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Gwinnett Aquatics Masters First Full Meet at Maria Thrash Invite
3/18 - The GaGa Masters team, formed just 5 months ago, had their first full team meet this past weekend at the Maria Thrash Invite at Dynamo.
It was quite the debut. GaGa won FIFTEEN events and had three swimmers go under the National Championship cut in 14 events all while going nearly 100% best times! Rebecca Bower, Amelia Campbell, Bree McCann, Pola Pynn, and Myra Wells all won events. Bower, Campbell, and Pynn were under the national cuts and Amy Stanton and Michael Ramos got very close.
Next up for the masters is a meet at Chastain. They are currently having practice Mon/Wed 6-7a, Mon/Wed/Fri 12-1p and Tues/Thurs 6-7p.
GwinAq Fifth at Swim Meet of Champions
3/11 - A select group of Gwinnett Aquatics senior swimmers competed at the Southeastern Swim Meet of Champions (SMOC) this weekend in Augusta. Against a pretty stacked field of teams from all over the eastern seaboard GaGa finished fifth overall and third in the boys.
Baylor Stanton led the way with six event wins, including one team record (200 free) and six meet records. Collier Stanton added three medals of his own and Hannah-Claire Jowers and Tadd Duffield finaled in multiple events.
Nate Beeney and Brandon Noble also scored for Gwinnett Aquatics and Beeney, Duffield, and the two Stantons won the 800 free relay. Additionally Hannah-Claire picked up a new team record in the 50 free and Cate Joyce got her first ever Sectional cut.
Next up is the Divisional Champs for ALL swimmers in two weeks in Athens!!
GwinAq/SPAC Raffle Extravaganza
3/2 - Gwinnett Aquatics and Spartan Aquatics hosted the 5th Annual Raffle Meet this weekend at GAC. The Raffle Meet targets swimmers who did not compete at the State Champs (or those who did in events they don't have the cut). This year over 250 swimmers competed for the chance to earn raffle "tickets" for a variety of prizes.
Swimmers earned a raffle chance for every best time, heat winner, and new time standard achieved. In just three short sessions over 1600 chances generated and we gave out over 70 prizes through the weekend including caps, goggles, Squishmallows and Dancing Cacti. At the end of the meet Lifetime swimmer Ethan Kim took home the grand prize, a $300 VISA gift card!
Meet Results
Live Stream: Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3
Gwinnett Aquatics Results
For Gwinnett Aquatics it was clear our swimmers love winning stuff as we had over 60% best times which was even higher than the percentage we had at age group state or the qualifier! Even though we had fewer swimmers than in the past (because so many qualified for state this year!), twenty-one swimmers won events!
They were: Lucas Babcock, Elisa Basic, Justin Bennett, Henry Boltin, Lucy Bower, Reynolds Bowers, Emma Gonzalez, Gatlin and Kendall Granberry, Morgan Henry, Emily Hillensheim, Zoe Jinadu, Jaidyn Joiner, Arina Kovalenkov, Grant McGee, Valarie Monroe, Lily Nejman, Lillie Robinson, Eva Saldana, Jude Stanton, and Emery Wells.
Additionally Riley Pynn picked up his first ever AA time, James Chang got his first BB and Josh Liu and Skylar Smith got their first B times.
Next up is the Meet of Champions this weekend for our top Senior swimmers and then the Divisional Champs for ALL swimmers in three weeks in Athens!
Gwinnett Aquatics Twelfth at Age Group State
Hardy, Relays break five team records!
2/24 - Gwinnett Aquatics had one of its bigger state teams go down to Savannah this weekend. We had more swimmers score and more swimmers achieve new standards than the past couple years. Unfortunately not very many of those swims were in the A-final so we only managed a 12th place team finish, one lower than last year.
Aliana McCann led all scorers with three top-8 finishes. Kate Breiding, Emily Hardy, Vincent Tuck, and Aaron Passman also had top-8 swims. Others scorers were Lucas Babcock, Jasmine Coe, and CJ Gast.
Along the way Hardy broke a 22 yr-old team record in the 13-14 girls 50 free and nine swimmers combined for records in the 11-12 200 and 400 medley relays and the 13-14 200 medley and free relays. They were: Hardy, Breiding, Ella Wells, Sophia Quinn, Bri Exil, McCann, Gast, Coe and Lucy Bower.
Coe, Gast, and Tuck picked up their first ever AAA (All-Star) times while Passman and Quinn got their first AAs and Lucas Babcock his first A time.
Next up is the raffle meet this weekend for swimmers who did not compete at state and for those who did to swim some other events. Then it's four weeks to our big end of season champs, Divisionals at UGA March 28-30!