The 70s called.

They want their porn stache back. So, if you could go ahead and get that to them, that would be grrrrreat. Thanks.

<< This has been another Swim Aids Public Service Announcement >>

P.S. Bonus keepin’ it real points to whomever can name the movie I referenced in this post!

Anyway, the love hasn’t really left, so it will be openly expressed right here on our Swim Aid shrine, just like it originally was, pre-domain.

I’m bringing it back with a congratulatory post. Michigan junior Chris Brady was recently named to the 2010 Order of Angell class.

Because I’m not that “in the know”, with regards to clubs and societies in the greater Michigan community, I’ll simply direct everyone to Wikipedia for further explanation.

Make no mistake. This is a big friggin’ deal!

Swim Aid favorite, PVK, is also a member of this select group of Michigan Men, as is one of my all-time favorite football players, Mike Hart.

At last month’s NCAA Championships in College Station, TX, Chris earned 4 All-America honors in the 400-yard medley relay (8th), 200-yard medley relay (7th), 100-yard butterfly (4th), and 400-yard freestyle relay (6th).

Watch the video below:

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I’m enjoying my jailbroken iPhone entirely too much!

And I do have a small sampling of photos that I will eventually share here. I would have put this on MGoSwim, but the powers that be at RegFly, saw fit to charge my card for the domain renewal and then take the domain away from me. Bastards…

It’s been a very long stretch since I last covered an event. And while I wouldn’t call what I was doing this weekend “covering”, it was still nice to experience.

Everyone knows of my love affair with the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion on the Ohio State University Campus. It’s literally one of the nicest facilities I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been to quite a few in the past 4.5 years. I went to the Ohio State vs. Kenyon meet, back in October, but that didn’t do a whole lot for me. In my heart, I knew it wouldn’t be right unless the men of the Maize and Blue were in the house.

This weekend they were and I couldn’t have been happier! Not just because I rep for Club Wolverine, but because it meant I got to gossip with one of my fave sets of swim parentals: the Vanderkaays. If you don’t know, you betta ask somebody! Anyway, OSU hosted a big quad-meet that brough Northwestern, Penn State, and Michigan to town. In addition, the Penn State women made the trip to duel the OSU women. For those reasons, the meet pretty much had to be broken up into 2 days.

I’m not going to go into details of my QT with mama VDK because that’s just for us two. Plus it would take 50762096720957 years to share all of that and I’ve got a hot date with my bed. He hates when I make him wait.

1. Michigan swimmers look really, really, really happy and relaxed under Coach Bottom. You come to your own conclusions.

2. Northwestern’s parental section wasn’t very big, but they were a lively bunch who kept me laughing.

3. For the first time, I actually saw Michigan swimmers interaction with the parents and doing *gasp* group and crowd cheers! I thought I was in some sort of alternate universe.

4. PVK and AVK are the only CW pros left

5. I miss T-Dub!!

6. If you would combine the Michigan and Northwestern rosters, they still wouldn’t be as big as the OSU men’s team’s list…WOW

7. The meet announcer seemed confused and couldn’t figure out that when you add an ‘e’ to the end of Dan, it becomes DANE and does not remain DAN.

8. On that note, Mark Patton does not exist. You meant Matt Patton. Or, as we like to call him around these parts: Matty P.

9. It was quite warm in McCorkle. I’d rather be hot, during the winter, than cold.

10. I loved seeing the overall improvement in sprinting out of the Michigan boys. Very nice.

11. Also nice to see The Asian in his role as statisticians/videographer. I don’t know what it is about me — or maybe it’s everyone — but the boy seems incredibly uncomfortable around me. I went to say hello after the meet and “awkward” was the best way I could describe our lightening fast exchange! I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure, when he sees me, he sees this. No lie. Anyway, I kept it short, since he looked so terrified (lol), wished him well, congratulated him on his engagement, and then hit the road! I didn’t know I was so intimidating… I mean, if Peter Vanderkaay can hold his own with me, without looking like he wants to sprint in the opposite direction, I figured the Asian could too. WRONG! Perhaps I should start to use that to my advantage…I kid, I kid. I don’t bite!

12. It’s nice to be able to use an Ohio State parking pass to avoid long lines in the parking garage.

13. Brutus the Buckeye showed up to kick off today’s session, but he didn’t stick around. (Sorry, Erika, no pictures). I’m sure he had other things to do… you know, like shovel sidewalks.

14. I met the Pattons and they were very nice. I honestly have yet to meet a swim parental who wasn’t nice. Seriously.

15. Men’s Big Ten’s at Ohio State next year? Sa-weeeeet!

16. OSU has a token darkie on their sqaud. Represent!

17. This meet had the potential to be really awkward down on deck. The new Ohio State women’s coach coached both the men and women’s squads at Penn State last year. I wasn’t watching enough to see how all that went down.

18. When you haven’t seen someone in ages, you know how it is. You talk so much that you miss out on everything going on around you. I did not take a single picture yesterday! I took some today, though. I’ll sift through them eventually. I had to bring Bertha and Bessie to make sure I didn’t forget how to shoot pictures at swim meets. July was a long time ago, yo.

19. I finally found out why Pete was wearing a FS-PRO for his 200 Free final at Trials. Chalk it up to another LZR suit zipper malfunction. This one was mere minutes before the final, so a quick change was necessary! PVK didn’t even need that LZR to make the team. Take that!

20. Speaking of zipper issues, it amused me to know end how all of the Michigan guys needed assistance zipping theirs up. Sometimes it took 2+ extra sets of hands.

21. I got a free Ohio State shirt! Well, let me stop lying. Mama VDK got one, and then gave it to me. Free shirts were handed out to the first 200 people through the doors. And since I roll on CP time, and obviously wasn’t there early enough, I didn’t get one. I’ve noticed that I rarely get to meets on time anymore, with the exception of Trials. Since I don’t have to jockey for the best seats (Thanks, USA Swimming!), the need to show up early has decreased. I think we all internalized that and now we’re always late haha!

22. I still miss Kaitlin.

23. It’s weird seeing Dan Madwed without Paul Yetter nearby, running up and down the deck.

23b. I miss Paul.

24. Mama VDK told me the most hilarious story about her dinner last night. Some people take the OSU/Michigan rivaly entirely too far! And it’s really sad when those taking it too far are ADULTS, who are very far removed from being students at the University (if they even attended to begin with). If you’re middle aged and giving a person shit because they have on a Michigan shirt on campus, you’ve clearly failed at life and should kill yourself. Just kidding. Kind of.

And not that I really needed to share this, but Michigan totally dominated the meet. They’ve got so much depth it’s almost unfair. Great showing by the team! I have a video of the final event; the 200 Free Relay. I shot it with my iPhone. Yes, my iPhone. I jailbroke that sucker earlier this week and life has been even more grand than before. Didn’t think that was possible!

Anyway, it’s glad to see a Michigan team beat Ohio State at something, since their headliners can’t seem to get it done…OH SNAP! Yea, I went there! Sorry boys. When it comes to football, I’m on the other side of the fence. All Buckeye! 5 in a row, baby!

This wasn’t what I’d call a juicy meet. First of all, I wasn’t even on deck. And second, my posse of Swim Aids were not present. You’ll get better stories when it’s a group outing.

Having said all that, I know y’all aren’t complaining. I wrote a lengthy post on here for the first time in ages. You’re all smiling right now, aren’t you? Yup. Thought so.

You own a domain and the place where you registered it was great when you bought it, but has gone down the tubes as of late. Still haven’t heard this one?

Well, when said registrar starts sucking, bad things happen like losing the domain you love. That is what has happened with MGoSwim. ‘Tis a sad, sad time.

Now I do have a few options.

1. Buy another domain in a different extension and resume blogging like nothing has happened
2. Bring back all the Michigan Swim Whore blogging to Swim Aids. It did start here if you’ll recall.
3. Forget MGoSwim and pimp another program. Just kidding. I’m not sure I could do that.

Thoughts?

I’m currently obsessed with the ripple water effect that you see in the new header. I’m using it everywhere, including paid work. I’m told it has a calming effect and around here, we are alllll about that! I am also aware that it takes a few seconds to download the first time around. Just think, if you continue to come back, that won’t be a problem! Your temporary internet files should keep it in tact!

Also, you may have noticed some new content on the far sidebar. We are displaying our RSS feed from our new “side project” as hinted in the comments. Yes, we know you read those, even if you aren’t joining in. That new side project should be no surprise to people who actually have checked out the “Special Guest” page. Pimpin’ the Club Wolverine program is something we do entirely too often around here, as evidenced by the category Club Wolverine Owns Us. It has almost 60 posts! So, we’re moving most of that pimpage over to MGoSwim.com and hope you’ll join us there. If not, your computer will crash from the lack of input from all things Club Wolverine. Are you really willing to risk that? I didn’t think so.

Here’s the link again: http://www.mgoswim.com

We’re just sayin…

Kalyn was recently diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and its symptoms were making swimming difficult.

In the Detroit Free Press interview, she says the following:

“If I hadn’t gotten this, I’d still be swimming. But right now I need to go home and do what I have to do to get healthy.”

We’ve got nuthin’ but love for the Keller family and we wish her all the best as she focuses of her health. Take care of yourself, Kalyn!

We call this picture of Davis Tarwater from Michigan’s 2005 home dual meet vs. Georgia “Gangsta T-Dub!!”

Yes, we were there. We were hardcore that season.

That is all.

We’ve mentioned the meet before, in one of our Michigan posts, so that’s probably why the search engines are referring visitors here. Michigan is the highest ranked team (men or women) attending the meet. So we expect them to represent!

However, we regret to inform that we do not have the psych sheet, although we wish we did! Did a little looking around and there doesn’t seem to be one released; not yet anyway.

If we do happen to come across one, we’ll be sure to link it!

ETA: The UW S&D site posted the psych sheet today. Click here to check it out!