BIG swim meet at PHS thurs, fri, sat if anyone is interested.

come heckle me as I judge diving and DQ swimmers!

You know your opening a can of worms on the heckling dontcha?

i'll have you tossed!

I think our visit this summer was ill timed, this could be fun!

Mark

Bring it!

I'll be sure to pack a fish bonker now!

"Tar and feathers for the judge!" "Hey buddy...you blind?" "You want to borrow my glasses?" "Go back home to where people like you!"

Oh, you said yesterday. Missed it. I'll be over for coffee later...

How did our best guy do? Does he have competition on all three days?

Give him my best!!!

bhtr

""come heckle me """ lol! that part in "back to school" kills me!!! hhhhooonkkkk!

Oh yeah sure! You just want a shirt that's all.

So far away, and yet so close...

Ye bloody tosser*!

British humor. Er, I mean humour.

Well, it seems you bastids missed out. Also missed out on hecklement (technical term) at Regions championships in Homer.

So, here is your last chance of the season. (Sorry Art, not expecting a rifle, but if you have one for me...PM!)
State championships this weekend at Bartlett (Here is where Les chimes in to let us know they threw him out...or something).

I plan to be on deck, but fair warning - I'll have a whistle and a cell phone programmed for 9-1-1.

Brag portion: The boy kid scored third at regions in diving and qualified for State!

Had to enlarge the damn door! (Not really, but the kid IS pumped!)

I told him if he wins, I'd buy him a truck of his choice. <smirk>

I'd give him the truck he already wrapped in love...

Not sure what my schedule will be, but I may have a heckle or three in me...

Bastid!

Says he has a "double reverse kick in the nuts" for you.






Maybe that was me.

Bull riders scare me...

"Fairriers", not so much!

How'bout I just wear a Speedo?

I didn't EVEN have to see that for it to HURT!!!

More like this:

That's better...

I'm still sending you the clean-up bill for taking the beer off of my 'puter screen though

...said another way, my "Bud Iced" my 'puter's screen

Har!

For those beginning youngsters that are struggling with their first butterfly competition, I always mention to the judges that we have an eagle flying over.

Obviously our kids do not swim year round here.

Tear them up bender Jr! Good luck at state


Ironbender - speedos are just wrong on people over 40...

Just sayin'

I used to look that good.

Are they swimming again today?

No. The meet was Fri and Sat.

IB jr made the cut after prelims to semis, and just missed diving in finals (8 divers advance) finishing 9th.

It was a good season. His goal was to place at regions and qualify for state...Done.

Being top-10 in the state is a bonus.

Hey! Congrats to 'bender jr.

It's been a good year for the lad I'd say.

Thanks Mark. It's been a good year to be him!

Congrats...........

Thanks, Dan.

Swimmers are a different breed. My boys went that route from age 5. One went on to Puget Sound University team as a walk-on, he liked it so much (that cost us some travel money!!) - he was the worst one on the team, of course, the rest of them having swim scholarships.

For the most part, swimmers don't talk trash like foot-ballers or wrestlers (the other of my swimmers also did wrestling in HS - the PSU kid did track in HS). We kept busy, those years....

There was this one memorable event at State when the wrestler mojo over-took the swimmer persona..... cracked the whole team up - in fact, both adjoining teams as well, including the perp's... but the other guy started it.

The exact quote, as related to me by Ty's team member was (delivered dead-pan, poker-faced, even-toned, without inflection after several provocative statements) was, "You couldn't beat me if you had a rocket strapped to your ass."

He couldn't, either (sans rocket). This was in the 50 Free. Ty finished second behind his team-mate. Later, swimming Free in the 400 Relay, Ty beat his team-mates earlier 50-Free time, helping secure 200 Relay first place. Soldotna tied with Juneau at State that year for overall first points to 4 decimal places. They had to make another first place trophy, in no small part to the relay finish.

OK - I'm 15 years late bragging on that kid.....

Did my time in flip-flops and whistle myself, Mike. Good times.

Well- maybe except for the first State Bartlett meet we went to. As I recall, we spent 3 days in Anchorage and $1,000 (about half at Costco) to watch Blake swim for 30 seconds.... .

Great post. A lot of useful information here. I�m sending it to some friends!

With decent coaching and team mates any sport is a good learning experience for the youngsters.

Parents being involved is a good way to isure the above.

Way to go assistant coach Mike.....

Do you nail training shoes on them?