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Sr Swimmers In Best Form at State Champs
7/20 -
Last weekend's Senior State Champs was the best meet our Senior swimmers have had since we became Gwinnett Aquatics. Tapered swimmers went 82% best times. We had more swimmers final, score, pick up AAA and AAAA times than ever before despite the meet being much faster than last year. Andrew Ruffing got his LC Jr cut, Kyle Newhouse his SC Junior cut and Ellen Kendall her spring Jr cut. All three exceeded the AAAA standard as well as the Academic All-American time. Jen Taylor, Matt Johnson and Jill Morsberger all got their first AAA times. Ruffing, Newhouse and Caitlin Martin all scored in the top 8 while Taylor, Morsberger, Catherine Hanley and Kailee Springer scored top-16. Johnson, Taylor, Richard Tait, Brian Reed and Brandon Leavenworth all had 100% best times.
Sr State Results
USAS Time Standard Achievers
GwinAq Ninth at Age Group State Champs
Taylor wins 7, breaks 2 state, 8 team records; McIntyre wins 1, breaks 5 team records, makes zone team!
7/20 - Despite not swimming any relays, our swimmers at Age Group State managed to finish 9th at the meet in Savannah. Alex Taylor broke two state records, eight team records en route to winning seven events. Mason McIntyre palced top 8 in all 9 of his events winning the 200 breast and breaking five team records. HIs effort earned him a place on the Georgia Zone team that will compete next week at Ga Tech. Dillon Kasson scored in seven events inlcuding 6 top-8 finsihes. Juliane KurKe and Morgan Duncan scored in 3 and 2 events respectivley.
Finale, Sectional Swimmers Start Out Championship Meets Fast
7/14 - Our swimmers got the championship meets off to a great start this weekend at the Senior Sectionals and the Summer Finale meets. At sectionals Catherine Hanley and Kyle Newhouse both scored even though this was just a warm-up meet for us and our training intensity was still high. At the Finale Terra Freking, matt Johnson, Brandon and Nick Leavenworth, Caitlin and Rory Martin, Jill Morsberger, Sejin Park, Gloria Phan, and Madeleyne Vaca all won events to lead the team to a third place finish. Vaca, Jamie Freking and Morgan McIntyre got their first AA times, Melissa Kuester, Rory Martin, Megan Yang and Joel Nickerson their first A times, Kyle Chamberland, Kailyn Fuller (in her first meet) and Ada Ghali their first BB and Dorian Rosenburg his first B! Zack Bialkowski, Josh Fountain (2x), Terra Freking, Kristina Kruger, Melissa Kuester, Alandas McGraw (3x), and Madeleyne Vaca all achieved new state cuts.
Senior Sectional Results
Finale Results
Finale Pix
Swimmers Rise to New Levels in Florida, Georgia
6/23 - The swimmers at Gwinnett Aquatics competed in both the Patriot Aquatics Invite in Orlando and the Rays Coaches Invite in Marietta last weekend. Many swimmers came away with new times standards and state cuts at both meets. At the Orlando Meet Kyle Newhouse came earned the highpoint trophy with six event wins, Kailee Springer picked up her first long course AAAA, Dillon Kasson his first ever AAA (4x), and Zack Bialkowski, Terra Freking, Matt Johnson, Julianne Kurke, Jill Morsberger, Brain Reed, Jen Taylor and David Yang all picked up new state cuts.
At the Rays meet Jamie Freking, Melissa Kuester (2x), Alandas McGraw and Greg Paulukaitis all picked up thier first state cuts! Mandisa Cole, Kyle Chamberland, and Adrian Peabody all got thier first B times, Peter Meadows got his BB and Bailee Hammett got her first AA.
Patriot Aquatics Invite Results
Stingrays Coaches Invite Results
GwinAq Takes to the Open Water
6/15 - GwinAq swimmers had a field day at the Death Valley Open Water swim at Clemson this Saturday. It was so much fun even I got in on the action. But with the swimmers doing so well and me not so much, its clear I’m a much better coach than swimmer, epitomizing the adage “Those who can, do and those who can’t, coach!” The main race of the day was the 5k swim but there were four shorter races after: a 3k 2k, 1k and .6k. In the 5k Catherine Hanley, Kristen Clemmons, and Lauren Pararo went 1,2,4 in the girls and Kyle Newhouse, Brandon Leavenworth, and Brian Reed got 1, 4, 8 in boys. Mason McIntyre and Elliane MacConvery winning the 12Us. Newhouse, McIntyre, Reed and Leavenworth went on to compete in the remaining 4 races with Newhouse being the first ever to win all five and McIntyre the youngest ever to finish all five (and win the 12U division in all 5). In the 10U Jacy MacConvery took 3rd in the 1k (beating his dad) and Caitlin Reed placed in the .5k.