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The Pleasanton Seahawks raised the bar at the club’s recent meet in Stockton with swimmers ending the season on a high note.
Pre-Novice swimmer Dalynn Miller shaved 7.48 seconds off of her 50m free for a new LTB of 1:11.63, and Emily Tsai competed in five events establishing a “B” time in the 50m back with a final time of 1:06.61.
Novice Amber Miller established two new LTB “A” times, Jordy Peters established two new “B” times, and Samantha Snow established two new LTB “B” times.
Pre-Junior Audrick Antonio posted two new “A” times and Kevin Gao three new “A” times.
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Congratulations to the Pleasanton American 9 year old All Star Team for winning the Pleasanton American Invitational and the Joey Moore Memorial Tournament in Danville this summer.
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Lady Hustle Fastpitch will hold tryouts Saturday for positions available for girls ages 10 to 18 years old in its fall 14A, 16A and 18 Gold softball teams.
Based in Pleasanton, Lady Hustle Fastpich has players from all over the Bay Area and the Sacramento area, according to Teresa Borchard, manager.
Try-out times are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday on the baseball fields at Amador Valley High School.
For more information, contact Borchard at 925-785-0846 or by email at ronbo4@pacbell.net. The Website for Lady Hustle Fastpich is www.ladyhustlefastpitch.com.
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In swimming, Caroline Eckel, 9, and Breanna Ingram, 14, of the LifeStyleRx Tiger Sharks, won first awards at the recent Fred Siegrist Memorial Summer’s End Swim Classic 2010 held at the Clarke Memorial Swim Center in Walnut Creek.
Eckel took first place in the Bronze division in the 100 IM, 50 Back stroke, and 50 Free Style in the Silver division. She also took second place in the Bronze division for the 50 Butterfly and 50 Breast Stroke.
Ingram took first place in the 50 Back stroke and 100 IM in the Bronze division; second place in the 50 Butterfly, Bronze division, and also second in the 50 Free Style in the Silver division. She also was awarded the third place in the 50 Breast stroke in the Bronze division.
Eckel also was awarded the Individual High Point Winner for 9 year old girls in the Bronze division. Ingram was awarded the Individual High Point Winner for the 14-year-old girls in the Bronze division.
The two competed with over 600 swimmers and also attained their personal best times in several of their events.
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In soccer, the Ballistic United U15 Premier reached the semifinals of the BUSC Summer Classic soccer tournament at the Pleasanton Sports Park this weekend, allowing only two goals in its 3-game bracket play.
In the semifinal game vs Mission Valley United, Ballistic scored first, but Mission Valley quickly countered with two goals, putting the pressure on Ballistic to answer with another goal. With only moments remaining in the game, defender Nate Howald took the ball downfield and crossed to forward Kamron Crow, who hit the target, sending the game into overtime.
However, shortly into the first 5-minute “golden goal,” Ballistic conceded a goal to Mission Valley, which then advanced to the finals.
Toni Derion, the team’s spokeswoman, Ballistic U15 is currently ranked 46th in the U.S. in its age group.
Congratulations to the Pleasanton American 9 year old All Star Team for winning the Pleasanton American Invitational and the Joey Moore Memorial Tournament in Danville this summer.
Left to Right: Top Row: Coaches Tim Still, Rob Dondero, Joe Wiborn, and Chris Walsh.
Second Row: Tyler Carlson, Noah Moreno, Hope Alley, Joshua Oliver, Jackson Hager, Braxton Henley, Logan Still
Bottom Row: Paul Dondero, Kenyan Branscomb, Mike Wiborn, Kyle Walsh, Sam Zevanove
–Jeb Bing
–Jeb Bing
You make some very good points – as a parent I know that the toys do drive kids to want to go to the restaurant – my kids have said “we want to go to McDonald’s to get the toy, but we don’t want the food”.
Its up to the parent to make those boundaries…parents can say NO to their children. Even if the parents work late every night, you can still say no to your children and not feel guilty.
Addressing the topic of this discussion though, its up to the parents, not some local representative that thinks they know what’s best for my family because they can’t get a real job. Elected officials are to protect us from outside evils, not try to teach us whatever they think is morally correct.
Yes, the toys increase the children’s desire for the food…and yes, the parents can still say no, you may not have that food/toy.
What we really need is to ban fast food altogether.
I don’t agree with this, and it is actually kind of scary.
Come on, what is next? Make red meat illegal? Force people to take yoga classes? Tell all chinese restaurants that using MSG is no longer allowed?
What are they trying to accomplish with the lack of a toy in a kids’ meal?
Fat people will continue to eat at McDonalds and their kids will go with them, whether there is a toy or not.
I do not like this kind of regulation. People should be the ones responsible for making the decision to eat wherever they want, and restaurants like McDonalds should be able to offer toys or whatever they want. It is all about personal choices, and the government should stay out of it. I also did not like when Michelle Obama tried to be cool and push organic, etc, and talk about how to prevent childhood obesity – perhaps she should look in the mirror? Lose a few pounds before she tries to make others be slim? And she had Oprah as her partner? This would be something to laugh at if it were not so scary to think what is next?
I agree with you Joe that we should not have to subsidize others’ healthcare, but that goes for everything not just obesity. Many people have kids with severe disabilities and get subsidies from the government not just for healthcare but for daycare/school and other stuff. These kids will never be productive adults and will be on the government’s “payroll” for life – which is prolonged these days because of advances in medicine.
We have elderly neighbors well into their 80s who are living off retirement (pensions) and look as healthy as an 80 year old can look, yet they have other health related issues (old age issues) that we are paying for because they are on medicare and have been on it for more than a decade.
So obesity is a problem, but so is government’s lack of good planning. The government should not interfere with people’s choices.
Look, Obama smokes, and one day he will be living off our money (even though he has made millions with his book) because at a young age he became president. Now we will have to give him about 200K per year once he is no longer the president, plus subsidized healthcare and secret service for him and his family. And if he gets any of the lung diseases due to smoking (pulmonary fibrosis, cancer, etc), well, then we will be paying lots of money for his care – just because he was president for four years (yes, I expect he will not be re-elected)
The government needs to stop subsidies, period.
If fat people want to be fit, they should make the choice to stop eating at McDonalds, the government should not interfere.
What is next? Require people to go to the gym? And whose idea of healthy will we follow? Anorexia is a problem too, you know.
No one who supported Obama’s health care reform should speak a word of complaint over this development. It is the natural logical progression from government involvement in your health-care decisions.
Next, your SUV is too big, and it pollutes and it can kill people when you crash it in to a Prius, so you cannot have one of those either. Why not? If they can take toys away from kids, they can take toys away from adults. After all, it’s only for your own health and safety!
To stela a line from A&G
Goodbye sweet America!
Hello nanny state.
“If they can take toys away from kids, they can take toys away from adults.”
And that is just too scary. The government is out of control, and I wonder if a county can indeed tell a fast food place how to run its business?
Does someone know? Can Santa Clara County really tell McDonalds not to put toys in their happy meals? That would be like telling Safeway to stop giving cookies to their customers – Safeway has a table at the entrance of the store where you can get a cookie and donate for one or another cause – now is that something to be regulated because cookies are bad for you? I hope NOT!
Santa Clara County Supe comes straight out saying they will control what your kids eat so they can lower healthcare costs.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/la-fi-happy-meals-20100427,0,7737785.story
“People ask why I want to take toys out of the hands of children,” said Yeager, who is president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. “But we now know that 70% of the kids that are overweight or obese will be overweight or obese as adults. Why would we want to burden anybody with a lifetime of chronic illness?”
“We’re responsible for paying for healthcare in the whole county,” Yeager said. “We pay close to $2 billion annually on healthcare, and the costs have done nothing but rise.” A big part of the increase, he said, is costs related to obesity.
“Our ancestors would be appalled”
LOL!!! I forgot that our founding fathers fought the revolution so conservative rednecks could get happy meals.
I love all you Tea Party conservative nutjobs whining about not getting a toy. Are you guys 8 years old? You conservatives didn’t care that millions don’t have health care but you are outrage by not getting toys at a fast food joint in Santa Clara County. Welcome to the American idiocracy!
Wow! Fast food toys really bring out all the right-wingers comments. Talk about over-the-top rhetoric about “big, scary government takin’ my toys”! As if a stupid toy ban in one California county is a some kind of ominous sign of Obama coming after fast food loving suburbanites. You guys need to live in reality, not the Glenn Beck fear factory.
Congrats to the 9 year old baseball team. I’m scratching my head as I read that the BUSC 15 year old soccer club made the semi-finals of their own tourney. On the other hand, given the fact that BUSC is a second tier soccer club I guess they do consider making the semi finals a newsworthy event. Set the bar a little higher boys!
Robert, they needed something to celebrate, even if it was a small victory. Very few of the BUSC teams were successful this past weekend. What gives?
Sally, “Very few of the BUSC teams were successful this past weekend.” You said, it, I didn’t. BUSC steals these people’s money like they are taking candy from a baby and I’ve yet to see them produce a top tier team, let alone a top tier player. I can accept being excited about a 9 year old team making a semi-final game and the team manager promoting it in the local paper but 15 year olds? Come on!!! Mark my word…NONE of these kids will go on to do anything athletically past high school. BUSC has prided themselves for years on being satisfied with semi-final appearances and they will continue to be seen as a second rate club. That’s all that gives…
Robert, it seems as though you must have had a negative experience at some point with BUSC. What happened? You seem very sour on the club. My son played in that tournament last weekend and I can tell you that the brackets in his age group were quite fairly weighted, if that’s your concern.
Also, how do you know “NONE of these kids will go on to do anything athletically past high school”? That’s an unfair statement, especially if you don’t know them or their abilities.
Obviously Robert either has kids who sucked in sports or he got his butt kicked when he was younger. What a sad, miserable human being to sit here and rip on young kids. Get a life.
Sports organizations should not allow registered sex offenders to act as volunteers.
Follow the example of schools, where NO registered sex offender is allowed to be an active volunteer. In fact, they run background checks on all parents who want to be volunteers.
I understand that background checks can be costly, but come on, at least look at the Megan Law database for the list of registerd sex offenders. There are not that many in Pleasanton, so it should be easy to do this and make sure that no registered sex offender can volunteer.
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To they can but they won’t:
Where do you get off with your class envy, ‘I’m a better a parent than you’ attitude? Nothing like an ignorant generalization from a spiteful, jealous whiner.
Maybe if you work hard you can provide for your kiddies and move out of your trailer and join the rest of us on the golf course. See you never.
Yet another example of the government thinking some adults are idiots and therefore we need ‘big brother’ to step in and protect us from ourselves.