2011 Champs is right around the corner. As in previous years, there'll be two meets running simultaneously, one for the 5- to 8-year-olds and the other for 9- to 18-year-olds. I've sent our Champs entries to the ISL already, and they'll be finalized on Wednesday, August 10. After that date, if you were planning to swim Champs and for whatever reason weren't included in the Champs entries, you're out. Therefore, if you want to be a part of Champs, please check the rosters posted in the links above to confirm you are listed. Two years ago we had two families, obviously not faithful readers of the Internet's number one website (yeah, this one), who didn't heed this sagacious advice and thus were inadvertently left off the Champs list. That situation was remedied by some obsequious prostration, but groveling will get you only so far in life. So please check the Champs listings for your name and notify us if you aren't in it and want to be.

I guess the Gators weren't intimidated by Coach Donny's glabrous pate or the lissome form of Coach Tanner slicing through the water at breakneck speed, because we lost a coaches relay for the first time in two years. It had to happen eventually, but the amazing speed of some of those opposing coaches leaves me dying to know their secret. Whatever it is—cross training, playing that retro music to lull our coaches into a catatonic stupor, exotic dietary supplements, pharmaceutical enhancement with vitamin S—we gotta try it for next season. But until then, these are the results from today by name and event and new records individually and in relays. Up next is Champs, so here's the volunteer list for that. Good luck, everyone.

Good thing Linda S. today asked me about the Pentathlon results. I checked, and the raw files were buried in my e-mail from a few days ago. I've now converted them and uploaded those results here by name and event. Happy browsing.

Here is some useful information for everyone: First, we have the 2011 time charts for girls and boys to use for tracking your swim times and also the 2011 ISL Champs qualifying times. And second, these are the volunteer assignments for the whole season.

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