes to our swimmers!
Way to go, Mustangs!
Banquet Update
The
the following 2009 award winners!
2009
Outstanding Swimmers
10 &
under Rebecca
Brandt
11-12
Audrey Gruber
Hector Rivera
13-14
Claire Brandt
Sam Murphy
Senior
Marylyn
2009
Golden Mustangs
HP Bronze Sofia Lara Eli Recinos
HP Silver
I
Rebecca Brandt William
Wessman
Jasper
Van Cauwelaert
HP Silver
II Courtney Nichols Adam Rathjen
HP Gold Emma Gruber Luke Blaylock
Loos Bronze
Abigail Tchoukaleff Brian Jiang
Loos Silver
Pauli Kerr Alvin Jiang
Loos Gold
Claire Walters Eric Futscher
Loos National
Delaney Rolfe Caleb Veazey
CFB Red/Blue
Kristie Cheng Ishan Mistry
K of C Bronze Kathleen Hettrick Randy Peterman
K of C Silver Hannah Reifsnyder Annelyse Tullier
K of C Gold Kaitlin Dorey
2009
Animal Awards
Allison
Arnold Caleb Veazey
Senior Circuit Hotel Info
We have a block of
rooms on hold at the following hotel for the upcoming Senior Circuit meet in
Hampton Inn and Suites
925
Earl Rudder Freeway South
Ph 972- 694-2100
Group Code: MUS
Checking In: 5/21/2009 (Thursday
night)
Checking out: 5/24/2009 (Sunday)
16 Double Queens (standard
rooms)
5 Double Queen Suites
5 King Suites
Standard rooms are $109 night
Suites are $119 night
The hotel will start breakfast
at 6am to make sure the swimmers can eat before the meet, and they will work
with parents needing a late check out on Sunday
TAGS Summer Hotel Information
925 Earl Rudder Freeway South
Phone (979) 694-2100
Group Code: DMS
27 total rooms per night blocked
for the Dallas Mustangs Swim Club for the following dates:
Checking in on 7/29 (Wednesday)
Checking out on 8/2 (Sunday)
10 Double Queen suites $119
night
9 Double Queen Standard rooms
$109 night
8 King Suites $119 night (king
suites have a pull out coach)
Scheduling
Updates
Please
remember to check your email frequently or the team line at 972.530.SWAM (7926), for last minute changes to our schedule. If you are not receiving team e-mails, please
contact Donna Watters at vp@dmswim.com
Painless Fundraiser
The Dallas Mustangs is
registered with Tom Thumb in its Good Neighbor Program. Please remember to attach
our Good Neighbor Number to your Reward Card and Tom Thumb will donate a
percentage of the member’s total grocery purchases back to the Dallas Mustangs
every time your Reward Card is used! Painless and potentially profitable for
our team!
OUR TOM THUMB NUMBER IS 7648
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
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.
