Mustangs Solid at 2008 Short Course TAGS!

TAGS is the top qualifying championship meet for 14 and under swimmers throughout the state of Texas. Swimmers must achieve difficult time standards in individual events (usually between AA and AAA times) or qualify on a Mustang relay to attend this prestigious event.

This year, TAGS was held in Addison, TX at Loos Natatorium and hosted by our own North Texas LSC. We finished a solid 12^th place, only ½ point behind the 11^th place team. A great night of relay performances on the last night almost moved us up to a coveted top ten finish.

Individually we were led by Taylor Temple who won 4 events. In addition to Taylor, we had 10 other Mustangs scoring individual points. Congratulations to all of our kids who stepped up on relays and found a way to swim faster than they thought was possible. Below is a list of those Mustangs who qualified for the meet in an individual event. Those that scored points are in italics and those that won events are bolded and in italics.

Christopher Alkire (14), Luke Blaylock (12), Caroline Florence (10), Erin Florence (13), Tiffany Futscher (10), Audrey Gruber (11), Jacey Hodan (14), Alvin Jiang (9), Avery Kesterson (10), Caitlin Klemme (12), Kenzie Murphy (11), Sam Murphy (14), Lauren Murski (12), Courtney Nichols (12), Adam Rathjen (10), Natalie Rathjen (12), Hector Rivera (11), Taylor Temple (14), Leon Tjahjono (14), Harrison Tran (12), Liam Veazey (14), Jake Watters (12)

On the last night of relays, we scored in 5 of the 6 age groups. It was fun to watch and certainly great news for the future of our age group program. Great job to all of our swimmers and coaches!

Great Going Mustangs!!!