Mustang Monthly- Internet Edition

March 2006

Meet Recaps

 

“A” Short Course Championships

 

Despite opting out of the high scoring relay events and not having our 15 and over National kids swimming, the Mustangs managed to place a very respectable 3rd place at the “A” Champs meet, also known as TAGS Q. The meet was held at Southlake at the same time as the BB Champs. For some, this was the big taper meet and for those swimmers, they were trying to extend their season by qualifying for the higher level meets in the weeks to come.  For others who had already qualified for those meets, it was a last chance to sharpen their skills in preparation for TAGS and Sectionals. All 12 and unders competed in the morning session, and 13 and overs competed in the afternoon. Unfortunately, ice on the roads on Saturday afternoon prevented the older swimmers from swimming and that session was rescheduled for the next weekend.

 

Congratulations to Greg Hoffman, Fernando Lara, Natalie Rathjen, Keegan Watters, and Jon Hoffman for achieving new TAGS times at the meet!

 

Congratulations to the following point scorers; bolded names signify winning at least one event:

 

Harrison Tran, Jake Watters, Luke Blaylock, Liam Veazey, Jon Hoffman, Eric Futscher, Malin Kenny, Tim Moore, Fernando Lara, Jack Beckwitt, Greg Hoffman, Steven Nichols, Paul Gerard, Nicholas Saliba, Kenneth Clark-Fernandez, Burke Wiggins, David Escamilla, Audrey Gruber, Elizabeth Crowling, Courtney Nichols, Natalie Rathjen, Kendall Williams, Des Godfrey, Hadley Trautmann, Cassidy Beckwitt, Keegan Watters, Jordan Newman, Leah Jones, Maddie Steiner, Kristen Masters, Katie Ische, Jessica Temple, Kelsey Craggett, Brenna Farren, Christie Kimm.

 

BB Champs

 

At the BB Championships, held February 17-19 at Southlake, the Mustangs placed a strong 7th place overall, again without swimming any relays. The meet was held at the same pool and during the same weekend as “A” Champs, so many of the BB swimmers were able to help cheer on their “A” teammates, and vice versa. The ice storm postponed the Saturday afternoon session, and many of the Mustangs didn’t come back the following week at the rescheduled meet. Well done to the Mustangs who scored points for their team! Swimmers whose names are bolded won at least one event.   

 

Caitlin Klemme, Celia Homes, Carolyn Thomas, Alex Fraley, Tanner Harris, Ann Weeks, Danna Callahan, Marianne Scheer, Kendel Ahnell, Mead Robuck,  Phillip Osborn, Patrick Crowling, Jeffrey Nichols,  Hunter Williams, Will McNamara, Skyler Clark-Fernandez, William Grubb, Andrew Harvey, Corey Dennis.

 

B/C Short Course Championships

 

The Mustangs hosted the B/C Short Course Championships for swimmers ages 12 and under at the familiar confines of Loos Natatorium.  Many Mustang parents and older swimmers volunteered to help the meet run smoothly and quickly and showed up despite the ice and snow on the roads! We finished an impressive 2nd place out of more than 25 teams. DM swam very well with lots of best times and a few new “BB” times. Kudos to Mustangs who achieved at least one new BB time at this meet: Emily Fitzgerald, Laura Ambrose, Christy Purnadi, Sydney Lacey, Erin Florence, Connor Mullen, Jo Jo Veazey, Caelan Freeman and George Scheer.

 

Below is a list of those who competed in the meet.  Those that are bolded won at least one event in either the “B” or “C” divisions.  Way to go, Mustangs!

 

Molly Scheffler, Olivia Gruber, Sara Scheffler, Lindsay Beach, Anna Crowling, Dana Valelly, Bianca Bowring, Tiffany Futscher, Caroline Blaylock, Caroline Florence, Annalyse Zotos, Mika Malouf, Andrea Mora, Mikaela Johnson, Natalie Freize, Emily Fitzgerald, Laura Ambrose, Kendall Ernst, Evie Thompson, Regan Beck, Hannah Bush, Siobhan Kelly, Lucy Stuart, Shirley Cheng, Kyle Morissey, Kassi Steger, Andrea Scheer, Cristin Beach, Eliza Cope, Boni McVey, Angie Huang, Megan Silver, Christy Purnadi, Annelyse Tulier, Maggie Boreham, Molly Montgomery, Caroline Boyd, Stephanie Arnold, Hannah Bush, Ellie Ward, Lily Duperier, Yui Sato, Sara Granger, Sydney Patterson, Catherine Ward, Alyssa Rusch, Sara Jones, Callie Scheffler, Maggie Fitzharris, Caroline Thomas, Lydia Gerard, Erin Florence, Grant Hemingway, Alex Tcheng, Cy Thompson, Brian Arnold, Caelan Freeman, Nick Hemingway, Dylan Tcheng, Parker Capron, Connor Mullen, Jo Jo Veazey, Max Zotos, Scott Scheffler, George Scheer, Brian Yen, Alberto Bambach, Steven Cornish, and Preston Morgenstern.  

 

TAGS Short Course Championships

 

TAGS is the top qualifying championship meet for 14 and under swimmers throughout the state of Texas and this year’s meet was held right here in North Texas from March 9-12th. 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. Over 40 DM swimmers worked hard to be able to compete at TAGS and enjoyed the taper in the weeks before! Points are hard to come by at this meet…only the top 8 swimmers from the morning swims qualify for finals in the evening, unlike many other championship meets where there are two heats of finalists. Once again, the Mustangs displayed their depth and strength by finishing 7th place out of over 70 teams—only 5 ½ points out of 6th—and scoring another banner to hang at Loos!

 

Special congratulations goes to the following 7 swimmers who qualified for finals in individual events, scoring much coveted points for the team:  Harrison Tran (10), Jake Watters(10), Luke Blaylock(10), Scott Weeks(14), John Aselton(14), Taylor Temple(12), and Kendall Williams(12). 

 

A special congratulations to Scott Weeks for being state champion in 200 fly and 500 free!

 

Finally, kudos to the Mustang boys 13-14 state champion relays:  400 Free Relay (John Aselton, Malin Kenny, Scott Weeks, and Tim Moore), and the 800 free relay (Aselton, Fernando Lara, Greg Hoffman, and Weeks). 

 

Listed below are all Mustangs who qualified to swim at TAGS:

 

Greg Hoffman, Fernando Lara, Malin Kenny, Tim Moore, Scott Weeks, Paul Gerard, Nick Chong, John Aselton, Steven Nichols, Jack Beckwitt, Keegan Watters, Hannah Ferrin, Delaney Rolfe, Cassidy Beckwitt, Jordan Newman, Des Godfrey, Leah Jones, Ellyn Baker, Kendall Williams, Blake Osborn, Miyo Malouf, Taylor Temple, Ann Weeks, Tanner Harris, Emma Gruber, Anna Beth Gruber, Courtney Nichols, Natalie Rathjen, Jake Watters, Harrison Tran, Luke Blaylock, Mead Robuck, Eric Futscher, Jon Hoffman, Liam Veazey, Elizabeth Crowling, Audrey Gruber, Lauren Murski, Caitlin Klemme, Caroline Thomas, Gabi Jackson, Celia Holmes, Morgan Koranda, Catherine Ken, and Patrick Crowling

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WAY TO GO, MUSTANGS!!!

 

Sectionals Championships

 

Thirty three of our Mustang swimmers attended the Sectional Championship meet held in College Station from March 2nd-5th. Teams from states such as Louisiana, Arkansas, California, and Utah traveled to College Station to compete at this prestigious meet. Almost all of our National swimmers qualified to compete and many of them made it to one of the finals heats at night. The Mustangs finished a commendable fourth place against some of the top teams in the nation. Congratulations to the following swimmers who represented our team (bolded names indicate scoring points).

 

Clint Hallum, Lauren Roth, Katherine Jones, Alyssa Landino, Bri Barfield, Max Murphy, Matt Thompson, Colin Carpenter, Nick Kalivas, John Kalivas, Jack Dwyer, Lamar Weeks, Andrew Tran, Meredith Monroe, Alicia Stevens, Alex Jennings, Bailey Thompson, Maddie Steiner, Meredith Grubb, Spindrift Beck, Molly Bollen, Grace Kittle, Kelsey Craggett, Erin Smith, Bolton Harris, Meaghan Watters, Catia Weickgenant, Steph Futscher, Melanie Futscher, Timmy French, Kannon Betzen, Stephanie Martin, and Kristin Masters.

 

In addition, Spin Beck won the 200 IM and 200 breast, and was part of the winning 400 medley relay (along with Meredith Monroe, Molly Bollen, and Alyssa Landino,)

 

Way to go, Mustangs!

 

Greater Southwest Invitational

 

The annual “Greater Southwest” Invitational was held at Loos Natatorium on the weekend of February 3rd-5th. Hundreds of swimmers came from Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Ohio, and all parts of Texas to swim with the best at this prestigious prelims-finals meet. The Mustangs had an excellent 4th place showing out of 50 teams with many of our Nationals swimmers only competing in one out of the three days.  Forty DM swimmers qualified to swim in finals and several Mustangs broke records and/or won their events. In the 10 and under boys age group, Harrison Tran broke the GSW record in the 50 back with a time of 32.14. Competing in the senior girls age group, Spin Beck broke the GSW record, North Texas record and Texas State record in the 100 breast, 200 breast and 200 IM!!!  In addition, her 400 IM time of 4:19.25 broke the North Texas record and Texas state record. Way to go, Spin!

 

 Congratulations to the following Mustang swimmers who scored points! Swimmers whose names are bolded won at least one event.

 

Audrey Gruber, Laura Gray, Courtney Nichols, Kendall Williams, Blake Osborn, Des Godfrey, Hannah Ferrin, Leah Jones, Keegan Watters, Jordan Newman, Alyssa Landino, Katherine Jones, Spindrift Beck, Meredith Monroe, Grace Kittle, Lauren Roth, Catia Weickgenant, Alicia Stevens, Molly Bollen, Stephanie Martin, Kelsey Craggett, Luke Blaylock, Jake Watters, Harrison Tran, Eric Futscher, Jon Hoffman, Scott Weeks, John Aselton, Greg Hoffman, Fernando Lara, Jack Beckwitt, Caleb Veazey, Nicholas Saliba, Clint Hallum, Andrew Tran, Matt Thompson, Max Murphy, John Kalivas, Nick Kalivas, and Lamar Weeks.

 

 

Practice Time Reminders

 

March 20 - Practices begin at the following times and locations

 

HP (M-F) - Gold 4:30 - 6:00, Silver II 4:30 - 6:00, Silver I 6:45-8:15, Bronze 6:00 - 7:00 (All Silver 4:30 - 6:00 on Fridays, however).

CFB (M-TH) - Blue and Red 4:30 - 5:30

 Loos Groups: Relocations - Beginning Monday, March 20th:

 National @ SMU 4:30 - 6:30

Gold @ CFB 4:00 – 4:30 dryland OR 6:00 – 6:30

                      4:30 – 6:00 swim

Silver @ CFB 6:00 - 7:30

Bronze @ CFB 5:00 - 6:00 

 

Special note to siblings of Loos Gold Swimmers only…they may swim from 4:30 – 6:00 at CFB until further notice.  This exception is being made in order to alleviate some of the crowding issues at HP. 

 

Social News

 

Please mark your calendars now for the annual Dallas Mustang Swim Team Banquet:


Sunday, April 30th @ 5:00 p.m.
Umphrey Lee Ballroom @ SMU
 
All Dallas Mustang Swimmers and their families are invited to the premier social event of the year to celebrate the 2005-2006 swim season. This event includes:
              * sit down dinner   *guest speaker   *year in review
              * swimmer recognition/awards   *graduating seniors
              * slide show featuring your Dallas Mustangs
 
Reservations are required in advance and late reservations cannot be accepted. Your reservation must be received by April 20th to ensure adequate seating, as reservations are limited to the first 300 received.
 
Please mail your reservation and check payable to Dallas Mustangs to:

 

Maryann Martin
6215 Danbury Ln
Dallas, TX 75214
 
Questions: email Maryann

Private Lessons

Due to the number of swimmers in the pool, there will not be any more private lessons offered at Highland Park during the 4:30 – 6:00 Gold and Silver II practice times.  Lessons may still be offered before and after practice.

Attention Mustang Parents

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!

The Dallas Mustangs will host an "A" meet May 5-7 at the Barr outdoor pool on the SMU Campus.  There will be four sessions, one Friday late afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday evening, and Sunday morning.  This is one of the first long course meets of the season, so we can expect that there will be lots of swimmers attending.  Volunteers will be needed for all four sessions.  Remember, Mustang Bucks, good towards a credit on tuition, will be awarded to volunteers whose hours and work qualify.  Please sign up at either CFB or HP or call or e-mail our meet director, Jim Cuaderes as follows:

Jim Cuaderes
Mustangs Meet Director
(214) 340-1938 (home)
(214) 880-8113 (work)
(214) 912-8598 (cell)
Work Email
Home Email

Volunteers are needed to assist with hospitality, clerk of course, heat sheet sales, timing equipment set up and tear down, awards processing, data processing and administration, and safety marshals.  Please contact Jim and volunteer.  You'll be glad you did.

Supply Room News

The supply room at Loos will be temporarily closed during the transition period when the Loos swimmers are at CFB.  Please contact Allison Hoffman with any supply room needs and she can arrange to bring items to CFB. She can be reached at 972-407-9410.

New Stroke and Turn Officials Clinic April 8
 There will be a clinic to train new Stroke and Turn officials starting at 1 pm on Saturday April 8 at GCISD Swim Center [GCAT pool].

You may contact Victor Kimm by email or 972-960-4471 with any questions.

 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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