Now we know that we have the category set here titled “Club Wolverine Owns Us”, but perhaps we need to change that to something else and start a “Ryan Lochte Owns Us” one. Because we owe him like 59175093750 cases of Heineken. We don’t owe Club Wolverine nada. Actually, if you think about it, they prolly owe us a little somepin’ somepin’…

So, down in Hotlanta, The Lochte is tearing shit up. We just love seeing that. And picking up our Heineken incentive plan from Worlds ‘07, we continue with the Short Course Nationals.

The tally, after 1 day, is as follows:

It’s too bad we don’t really keep track of how many we owe him. Just know that said number is far too high! He knows all he has to do is let us know when/where he wants some and we’ll hook it up! We take care of our own.

Now back to the whole CW issue. Y’all know that if they had a blog, they would have a category that was named “The Swim Aids Own Us”. It’s just a fact.

Chris Livingston for The New York Times

There’s a great feature on the Lochtenator in today’s New York Times [link]. It was great to take a look at it and see him showing off his infamous grillz for everyone to see!

Lochte is changing the way people look at swimmers, and in a good way! We all like the way he’s adding more personality. He’s just being Ryan, and it’s having a positive effect on the entire sport.

But I have to laugh at some of the quotes that you just know the NY Times cleaned up during the editing process. Y’all know what I’m talking about! Anyone that has had a conversation with Lochte over AIM, text, email (etc.) knows what’s up Y’all have no idea how much spell and grammar checking I’ve done for his Q&A on RyanLochte.net. No idea!

We’d also like to send a shout-out to “lil Lochte”, AKA younger brother Devon, for committing to swim at Florida. He’s going to be a Gator just like his big bro. We love this trend of little brothers going to the schools that their older siblings attended. Does this mean that lil’ Tarwater is going to play hoops for Michigan? Only time will tell!

There has been quite a bit a traffic driven here by those searching for the psych sheet for this weekend’s Husky Invite, taking place in Seattle and hosted by the University of Washington Swimming & Diving program.

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!

We’re big Amanda fans around here. All you need to do is search our posts and you’ll see that.

But lately, we don’t seem to see eye-to-eye with her fashion choices. She confused us with her unfortunate choice of dress at this summer’s ESPY Awards.

But nothing could have prepared us for what she unveiled at the Golden Goggles.

What is that? Ew. And why doesn’t she ever wear her hair down and soften up her look?

P.S. Where was our dear Kaitlin? It just so happens that we Swim Aids live for the Golden Goggles every year because Kaitlin always knocks it out of the park with her choice of dress. She always looks fierce and then all of the celebs in Hollywood go on to bite her style.

I recently completed the design and creation of Jessica Hardy’s brand spanking new official site and it includes a personal blog. So I’m now taking a second to pimp it out here on Swim Aids. Don’t hate! I will pimp out anyone who throws me work!

Jess is really cool and super fun, so I think you will all enjoy reading her blog, so check it out at jessicahardy.net/blog!

Jess likes to write nice and long entries; and there are already 2 of them. Definitely a blog to keep an eye on!

To some, Golden Goggles are all about a once a year meet and greet, where the swimmers get all dressed up and strut their stuff.  But to the Swim Aids, it’s all about the fashion: What Not to Wear style!  There’s already been posts, but I wanna join in on the fun, and try not to offend anyone like I have done in the past!

So, that being said: taking lessons from Phelps or were you just camping for the weekend and forgot a razor?

Note: And yes, I hope this doesn’t come back to bite me in the ass!

So, USA Swimming did right by us, earlier this summer, when they published a feature on Alex Vanderkaay. We liked the recognition for him because he had more than earned it.

But what we really wanted was a 20 Question Tuesday. In the back of our minds we thought AVK might be able to give T-DUB a run for his money in terms of 20QT entertainment. If you haven’t ready it, you are missing out. It truly is the Holy Grail of 20 Question Tuesday interviews.

Pssst, USA Swimming, you frequently repeat the swimmers you interview for 20QT. Time for a new one with Mr. Tarwater!

Anyway, today we were pleasantly surprised to see that today’s 20 Question Tuesday interviewee was none other than Alex! (link) And we were wrong in hoping that he’d unleash his sense of humor during the interview. He’s keeping it under wraps and y’all are missing out. We’re sorry. Around here, we know how funny AVK can really be. It’s just a fact. Perhaps next time. Yea, next time!

SO FRESH AND SO CLEAN
The University of Michigan gave its entire athletic website a facelift! Check it out! It was long overdue and looks wonderful!