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Valeri seemed popular as the developmental coordinator. I remember seeing some suggestions that he worked better managing the group of athletes then being intensely focused on one person. It's a bit hard to tell how Nastia was different--he saw everything that was going on with her; could manage...

Pretty standard in the US these days. A few states have laws that you have to include a salary range in job postings, but most places can just say "Commiserate on experience" and require the applicant to give their acceptable range first, creating a fun guessing game for the person applying.

I was wondering where Linas Gaveika, the former DU assistant coach, landed after leaving last year and with all these new posts opening, but it looks like he has two very small children and just opened a kid-focused rec gym Denver a couple months ago. So I'm guessing he's out of the NCAA circuit.

And that's why I'm here!

We had swimming lessons with a d'Artagnan. Varying degrees of unusual-historical seem to be popular in our area. When I was coaching preschool classes in the late '00s a solid half the girls were Isabella or a variant thereof. Anything that could be nicknamed Izzy, Ellie, Addy, or Bella.

I hope to get back to this very soon--some life stuff came up that prevented me from working on big projects, but hopefully it's smoothing out. The book sits on my desk, staring at me accusingly.

I'm sorry. The tiny junior at the end looks like her head was badly photoshopped onto her body.

She's said medical school can wait until she's done with gymnastics. She might still be finishing up some undergrad work, or just keeping the coursework fresh

Yet another thing that, if you tried to include in a fictional story, would get shot down by your editor as being way too far out there.

Glad McDonald had a better day today

Bedtime

China-US-Japan-Spain. Japan .6 behind US; China won by 2.55 points

This started too late and is going too long. Same issues as Euros--the first round just took forever

Are Rivera and Nakamura the only people who stayed on the beam?

If you aren't going to get your aggression out on floor, then where?