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Gwinnett Aquatics Wins Lanier Winter Invite
12/13/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics won the Lanier Winter Invite in Gainesville this weekend edging out SwimAtlanta (one of its facilities anyway) and host Lanier Aquatics. Over the three-day meet we had ten swimmers win over 30 events, including Bryce Dopson and Griffin Hammett who won all of their events. We had another 18 medal and 16 swimmers picked up new time standards!
- Event Winners: Lauren Diehl, Bryce Dopson (7x), Hailey Dopson, Charlie Fountain, Ava Gawronski, Griffin Hammett (6x), Alex Lomishvilli, Jacy MacConvery, Jacob Rees, Isaac Saenz.
- Additional Medalists: Haley Burke, Marilyn Coughlin, Abby Culbertson, Grant Deckers, Caitlyn Diehl, Lindsey Diehl, Ryan Haskins, Kevin Kooh, Alice Koschella, Samantha Lewis, Kaylee McLester, Jen Narde, Maggie Nguyen, Ian O'Hara, Rachel Peden, Caitlyn Petmecky, Devin Petmecky, Hayley Shepard.
- Standard Breakers: AAA - Hammett; AA - Fountain, Nguyen, O'Hara; A - Coughlin, Jarod Disher, Haskins, Kooh, Lomishvilli, MacConvery, Devin Petmecky, Riley Spruiell; BB - Lillie Clark, Harry Duncan, Sahil Khatri; B - Darya Ghaffari.
- New State Qualifiers: Haskins, Kooh, Darnell Mitchell.
Standards Fall at Senior State Champs
Fountain, Albers, Rees Score
12/7/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics more than tripled its number of AAA swimmers this weekend at Senior State Champs en route to a fifteenth place finish and fourth in the medium teams group. Josh Fountain was the loan top-10 finish taking 8th in the 1000 free while Matthew Albers was 17th. Both boys picked up their first AAA times as did Jacob Rees who scored in the the 100 IM. Alex Norcini and new GaGa swimmer Drew Grier also picked up their first AAA times. Daniel Johnson, Hayley Shepard and Brad Wyzykowski got their first AA times and Abby Culbertson her first A times. These are some especially remarkable achievements given that GaGa swimmers maintained their training and were not shaved at the meet while most of their competition was. This gives GaGa swimmers a real advantage for the meets in February and March.
Woodie B Invite Offers Chance for November Racing
11/22 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers got the chance to do some high level racing a little earlier this year than most at the Woodie B Malone Invite this weekend at Dynamo. With our 10U swimmers winning a whopping 29 events we were able to take 2nd at our 2nd Invite in a row! Event winners were Hailey Dopson, Isaac Saenz, Lindsey Diehl, Bryce Dopson, Lauren Diehl, Sarah Jahns, and Jacob Rees.
Rees, Samantha Lewis, and Marlowe Misner all picked up their first AA times of the season. Zack Culbertson, Alex Lomishvilli, and Danielle Mitchell got their first BB's while Jada James and Blake Wilson got their first B times.
Swimmers Rock the Swim-a-Thon
11/14 - Over 100 swimmers did their Swim-a-Thon this past week. There were great improvements over last year's swim in all groups. Isaac Saenz and Lindsey Diehl broke team records in the timed swim. Way to go team.
Now swimmers should work on collecting their pledges and getting them in before the deadline. Remember that donations benefit Gwinnett Aquatics and the USA Swimming Foundation. Help us reach our goal of $16,000 for pool improvements, senior team travel and our pool building campaign.
2015 Swim-a-Thon Results
Swim-A-Thon Info
Swim-A-Thon Online Donation Page
GaGa Swimmers Go Xtreme at IMX
11/8 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers went extreme this weekend, competing in the IMX (IM Xtreme!) Invite in Marietta. 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! And there should be some good ones too what with Bryce Dopson, Grant Deckers, Lauren Diehl and Ian O'Hara all winning events and eight others placing.
Matthew Albers picked up his first AA times of the season and Deckers, Daniel Johnson, Marlowe Misner and Haley Shepard their first A times. Meanwhile Haley Burke, Nia Fraser, Jacy MacConvery and Darnell Mitchell got their first BB times and Bennett Culbertson, Caitlyn Diehl, Luke Moynihan, Keeley Smith, Sydney Spruiell and Kylie West their first B times.
Results | GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers
Tidal Wave Wins Close Dual Meet
10/25/15 - With a larger squad and dominance in the 13 and Over girls Tidal Wave outpaced Gwinnett Aquatic 760-700 in their annual dual meet. Nonetheless GwinAq was able to win 22 of 36 events and post numerous new time standards. Lauren and Lindsey Diehl, Bryce and Hailey Dopson, Josh Fountain, Hannah Claire Jowers (in her first meet), Alex Norcini, Ian O'Hara and Issac Saenz all won events.
Bryce Dopson also picked up his first AAA of the season, while Josh Fountain, Ava Gawronski and Rachel Peden got their first AAs and Charlie Fountain and Samantha Lewis got their first A times. Alice Koschella, Kaylee McLester, Caitlin Petmecky, and Alex Zhong got their first BB times and Hanna Burke, Harry Duncan, Cindy Duong, Nia Fraser, Grant Haskins, Hannah Claire Jowers, Sahil Khatri, Emily Koschella and Ella Moulder got their first B times. Isaac Saenz and Hailey Dopson got their first state cuts of the season!
ABSC Defends Winning Streak Against Gwinnett Aquatics
10/10/15 - ABSC defended its five-year winning streak against Gwinnett Aquatics last night at their pool at UGA. Both teams appeared to be more interested in getting swimmers some new events here in the early season and GwinAq had many of its top swimmers swimming in extended age groups. Nonetheless we had ten individual wins by Julianna Carey, Caitlyn and Lauren Diehl, Hailey Dopson, Griffin Hammett, Jen Narde, Alex Norcini, and Isaac Saenz.
Lauren Diehl led the way with two wins and the first AAA (All-star) time of the season. Hammett and Alex Norcini got their first AAs, Matthew Albers, Ian O"Hara and Brad Wyzykowski their first A times and Brooke Braziunas, Jarod Disher, Lina Le, Jen Narde and Riley Spruiell their first BB times. In addition Jennie Attaway, Haley Burke, Sarah Burton, Alice Koschella, Kaylee McLester and Caroline Smith got their first B times. .
Gwinnett Aquatics Kicks Off 2015-16 Season With Pentathlon
9/26/15 - After a fantastic Big brother/sister practice in the morning, Gwinnett Aquatics kicked off the 2014-15 season with a Pentathlon meet at GAC today. It was a short, fast meet with a lot of swimmers showing 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. Age group winners were: Hailey Dopson, Lindsey Diehl, Bryce Dopson, Lauren Diehl, Ian O'Hara, Juliana Carey, Fred Mitchell, Bailee Hammett and Alex Norcini.
Almost 50 swimmer achieved their first time standards swimmers including some new swimmers: Maggie and Lennox Nguyen (A and B ties respectively), Alex Lomishvilli, Catalina Macedo-Gian Caitlyn Petmecky and Chayse Smith (all B times). See all the standard breakers using the link below.
Meet Results | Scores
GwinAq Individual Results
LC Season Wraps Up at Sr State, GA Open
7/26/15 - Long course season came to a close this weekend with two final meets, the Sr State Champs and the GA Open. At Sr State Anna Jahns, Josh Fountain and Matthew Albers all scored. Fountain picked up his Scholastic All-American and Futures cuts while placing second in the mile while Jahns got her first AAAA of the season with a third place finish in the 400. Abby Culbertson and Brad Wyzykowski got their first AAs of the season.
At the GA Invite a much smaller than anticipated group competed in a short prelims-finals format at Georgia Tech. Jacy MacConvery picked up his first A times of the season and Ramaya Pittman got her first B times.
Sr State Meet Results | GwinAq Results
GA Open Meet Results | GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers
All-time Top Ten | 2015 Fast 5 | Summer 2015 Attendance Award Winners
GwinAq Age Groupers Finish 10th at 14U State Champs
7/20/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics 14 and Under swimmers took to the pool at Georgia Tech this weekend for the 14U State Champs. After a great year of progress, it was one of our best showings to date at that meet with the team going into the final day in third place in the medium sized team division. But we did not have enough scoring swims on day 4 to hold on. You can be sure the coaching staff is already planning how to improve our training next season so we can hold that spot.
Nonetheless there was plenty to be proud of. It was our largest state team in at least the last six years. Lauren Diehl and Juliana Carey broke team records in the 50 and 100 fly respectively. Bryce Dopson led all scorers for the team and got his first ever AAAA (Silver Cap). Ryan Haskins got his first A time of the season. Other individual scorers included Griffin Hammett, Lindsey Diehl, Colin Houck, Sarah Jahns and Samantha Lewis.
Meet Results | GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers
Georgia 14U State Champs
7/19/15 - The Georgia Swimming 14 & Under State Champs wrapped up tonight at Georgia Tech, hosted by Gwinnett Aquatics. Nine new state records and one national record were set during the meet. The meet web page includes meet info, results
, scores and more, including more info about those record breaking swims. .Gwinnett Aquatics would like to thank all the officials and volunteers for all their hard work in putting on such a fine event. And the swimmers and parents were great too!
Click on the link below to access all the updated info on the meet.
Big Weekend for Senior Swimming
7/12/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics 13 and Over swimmers took over the meet scene this weekend. At Senior sectionals our largest summer sectional team in at least four years swam with the likes of Ryan Lochte and Connor Jaeger. The 18U boys went nearly 100% best times. Jacob Rees and Josh Fountain both picked up their first AAAAs (silver cap) of the season while Matthew Albers and Alex Norcini got their first AAA (All-Star) times.
Meanwhile at Senior circuit a strong group of 13 and over swimmers competed, most of them tuning up for the big end of season meets in two weeks. Devin Petmecky picked up his first ever A times.
Sr Sectional Results | GwinAq Results
Sr Circuit Results | GwinAq Results
GwinAq Competitive Tour '15 Expands to Two States
6/30/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics again had two different squads in competition this weekend, this time in two states. 32 swimmers competed in Tallahassee while another 30 were in Cumming.
At Tallahassee our small travel squad competed very well against some tough Florida teams, with 27 of the 32 scoring and Juliana Carey, Lauren Diehl, Josh Fountain, Anna Jahns and Jacob Rees all winning events.
At the Gold Invite in Cumming Bryce Dopson led the way winning every event he swam save one. Lindsey Diehl and Samantha Lewis also won events while the 10U swimmers went on a state-cut rampage with FIVE swimmers making their first cuts. Congrats to Hanna Burke, Hailey Dopson, Danny Pitts, Desymber Richie, Sydney Spruiell.
Between the two meets we also had nineteen swimmers pick up new standard levels:
AAA (All-Star) - Juliana Carey, Lindsey Diehl, Griffin Hammett, Sarah Jahns, Jacob Rees
AA - Charlie Fountain, Ava Gawronski, Daniel Johnson, Samantha Lewis, Ciara Mitchell, Bryce Peden, Rachel Peden
A - Abby Culbertson, Dean Yusuf
BB - Kevin Kooh, Aaliah Mobley, Danny Pitts
B - Emily Koschella, Charlotte Lane
ATAC Results | GwinAq Results
GOLD Results | GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers
In the Lake, In the Pool, We Know What to Do
6/15/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics again had two different squads in competition this weekend. Saturday about 20 swimmers competed at the Death Valley Open Water swim in Clemson while another 40 were at the Swim With Dad Invite at Georgia Tech.
At Death Valley Josh Fountain and Anna Jahns combined to win five of the eight events (they along with Matthew Albers, Alex Norcini and Charlie Fountain did all 4 races for a total of 9.5k)., while first timers Grant Deckers and Haley Burke also scored.
Meanwhile the group at Tech (who were joined by the open water swimmers on Sunday) were taking great advantage of the extra opportunity to race long course. Lauren Diehl broke another butterfly team record (50), while Bryce Dopson (3x) and Colin Houck both won events. Bailee Hammett and Rachel Peden got their first A times of the season, Brooke Braziunas, Ryan Haskins and Desymber Richie their first BB's, and Austin Bynum, Sahil Khatri, Kevin Kooh, and Sofie Rees their first B times. Isaac Saenz got his first ever State cuts.
Swim With Dad Results | GwinAq Results
Death Valley Results | Standard Breakers
Death Valley Pics!
GwinAq Swimmers Pick Up New Cuts, Standards at Two Meets
6/1/15 - With two squads at two different meets, it was a very busy weekend for Gwinnett Aquatics. Over forty swimmers picked up new time standards while a dozen got their first State cuts of the season.
At Dynamo's Dixie Classic Josh Fountain was the sole event winner, taking the victory in the 400 IM while Anna Jahns and Lauren Diehl medaled in nearly a half dozen events each. Diehl also picked up her first ever AAAA and also a new team record in the 100 fly and 200 fly respectively. Fountain and Jahns picked up their first AAA's of the season while Matthew Albers, Juliana Carey, Griffin Hammett, Sarah Jahns and Alex Norcini got their first AA's this summer. First A times were recorded by Haley Burke, Charlie Fountain, Daniel Johnson, Samantha Lewis, Ciara Mitchell, Ian O'Hara and Hayley Shepard. Many of these swimmers also got their first state cuts of the season including Haley Burke, her first. 
Meanwhile at the Dunbar Invite at Georgia Tech we also had a boatload of great swims, by our mostly younger swimmers. Colin Houck took the win in the 50 free. He and Bryce Dopson got their first AAA (All-Star) times of the season (Bryce's first ever). Lindsey Diehl added a number of top 5 swims as well as her first AA while Marlowe Misner got her first A time (as well as some new state cuts).. Marilyn Coughlin, Hailey Dopson, Danielle Mitchell, Issac Saenz and Sydney Spruiell got their first BB times of the summer while fifteen different swimmers got their first B times. Check out the Time standards link below to see all the new standard achievers.
Dunbar Results | GwinAq Results
Dixie Results | GwinAq Results
Long Course Season Kicks Off at Gold Invite
5/3/15 - 45 GaGa swimmers kicked off the long course season today at the Gold Citizen Kane Invite in Cumming. 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. The afternoon session almost went 100% best times with lots of really big drops. Even some of the teens in the morning got to get some PRs, which doesn't happen as often in season for older swimmers. Check out the results using the links below. if any parents got some pics we'd love a good one to go on the newsletter.
Gwinnett Aquatics Third at Northeast Divisionals
Diehl, Jahns, Rees break four team records
3/29/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished 3rd at this weekend's Divisional Champs in Athens scoring over 800 more points than last year with 62 swimmers contributing with individual scores. Eight swimmers, Lauren Diehl, Lindsey Diehl, Hailey Dopson, Colin Houck, Anna Jahns, Sarah Jahns, Jacob Rees, Isaac Saenz, combined for 19 event victories while 23 others had a top-8 finish. Lauren Diehl, Anna Jahns and Jacob Rees combined to break four team records.
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! It really helped make this a special weekend for the swimmers. Standard breakers for the meet were:
- First AAAA (Silver Cap) Times - Lauren Diehl
- First AAA (All-Star) Times -Matthew Albers, Colin Houck, Alex Norcini, Brad Wyzykowski
- First AA Times - Charlie Fountain, Bailee Hammett, Samantha Lewis, Rachel Peden, Hayley Shepard, Riley Spruiell
- First A Times - Alice Koschella, Jacy MacConvery, Jen Narde, Devin Petmecky, Dean Yusuf
- First BB Times - Fred Mitchell, Desymber Richie
- First B Times - Lillie Clark, Zack Culbertson, Sam Huggins, Sahil Khatri, Kiera Swinkola
- First Sectional Cuts - Matthew Albers, Alex Norcini, Brad Wyzykowski
- First State Cuts - Bailee Hammett, Rachel Peden, Hayley Shepard
Results | GaGa Results
Standard Breakers | Pics!
End of Season Slide Show!
Strong Showing at Senior Sectionals Nets GwinAq 15th Place Finish
3/8/15 - Led by Anna Jahns win in the 1000 free and 2nd place finish in the mile, the Gwinnett Aquatics Senior Sectional team posted more individual points then any time in the last 7 years to finish 15th at the ESSZ Senior Champs in Greensboro this weekend. Jahns also finaled in the the 500 free and 200 back. Meanwhile on the guys side Josh Fountain was 11th in the mile and 16th in the 1000 while Jacob Rees was 12th in the 200 back. He also posted time trial times that would have scored in three more events. Czech visitor Michaela Petrova even got in the act with a scoring swim (though not for GaGa since she was unattached) in the 500.
Rees pickup up his first scholastic All-American times as well as 2 cuts for the new USAS Futures Championship. Keegan Walsh picked up those two standards too, as well as his first AAAAs in the 15-16 age group. Fountain also picked up his first AAAA of the season. It was a great start to the March championship meet and has everyone excited about the upcoming Divisional champs.
Results | GaGa Results
Standard Breakers
Spring Clinics, Summer Lessons Registration Now Open
3/7/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics announces its Spring Clinics and Spring and Summer Lessons for 2015. Registration is now open for the Spring Tune-Up, a four-week clinic to help 12 and Unders get a head start on summer league. The clinic will start April 13 and run Monday though Thursday 5-6:15pm. Only 2 slots remain so sign up soon if you are interested. This year we are also running a 5-week home-school clinic on Monday and Wednesdays at 1pm.
Registration is also open for our Spring and Summer lessons. Lessons are for ages 3 and above (including adult) and will run 2x/wk in the evenings starting April 13 and 4x/wk in the daytime starting June 1.
Clinics Registration | Lessons Registration
Rays Invite a Good Tune-up
3/1/15 - About 60 GaGa swimmers competed this weekend in the Rays Invite in Marietta. It was a great opportunity to race one last time before we get ready for the Divisional champs at the end of the month. It was a good opportunity to pick up some new USAS standards too. Ava Gawronski picked up her fist AA times of the season while Sarah Burton, Austin Bynum, Janelle Mitchell, and Desymber Richie all picked up their first B times.
Records, Standards Fall at Age Group State Champs
2/15/15 - Two new team records were set and lots of new time standards achieved this weekend when one of our larger Age Group State teams competed at the GA Champs at GA Tech. It took a total team effort to secure our 15th place finish with strong relays helping us score almost exactly the same number of points as last year despite not having nearly as many individual scoring swims.
Five swimmers, Sarah Jahns, Griffin Hammett, Lauren Diehl, Lindsey Diehl, and Colin Houck all scored individually. Lauren Diehl and Julianna Carey both broke team records in the 50 and 100 fly respectively. Carey also picked up her first AAA (All-Star) time of the season while Ciara Mitchell got her first AA and Ian O'Hara got his first A time.
AG State Results | GaGa State Results
Over 185 New State Cuts at GA Winter Qualifier
2/8/15 - Swimmers from ten different metro area clubs achieved over 185 new state cuts at Gwinnett Aquatics' GA Winter Qualifier this weekend. The meet, hosted at Greater Atlanta Christian School's beautiful Freeman Aquatic Center featured single year age group awards and tattoos for new qualifiers. Check out the results using the link below. Thank you to all the volunteers and officials for your help running a great meet.
And while the Gwinnett Aquatics parents were working, so were their swimmers. Eleven swimmers picked up 22 new state cuts, including Danielle Mitchell, who got her first ever. Lindsey Diehl got her first ever AA while Marlowe Misner and Rachel Peden got their first ever A times and Anna Hu, Fred Mitchell, Ella Moulder and Isaac Saenz got their first B times.
Meanwhile a dozen of our Senior team swimmers competed at the High School State Champs with twice as many swimmers as last year scoring. Anna Jahns defended her state title in the 500 free and took 4thi n the 200 while Jacob Rees was 8th in 200 IM. He, Keegan Walsh and Josh Fountain all had consols swims as well. Rees got his first AAAA of the season while Brad Wyzykowski and Bryce Peden got their first AA's.
Winter Qualifier Results
GaGa Results | GaGa High School State Results
Over Thirty Compete in Fun Meet, Seniors Start HS Champs Series
1/26/15 - Over thirty swimmers competed in the Fun Meet Saturday at the Gwinnett Aquatics pool. After some good holiday training, there were tons of best times and a number of swimmers had 100% bests. The results compare their times from the meet (meters) to their times from previous (yards) meets. Ethan Archer and Regina Wright got their first B times of the season.
Meanwhile our Senior swimmers competed at their first of the high school championship meets, the Gwinnett County champs. The GaGa swimmers had one of their best county meets in over 5 years with 9 swimmers making finals and 15 scoring. Anna Jahns defended her title in the 500. Jacob Rees, Keegan Walsh and Josh Fountain had top-5 finishes and Brad Wyzykowski, Abby Culbertson, Matthew Albers, Bryce Peden and Alex Norcini finaled. Norcini got his first AA time while Jarrod Disher got his first BB time. .
Fun Meet Results | HS County Results
GaGa Eighth at Eastern Classic
1/19/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished eighth this weekend at the Eastern Classic. GaGa was edged by Team Charlotte and Colorado Stars despite some solid individual efforts that led to lots of new time standards and state cuts. Anna Jahns led all scorers, winning the 200 and 500 free. Other finalists (top 10) included Julianna Carey, Lauren Diehl, Lindsey Diehl, Bryce Dopson, Charlie Fountain, Griffin Hammett, Russell Hart, Colin Houck, Sarah Jahns, Jacob Rees, Sophie Rees and Hayley Shepard. Rees, Marlowe Misner and Grant Deckers all picked up their first state cuts. Lauren Diehl got her first AAA (All-Star) time. Fountain, Hart and Lina Le got their first A times while Darnell Mitchell got his first BB time.
Meet Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Gwinnett Aquatics Named "Bronze Medal Club" for 2014
12/16/14 - USA Swimming announced the list of winners in the 2014 Club Excellence program yesterday and Gwinnett Aquatics was recognized as a Bronze Medal team. This program recognizes the top 200 teams of the over 5000 programs in the country. The top 100 are Gold and Silver teams (most of them quite large) and the next 100 are Bronze. We were around 150th. This is the first time in four years that the team has been recognized at this level.
USAS Club Excellence Program and Award Winners List
GwinAq Swimmers Break Through at Woodie B Malone Invite
12/14/14 - Wow! It has been a big couple weeks for Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers. This weekend GaGa athletes added lots of new time standards and state cuts to their achievements. In fact, our team has increased the number of swimmers with All-Star times five fold and nearly doubled the number of A and above swimmers. At Woodie B we were led by Marlowe Misner, who won seven events, as well as event winners Abby Culbertson, Lauren Diehl, Anna Jahns, Jacob Rees and Keegan Walsh. Walsh and Jahns got their first AAAA's (silver cap) of the season while Rees got his first AAA. Diehl and Griffin Hammett got their first AA's, Daniel Johnson, Samantha Lewis and Riley Spruiell their first A and Grant Deckers, Hailey Dopson, and Harry Duncan earned BB's and Danny Pitts got his first ever B time. Samantha Lewis and Alex Norcini got their first state cuts while 13 of their teammates added over 50 new cuts. .
Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Standard Breakers
Jahns, Fountain Score at Senior State Champs
12/7/14 - Despite having our two top-seeded boys out sick and out top seeded girl go home sick, Gwinnett Aquatics managed an 11th place finish at Sr State this weekend. Anna Jahns starting feeling ill after her prelim swims Friday but managed to rebound for 3 scoring swims (but didn't get to compete in her best events) and Josh Fountain had an incredible 1000 free to get 14th. Fountain, Keegan Walsh and Sarah Jahns all got their first AAA (All-Star) times of the season and Abby Culbertson got her first AA time. She and Matthew Albers had 100% best times. In fact the team had a very high percentage of lifetime and unshaved bests which is pretty phenomenal for this early in the season.
Team Records, Many PR's Fall at Swim-A-Thon
11/21 - After the three days of regularly scheduled Swim-A-Thon, there have been two new records and tons of personal bests (over 95%). Anna Jahns broke her own 15-18 2400 record while Marlowe Misner broke a 6-year old 8U 800 record. So far Gold holds the distinction of dropping the most time as a group, going an average of nearly 30s/100 faster per swimmer! Wow!
Gwinnett Aquatics 10U's Second at Turkey Meet
11/15/14 - Gwinnett Aquatics' youngest swimmers took their talents to Dynamo today for the 10U Turkey Invite. Multi-event medalists Lindsey Diehl, Bryce and Hailey Dopson and Colin Houck led the group to a 2nd place finish behind host Dynamo. Tristen Austin, David Duong, Russell Hart, Brody McCluggage, Janelle Mitchell and Isaac Saenz also had top-8 finishes. Bryce Dopson got his first AA time while Duong and Callie Chapman got their first B's! (If any parents got some good group pics please send me a couple. I totally forgot to take any!)
GwinAq Swimmers at First Invite in Marietta
11/9/14 - Gwinnett Aquatics competed in its first Invite of the year this weekend at the IMX Invite in Marietta. Anna Jahns, Matthew Albers and Colin Houck all won events. Albers and Houck both picked up their first AAs of the season while Abby Culbertson, Ciara Mitchell, Alex Norcini and Hayley Shepard got their first A times. Brooke Braziunas, Haley and Hanna Burke, Daniel Johnson and Alice Koschella all got their first BB times and the Emily Morgan and Koschella and Ramaya Pittman and Caroline Smith got their first B times.
ABSC Defends Winning Streak Against Gwinnett Aquatics
10/24/14 - ABSC defended its four-year winning streak against Gwinnett Aquatics tonight at their pool at UGA. Despite losing the meet GwinAq had a 12 individual wins by Julianna Carey, Lauren Diehl, David Duong, Charlie Fountain, Ava Gawronski, Marlowe Misner, Jen Narde, Ian O'Hara and Keegan Walsh. Anna Jahns won three events and posted the first AAA for the team this season. Gawronski, Matthew Albers, Lindsey Diehl and Josh Fountain got their first A times while Misner, Marilyn Coughlin and Charlie Fountain got their first BB times. In addition Gawronski, O'Hara, Lindsey Diehl, Griffin Hammett and Colin Houck picked up new state cuts.
Results | GwinAq Results
PICS!
Gwinnett Aquatics Defeats Tidal Wave
10/18/14 - Gwinnett Aquatics defeated Tidal Wave Swimming (TWS) 918-877 today at Greater Atlanta Christian. GA led most of the meet after a good start on relays but TWS took over after the breaststroke events. GA was able to come back during the final IM events. The meet has become an annual tradition and was won last year by TWS.
For GwinAq Lindsey Diehl, Anna Jahns, Marlow Misner and Jacob Rees led all scorers, winning all their events. Jahns picked up her first AA times of the season while Griffin Hammett, Sarah Jahns and Bryce Peden got their first A times. Julianna Carey, Lauren and Lindsey Diehl, Bryce Dopson and Sarah Jahns all added new state cuts.
Gwinnett Aquatics Kicks Off Season With Pentathlon
9/27/14 - Gwinnett Aquatics kicked off the 2014-15 season with a Pentathlon meet at GAC today. It was a short, fast meet with a lot of swimmers showing 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. Age group winners were: Marlowe Misner, David Duong, Lindsey Diehl, Colin Houck, Lauren Diehl, Ian O'Hara, Julianna Carey, Keegan Walsh, Anna Jahns and Jacob Rees. Rees, Walsh and Carey all picked up AA times in this first meet of the season while Jahns, Houck and both Diehls, as well as Bryce Dopson and Brad Wyzykowski got A times and 38 others got at least a B time! Also thirteen swimmers already got their first state cut including all the A and above swimmers above as well as Ava Gawronski, Ian O'Hara, Bryce Peden and Russel Hart (his first!).
Meet Results | Scores | GwinAq Results
Three New Records for Jahns at Juniors, 1st Nationals Swim Today
8/6/14 - Anna Jahns had her first ever night swim at at a national meet, taking 24th in the 200 back, and broke three team records at Juniors Nationals in Irvine CA last week. Jahns broke records in the back (2:18.0), 200 free (2:05.8) and 400 free (4:19). She finished 28th in the the 1500 free with a 16:59.
Today she will swim in her first ever National Championship in the 800 free at about 3pm (6 eastern). You can watch it live form the Nationals page on USA Swimming's site.
Fast Five | IMX Scores
Standard Breakers
Gwinnett Aquatics Seniors Perfect at State
7/28/14 - The Gwinnett Aquatics senior swimmers (except for Anna J) wrapped up their long course season in grand style this weekend going 100% over 33 swims with the average drop exceeding three seconds per 100! Much of that was in the 1500s but even taking those out the average improvement was over 2 seconds/100m. Even more exceptional...this team was an all rookie squad. All were attending LC Sr State for the first time! Josh Fountain was the lone individual scorer, taking 7th in the 1500 and getting his first AAAs of the season (the 800 free relay also got 7th). Bryce Peden (left) and Steven Lewis had second swim with Peden getting his first ever sectional cut. Fountain, Peden, Lewis, Matthew Albers, Abby Culbertson, Jacy MacConvery, and Bradford Wyzykowski all had 100% best times.
Senior State Results | GwinAq Results
Gwinnett Aquatics Ninth at Age Group State
7/21/14 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished ninth at the Age Group State Champs at Georgia Tech last week. We were fourth in the medium team division just missing our first trophy in at least 6 years by a mere five points! GaGa was led in scoring by Griffin Hammett who won the 1500 free and scored in 8 other events. Also scoring were Juliana Carey, Lauren Diehl, Ava Gawronski, Sarah Jahns, Samantha Lewis and Keegan Walsh. Hammett was also selected to the Georgia Zone team and he and Walsh picked up their first AAAA (silver cap) times of the season! Julianna Carey got her first AAA (All-star) time of the season.
Age Group State Champs Page | Results
GwinAq Results
Standards Fall at Hixon Invite
6/30/14 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers picked up a ton of new state and USAS time standards at the Hixon Invite in Marietta this weekend. Matthew Albers, Lauren Diehl, Lindsey Diehl, Ryan Haskins, Samantha Lewis, Ian O'Hara, and Keegan Walsh all picked up new state cuts. Lewis also got her first ever AAA (All-Star) time while Lauren Diehl got her first AA. Keeley Smith earned her first BB of the season while Jarod Disher got his first B times
Meet Results | GwinAq Results | Standard Breakers
GwinAq 11th at YCF Liberty Invite
Jahns, Carey Break Team Records
6/23/14 - Led by meet high point winners Anna Jahns and Griffin Hammett, Gwinnett Aquatics swam to an 11th place finish at the YCF Liberty Invite in Orlando. Jahns won 5 events while Hammett won 7 to be their age group's highest finishers. Other medalists include Sarah Jahns, who won the 400 free and Keegan Walsh, who was second in the 100 back. Anna Jahns and Julianna Carey picked up new team records in the 200 back and 100 fly respectively. Jahns also get her first AAAA of the season, while Matthew Albers, Steven Lewis, Bryce Peden, and Bradford Wyzykowski got their first AAs. Lina Le and Ava Gawronski got their first A times. Gawrosnki also picked up her first state cuts.
GaGa Swims Open Water
6/15/14 - GaGa had a great showing this weekend at the Death Valley Open Water Swim in Clemson SC. A dozen swimmers competed in four different races (Josh Fountain did all four!). Anna Jahns won the women's 5k and Josh Fountain was 5th. Josh was 2nd in a photo finish in the 5k while Marianna Markley was 4th. (Josh was pushed out by a much older and bigger swimmer, boo!). Josh finished out the day with a 3rd in the 1k and winning the half-k. Results and pics can be viewed using the links below. The results are a little difficult to decipher as the South Carolina swimmers are separated out.
Death Valley Results
Open Water Pix
Gwinnett Aquatics Competes All Over Atlanta
6/2/14 - With two squads at two different meets, it was a very busy weekend for the team. Also a big weekend for new cuts and time standards, over 20 new state cuts and 50 time standards broken!
At Dynamo's Dixie Classic Anna and Sarah Jahns and Griffin Hammett combined to win six events, while Lauren Diehl, Samantha Lewis, Josh Pingel, Ciara Mitchell and Keegan Walsh all medaled. Abby Culbertson picked up her first Senior State cut while thirteen others added new cuts. Keegan Walsh got his first long course AAA (All-star) time. Julianna Carey, Josh Fountain, Samantha Lewis, Ciara Mitchell, and Dorian Rosenburg got their first AAs while Matthew Albers, Lindsey Diehl, Jacy MacConvery, Michael Pacocha and Hayley got their first A times. Lina Le and Josh Pingel got their first BB's.
At the Dunbar Invite at Tech we also had a boatload of great swims. Zach Culbertson and Charlie Fountain picked up their first long course State cuts (1st ever for Zach!) Culbertson, Grant Deckers, Alex Norcini, Kara Robinett and Riley and Sydney Spruiell got their first BB times while Emily Morgan got her first B time.
Dunbar Results | GwinAq Results | Standard Breakers
Dixie Results | GwinAq Results
Gwinnett Aquatics Hosts Third Annual Rosenburg Invite
5/18/14 - Two years of challenging weather in a row couldn't hod us down at the Rosenburg Invite last weekend. Despite the cooler temps (sandwiched between two weekends of above average highs), our swimmers had a good start to the season. Eleven swimmers had 100% best times and a number of our 8 and Unders even beat their converted short course times. Griffin Hammett already picked up his long course All Star (AAA) times, while Matthew Albers, Juliana Carey, Josh Fountain and Ciara Mitchell got their A times. Alex Norcini, in his first meet, got his first BB times. Lauren and Lindsey Diehl, Ryan Haskins and Samantha Lewis all picked up new state cuts. Thanx to all the parent volunteers who not lnly did a great job but also served as great role models to the young swimmers about keeping a positive attitude in all sort of conditions.
GaGa Swimmers Get Early Start to Season at Gold Invite
5/4/14 - This weekend some of our swimmers also had a little pre-season meet at GOLD. Even though it is VERY early in the season there were some outstanding performances. Many swimmers already matched their short course standards and 13 swimmers had 100% best times.
Gwinnett Aquatics Takes Third at Divisional Champs
Jahns, Fountain, Hammett break seven team records
3/31/14 - Despite a much smaller number of high seeds going in, Gwinnett Aquatics defended its third place finish from last year at the Northeast Divisional Champs held this weekend in Athens. 56 different swimmers scored led, once again by the 13-14 boys who were 2nd. Josh Fountain, Anna Jahns and Griffin Hammett all broke team records - Fountain in the 1650, and Jahns and Hammett in the 400 IM. Jahns and Hammett won 4 and 5 events respectively. Keegan Walsh (2x), Ryan Haskins and Marlow Misner also won events. The team also, once again, showed great team spirit. Thanx to all the parents who helped organize (and the catered meals too!) Standard breakers for the meet were:
- First AAAA (Silver Cap) Times - Josh Fountain, Griffin Hammett
- First AA Times - Ciara Mitchell, Michael Pacocha, Dorian Rosenburg
- First A Times - Bailee Hammett, Jacy MacConvery, Michael Thompson
- First BB Times - Zachary Culbertson, Russell Hart, Marlow Misner
- First B Times - Jarrod Disher, Charlotte Lane, Aaliah Mobley, Ashley Pingel
- First State Cuts - MacConvery, Thompson, Matthew Albers, Lindsey Diehl, Marianna Markley, Haley Shepard
Results | GwinAq Results | Pix: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3
USAS Standard Breakers | Season Fast Five
Gwinnett Aquatics 7th at Senior Sectional
3/18/14 - Anna Jahns competed at the ESSZ Senior Sectional Champs this weekend in Charlotte. Gwinnett Aquatics (aka Team Anna) took 7th in the women's division. The sectional meet features the top senior swimmers from the Southeast and this year included numerous US National Team members. Anna won the 1000 free, took 2nd in the 500 and third in the 1650, breaking the team record in all three as well as the 200 back where she was 8th. Her time in the 1000 qualified for US Nationals and was the third fastest swim by a 15-16 girl this year. Her time in the mile missed breaking the Georgia State record (set in 1990!) by .7 She will be trying again at Divisionals so be sure to cheer her on.
Sectional Results | GwinAq Results
Smaller Squad Swims Big at Age Group States
2/24/14 - Even with tougher cuts and a smaller state team, Gwinnett Aquatics put together a great effort at Age Group State Champs this weekend at Ga Tech. The team finished 13th overall, which is 3 places lower than last year. But last year's squad was nearly 50% larger. This year's team outscored the 2012 team which was larger too. Five swimmers scored individually and nearly all our relays scored. Griffin Hammett scored nine times including a fifth and three sixths. Keegan Walsh, Josh Fountain and Sarah Jahns all scored twice including a third place for Sarah in the 1000 and Keegan and Sarah's first AAA (All-star times) and Josh's first ever Senior Sectional cut. Harry Duncan scored 10th in the 1000. Ian O'Hara got his first ever AA and Colin Houck his first ever A time.
Big Fun Meet Yields Fast Times
2/23/14 - While their teammates were competing at the Age Group State Champs, over thirty swimmers competed in the Fun Meet Saturday at the Gwinnett Aquatics pool. It was a great way for everyone to do a little racing to stay sharp leading up to the Divisional Meet in 5 weeks.
Over 130 New State Cuts Made at Gwinnett Aquatics' Winter Qualifier
2/9/14 - Swimmers from a dozen different metro area clubs achieved over 130 new state cuts at the Gwinnett Aquatics Qualifier this weekend. The meet, hosted at Greater Atlanta Christian School's beautiful Freeman Aquatic Center, was at full capacity for the first time since we began hosting this meet four years ago. The meet featured single year age group awards and tattoos for new qualifiers. Check out the results using the link below. Thank you to all the volunteers and officials for your help running a great meet.
And while the Gwinnett Aquatics parents were working, so were their swimmers. Nine GaGa swimmers picked up 15 new state cuts, including Bryce Dopson who got his first. Ryan Haskins got his first AA and Grant Deckers his first B time.
Meanwhile at the Georgia High School State Champs Anna Jahns won the 500 free with a new team record and a Scholastic All-American and High School All-American time of 4:49. She also got the team record in the 200 free where she was second. Steven Lewis earned his first ever AAA (All-Star) time in the 100 breast taking 14th. And Matthew Albers got his first AA in the 500.
Winter Qualifier GaGa Results | HS State GaGa Results
Standard Breakers
Over Thirty Compete in Fun Meet
1/27/14 - Over thirty swimmers competed in the Fun Meet Saturday at the Gwinnett Aquatics pool. There were tons of best times and Kara Robinett got her first B times of the season. Natalie Burns and Jacida George had 100% best times.
Gwinnett Aquatics Sixth at Eastern Classic
1/20/14 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished sixth at the Eastern Classic at Dynamo Swim Center this weekend narrowly getting edged by the Colorado Stars. After a rough start for the senior swimmers Saturday morning, most of whom are also in the middle of end-of-season high school events, the team got rolling. Led by Anna Jahns' two wins (500, 1000), Griffin Hammett's four top-3 finishes, and Ciara Mitchell's eight top-10 finishes, the team rallied to outscore last year's team. This was even more impressive when you consider how many recently aged-up swimmers we had!
En route Conor Gamble picked up his first state cut, while George Bujoreanu and Charlie Fountain did the same in their new age group. Abby Culbertson and Lina Le got their first A times, Harry Duncan and Riley Spruiell their first BBs and Haley Burke and Dean Yusuf their first B times.
GwinAq Shines at Woodie B
12/15/13 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers achieved a number of new milestones at this weekend's Woodie B Malone Invite at Dynamo. It was the first prelims/finals meet of the season and the swimmers made the most of it. Lindsay Diehl led the way with six event wins. Josh Fountain and (brand new swimmer) Bryce Dopson also won events! Juliana Carey and Griffin Hammett got their first AAA times, Nyota Edjidjimo, Haley Shepard and Keegan Walsh their first AAs, and Dorian Rosenburg and Mandy Wong their first A times. Dopson, Colin Houck and Lina Le earned their first BB times while Kaylee McLester and Marlow Misner got their first B's. Additionally Houck, Josh Pingel and Harry Duncan got their first State cuts.
Be sure to check our Facebook page for additional pictures!
Senior Squad Competes at Senior State Champs
12/9/13 - After graduating so many last spring, Gwinnett Aquatics took its smallest squad ever to Senior State this weekend. Nonetheless we had some impressive results. Anna Jahns scored in five events, including silver in the 1650 (with a new team record of 16:43), and a 4th in the 500. This is even more impressive that she did it during a week of heavy training while most of her competitors were rested and shaved. Ditto for Bradford Wyzykowski, Bryce Peden and Steven Lewis. Brad and Bryce combined for 4 personal bests and their first AAs of the year while Steven had all season bests and his first A times.
Swimmers Rock the Swim-a-Thon
11/23/13 - Over 90 swimmers did their Swim-a-Thon this past week. There were great improvements over last year's swim in all groups. Gold team had more swimmers finish 200 lengths than ever before. And Anna Jahns and Josh Fountain broke team records in the 2400 timed swim. Hopefully we raised a fair amount of money too! Way to go team.
Jahns Races at Grand Prix, 10Us at Dynamo
11/17/13 - Anna Jahns took her show on the road this weekend, travelling to Minneapolis, MN to compete in the Arena Grand Prix meet. She had a good showing against a very fast November field that included a number of swims that ranked in the top 10 in history. Anna was in the top 30 in 400 IM (4:31), 200 back (2:02) and the 1650 (17:17) and was 12th in the 500 free (4:53). The mile, 500 free and 200 back were her first AAAAs of the season.
Meanwhile the Gwinnett Aquatics 10 and Unders were competing at the Dynamo Turkey Invite. The younger swimmers picked up a ton of new best times and Russell Hart got his first B time.
Grand Pix Results
Dynamo Turkey Invite Results | GwinAq Results
Gwinnett Aquatics is IMX Strong
11/11/13 - Gwinnett Aquatics had some strong swims at the first Invitational of the year, the IMX Invite at Mtn View. Swimmers did a lot of new events this weekend. With the 12Us doing lots of 100s and 13 and overs doing 200s, there were a ton of first time swims. George Bujoreanu led the way, winning six events. Ava Gawronski, Ryan Haskins and Josh Fountain also won events. Bryce Peden and Keegan Walsh picked up their first state cuts of the season. Bujoreanu and Gawronski picked up their first ever AA times, Peden, Walsh and Charlie Fountain their first A times of the season. Michael Pacocha got his first BB and Sophia Bujoreanu, Regina Wright, and Hanna Burke earned their first B times.
Swimmers who rounded out their list of IMX events (100s of all strokes, 200 IM and 200 or 500 free for 12Us and 200s stroke, 400 IM and 500 free for 13 and Over) will have IMX scores on the USAS website once the results are submitted. Check you DeckPass account (which everyone should have set up by now on usaswimming.org) in a week or so to see how high you scored!
Results
GwinAq Results
Standard Breakers
ABSC Nips GwinAq at UGA
10/20/13 - ABSC beat Gwinnett Aquatics 1125-752 today in a dual meet at UGA's Garielson natatorium. As in the previous meet the girls meet was very close while the ABSC boys won by a wide margin. Despite losing GwinAq won more relays than in the previous two years at ABSC. Individually Lindsay Diehl, Julianna Carey, Anna Jahns, Sarah Jahns, Ian O'Hara, George Bujoreanu, Lauren Diehl, Ava Gawronski, Griffin Hammet all won events. Josh Fountain and Griffin Hammett earned their first AA's of the season, Brooke Braziunas and Samantha Lewis their first A times, Kyle Yang his first BB and Sydney Nelson her first B time.
Tidal Wave Wins Inaugural Metro League Dual Meet
9/29/13 - Tidal Wave Swimming won the first dual meet of the Metro League yesterday at Cobb Aquatic, defeating Gwinnett Aquatics 921-794. Gwinnett Aquatics won the girls' scoring but could not make up the difference in the boys. The league (whose official name is yet to be decided) also includes ABSC and DAQ.
GwinAq was led by Anna Jahns and Lindsay Diehl with four wins each. Other event winners were George Bujoreanu, Lauren Diehl, Griffin Hammett, Josh Fountain, Ava Gawronski, Ryan Haskins, Sarah Jahns, Ciara Mitchell, Ian O"Hara and Michael Thompson. Lauren Diehl picked up the first AAA (All-Star) time of the season, while new swimmers Haley Hensley and Mandy Wong earned their first BB times and Sydney Falk, Jen Narde and Joe Lucier their first Bs.
Anna Jahns 14th at Junior Nationals, GaGa Swimmers Pick Up Cuts at Sr State
8/11/13 - Anna Jahns wrapped up her competition yesterday at the Junior National Championships in Irvine CA with a bang. Jahns moved up 24 places to take 14th in the 1500. It was the first time a Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers has scored at Juniors and was one of the top 50 1500s in the country this year. Earlier in the week she was 29th in the 800 (moving up 31 spots). Both swims qualified for the US Nationals in December in Knoxville and again next summer in Irvine.
A week earlier, Megan Yang and Dillon Kasson picked up their first AAA (All-Star) times at the Georgia Senior State Champs at UGA. Bryce Peden improved his time in his first state meet and Jahns picked some best times in some off events.
Junior National Results
Sr State Results | GwinAq Results
Reynolds Wins Two, GwinAq Takes Fifth at Age Group State
7/22/13 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished fifth this weekend in the medium teams division at the Age Group State Champs in Savannah. It was a solid showing by one of our largest squads ever despite some difficulties with the venue and a very packed meet. Blake Reynolds won two events, the 50 and 100 free while he and Griffin Hammett were third and fourth respectively in 11 yr old scoring. Hammett scored in eight events. Sarah Jahns and Jacob Rees also scored. The team also got help by some great 10U relays that scored as high as sixth overall. Along the way Charlie Fountain,
Ava Gawronski, Griffin Hammett, Josh Pingel and Sydney Reynolds picked up their first AA times, while George Bujoreanu, Lauren Diehl and Keegan Walsh got their first A times. Pingel and Sydney Reynolds had 100% best times. Check our more pics on GaGa's Facebook page.
AG State Results | GwinAq Results | Standard Breakers
Jahns Scores, Breaks Four Records at Sr Sectionals, GaGa Tears up Sr Circuit
7/15/13 - While her teammates were blowing it out at Sr Circuit this weekend, Anna Jahns, in her final tune-up before Juniors, was doing the same at the Senior Sectional Champs in Athens. Anna was 3rd in the 1500 and 4th in the 400 while picking up four new team records (those plus 100 and 200 back) and three new Junior cuts (400, 1500 and 200 back).
Meanwhile at the Sr Circuit meet, GwinAq swimmers were posting an incredible number of best times. In fact the Senior taper group was 92% bests, one of the top performances by Senior in years. Nyota Edjidjimo and Marianna Markley picked up their first AA times this season and Bryce Peden his first A times. He, Bradford Wyzykowski and Edjidjimo earned their first summer Sr State cuts while Markley and Abby Culbertson got their first State cuts.
Sr Sectional Results | GwinAq Results
Sr Circuit Results | GwinAq Results | Standard Breakers
First End of Season Meet is TARA Invite
7/7/13 - About thirty swimmers attended the first of the end of season Long Course meets this weekend at the TARA Invite. Taylor Bowling, Zach Culberston, Tylah Keys and Jerrick Neu earned their first BB times of the season.
Results | GwinAq Results | Standard Achievers
Over 30 New State Cuts at Hixon Invite, Shark Open
7/1/13 - Seventeen swimmers earned new state cuts in 33 different events this weekend at the Hixon Invite in Marietta and the Shark Open in Sarasota including first time qualifiers Keegan Walsh, Michael Pacocha and Bryce Peden. In addition Anna Jahns got her first AAAA of the season, Sarah Jahns her first AAA (All-Star) time, Matthew Albers, Nyota Edjidjimo, Charlie Fountain and Conor Gamble their first A time. Additionally Lindsay Diehl, Alice Koschella, Alexis Luca and Jacy MacConvery got their first BB times.
In Sarasota Jahns, Jacob Rees and Bradford Wyzykowski all finaled with Rees earning three top-three finishes. Meanwhile back home Juliana Carey, Charlie Fountain and Megan Yang all finaled while seven of our fantastic 10 and Unders scored.
Stu Hixon Results | GwinAq Results
Sarasota Shark Open Results | GwinAq Results
Jahns, Reynolds, Fountain, Coffey, Carey Win at Dixie, State Cuts Fall at DAQ
6/9/13 - Six swimmers, Anna and Sarah Jahns, Blake Reynolds, Josh Fountain, Toriah Coffey and Julianna Carey combined to win 14 events this weekend at the Dixie Classic Invite at Dynamo. Overall the team had a very strong showing over the three day meet.
Meanwhile another group of GwinAq swimmers was competing at the Carol Tate Invite hosted by DAQ at Emory. Between the two meets over 30 swimmers picked up new State cuts and USAS standards. This is in addition to the seven swimmers who picked up new cuts and standards last weekend at the Dunbar Invite.
Dixie Classic Results | GwinAq Results
DAQ Invite Results | GwinAq Results
Betsy Dunbar Results | GwinAq Results
Rosenburg Invite Weathers the Storms
5/19/13 - We held first meet of the season, the Jessica Rosenburg Spring Invite, this weekend at Bransby Y. The weather was a challenge all weekend but we managed to get all sessions in and even have some beautiful sunny weather Saturday afternoon and an almost magical 3 1/2 hour break in the rain Sunday afternoon. Thank you to all the swimmers, parents, volunteers and officials who hung in there. Results can be viewed using the link below.
This is a super fun meet where the kids can win a chance to do some fun post-swim activities like a moon bounce, paddle boats and wall climb.
Jahns Competes at UltraSwim Grand Prix
5/12/13 - Anna Jahns competed in her first Grand Prix meet this weekend in Charlotte at the UltraSwim Invite. It was a festive atmosphere with a fanzone, deluxe athlete accommodations and lots of press. Anna moved up 12 places to earn a second swim in the 400 (and breaking her own team record) and finished 18th in the 800.
GwinAq Celebrates 2012-13 Season
4/5/13 - Gwinnett Aquatics celebrated is blockbuster 2012-13 season last night at Parkview HS. The athletes were recognized for their achievements and the team said goodbye to eight fantastic seniors. The night wrapped up with a slide show you can view using the link below.
Season Slide Show
Pics from the banquet
Gwinnett Aquatics Takes Third at Divisional Champs
Martin, Downs, Rees break seven team records
3/24/13 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished third his weekend at the Northeast Divisional Champs held in Athens. Led by the 13-14 boys who won their age group, and despite scoring more points than a year ago, the team placed just behind ASL and ABSC. Rory Martin earned his first ever Jr National qualifying time, while he and Bradley Downs and Jacob Rees combined to break seven team records winning nine events. Nick Leavenworth picked up his first ever Scholastic All-American time in the 1650 en route to his second win. Lindsey Diehl, Blake Reynolds, Sarah Jahns, Anna Jahns and Brad Wyzykowski also won events. The team also took home the spirit award, well-earned recognition of our great parent support group. Our theme was really fun and well executed and the cheering for the swimmers was unbelievable. We ended the meet with the most winners, records, AA AA's and A's in the last three years, and tons of new standards breakers, including:
- First AAA (All-Star) Times - Sarah Jahns, Wyzykowski
- First AA Times - Nyota Edjidjimo, Griffin Hammett, Clarke Swain
- First A Times - Jacob Callis, Abby Culbertson, Lauren Diehl, Bryce Peden, Sydney Reynolds, Riley Spruiell
- First BB Times - Lindsay Diehl, Collin Houck, Lina Le, Samie Matthews, Kaylee McLester
- First B Times - Ben Koschella, Sarah Burton,
- First State Cuts - Brooke Braziunas, Clarke Swain
Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
USAS Standard Breakers | Season Fast Five
Gwinnett Aquatics 12th at Senior Sectionals
Anna Jahns Qualifies for US Open
3/17/13 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished 12th this weekend at the Southern Zone Eastern Sectional Championship meet. They were led by Anna Jahns who broke three team records, placed in five events and earned her first ever US Open qualifying time. Rory Martin and Nick Leavenworth also scored. Martin. Leavenworth, Peter Meadows and Dillon Kasson scored in the 800 free relay as well. Leavenworth picked up his first ever AAAA (silver cap) time. It was the highest finish at Sectionals in the last four years for Gwinnett Aquatics.
GaGa Five Times the Fun at Pentathlon
3/10/13 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers got their final tune up before the Divisional Champs at a pentathlon meet in Gainesville this weekend. Not everyone did all five events but of those who did Lauren Diehl, Josh Pingel and Griffin Hammett posted the lowest aggregate times for their age groups. Five swimmers picked up new state cuts (good for this summer!). Divisionals here we come!
Results | GwinAq Results | Pics
Gwinnett Aquatics Tenth at Age Group State
2/24/13 - Moving up four places from last winter's finish, the 14 and under swimmers from Gwinnett Aquatics finished tenth at the Age Group State Champs at Georgia Tech this weekend. We we just 20.5 points out of eighth (and fourth in the medium-sized teams division). It was a total team effort with some great relays and more swimmers than ever before scoring: Blake Reynolds (7x), Jacob Rees (6x), Bradley Downs (3x), Josh Fountain, Griffin Hammett (2x), Toriah Coffey (2x), Charlie Fountain and Sarah Jahns. Rees and Downs both broke team records. Rees set a new mark in the 13-14 boys 1000 free and 400 IM and Downs in the 13-14 boys 100 free. Downs also picked up his first AAAAs of the season, Reynolds and Jacob Finco their first AAAs, Dorian Rosenburg and Brad Wyzykowski got their AAs, and Hammett and Charlie Fountain their first A times.
We also had a fun meet this Saturday at Quinn Ridge with lots of new best times. Check out results using the links below.
State Meet Results | GwinAq Results
USAS Standard Breakers | Fun Meet Results
86 New State Cuts at Gwinnett Aquatics Winter Qualifier 
2/10/13 - 52 new state cuts were recorded this weekend at the Winter Qualifier hosted by Gwinnett Aquatics this weekend at the Freeman Aquatic Center at Great Atlanta Christian School. Over 400 swimmers participated. The meet closed with a modified time trial session for High School State swimmers and featured a number of new pool records.
Gwinnett Aquatics Sixth At Eastern Classic, Also Competes at SCAT Invite
1/22/13 - Gwinnett Aquatics
finished sixth at the Eastern Classic at Dynamo Swim Center this weekend. It was a rough weekend for the senior swimmer, many of whom were preoccupied with end-of-season high school events, but a great weekend for our 14 and Unders. Toriah Coffey, Bradley Downs and Jacob Rees all won events. Coffey also get her first ever AAA time while Jacob Finco and Sarah Jahns got their first AAs and George Bujoreanu, Juliana Carey and Hayley Shepard their first A times. Ava Gawronski, and Sydney Reynolds picked up their first state cuts.
There was also some fast swimming at Georgia Tech at the SCAT Winter Invite. At that meet Jacy MacConvery and Jacob Callis got their first BB times of the season. Dean Yusuf and Sydney Spruiell got their first B times while Lauren Diehl got her first ever state cuts!
Eastern Classic Results | GwinAq Results
SCAT Invite Results | GwinAq Results
Gwinnett Aquatics Ninth At Senior State
12/10/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished ninth at the Senior State Champs this weekend, third amongst mid-size teams (of which we were the smallest). This matched our highest finish since we organized, achieved in 2007. This was a great result for us as we were swimming unrested while many of the other teams were rested and shaved. By training through this meet we will have bigger swims at the end of the season. Anna Jahns led the way with four scoring swims including a 4th in the 1000, 6th in 500 and 7th in 400 IM and her first AAAA time of the season. Rory Martin was close behind also with 4 scoring swims including a 6th in the 100 back. He, Dillon Kasson and Nick Leavenworth got their first AA times of the season while Kayla Harrison and Peter Meadows got their first AA times.
Senior State Results | GwinAq Results
Team Scores
Gwinnett Aquatics Swimmers Rock Two Meets 
12/3/12 - GaGa swimmers took their act to two different venues this weekend. Most 11 and overs were at the Lanier Winter Invite in Gainesville where we were fourth despite only having half our team. We had the highest point total for 11 and over. Bradley Downs led the way, winning six times. Jacob Rees, Jacy MacConvery, Kristen Marsh, Marianna Markley, Emily Trettel also won events. Markley, Marsh, Trettel, Stepney Lewis and Keegan Walsh all picked up their first A times of the season.
At the Marlins Meet in Marietta another group of 12 and Unders had some great swims as well. Six swimmers won individual highpoint trophies: Toria Coffey, Josh Pingel, George Bujoreanu, Harry Duncan, Lindsay Diehl and Sydney Spruiell. Coffey earned her first ever AA time, Pingel and Duncan their first A times and Haley Burke and Cameron Huggins got their first B times.
Lanier Invite Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Marlins Invite Results | GwinAq Results
Woodie B Malone Invite
11/18/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics swam their first prelims finals meet of the season this weekend at the Woodie B Malone Invite. Clearly it is a format that agrees with a number of our swimmers. Lindsay Diehl (4x), Bradley Downs and Rory Martin all won events. Conor Gamble and Blake Reynolds earned their first AA times of the season Brooke Braziunas, Lauren Diehl and Ava Gawrosnski got their first BB times, Madison Jennings and Kaylee McLester got their first ever B times. Griffin Hammett picked up his first state cut as an 11 yr old. Also the IMX scores from last weekend's meet have now been processed. See who scored what using the link below.
Swimmers Stretch at IMX
11/11/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers did a lot of new events this weekend at the IMX meet in Marietta. With the 10Us doing lots of 100s and 11 and overs doing 200s, there were a ton of first time swims. Bradley Downs, Jacob Rees, George Bujoreanu, and Rory Martin all won events. Nearly 20 swimmers picked up new state qualifying times. Additionally Downs earned his first AAA (All-Star) time of the season. Jacob Finco, Sarah Jahns and Clarke Swain got their first A times, Samantha Lewis and Riley Spruiell their first BB, and Noah Barskiy, Taylor Bowling, Imani Noel and Sofie Rees their first ever B times!
Swimmers who rounded out their list of IMX events (100s of all strokes, 200 IM and 200 or 500 free for 12Us and 200s stroke, 400 IM and 500 free for 13 and Over) will have IMX scores on the USAS website once the results are submitted. Check you DeckPass account (which everyone should have set up by now on usaswimming.org) in a week or so to see how high you scored!
GwinAq Falls to ABSC
10/19/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics posted a much better performance than a year ago but the result was the same - a loss to the Bulldogs in Athens. Despite winning the majority of the individual races (16 of 26) GaGa could not make up the Bulldog's depth. ABSC won a tight race for the boys (9 pts!) and handily won for the girls. Anna Jahns and Rory Martin led the way with three wins each. Toriah Coffey, Clarke Swain, Nyota Edjidjimo, and Megan Yang also won events for the girls. Kyle Yang, Dorian Rosenburg, Conor Gamble, Jacob Rees, Nick Leavenworth and Clement Rowe all won on the boys' side.
Blue Gobies Win Close Intersquad
9/28/12 - With three swimmers out of the lineup the Yellow Gobies were unable to defend their title at the Gwinnett Aquatics Intersquad meet at Mountain Park pool tonight. Led by five-event winner Sydney Reynolds, the Blue Gobies prevailed 800-794. The yellow Gobies were led by 4 time winner Bradley Downs.
Meet Results | Results by Athlete
2012-13 Season Kicks Off
9/7/12 - The 2012-13 Season officially kicks off Monday September 10 with the first swim team practices.
We will have more swimmers than ever on the first day. As a result the Gold and Prep teams are on a waiting list. But this should not deter you if you are interested in participating. If you are evaluated and then placed in one of those programs we hope to be able to accommodate a few more right away. Meanwhile we can still accept new 8U's.
Besides our team program, we have a number of clinics avialble and, as always, swim lessons. A 13 and Over training clinic is already underway. A 12U clinic, high school stroke clinic and and homeschool clinic will all start soon and all have openings. If you are interested in any of these, or know someone who might be, check out the links below.
Team Info | Clinic Info | Homeschool Info
Jahns Wins 800 at Zones, Gets First Junior Cut
7/31/12 - Anna Jahns won the 800 free at the Southern Zone Championships today in Dallas. Her time of 9:02.10 is also a Junior National qualifying time, her first ever. There are apparently no live results being posted but you can follow it on Meet Mobile and it is being televised live on line. Use the link below to follow Anna and the Georgia Team.
GaGa Senior Swimmers Eighth at State Champs
7/29/12 - The Senior swimmers took eighth at the Senior State Champs this weekend at UGA. It was our highest finish since moving to Quinn Ridge seven years ago. Leading the way were medalists Anna Jahns, who took second in the 800, and Rory Martin who was third in the 50 back. Jahns and Ben Taylor broke team records in the 800 and 100 Breast respectively. All three, together with Elizabeth Garreau, had top-8 finishes. Megan Yang, Peter Meadows, Nick Leavenworth and Clement Rowe (in his first ever state meet) also scored.
Martin and Taylor picked up their first AAAA's of the season while Leavenworth, Yang, Meadows, and Dillon Kasson earned their first AAA's of the season. Kasson and Kayla Harrison both missed a AAAA and AAA respectively by less than a tenth of a second. Just shows that you never trim your nails before a swim meet!
Meet Results | GwinAq Results | USAS Standard Breakers | Team Records
GwinAq Ninth at Age Group States - Downs, Reynolds Win
7/21/12 - At the Age Group State Champs this weekend Gwinnett Aquatics raced to a ninth-place finish (4th amongst medium-sized teams), our highest finish since moving to Snellville. Leading the charge at the Georgia Tech pool were event champions Blake Reynolds (2x) and Bradley Downs. Jacob Rees also scored. All three broke team records: Downs in the 50 and 100 free, Reynolds in the 100 fly (Rees also went under the record in the 100 free but Downs was faster). The team of Reynolds, Griffin Hammett, Harry Duncan and George Bujoreanu also medaled, taking third in the 200 meter medley relay. In addition Rees picked up his first AAAA of the season and Josh Fountain his first AA.
State Results | GwinAq Results
Four Records Fall at Awesome Age Group State Champs
7/22/12 - The 2012 Age Group State Champs wrapped up this weekend at Georgia Tech with Swim Atlanta, Marietta Marlins and Americus Albany winning the Large, Medium and Small Team divisions respectively. Four records were broken over the course of the four day meet. Tan Dunn (200 free), Knox Aurbach (100 free), Andy Yap (200 IM) and the 10U Girls 200 Medley Relay form SwimAtlanta each accounted for one. High Point Winners were Tristen Ulett, Evan McInerney, Brianna Bender, Zach Franklin, Jaclyn Hill, Tan Dunn, Nicole Fye, Brennan Pastorek, Jackie Jeschke and Alex Taylor.
GA Swimming 14U State Champs Page
Seven swimmers Add State Cuts at Sr Circuit, Finale
7/16/12 - We had some fantastic performances at two different meets last weekend. At the Sr Circuit meet Alandas McGraw and Clement Rowe earned their first AA times and Jacy MacConvery and Steven Lewis their first A times, Jacy's first ever! All four made new state cuts, also Jacy's first. Ada Ghali got her first BB time. At the Finale Juliana Carey, Harry Duncan, Sarah Jahns, Jerrick Neu, Josh Pingel and Kyle Yang picked up 11 new state cuts, including Jerrick's first ever! Sarah Jahns picked up her first ever A times.
Sr Circuit Results | GwinAq Results
Finale Results | GwinAq Results
GwinAq Competing in Greensboro, Marietta
6/24/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics is again competing in two states with 18 senior and prep swimmers in Greensboro for the Eastern Invite and another 30 swimmers at the Hixon Invite in Marietta. Last night Anna Jahns and Nick Leavenworth won the women's and men's 1500 freestyles respectively in Greensboro. Competition continues through Sunday at both venues. Follow results live using the links below.
Greensboro Results | GwinAq Results
Hixon Invite Live Results
GaGa Swimmers Shine at Death Valley, Dixie Classic
6/11/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics had a busy weekend at two locations. In Clemson nine swimmers,competed at various distances at the Death Valley Open Water Swim, including our first open water swim by a masters swimmer! Anna Jahns won three races, the two, one and half k. Josh Fountain won the guys 2k, Peter Meadows won the 1k, setting a new course record, and Nick Leavenworth won the half k. Griffin Hammett was third in the 10U boys 1k.
At the Dixie Classic at Dynamo Rory Martin won two events, Ben Taylor, Elizabeth Garreau, Nick Leavenworth and Griffin Hammett each won one. Clarke Swain picked up her first ever 11 yr old state cut and her first A time.
Dixie Classic Results | GwinAq Results | Death Valley Results
USAS Time Standard Achievers
Betsy Dunbar Meet Kicks Off Summer
6/4/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics wrapped up the Betsy Dunbar Invite yesterday at the Georgia Tech pool. With such a great facility and almost 70 swimmers in attendance there were tons of best times. Blake Reynolds won the 50 free and just missed a team record in the 50 fly. Lauren Diehl, Sam Mauldin, and McKenna Sauers got their first ever BB, Kara Robinett her first B time. Our 10U boys continued to add to their list of state cuts. The next meets is the Dixie Classic for just about half of these swimmers and then everyone should be going to the Hixon or Greensboro meets.
Results | GwinAq Results | USAS Time Standard Achievers
Gwinnett Aquatics Jessica Rosenburg Spring Invite May 19-20
5/20/12 - The Gwinnett Aquatics Jessica Rosenburg Spring Invite wrapped up today after a beautiful weekend for outdoor swimming at the Bransby Outdoor YMCA. This is a super fun meet where the kids can win a chance to do some fun post-swim activities like a moon bounce, paddle boats and wall climb. 300 swimmers from eight different teams posted some great early season times before taking on the various activities. Results are available using the links below.
GwinAq Swimmers Meet the Navy Seal Challenge
4/23/12 - Almost 30 GaGa swimmers took the navy Seal Challenge Saturday at Mountain View Aquatic Center. Nick Leavenworth took 3rd overall with a score that will put him in the the top 20 nationally. Rory Martin and Ben Taylor were 5th and 6th and should also be top 20. Brad Wyzykowski and Josh Fountain posted some to the best scores for 13-14 to date. Jacy MacConvery should also be in the top 20 for that age group. Megan Yang was the top girl.
Meanwhile at our pool some of the 12Us tried their hand at the same event. Conor Gamble posted the top score. Julianna Carey was the top girl.
GwinAq Takes 2nd at Divisionals
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3/26/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics took home the runner-up trophy at the Northeast Divisional Champs this weekend in Athens. It was the highest finish in 4 years for GaGa. ABSC won the meet, ASL, who was ahead of GwinAq after Saturday's finals, finished third. Nick Leavenworth, Ben Taylor, Rory Martin (2x), Ryan Haskins, Elizabeth Garreau, Anna Tait, Ian Ohara, Blake Reynolds (2x), Josh Fountain (1x officially and 1x unofficially) and Anna Jahns (3x) all won events. Martin and Taylor broke the team record in the 200 back and 100 breast respectively.
Tait and Martin earned their first AAAAs. Nyota Edjijimo, Conor Gamble, and Alandas McGraw got their first AA, Marianna Markely and Haley Shepard their first A, Sydney Reynolds and Riley Spruiell BB, and Michael Thompson his first B time.
In addition Harry Duncan, Alandas McGraw, Ian O'Hara and Josh Pingel got their first ever state cuts.
Live Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
USAS Time Standard Achievers | Fast Five
Jahns 6th in 1500 at Senior Sectionals
3/11/12 - Anna Jahns finished 6th in the 1500 today, the last day of the Senior Sectional Champs in Greensboro NC in today's only event. Her time was a new team record 17:35. Jahns was 11th in the 800 also in a team record time - 9:13. Ben Taylor also had a good meet going 5 of 6 best times.
GwinAq Strong at Pentathlon
3/10/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers showed their strength at the Lanier Pentathlon today. Most swimmers competed in five events, one of each stroke and the IM. Swimmers were scored by their combined times. GwinAq swimmers won five of the 10 age groups and eight others medaled. Peter Meadows, Elizabeth Garreau, Bradley Downs, Josh Fountain and Blake Reynolds all won their age groups. Check out results using the links below.
Meet Results
GwinAq Results
Pics
GA 13th at Age Group State, 35 Attend Fun Meet
2/25/12 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers finished 13th this weekend at the Age Group State Championship Meet at Georgia Tech. With the number of swimmers partially absent, coming off injury and at the bottom of their age group, this was a solid finish for our age group swimmers. Anna Jahns had four top 10 swims, Blake Reynolds four and Josh Fountain two.
Jahns broke the team record en route to a second place finish in the 1000 free, and took third in the 500. She also broke the team record in the 200 fly but scratched finals in order to resume training for Senior Sectionals. Reynolds was third in the 100 fly also with a team-record performance and was top 10 in the 100 IM, 50 fly and 50 free. Fountain was 7th in the 1000 free and 6th in the 200 fly. Bailee Hammett also scored individually in the 200 fly. Fountain and Jacob Rees picked up their first AAA swims of the season and Dorian Rosenburg got his first A time.
Meanwhile at the Fun Meet nearly 40 swimmers, including some clinic swimmers and masters swimmers, participated at the Quinn Ridge pool. Results can be viewed using the links below.
AG State Results | GwinAq Results
Fun Meet Results | USAS Time Standard Achievers
Team Records
130 New State Cuts at GA Winter Qualifier
2/12/12 - Swimmers at this weekend's GA Winter Qualifier at the Freeman Aquatic Center at Greater Atlanta Christian School achieved over 130 new state qualifying times. The meet, hosted by Gwinnett Aquatics, featured tatoos for swimmers achieving new state cuts, awards based on single-year age groups, and a great facility. Over 380 swimmers participated from about a dozen teams. Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers Abby Culbertson, Haley Shepard and Kyle Yang picked up their first ever state cuts. Toriah Coffey got her first A time, George Bujoreanu, Alice Koschella and Jerrick Neu their first BB and Matthew Buckley, Ashley Pingel, Eric Weese their first B times. Complete results, as well as team results and pictures, are available using the link below.
GA Winter Invite Meet Results (pdf)
GwinAq Results | Pix
January Fun Meet
1/21/12 - About 25 swimmers participated in the January Fun meet today. After all the hard work over winter break there were a lot of best times and a few new time standards. Check our results using the link below.
Swimmers Get 2012 Off to Fast Start
1/16/12 - Our swimmers got the year started off right with a great showing at the Rays' Coaches Invite. Twenty-five different swimmers scored, more than in the past three years, and 14 had 100% best times while numerous swimmers picked up new State cuts. Anna Jahns and Elizabeth Garreau both won events. Juliana Carey, Rory Martin, Jacob Rees, Blake Reynolds, Ben Taylor and Megan Yang all medaled. Reynolds earned his first ever AAA (All-Star) times. Bailee Hammett and Brad Wyzykowski got their first AAs, Alandas McGraw his first A, Ian O'Hara his first BB, and Sydney Reynolds her first B times.
This year's meet was a great start after some really good winter training. This year we had a much higher percentage of best times because so many swimmers did such a good job training over the break. If we can keep our attendance up (and those who didn't do so well over the break can increase their attendance) we will have a big finish to the season.
Coaches Invite Results | GwinAq Results
USAS Standard Breakers | Pix
Senior Swimmers 11th at Senior State
12/12/11 - The GwinAq Senior swimmers had their best showing ever at the Georgia Senior State Champs. They finished 11th, 6th amongst medium-sized teams, at the meet at UGA held last weekend. While it wasn't our highest finish, it was the best meet top to bottom we've ever had in mid-season. Anna Jahns earned the first AAAAs of the season in three events, breaking the 13-14 girls team record in two - the 500 free and 1650. In both she just missed the senior team record and in the mile she was 6th. Elizabeth Garreau was 15th in the 100 breast. The boys 200 free relay of Rory Martin, Dillon Kasson, Peter Meadows and Ben Taylor broke the team record as well. All of the other relays were either the fastest of 2nd fastest relays ever swum in season! Meanwhile Meadows, Garreau, Anna Tait, and Megan Yang all picked up their first AAA's of the season.
Senior State Results | GwinAq Results
USAS Standard Breakers
Gwinnett Aquatics 2nd at Lanier Winter Invite
12/5/11 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished 2nd at this weekend's Lanier Winter Invite in Gainesville. Led by multiple event winners Bailee Hammett, Ryan Haskins and Emily Trettel the team scored over 4000 points, compared to SwimAtlanta's 6000 and Summit Chase's 2000. George Bujoreanu, Josh Fountain and Ian O'Hara all won events as well. In add ti on Trettel and Amelia Campbell picked up their first AA times while Juliana Carey, Nyota Edjijimo, Griffin Hammett, and Ashley Williamson got their first A times. Ava Callis, Bryce Peden and Kyle Yang earned their BB times.
Lanier Winter Invite Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Senior Swimmers 11th at Senior State
12/12/11 - The GwinAq Senior swimmers had their best showing ever at the Georgia Senior State Champs. They finished 11th, 6th amongst medium-sized teams, at the meet at UGA held last weekend. While it wasn't our highest finish, it was the best meet top to bottom we've ever had in mid-season. Anna Jahns earned the first AAAAs of the season in three events, breaking the 13-14 girls team record in two - the 500 free and 1650. In both she just missed the senior team record and in the mile she was 6th. Elizabeth Garreau was 15th in the 100 breast. The boys 200 free relay of Rory Martin, Dillon Kasson, Peter Meadows and Ben Taylor broke the team record as well. All of the other relays were either the fastest of 2nd fastest relays ever swum in season! Meanwhile Meadows, Garreau, Anna Tait, and Megan Yang all picked up their first AAA's of the season.
Senior State Results | GwinAq Results
Gwinnett Aquatics 2nd at Lanier Winter Invite
12/5/11 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished 2nd at this weekend's Lanier Winter Invite in Gainesville. Led by multiple event winners Bailee Hammett, Ryan Haskins and Emily Trettel the team scored over 4000 points, compared to SwimAtlanta's 6000 and Summit Chase's 2000. George Bujoreanu, Josh Fountain and Ian O'Hara all won events as well. In add ti on Trettel and Amelia Campbell picked up their first AA times while Juliana Carey, Nyota Edjijimo, Griffin Hammett, and Ashley Williamson got their first A times. Ava Callis, Bryce Peden and Kyle Yang earned their BB times.
Lanier Winter Invite Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Multi-meet Weekend for Most Swimmers
11/21/11 - About 70 Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers competed in the dual meet with ABSC Friday night at the UGA natatorium. Absent most of our Senior team (who were are High School meets), it was not as competitive a meet as years past with ABSC winning most of the events. However George Bujoreanu, Griffin Hammett, Blake Reynolds, Elizabeth Garreau and Anna Jahns accounted for five wins and there were tons of best times. Toria Coffey picked up her first ever state cut!
At the Woodie B Malone Invite we had a little more competitive success with a number of swimmers medalling and lots of new time standards. Anna Jahns won the mile and Megan Yang the 200 IM, while George Bujoreanu, Elizabeth Garreau, Rory Martin, Blake Reynolds and Ben Taylor all had top-3 finishes. Martin, Taylor and Dillon Kasson all picked up their first AAA (All-Star) times of the season, while Garreau and Peter Meadows got their first AA's. Abby Culbertson and Bradford Wyzykowski moved on to the A ties list and Georgia Aguirre and Harry Duncan got their fist BBs.
ABSC Dual Results | GwinAq Results
Woodie B Invite Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Two Records Fall at Swim-A-Thon
11/12/11 Nearly 100 swimmers completed their Swim-A-Thon over the last three days at Gwinnett Aquatics pool. Swimmers completed up to 200 lengths, including a timed swim of 400 to 2400. Anna Jahns competed her 2400 for time in team record time of 29:07 and George Bujoreanu completed his timed swim of 800 in record time as well. Check out all the results using the link below.
Swimmers Look to Establish IMX Scores at Rays' Meet
11/6/11 About seventy GwinAq swimmers competed in the IMX Invite in Marietta this weekend, most looking to complete the five IMX events (in addition to others) in order to establish their first IMX scores of the season. there were plenty of standard breakers and a few 100 best time achievers. Charlie Fountain, Josh Fountain, Anna Jahns, and Rory Martin all had top-three finishes. IMX scores should be tabulated later this week so be sure to check back to see how we did. On Saturday we also held a fun meet at the Quinn Ridge pool. Results for that meet can be viewed using the link below.
Meet Results | GwinAq Results | Fun Meet Results
Elizabeth Garreau Named Scholastic All-American
10/18/11 - Last weekend USA Swimming released the list of 2010-11 Scholastic All-Americans with our own Elizabeth Garreau's name on it. To qualify Elizabeth had to achieve a Junior National Bonus time (1:05 in 100 breast) and maintain a 3.5 or higher for the academic year. She is a Senior at Brookwood High School and was one of 74 Georgia swimmers in grades 10-12 earning this honor. The Georgia LSC had the 4th highest number of Scholastic All-Americans in the US. This year's qualifying times are now posted on the USAS website.
USAS Scholastic All-American List
GwinAq Swimmers Compete at Tidal Wave Quad Meet
10/22/11 -Seventy-five Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers competed at the Tidal Wave Quad Meet at Cobb Aquatic Center today. It was a chance for most to try some new distances after the intersquad meet three weeks ago. The results were impressive. Josh Fountain, Elizabeth Garreau, Anna Jahns, Dillon Kasson, Nick Leavenworth, Rory Martin, Ian O'Hara, Sydney Reynolds, Anna Tait and Christopher Thompson all combined to win eighteen different events. Fifteen swimmers had 100% best times. We also had more swimmers earn their first USAS standards. The list of those achieving standards is now posted and it is the most swimmers we've ever had this early in the season. In two weeks we'll expand our repertoire even more at the IMX meet.
Meet Results | GwinAq Results
Meet Pix (by Ada Ghali)
Blue Gobies Win Intersquad
10/7/11 - Led by 5-event winners Jacob Rees and Abby Culbertson, the Blue Gobies beat the Yellow Gobies 885-823. This despite three Yellow Gobies sweeping their age groups - Rory Martin, Bradley Downs and Anna Jahns. There were plenty of new time standards being achieved including Downs' and Martin's AAAs, Jahns, Megan Yang, Anna Tait, Elizabeth Garreau. Dillon Kasson and Peter Meadows' AAs, and new swimmer Blake Reynolds A time, just to name a few. There were also quite a few swimmers who got 100% best times. Look for the newsletter this week for that list. And check back later for some great meet pix.
Senior Swimmers 10th at State Champs
7/26/11 - Gwinnett Aquatics was 10th this weekend at the Senior State Champs at Ga Tech, just missing a ninth-place finish by 2 points! Nine swimmers scored compared to just four last year. Brandon Leavenworth (3x), Elizabeth Garreau, Anna Tait (2x), and Anna Jahns all had top-10 finishes while Rory Martin, Nick Leavenworth, Peter Meadows, Ben Taylor and Megan Yang all scored in consolation finals. Jahns rebroke her new 400 ad 1500 records. Tait, Yang ad Dillon Kasson picked up their first AAAs of the season. It was a great meet for the group with many of the swimmers who scored qualifying top 20 out of 50th or 60th place!
Senior State Results | GwinAq Results
GwinAq 11th at Age Group State Champs
7/18/11 - Gwinnett Aquatics had one of its highest finishes in a long time at Age Group State. Led by Jacob Rees’ and Bradley Downs’ multiple 2nd place finishes, the team took 11th overall, 4th in medium sized teams. Rees and Downs scored enough points to qualify for the Georgia Zone team and, with our own Elizabeth Garreau and 45 other Georgia swimmers, will compete against the best swimmers in the south next week in North Carolina. Both swimmers also broke a team record. Rees in the 400 IM and Downs in the 100 Breast. Meanwhile Anna Jahns broke three team records in one swim – the 400, 800 and 1500 free all while taking 2nd in the state in 1500. She also broke the 100 fly record. She is the first girl in five years to break a team record, hopefully the first of many. Josh Fountain also got in the act, scoring 15th in the 400 IM. Conor Gamble and Dorian Rosenburg also contributed as part of our top-8 scoring 11-12 relays.
Also this weekend Anna Tait, Elizabeth Garreau and Brandon Leavenworth competed in the Senior Sectional meet at UGA as a tune-up for this week’s Sr State Champs. All three competed well with Garreau and Leavenworth having some top-40 swims against a fast mostly college aged field. Tait had 100% best times.
Age Group State Results | GwinAq Results
Senior Sectional Results | GwinAq Results
Championship Meets Start With Finale, Sr Circuit
7/11/11 - Swimmers at both the Finale and the Sr Circuit meet did a great job kicking off the championship season this weekend. Eight swimmers – Brandon Leavenworth, Rory Martin, Dillon Kasson, Ben Taylor, Jacob Rees, Bradley Downs, Josh Fountain - all won events. Rees' win came in a team-record breaking effort in the 400 free. Kayla Harrison, Nick Leavenworth, Alandas McGraw, Peter Meadows, Megan Yang, Abby Culbertson, Conor Gamble, Griffin Hammett, Sarah Jahns, Jerrick Neu, Dorian Rosenburg, Haley Shepard, and Michael Thompson all had top-8 finishes.
Kasson, Hammett, Jahns, Nick Leavenworth, Heana Park, Greg Paulukaitis and Bailee Hammett all made new state cuts (Hammett's first!) Harrison, Paulukaitis, Amelia Campbell earned their first AA times of the season, Ada Ghali and Nathan Grose their first BBs, and Ali Barskiy and Sam Mauldin got their first ever B times.
Sr Circuit Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Finale Results | GwinAq Results
GwinAq Swimmers Compete in Sarasota, Marietta
6/23/11 - At the Sarasota Sharks Open 19 of our 13 and Over swimmers took some Georgia to the Florida scene. Elizabeth Garreau won the 100 breast, while Anna Jahns got 2nd and Rory Martin 3rd in the 800 free and 100 back respectively. Ben Taylor, Megan Yang, and Anna Tait also finaled. Garreau, Martin, Taylor, and Brandon Leavenworth all picked up their first AAAs this season. Tait and Peter Meadows earned their first AAs and Alandas McGraw his first A time. Brad Wyzykowski picked up some new state cuts.
At the Hixon Invite here in town, Jacob Rees and Bradley Downs combined to win eight events, some in meet record time! Josh Fountain picked up his first AA and Toriah Coffey, Tylah Keys and Michael Thompson their first BBs. Fountain, Greg Paulukaitis, Conor Gamble and Dorian Rosenburg picked up new state cuts.
Meet Results | GwinAq
Results | Pix
Making Waves in Two States
6/12/11 - GwinAq athletes were at work in two different venues this this weekend. In Clemson 19 swimmers competed in the Death Valley Open Water Swim, winning 8 of the 10 races. Anna Jahns won every race except the 5k, where she was 3rd in the 13-14 age group. Nick Leavenworth won the guys 3k, Ben Taylor the 2k, and Brandon Leavenworth the 1k and ½ k. Josh Fountain was 5th in the 11-12 3k and Harry Duncan was 8th in the 10U 1k. Nick, Ben, Anna and Peter Meadows won special awards for competing in all 5 races (11.5k). Meanwhile at Georgia Tech 30 swimmers computed in the SCAT Invite. Jacob Rees won 3 events and Elizabeth Garreau one. Greg Paulukaitis got his first state cut, He and Clarke Swain got their first A times, Ava Callis her first BB and Matthew Buckley his first B time.
Death Valley Results | SCAT Invite Results
Death Valley Pix
GwinAq Swimmers Compete at Dunbar Invite
6/6/11 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers competed in their second long course meet of the season at the Dunbar Invite at Georgia Tech. In a fast meet our swimmers showed they are ready for a great season with many swimmers hitting some big milestones early. Bradley Downs and Jacob Rees picked up their AAAA;s (Down's first ever) while many others picked up next time standards and state cuts.
Long Course Season Kicks Off With GA Invite May 14-15
5/10/11 - The GA Invite this weekend May 14-15, hosted by Gwinnett Aquatics at the Bransby Outdoor YMCA was the first meet of the season and a great way to start the summer. Despite the cold temperatures the kids posted some fast times and enjoyed the meet format. At this very special meet, swimmers had the chance to win tickets for some of the Y's outdoor attractions like the moon bounce, paddle boats and climbing wall. Our parents did a great job too running a fun meet in sometimes trying conditions. Results can be viewed using the link below.
We're Baaack!
3/28/11 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished fourth at the Divisional Champs this weekend in a close battle with ABSC and DAQ for a place on the podium that saw DAQ move ahead of our guys in the fifth and final session to win by a mere 100 points 3300 to 3180. This despite the GaGa swimmers being outnumbered more than 2 to 1! Despite not bringing home any hardware it was a successful return to our most competitive form in every way. The 3100 points we scored was a 1200-point increase from last year and equal to the points we scored when we took 2nd in 2009. We won the 8U, 10U and 12U boys age groups and the combined 10U boys and girls. We had more swimmers win (6), place top 3 (9), or final top 8 (14) then the previous three years. And we had some great rock-n-roll spirit to top it all off.
Individually there were more achievements than can be listed here. There is a partial list below. There will be more in the weekly newsletter that will come out later this week. We'll also have our picture album up later this week. Congratulations to all our swimmers.
Event Winners: Bradley Downs (2), Conor Gamble (2), Elizabeth Garreau, Anna Jahns, Jacob Rees (5), and Megan Yang (3)
Medallists: Issam Bradley, George Bujoreanu (2), Morgan Duncan, Toriah Coffey, Josh Fountain, Brandon Leavenworth (2), Dorian Rosenburg, Anna Tait, Brad Wyzykowski (7)
New Team Records: Mark Atuan, Rees and Yang
News Time Standard Achievers: AAAA - Yang; AAA - Nick Leavenworth, Peter Meadows, Heana Park, Ben Taylor; AA - Kayla Harrison, Rosenburg; A - Tylah Keys, Greg Paulukaitis, Emily Trettel; BB - Nathan Grose, Andrew Nickerson, Julie Seals, Michael Thompson; B - Aatiq Bradley, Ava Callis, Harry Duncan, Ally Murray, Casey Schuermann
New State and Sectional Cuts: Sr Sectionals: - Meadows and Taylor; State - Alandas McGraw, Campbell, Park