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GaGa Defends Title at Lanier Winter Invite
12/19/16 - Gwinnett Aquatics defended its title at the Lanier Winter Invite in Gainesville this weekend edging out Lanier Aquatics and SwimAtlanta (one of its facilities anyway). We had an especially good output from our 10Us who won their age groups by over 1600 points!
Over the three-day meet we had ten swimmers win over 230 events and twenty more medal! We had 14 swimmers picked up new time standards and four get their first state cut!
- Event Winners: Hanna Burke, Lauren Diehl, Russell Hart, Marlowe Misner, Brielle Mitchell, Darnell Mitchell, Alex Norcini, Sofie Rees, Isaac Saenz and Dylan Yin.
- Additional Medalists: Marilyn Coughlin, Abby Culbertson, Grant Deckers, Ruthie DeLong, Lindsey Diehl, Harry Duncan, Charlie Fountain, Lindsey Garrison, Ryan Haskins, Daniel Johnson, Kate Johnson, Paige Johnson, Hannah Claire Jowers, Danielle Mitchell, Maggie Nguyen, Caitlyn Petmecky, Michael Thompson, Anishka Trehan and Freddie Xu.
- Standard Breakers:AA - Rachel Peden; A - Hanna Burke, Lindsey Diehl, Jarod Disher Caitlyn Petmecky, Desymber Richie, Riley Spruiell, Dylan Yin; BB - Harry Duncan, Ryan Haskins, Emily Morgan, Cate Rovie, Ella Smith; B - Alyssa McDuffie.
- New State Qualifiers: Caitlyn Diehl, Charlie Fountain, Darnell Mitchell, Janelle Mitchell.
Now we have a great opportunity for even more improvement during the holidays to get ready for the Rays Invite and Eastern Classic and the bigger championship meets in February and March!
Seniors Pass First Big Test at Georgia State Champs
Fountain medals, Norcini, Jahns score
12/12/16 - Gwinnett Aquatics' senior swimmers had their first real test of the the season this weekend at Senior State Champs en route to a fourteenth place finish and fourth in the medium teams group. Josh Fountain was the lone top-10 finisher, taking 3rd in the 1000 free while Alex Norcini and Sarah Jahns also scored. Norcini had an 8th place finish in the 400 IM negated by an unusually strict application of the "Lochte rule". Both Jahns and Norcini picked up their first AAA times of the season. Lauren Diehl and Hayley Shepard got their first AA times and Merilyn Coughlin got her freest A time. Jahns and Johnson also got new sectional times.
This meet was the first prelims/finals meet for our Senior swimmers and they faced a majority of swimmers who were tapered and shaved and held their own. This gives our GaGa swimmers a real advantage for the meets in February and March.
GwinAq 10Us Take the Blocks at Woodie B
11/21 - Gwinnett Aquatics 10Us followed the lead of their older teammates and swam their first multi-day meet of the season at the Woodie B Invite this weekend at Dynamo. It was a great chance for a lot of our newer swimmers to do some new events and our best 10Us to race some tough competition. There were also a few older swimmers doing some events they didn't do last weekend.
Marlowe Misner, Isaac Saenz and Josh Fountain all won events while Hailey Dopson and Andrew Guo (at his first meet!), medaled. Mikayla Chapek, Bennett Culbertson, Mali Davis, Ruthie DeLong, David Duong, Kate and Lucas Johnson, Tanner Manson, Brielle Mitchell and Freddy Xu also scored.
Fountain also picked up his first AAA time of the season while Darnell Mitchell, got his first AA time. Rachel DeLong got her first (ever) BB time and Guo, Brielle Mitchell and Addison Shaffer their first B times. Lindsey Diehl picked up her first state cut of the season.
GaGa Swimmers Hit First Invite at IMX
11/14 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers swam their first multi-day meet of the season at the IMX Invite in Marietta this weekend. It was the first invitational of the season and also a chance for swimmers to complete their IMX events. Once the results are uploaded to the USA Swimming database (SWIMS) swimmers who have done all 5-6 events in the IMX category will have an IMX score you can see on your Deck Pass!
Alex Norcini was the lone event winner but Grant Deckers, Lauren Diehl, Drew Grier, Sarah Jahns, Hannah Claire Jowers and Ella Moulder all placed.
Charlie Fountain, Griffin Hammett, Sarah Jahns and Daniel Johnson all picked up his their AA times of the season and Haley Burke, Abby Culbertson, Danielle Mitchell, Hayley Shepard, Michael Thompson and Brad Wyzykowski all got their first A times. Meanwhile Nia Fraser, Ethan McKinsey, Devin Petmecky and Blake Wilson got their first BB times and Grant Haskins and Jillian Rovie their first B times. Dylan Yin picked up his first ever state cut!
Results | GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers
Swim-A-Thon Wraps Up, Lots of Improvement Evident
11/9 - The annual Swim-A-Thon wrapped up last night with the Prep swim and it was a very successful set of swims. Marlowe Misner broke the record for the 10U 800 and each team showed significant improvement over last year's swim. Gold swimmers averaged 20 seconds per 100 faster than last year while Prep was 11 and Sr and HSTG was 5. Now that our swimmers have completed the swimming portion of their Swim-A-Thon, let's make sure to wrap-up the fundraising portion as well. We currently have over $15,000 collected
- Collect your pledges! There is a SAT folder in the Coaches box at the pool. Once you collected all your pledges, simply put your completed packet in that folder. If you have any on-line donations please make sure to make a note of that on the pledge sheets. We are looking to have all completed packets back by November 24
- Thank your donors! Click here to use our Thank You note, which includes information about taxes or use the thank you email function on the SAT page.
2016 S-A-T Overview | Ga-Ga Gift Receipt | TU S-A-T Home Page
S-A-T Results
GaGa Wins Dual Meet with Tidal Waves
10/29 - Gwinnett Aquatics defeated Tidal Wave Swimming in a their sixth annual dual meet this weekend at GAC. The teams have traded victories each of the last 4 years with TWS taking the contest last year. GaGa was led by triple and quadruple event winners Brielle Mitchell, Marlowe Misner and Alex Norcini as well as 11 other event winners: Hanna Burke, Lindsey Diehl. David Duong, Drew Grier, Russell Hart, Caleb Hersey, Sarah Jahns, Tanner Manson, Danielle Mitchell, Isaac Saenz and Jaxon Young.
Additionally a number of swimmers picked up new standards. Duong got his first state cut of the season while Jahns and Haley Dopson got their first A times. Abby Culbertson, Sahil Khatri, Riley Spruiell, Zoe Wilson and Brad Wyzykowski got their first BBs and Adam Dockstader, Elena Kaiser and Lila Smith got their first B times. Great job swimmers!
Up next will be the first invitationals of the season. The older swimmers will attend the IMX meet in Marietta Nov12-13 while the younger swimmers will go to Woodie B at Dynamo Nov 19-20. Sign-ups are closed on-line so if you missed the deadline be sure to contact your coach right away.
Results | GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers
ABSC Defends Streak in Dual Meet
10/21 - Athens Bulldogs made it seven in a row in the dual meet series with Gwinnett Aquatics. But GaGa took the women's title this year, our first time to win either gender in 4 years. And the meet was the closest its been in five years as well, as ABSC outscored GwinAq by 300 points (out of 4000). Despite losing the meet GwinAq had a 13 individual wins by nine different swimmers: Julianna Carey, Josh Fountain, Drew Grier, Tanner Manson, Marlowe Misner, Brielle Mitchell (3x), Sofie Rees, Isaac Saenz and Hayley Shepard.
Grier posted his first AAA this season, while Josh Fountain and Alex Norcini got their first AAs. Rees. Hannah Claire Jowers and Charlie Fountain got their first A times; Brooke Braziunas, Bennett Culbertson, Ian O'Hara Graham Simmon and Sydney Spruiell their first BBs and Sarah Burton, Sijia She and Kylie West their first B times. Jowers and Grant Deckers picked up new state cuts.
Meet Results | GwinAq Individual Results
Gwinnett Aquatics Kicks Off Season With Pentathlon
10/2 - Gwinnett Aquatics kicked off the 2016-17 season with a Pentathlon meet at GAC today. For the first time ever we opened up the meet this year to a few other teams and it provided for some great early season competition. Being the first meet of the season it was a great chance for a lot of swimmers to show off how much they've improved since the last time we swam short course last March. Swimmers were scored based on the cumulative total of their swims in 5 events. GwinAq Age group winners were: Isaac Saenz, Lindsey Diehl, Sofie Rees, Ava Gawronski, Caitlyn Diehl and Drew Grier.
A whopping 64 swimmers achieved their first time standards, including some new swimmers. Kate Johnson got an A time, Henry Breiding, Lucas Johnson, Nolan Patterson and Dylan Yin got BB's and Carly Buice, Rachel DeLong, Ethan McKinsey and Wesley King got B times. See all the standard breakers using the link below.
The next meet for GaGa will be the ABSC dual meet October 21 at UGA followed by the Tidal Wave Spooktacular dual meet October 29 at GAC again. Registration for both close soon so be sure to commit/decline soon.
Meet Results | Scores
GwinAq Individual Results
Standard Breakers
Senior Swimmers Rock the Post-Season
8/8 - A number of our senior swimmers finished out their season at the bigger regional meets last week. Juliana Carey posted all best times at the Futures Champs in Atlanta while Josh Fountain medaled twice and Alex Norcini scored twice at the Zone Champs in Charlotte. Both were competing as part of the Georgia Zone Team.
Futures Results | Zones Results
Senior State Champs
7/25 - Much of the Gwinnett Aquatics senior group finished out the season this weekend in Cumming at the Senior State Champs. With some swimmers coming here after their taper meet at Dynamo two weeks ago and three swimmers still headed to Zones and Futures, the meet was the focus meet for a smaller group of swimmers than usual.
Despite a more challenging venue than we usually have for this meet, those swimmers definitely took advantage. Jacob Rees broke an 18 yr-old team record, going 53.03 in the 100 free. Daniel Johnson picked up his first ever Sectional cut (1500) and Matthew Albers and Julianna Carey picked up their first AAA times of the season.
We also had some of the best relay swims in a while, including a couple of records at the Sr and Age Group State meets. The Sr boys broke the 800 free relay record (scoring 4th) and the 13-14 girls broke the 400 free relay record. We will be adding the relay records to our records list soon but I have listed them here as well as some relays from this summer that were close.
Sr State Results | GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers | Top Relay Report
Gwinnett Aquatics 12th at 14U State Champs
7/18 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished 12th at this weekend's 14U state champs at Ga Tech. We were just 16 points out of 10th (out of 450!) and that score was good enough to put us third in the medium-sized teams division. It was a good showing after a strong year of work but possibly could have been higher if we had more consistent practice attendance this summer.
Isaac Saenz led all scorers, making the podium four times and scoring in an additional two events. Griffin Hammett, Samantha Lewis, Marlowe Misner, Lauren Diehl and Bryce Dopson also scored. Hammett picked up his first AAAA (Silver cap) of the season and he, Lauren Diehl and Marlowe Misner got new team records in the 100 fly, 100 fly and 50 fly respectively.
Nia Fraser and Ava Gawronski picked up their first AA times of the season (first ever for Fraser) and Hannah Claire Jowers got her first ever A time.
And of course what can I say about our parent (and swimmer) volunteers. There were so many families who gave up so much of their time to make this meet a success: in the hospitality room, as officials (way to go Judy!), or on deck as times, runners, or a variety of other jobs. We have earned a great reputation as an organization that does things right! And deservedly so.
AG State Results | GwinAq Results
Georgia Age Group State Champs a Big Success
7/18 - The 2016 All American Swim 14U GA State Champs is now in the books. The meet featured over a dozen state records and one new National record. More info is available on the meet site. Thanks to all our volunteers for helping us run another successful champs!
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Registration Now Open for 2016-17 Swim Team, Lessons
7/11 - Registration is now open to the public for our 2016-17 Swim Team as well as our Fall swim lessons. Those registering for 2016-17 will be able to start during our pre-season mini-camp that starts August 15. the regular season will start September 12. Lessons start August 15 and run through December.
Use the links below to access the site for the program you wish to register. We are using a new on-line registration system through TeamUnify so be sure to use these new links.
Championship Meets Kick Off at Dynamo End of Season Meet
7/11 - The big last meets of the season kicked off this weekend at Dynamo at the End of Season Invite. Over 50 swimmers took to their last long course meet with mostly great success as reflected by the number of wins and the new standards achieved. Marilyn Coughlin, Charlie Fountain, Josh Fountain, Samantha Lewis, Darnell Mitchell and Alex Norcini all won events.
Abby Culbertson, David Duong, Charlie Fountain, Jacy MacConvery, and Darnell Mitchell picked up their first state cuts. Maggie Nguyen got her first AA, while MacConvery, Kaylee McLester and Devin Petmecky got their first A times and Duong, Taylor Bowling and Brooke Braziunas got their first BB times.
DYNA EOS Results
GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers
GwinAq Attack on the Eastern Seaboard!
Records and Standards fall all over the South.
6/28 - Gwinnett Aquatics once again had two squads in competition this weekend but this time in two states. 22 swimmers took their act to Florida for the SYS Open while 50 more were in Cumming for the Henry the 8th Invite. Between the two meets there was a lot of fast swimming going on. In fact it was some of the fastest mid-season swimming we have done in recent memory.
Between the two meets we had a new team record, five new state qualifiers and 18 swimmers pick up first time standards. At a very competitive meet in Sarasota we had more swimmers in finals then ever before while in Cumming Isaac Saenz, Marlowe Misner, Griffin Hammett and Jacob Rees all won events. Hammett broke his own team record in the the 100 fly while Saenz picked up his first ever AAAA (Silver Cap!)
Time Standard Achievers at the two meets were:
- First AAAA (Silver Cap) Times - Saenz
- First AAA Times - Lauren Diehl, Josh Fountain, Drew Grier, Sarah Jahns
- First AA Times - Marilyn Coughlin, Abby Culbertson, Charlie Fountain, Daniel Johnson
- First A Times - Lindsey Diehl, Nia Fraser, Jen Narde, Maggie Nguyen, Riley Spruiell, Ella Smith
- First BB Times - Hanna Burke, Sahil Khatri
- First B Times - Ruthie DeLong
- First State Cuts - Coughlin, Bennett Culbertson, Caitlyn Diehl, Fraser, Ian O'hara
SYS Open Results | Henry 8 Results
GwinAq SYS Results | GwinAq Henry 8 Results
Team Splits for Open Water, Swim with Dad
6/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics had two different squads in competition this weekend. Saturday about 20 swimmers competed at the Death Valley Open Water swim in Clemson while another 60 were at the Swim With Dad Invite at Georgia Tech.
At Death Valley Josh Fountain won 3 of the four races and took 2nd in his age group in the feature race, the 5k (3rd overall). His toughest competition in 2 of those was his brother Charlie who took 2nd. Those two, along with Jarod Disher, Daniel Johnson, and Jacy MacConvery did all 4 races for a total of 9.5k). We also had a good group of first timers: Hanna Burke, Bennet Culbertson, Caitlin Petmecky and Isaac Saenz.
Meanwhile the group at Tech were taking great advantage of the extra opportunity to race long course. Marlowe Misner and Jacob Rees both won events. Bryce Dopson picked up his first AA time of the season while Darnell Mitchell and Brad Wyzykowski got their first A's. Bennet Culbertson, Grace Fleming and Riley Spruiell got their first BBs while Abby Bold, Taylor Bowling, Sarah Burton, Elena Kaiser, Emily Morgan all got their first B times.
Open Water Results | Swim w/ Dad Meet Results
Open Water Pics | GwinAq Swim w/ Dad Meet Results
Standards Fall at Dixie Classic
Misner, Hammett break team records
6/6 - Nearly 40 swimmers competed in the Dixie Classic meet this weekend at Dynamo. It was the first prelims/finals meet of the season so there some pretty good time drops and quite a few new standards made. Marlowe Misner led the way winning all 10 events that she swam. Griffin Hammett, Isaac Saenz and Alex Zhong also won events. Misner and Hammett also each broke a club record in the 50 back and 100 fly respectively..
Jacob Rees picked up the first AAAA of the season in 50 free which was also a Scholastic All-American cut. Misner and Samantha Lewis got their first AAA of the season while Juliana Carey, Lauren Diehl and Josh Fountain got their first AAs. Caitlin Petmecky got her first A time and Hannah Claire Jowers and Jen Narde got their first BB times.
It was also a good meet for new State cuts, Hannah Claire got her very first one while Grant Deckers, Lauren Diehl, Lindsey Diehl and Hayley Shepard got their first cuts of the season.
Meanwhile Sarah Jahns was competing with the Georgia Open Water Zone Team at the Open Water Champs in Fort Myers, FL. Sarah took 9th in the 15-16 race against a very competitive field. The course had been shortened to 2.5k due to high water temps.
Rosenburg Invite, Rain and Racing
5/21 - Swimmers at the Rosenburg Spring Invite, with its attendant rain, got off early this year. After a year off, the Invite returned this year with a new format and a completely tolerable afternoon shower. the swimmers capitalized with a host of first time long course swims, new best times and new time standards.
Another change was that we swam the meet as a dual meet with Lifetime Fitness. The scoring was tight in most events with. GA taking the win 874-620 mostly on the 400, 800 free and 200 IM events.
Isaac Saenz got his first ever AAA (All-Star) time while Matthew Albers, Marlowe Misner, and Drew Grier got their first AA's. Bryce and Hailey Dopson got their first A times while Harry Duncan, Ryan Haskins and Ella Smith got their first BB times. Bennett Culbertson, Hannah Delong, David Duong, Grace Fleming, Lina Le, Ella Moulder, Devin Petmecky, Sydney Spruiell and Dylan Willis got their first B times (first ever for Fleming and Willis!).
Long Course Season Kicks Off at Ga Tech
5/1/16 - Over fifty GaGa swimmers kicked off the long course season this weekend at the Long Course Kickoff at Georgia Tech. The first meet of every year is always a lot of fun with lots of swimmers getting to see how much they've improved since last summer with some big drops. This year the percentage of best times was even higher than usual. Even some of the teens in the morning got to get some PRs, which doesn't happen as often in season for older swimmers.
This year we're also off to a faster start than last year with a number of swimmers already picking up AAA (Griffin Hammett, Alex Norcini) and AA (Samantha Lewis, Rachel Peden, Isaac Saenz) times. New swimmer Freddy Xu even picked up his first State cut!
Check out the results using the links below.
Gwinnett Aquatics Defends Third at Northeast Divisionals
Hammett, Rees break four team records
3/21/16 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished 3rd at this weekend's Divisional Champs in Augusta besting last year's score which was already a three-year high. Three swimmers: Hailey Dopson (9), Griffin Hammett (8), and Jacob Rees combined for 18 event victories while a whopping 31 others had a top-8 finish. Hammett and Rees combined to break four team records. Rees also got his Scholastic All-American time. Juliana Carey got her first ever Futures cut.
The team also, once again, showed great team spirit. Thanx to all the parents who helped organize the posters, shirts, theme-ware and the catered meals too, (Thanx Judy!)! It really helped make this a special weekend for the swimmers. Standard breakers for the meet were:
- First AAAA (Silver Cap) Times - Rees, Hammett
- First AA Times - Marilyn Coughlin, Grant Deckers, Jarod Disher
- First A Times - Darnell Mitchell, Caitlyn Petmecky
- First BB Times - Taylor Bowling, Austin Bynum, Bennett Culbertson, David Duong, Janelle Mitchell, Caroline Smith, Blake Wilson
- First B Times - Brielle Mitchell
- First Sectional Cuts - Matthew Albers, Alex Norcini, Brad Wyzykowski
- First State Cuts - Coughlin, Disher, Charlie Fountain, Desymber Richie
Results | GaGa Results
Standard Breakers | Pics (soon)
Seniors Race the Celebrities in Knoxville, GaGa Tunes Up for Divisionals at Gainesville
3/7/16 - Gwinnett Aquatics' sectional team competed at the star-studded Southern Premier in Knoxville, TN this weekend. The meet featured some of the fastest swimmers in the country including the always popular Ryan Lochte (swim-moms were swooning in the stands). Meanwhile Josh Fountain swam to a 12th pace finish in the 1500 while Alex Norcini, Juliana Carey and Matthew Albers all picked up some additional Sectional qualifying times.
Meanwhile the bulk of the team was getting in one last racing opportunity before the Divisional Champs. Being situated as it was between our big Qualifier meet and the season champs, there were not a lot of new standards achieved but there was plenty of great racing.
Southern Premier Results | GwinAq Results
Lanier Pentathlon Results | GwinAq Results
New Standards Fall at 14U State Champs
2/21/16 - Gwinnett Aquatics' Age Group state team competed at 14U Champs this weekend at Ga Tech. It was a slightly smaller team than last year but more competitive in the relays. Thanks to those relays, and despite having fewer swimmers score individually, GwinAq moved up two places from last year to thirteenth overall, sixth in the medium sized teams division. Individually Lindsey Diehl and Griffin Hammett led the way with Diehl recording nine top ten scores and Hammett scoring in six events. .
Samantha Lewis and Rachel Peden picked up their first AAA times while Ryan Haskins got his first AA time. With far fewer swimmers aging up next season (six state swimmers aged up in the last 2 months), we should have a great long course state team!
Results | GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers
GA Winter Qualifier
2/14/16 - The Gwinnett Aquatics GA Winter Qualifier was this weekend at Greater Atlanta Christian school in Norcross. Over 230 swimmers competed with about 50 new state cuts achieved. The meet featured all events for age groupers, single year age groups for awards and special tattoos for new state champs qualifiers.
The GaGa swimmers made the most of the opportunity with half a dozen swimmers picking up a dozen new state cuts, including Russel Hart getting his first one for this year and Aaliah Mobley getting her first one ever! In addition Hailey Dopson got her first ever A time and Ella Moulder her first BB. And there were a slew of new B times: Caroline Davis, Hannah DeLong, Alyaan Jiwani, Brodie McCluggage, Catie Rovie, Brandon Shepard, and Zoe Wilson.
GwinAq Results | Standard Breakers
Senior Swimmers Successful at HS State
2/7/16 - Gwinnett Aquatics senior swimmers wrapped up their most successful high school season in three years this weekend at the State Champs at Ga Tech. Nineteen swimmers competed in prelims Friday with six retuning for finals in 11 events on Saturday. Jacob Rees, Josh Fountain and Drew Grier all made top 8 while Juliana Carey, Matthew Albers and Alex Norcini were in consols. Fountain earned the first AAAA (sliver cap) time for the team this year while Kevin Kooh got his first state cut. Rees swam on the state-record breaking 400 free relay for Brookwood who also won the meet.
GwinAq Results | Standard Breakers
GaGa Swimmers Race at Home, Srs at HS County Champs
1/27/16 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers did a little racing at our home pool today at the fun meet at Quinn Ridge. It was a nice quick competition and after a good month of training there were lots of new best times. Anthony Benitez, Hanna Burke, Ruthie Delong, Caleb Hersey, Cate Rovie and Sydney Spruiell had 100% best times.
Meanwhile most of the Senior and High School Group swimmers were competing in the Gwinnett County Champs with great success. All 21 Sr swimmers made it back for Tuesday's snow(?)-delayed finals. Eight swimmers competed in 14 events in the championship finals, up one from last year. Josh Fountain, Alex Norcini and Jacob Rees all medaled. Sarah Jahns picked up her first AAA (All-Star) time of the season while Alice Koschella, Lina Le and Michael Thompson got their first A times.
GwinAq Results | Standard Breakers
Gwinnett Aquatics Seventh at Eastern Classic
1/18/16 - Gwinnett Aquatics kicked off the new year with one of it's best winter meet performances in a while. Despite this year's meet being more competitive than the previous couple GaGa finished higher and scored more points than last year. Juliana Carey, Grant Deckers. Lindsey Diehl, Bryce Dopson, Josh Fountain, Griffin Hammett, Samantha Lewis, Marlowe Misner and Isaac Saenz all had top-8 scores and 13 others contributed individual scoring swims. Carey also broke the team record in the 100 fly while picking up her first sectional cut while she and Diehl got their first AAA times of the season. Saenz got his first ever AA and Jen Narde her first A time of the season. Caitlyn Diehl, Hannah Claire Jowers, Fred Mitchell and Ella Smith got their first BB times.