We’d like to send a special lil’ shout out to the Swim Aids visitor with the coolest name in the world. Don’t even front like you don’t know who I’m talking about.
Facebook stalked Spindrift Beck for me and informed me that she has committed to the Texas Longhorns.
So, on behalf of all the Swim Aids, I’d like to extend another “Congrats!”
Suddenly I wish I was on 6th St. with those awesome people who do double dutch without the jump rope. Don’t try to understand that comment. There were only a couple of Swim Aids with me when that happened, and, to be perfectly honest, the rest of that night is blurry. But this is part of the reason why we like meets that take place in Austin so much!
P.S. I totally would have used one of the pictures from Trials that I’m pretty sure one of us took, but kiwi has ALLLLLL of the pictures still. So no can do!
I’m a regular visitor to The YBF. For those of you not in the know, that stands for the ‘Young, Black, & Fabulous’. I gots to keep up on my peoples, ya know!
Anyway, I was looking through some recent posts and came across this one from earlier today.
YBF gave props to Cullen and showed a pic of him at one of his Diversity Tour stops. And judging from the comments, there look to be some newly created CJ fans. Never a bad thing, huh?
If you’re a long time reader of the Swim Aids, then you know I make my fair share of stereotypical jokes about black people swimming. I would like to say, again, that I can swim; I just don’t, unless I have to. Nawmean? However, I will continue to make jokes. It’s just too irresistable; the joke pool is so full!
The feature also calls attention to Cullen and Maritza Correia’s joint documentary (glad those two are back on, being one of our fave swim couples and all) about the trails black swimmers blaze on their way to the top of the sport.
All in all, nice read. Don’t take my word for it, though. Read for yourself.
My fellow Swim Aids informed me last week that Kaitlin Sandeno and Brendan Hansen were supposed to appear on the Today Show tomorrow (err, today), Tuesday’s show. No confirmation of that just yet, but that’s what led me to the Today Show website in the first place, where I was greeted with the CJ feature.
See, putzing around on the internet actually can be productive!
If Miss Kaitlin and B-Han really are on the show, video will be forthcoming.
I don’t even remember how and why I subscribe to VIBE Magazine. I think it had something to do with my father’s airline miles. The best part of the mag, in my opinion, is the last page where they do their “20 Questions” feature.
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I was flipping through the June issue — with Mrs. Nick Cannon on the cover — and saw Cullen Jones. This was a very pleasnt surprise!
I sometimes forget that this is an Olympic year and I should expect to see more swimmers turn up in magazines. After seeing them get ignored most of the time, I’m not sure this will ever be something I get used to seeing. That won’t detract from the act of turning a page and grinning at the sight of a swimmer, though!
And because sharing is caring, I’ve scanned the 2 pages for y’all. You caught me in a good mood!
ETA: Visit Cullen’s official site, which I designed, at cullenjones.com.
For once, we’re going to let others gush over our favorite coach, Paul Yetter. I think we do enough of that around here, so now we step aside and allow his swimmers to do the talking.
In case you didn’t know, Paul was just named the USOC Developmental Coach of the Year.
The Baltimore Sun took it upon themselves to not only publish a story on this big news, but also recorded some video praise from some of our fave NBACer such as the Hoff, Flee, and Danny M. (No, it’s not a good nickname, but we’re working on it. Rest assured we’ll have a good one by the time he heads off to Ann Arbor in the fall.)
This video doesn’t just feature Paul’s swimmers. He gets to talk about his methods and motivations as well. We’d like you to make note of his excess energy. He can’t stand still! It’s too bad they didn’t catch some of the on-deck action. We pretty much live for that. It may or may not be part of our ritualistic swim meet drinking game festivities.
Behold:
The Baltimore Sun’s embed code is wonky, so I had to upload it elsewhere.
Time to order up another case of Heineken for the Lochtenator.
According to the rules we set in place back in 2006, we owe Ryan yet another case of beer. He obliterated the 200 IM (SCM) World Record at the 2008 FINA Short Course Worlds Champs. PWNAGE!
We’re so proud of our guy. He never disappoints. We look forward to seeing his bright shining grill out in Santa Clara next month.
Continuing our role of being the Austin Staab Fan Club, we are pleased to report that Austin has just been named the “Pac-10 Swimming Newcomer of the Year”. Congrats to him!
Austin Staab, Fr., Stanford
Staab, from Westerville, Ohio, is a six-Time All-American in his freshman season and Pac-10 Champion in the 100 fly. Staab finished third at the NCAA Championships in the 100 fly (45.61). He was a member of the school-record 400 medley relay team (3:05.43) that finished third at the NCAA Championships. He also was a member of the 200 free relay (1:17.47) team that finished 4th. Staab was a member of the 200 medley relay (1:24.95) that finished 4th at the NCAA Championships and a member of the 400 free relay (2:51.46) that finished 4th at the NCAA Championships. Staab finished 15th in the 50 free (19.59) at the NCAA Championships and 20th in the 100 free (43.33) in the prelims of the NCAA Championships. Staab also tied Ben Wildman-Tobriner’s school record in the 100 fly (45.36).
I saw Austin’s former club team at the Ohio State Grand Prix last weekend. I thought about how cool it would have been if her were here competing too. But he was likely recovering from his awesome showing at NCAAs the previous weekend.
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