Just a short note to say what a great staff I have to work with. Everyday, I get the opportunity to work with not only some of the best people that you could ever meet but also some of the best coaches in the entire country. It sure makes working my job just that much easier. Coach "Captain Minutiae" Dave is the man when it comes to taking care of all the little details that seem to take up so much time yet are so important when it comes to putting together a quality experience for our athletes. Coach "Do You Believe" Mollie brings the goods everyday and is always ready to take on the next challenge and opportunity with the enthusiasm of a 6-year old with a 5-spot in hand running into a candy store. Diving Coach Steve is simply one of the best diving coaches in the country and makes everyone's job around the office just that much more pleasant and productive. Coach Amanda provides a wonderful sounding board for me and a deep well of positive energy for our athletes to draw from. As great a swimmer as she was, she's an even better coach. Denison Swimming ... it's all good!
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
Memorial Day
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
• Abraham Lincoln
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
• Abraham Lincoln
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Coaches' Convention • Key Largo, FL
Just returned from two days of presentations at the coaches' convention in Key Largo, FL. It was nice going and being completely on the take ... didn't have to worry about giving a presentation ... just sat back and took as much information in as possible.
Some very good talks though none were better than Dr. Gary Hall Sr's talk on "Winning Life's Gold Medal." One of the more inspired/grounded talks that I've heard in a long time. He's got a great message for all of us. Spent some time talking to him about coming to speak to the teams and the coaches next fall ... and was very pleased to hear that he was interested in doing it. Should be a lot of fun putting that together with him.
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Some very good talks though none were better than Dr. Gary Hall Sr's talk on "Winning Life's Gold Medal." One of the more inspired/grounded talks that I've heard in a long time. He's got a great message for all of us. Spent some time talking to him about coming to speak to the teams and the coaches next fall ... and was very pleased to hear that he was interested in doing it. Should be a lot of fun putting that together with him.
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Welcome to the Denison Swimming blog. In an effort to keep everyone updated on the daily happenings around the program, we've created this blog for your use. We hope that you enjoy using it.
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