It is probably not everyone’s favorite way to celebrate Easter, but it is the only time that worked to apply another coat of plastic before our meet. The last time went really well with all of the help so the more help we can get the better. Here is the plan:
Saturday night after session (11pm-12pm) – [...]
If you want a Texas Speed T Shirt, please see Angel Lopez at practice on Wed or Fri if you want to order or if you have ordered and need to pay. We will put in the order next week so we will have the t shirts for our meet the end of April. [...]
We have a our normal schedule of practices this week and an additional practice on Sunday morning 7am-9am. Sonny also has some outdoor skates planned for the weekend. So stay tuned for info on those.
Since so many of the kids sleep in on weekends, these early weekend practices have been great work-outs for those who make it out! [...]
Yes the time has finally come. We are going to order team t shirts. If you want to order and have not yet filled out a form, please see Al Tinsley or Angel Lopez at practice tomorrow (Friday). We want to have them for our meet in April, so if you want one, please order asap. [...]
Here is the calendar for March.
We had a good practice today. Thanks to John Burke for running the show. It was Zach’s birthday today. For his birthday, I let him whoop up on me in the relays. If he doesn’t stop that though, I may have to pull a Tanya Harding and get Thurman [...]
The plastic got laid down yesterday and I (for one) am excited to start training on a grippy floor. I wanted to send a special thanks to all those who helped it happen. Thanks to those who came by to help with the rolling (Jim, Stephen, Thurman, Danny, Wendy, Dya Bolikal (Guess which one is [...]
The olympics are over, but Olympic training may be on the horizon. I am planning to travel to the Banked Track Clinic held in Colorado Springs, May 5th-May9th. Here is the link: http://usarollersports.org/events/3282. Plane tickets are under $200 right now and the clinic itself is $95. If anyone is interested in going, let me know.
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We are going to get the plastic down on Wednesday 3/2 and will therefore not have speed practice on Wednesday night. I know it is short notice, but if anyone is available, please call me(809-0163) or Sonny. You can also just come by the rink. We will be getting started as soon as possible so [...]
Congratulations to all the members of Texas Speed who traveled to Wichita for the meet this weekend. We really got to see some great racing and members of Texas speed really seemed to step up for this meet. I didn’t get all the results to post, but if anyone has pictures, let me know. In lieu of the results, let me [...]