Coach Seth in Video!

Follow this link for a quick video (in right hand corner of website) of Coach Seth talking about the new 50 meter facility.

Picture of 50 Meter Pool

GULF Official Clinic

Gulf swimming has announced its official's training clinics. Here is the link for more info. RICE will need at least one registered official this year but would like to have more to represent our growing team. Please email Coach Jason if you have any questions.

2009 Gulf Swimming Officials Clinics

The 2009 Gulf Swimming Officials Clinics will be held at two locations on two

different days. The first will held at the Conroe ISD Natatorium on Wednesday,

October 14th at 6pm with a Jason’s Deli dinner at 5:30pm.

The second clinic will be held at the Don Cook Natatorium (Sugar Land) on

Tuesday, October 20th at 6pm with a Jason’s Deli dinner at 5:30pm.

The two hour clinics are designed for S&T officials, official trainees and those who

wish to become Gulf Swimming officials, but all Gulf officials are invited. The

clinics will have a classroom instruction and in the pool demonstrations by

swimmers. The clinics will be the only clinics offered this year so it very important

for those in the target group to attend (read mandatory).

Please RSVP by October 12 to Rick Kehlenbach (rkehlenbach@comcast.net) for

the clinic that you would like to attend and what type of Jason’s Deli sandwich

that you would like to have (turkey-wheat/white), roast beef, ham, tuna, chicken

salad or veggie.

Another Reason to Swim!!

This is from the associated press. Just shows you that swimming really does pay off out of the water!

NOOSAVILLE, Australia -- Dawn Fraser, who won swimming gold medals at three Olympics, fought off and helped capture a man who tried to rob her home north of Brisbane.

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He threatened my life and I got really annoyed about that and just grabbed him by the ear and the hair.

”-- Dawn Fraser

The 71-year-old Fraser said Monday the man grabbed her but she fought back.

"This guy came out of the gate and grabbed me and I grabbed him by the ear and I kicked him in the groin," she told several Australian television stations.

"So he had to let me go. He threatened my life and I got really annoyed about that and just grabbed him by the ear and the hair."

She said a male friend made the man lie on his stomach until police arrived on Sunday.

Fraser won eight Olympic medals, including four golds, and held the 100-meter freestyle world record from 1956 to 1972. She won the 100 free at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics.