(Posted July 21, 2000)

The Dallas Mustangs have some extremely exciting weeks ahead. The Mustangs have strong teams traveling all over the world to participate in championship meets. We will be taking 43 swimmers to Austin for this year’s Texas Age Group Championships. There we will look to add to our squad traveling to Florida for the Junior Championships. Then it’s off to Indianapolis for the United States Olympic Trials, where we will have a team record of swimmers. We will also have swimmers competing for Olympic births at the Egyptian and Greek swimming trials. Which leads us to the most exciting swim meet on earth, the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, and yes, the Mustangs will be represented there as well. We wish all of these Mustangs the best as they prepare for their meets, and remind them that all Mustangs young and old will be routing for them all the way.

Spin Beck, Kelsey Hendricks, Meredith Higgins, Kristin Masters, Ashley Rape, Lauren Roth, Maggie Wackel, Alexandra Weber, Alexandra Young, Meredith Grubb, Candace Blackman, Jennifer Blackman, Amy Geis, Beth Geis, Kate Gunning, Margaret Henderson, Caroline Jennings, Nicole Keller, Maggie Marshall, Jennifer Penley, Audrey Rogers, Erica Saito, Jessica Shaw, Debbie Forinash, Christina Hoover, Laura McGarrah, Brittany Miller, Elizabeth Rabe, Jessica Rowe, Sarah Wells, Clare Williams, Beverly Yee, Caleb Veazey, Matt Knubowitz, Dennis Bowsher, Jeff Girard, Eric Gusa, Andrew Hansen, Oscar Masters, Warren Renick, Brian Stephens, and Kenneth Wherry.

Candace Blackman, Jennifer Blackman, Tiffany Bohan, Debbie Forinash, Courtney Patterson, and Brian Stephens.

Katie McClelland, Andrea Stouder, Steve Barnes, Tim Carlson, Billy Coleman, Rob Harrison, Brandon Jernigan, Steve Kemmerling, Mike O’Keeffe, Andrew Priest, RD Trinidad, Ed Wagner, and Bart Wickard.

Mohamed El Madani

Katina Mastrellis

Martina Moravcova (Slovakia)

A big thank you goes out to all DASA volunteers. At the writing of this newsletter, there is the All-Star Meet yet to go. The team has succeeded thus far, in hosting a very large meet over the course of two days. It has been an impressive undertaking, considering we were not given much time to prepare. The swimmers who have participated have been impressive workers and are to be congratulated for their dedication to their team. Thank you to all the parents who have worked long hours, allowed their swimmers to work the meet, donated food, etc. This sort of enthusiasm is the best PR tool we have!

Special thanks go to Jamie Jester, who took on the task of Meet Director on very short notice; to Adele Wherry, who did all the meet entries and organized the computer operations; to Lori Bannon, who organized efficient ready benches; to Marie Blackman, who made sure that Hospitality was well stocked for all the volunteers, coaches and officials; and to Coach Doug Moyse, who recruited the help of our swimmers and made sure all stations were manned.

For those of you who did not or who were unable to participate, you missed an opportunity to see true team spirit at work. Swimmers who worked the meet, were able to view it from the "other side" – the side of the workers. Hopefully they have gained some insight as to the amount of work that is involved in organizing and running a meet. Once again, thanks and congratulations to all for a job well done! Keep up the great work!

Early fall tryouts will be held on August 7 & 8. The schedule for each pool is listed below:

Loos: 6-7 p.m.

Highland Park (at SMU): 5-6 p.m.

CFB: 5-6 p.m.

Main tryouts for the fall will be held on September 5 – 8. The schedule at that time is as follows:

Loos: 6-7 p.m.

Highland Park: 6-7 p.m.

CFB: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Anyone who is available and willing to help with the registration process at tryouts should call Adele Wherry at 972-418-1544.

Please remember to submit your dues payments by the first of the month. If you have a question regarding your account, please email George Cornelius, Treasurer, at geocorn@airmail.net.

This year, registration packets will be mailed out to swimmers. Please complete the packet information and return it to the pool by the date stated in the instructions. If you have any questions regarding this process or have not received a packet by the end of our break, please contact John Wherry at 972-418-1544. Thank you.

Don’t forget about the TAGS fire-up party at Loos on Monday, July 24th at 6:00 p.m. Everyone should make an effort to attend and support not only our TAGS swimmers, but those who are participating in other Championship meets. All swimmers need to bring $3.00 to cover the cost of refreshments.

There are plans in the works for a team outing to a Rangers baseball game on August 2nd. Please watch the pools’ bulletin boards and/or flyers for more information.

The Dallas Mustangs would like to welcome the following swimmers to our team: Cathy Cote, Paul Kolker, Cameron Shirazi, Katie Updyke, Anne Holland, and Andrew Wong. Welcome to our team!

Ben White returns! As many of you parents probably know, there has been a change of coaches in the Silver group at Loos. Ben White has stepped up to fill in for the summer months. Welcome back Ben!