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2025 LCM Season Calendar
Click on this link to view all the important dates for next season!

TU Event Page
Use this link for more info on each event and to sign-up for them.

Apr 17 - Deadline to Order Personalized Silicone Caps

Apr 26 - Spring Workday

May 3-4 - LC Kickoff @ Tech
    - Hosted by us!
    - Replies due tomorrow!!!

May 10 - Team Awards Banquet (time and location TBD)

May 16-18 - Bulldog Summer Invite @ UGA
    - Replies due!

May 17-18 - LC Invite @ Tech
    - Replies due!

GwinAq's Reddiset Shop

Use the link below to access our swimshop with Reddiset - the only place you can order team suites, and you can also order all the equipment and much more. You can also access our shop by going to their main site and on clicking on 'Team Login' on the far right and entering 'gaga' (all lowercase).

GwinAq's Affiliate SwimOutlet.com

Gwinnett Aquatics is an affiliate of SwimOutlet.com. Use the link below to search SwimOutlet for some of the best prices on swim equipment. Be sure to use this link and your purchase will also support our program.

April Payments Past Due

April payments are now past due. Invoices went out around the 20th. Payments are due on the 1st and are considered late after the 5th. Please note that if a payment is not received by the 10th, a $25 late fee is added. Most families are done with swim team dues, but still have activity account balances - those are items the club already paid on your behalf, so please pay your balance on time.

You can pay on-line, at the pool or Mail payments to:
Gwinnett Aquatics
1436 Benning Place NE
Atlanta GA 303077
(Or put in coach Hugh’s mailbox at the pool).

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Education Column

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2024 LCM Season Recap

Team Records, IMX Team Records, and many new entries into our All-Time Top 10 LCM performances! That's just a snipped of the many highlights our swimmers had last season! You can check out more of those using the links below.

2024 LCM Standard Breakers
2024 LCM VCC Scores
2024 LCM IMX Scores
2024 LCM Season Fast-5
LCM All-Time Top 10
GwinAq LCM Records
GwinAq IMX Records
2024 Spring/Summer Attendance Awards

2023-24 SCY Season Recap

2023-24 SCY Standard Breakers
2023-24 SCY IMX Report
2023-24 SCY Fast 5
All-Time SCY Top 10
GwinAq SCY Records
GwinAq IMX Records
Fall/Winter Attendance Awards
Winter Attendance Awards

2025 LCM Season Kicked Off!

  We started our LCM Season with all groups back in the water, and already following the Spring Interim Schedule (posted below). That means our Spring Tune-up Clinic also started this week, and with lessons also kicking off, as you would imagine the pool (and parking lot) will be quite busy for the next few weeks!

  Therefore, it's important to remind everyone to only park in marked spots and keep the drop-off and pick-up area clear at all times. The upper lot is filling up quickly, and after that you should park in the gravel lot. Fill the back row by the hedges first, then the front row by the road, then start a third row behind the cars in the front row. If the gravel lot is full you will have to park off the property on Quinbery Dr - please be considerate of our neighbors' lawns if that happens. And speaking of our neighbors, PLEASE drive slowly through the neighborhood (<25mph).

  In the water our swimmers are building back up to full training, and this being a short season and our first meet less than 3 weeks away that climb will be quite steep! With that in mind, it's important everyone is very consistent with their attendance, while keeping up with all their school work that is also sure to pick up for the next couple months.

Spring Interim Schedule (April 14th-May 10th)

• Senior: Mon, Tue, Thu 2:45pm-5:45pm; Wed, Fri 3:00pm-6:00pm; Sat 8:00am-10:30am
• Senior2: Mon-Fri 2:45pm-5:15pm; Sat 7:15am-9:30am
• Senior3: Mon-Fri 2:45pm-5:15pm; Sat 7:15am-9:30am
• Prep: Mon, Thu 6:45pm-9:00pm, Wed 6:15pm-8:30pm; Fri 6:00pm-8:15pm; Sat 10:45am-1:00pm
• P1 only: Tue 6:45-9:00pm
• Jr Team: Mon 6:45pm-8:45pm; Tue 6:30-8:30pm; Wed, Fri 6:15pm-8:15pm; Sat 11:00am-1:00pm
• Gold: Mon, 6:00pm-7:30pm; Wed, Fri 5:30pm-7:00pm; Sat 10:00am-11:30am
• Gold Plus: Tue 6:45-8:45pm. 
• Blue: Tue, Thu 6:00pm-7:15pm; Sat 10:00am-11:30am.
• Blue Plus: swimmers will be able to attend Monday w/ Gold. 

First Meet of the LCM Season will be LC Kickoff May 3-4

  The first meet we will attend for the 2025 LCM season will be the Long Course Kick-Off at Ga Tech, May 3-4. This meet is intended for all swimmers. Complete meet info, including the meet schedule, is already available in the event page (link below). 13&O swimmers will all swim in the AM sessions, while 12&U swimmers will be in the afternoon.

   Replies for this meet are due tomorrow, Thursday, April 17th! You can use the link below to RSVP (and as usual, if you anticipate any scheduling conflict please use the 'notes' section to let our coaches know).

  This will be the last meet hosted by us this year, and we'll need our families' help in order to make it a successful meet for our swimmers. Like in the Qualifier and Raffle meet, families who sign up for work slots will get $20/session from their escrow account (up to $60 if you have that much left). We should have the job sign ups available soon after spring break.

Mark You Calendars for our Team Banquet May 10th!

  The 2025 Gwinnett Aquatics Awards Banquet will be Saturday, May 10th (location and time TBA). This is always a great event where we look back on the last couple seasons (in this case, the 2024 LCM and the 2024-2025 SCY seasons). It's always great to see our swimmers dressed up and families all getting together to recognize and remember the previous year.

  Sign-ups for this event will be via e-vite, which we'll send out soon after we return from Spring Break. Once you get the invitation, please respond to it whether or not you are attending so that we can plan accordingly.

Summer Personalized Swim Caps

  For the LCM Season, we switch over to our yellow caps. Personalized (name) silicone yellow caps are now available to be ordered at the link below - deadline to order those is tomorrow, Thursday, April 17th. You can use the link below to place your order.

  There's a 3 week turnaround to get those shipped, so we likely won't have them in time for our first LCM meet in early May, but we hope to have them by the second meet.

2025 Summer Team Travel Meet - Sarasota

  This summer Team Travel Trip will be back to Sarasota, Fl. This is a special meet, only available for 11&O Prep/Sr2/Sr1 swimmers who meet attendance requirements for their group up to that point in the season (April, May, June). Swimmers must also have at least 4 'BB' OR 1 'A' time for their age group.

  Swimmers will travel and room together. All swimmers will depart on Wednesday, June 18th, and return on Monday, June 23rd. Final cost will depend on number of swimmers signed up, but the estimated cost for this year's trip is $375-425/swimmer - we'll confirm the cost once we have all the sign-ups. That cost will cover transportation and hotel; we'll also cater dinners Thu-Sat and those will be billed separately (we'll try to keep those at or under $20.00/meal). Swimmers will need extra money for lunch, groceries, and vendor at the meet, as well as Sunday night's dinner.

  A $100 deposit will be due in May, with the reminder billed in July. Please, prior to signing-up, confirm with your swimmers and his/her coach that everyone understands the attendance requirements, as the deposit is non-refundable!

  Complete meet info should be available in late April. The meet is split between a Prelim/Finals meet with cuts, and a Timed Finals meet, and you can find more info on the event page (link below). Please note we need replies for this meet earlier than usual, in order to set up hotel and transportation reservations. RSVPs will be due April 24th! If you have any questions, please contact your child's coach ASAP.

2024-25 SCY Season Recap

  While we are looking forward to the upcoming season, we'd also like to take the time to highlight and cherish some of the accomplishments of our swimmers through the SCY Season - and there were a lot of those! One of our favorite metrics on how we do as a team through a season is always USA-Swimming's Virtual Club Championship (VCC), as that requires a full team effort. We were just shy of 120k points this past season - with 119,368!

  While that score is about 10k points shy of last year's, it was still good enough to keep us in the top 400 clubs in the country (out of over 3.000). That is far more impressive when you take into consideration our team size (smaller teams don't fill out all the spots and therefore can't quite score as high), as we were in the top-15 amongst clubs in the country with less than 125 swimmers!

  Another metric we like to look at is the IMX Report - which you can also take a loot at below. We had 44 swimmers compete in all events needed to have a score for their age, and out of those and incredible 42 scored over 1k points! That also included 10 swimmers cracking the 3k points barrier, 3 of which - Hannah-Claire Jowers, Baylor and Collier Stanton - who scored over 4.000!!! Baylor was just 2pts shy of breaking 6k for the first time, and that score was also a new team record and the highest score amongst all swimmers his age in the country! You can find the complete IMX report for the entire club, as well as our updated record board for those, in the link below.

  Below you can also find our Season Fast-5, as well as the updated All-Time SCY top 10 swims from the club. On the later one, you'll see all swims from this season are highlighted, and there were a whooping 119 swims added to that this season!!! Talking about the All-Time top 10, when working on that report, we realized some of the previous records were not in the database, and so we had to do some research to find them. That means that report is not 100% accurate (it's missing a few times from way back in the day), but we couldn't validate at least one of the previous records, which means that even though we did not realize it at the time, Aliana McCann broke the team record in the 11-12 50 Breast at Divisionals!

  With that, McCann joined 3 other swimmers - Emily Hardy, Hannah-Claire Jowers, and Baylor Stanton - who combined for a total of 14 individual Team Records! Stanton's 200 Breast, 200IM, and 400IM are also new Georgia Swimming State Records!

  And last but not least, we'd like to give a shout out to the 11-12 Girls who broke 3 Relay Records (McCann, and different combinations between CJ Cast, Jasmine Coe and Victoria Tannure), as well as the 13-14 Girls who added 2 new Relay Records (Hardy, and different combinations between Kate Breiding, Ella Wells, Briana Exil and Sophia Quinn)!

  Thank you and congratulations to all swimmers for such a great season! Thank you as well to the parents who support both the club and our athletes allowing us to continue getting better every year! Below you can check out all the reports we already mentioned, as well as our Attendance Awards for both portions of the season, and the final list of Standard Breakers.

LCM Season Overview

  As mentioned above, our Long Course season kicked off this week! The summer months provide a unique opportunity for our swimmers to train more intensely thanks to a lighter schedule away from the pool. Swimmers who truly commit to the season usually far outpace their teammates whose training is more intermittent. Even though it is shorter (only 13-16 weeks!) this is the season where we see swimmers make the biggest strides each year. And this year we hope even more of our swimmers and families will take the plunge!

  Doing the season right also requires a commitment from the family, including, if possible, planning extended travel for after the championship meet the swimmer is attending - in such a short season it is important to plan so there are no breaks in training. Some of the most important times to BE AT practice are late June through July (including the weekend of 4th of July). If you do have to travel, the next best step is to arrange to do the same number of workouts the swimmer would if he/she were home, preferably with a local, competitive USA-S club. And just as important, make sure to attend the appropriate meets, especially an end of season meet that you focus on fully, with no other activities around the same weekend.

  With regards to summer league, we expect (and encourage) most of our age group swimmers, in addition to their training at Ga-Ga, to participate on a summer league team - especially if it's their local team, where they first started swimming! It's a great way to showcase our program, both by swimming to your best ability at all meets and by being great teammates - that mix of character and improved athletic ability is the best way to showcase our program and help recruit new swimmers to the team!

  During the summer months, for Blue team we recommend they alternate swimming a day with us and a day with the summer league team; Gold and Junior swimmers should swim at least 3-4 times with GwinAq, and occasionally with their summer league team, but should not do both on the same day; Prep and Sr swimmers should make all GwinAq workouts and only stop by their summer league teams to help out and communicate with their coach. Talk to your coach early and often to try to make the best of the training time you have!

  We have now finalized our competitive schedule for the season, and you can find that one below. Here is a brief overview of the most important dates and events of the season:

• May 3-4: LC Kickoff @ Tech
• This is the only meet we're hosting during the season, and one of the few LCM meets we'll recommend ALL swimmers to attend. As usual, we'll also depend on our families to run a great meet!
• May 22nd: Summer Practice Schedule starts
• July 11th-13th: Dynamo CODA Classic
• for swimmers without State or JO cuts, this will be their last meet of the season. This meet coincides with GCSL Champs AND is only 4 days after July 4th weekend, so all Sr1 and Sr2 swimmers for whom this will be their championship meet must have plans to attend this meet fully (and skip county) AND train through July 4th weekend!
• July 17th-20th: Age Group State/JO's
• this meet wraps up 2 weeks before school is scheduled to start, so ideally all 14&U swimmers and families attending this meet should schedule vacations after that. Also, please note this year's meet will take place in Columbus, Ga (thus requiring hotel stays)
• July 24th-27th: LCM Senior State
• this meet wraps-up one week before school starts. Ideally families with swimmers at this level (or near it right now) should plan their vacation for after this meet. This year's meet is scheduled to take place at the UGA pool in Athens, and will now be a full 4-day (rather than 3) meet. We strongly encourage everyone attending to have a hotel for the weekend rather than planning on doing the drive back and forth every day.
• July 30th-August 3rd: Speedo Jr Nationals
• this meet will wrap up only the day before school is scheduled to start. Swimmers who choose to compete at this level should work out alternatives with their coaches as soon as possible. Outside of Nationals, this will be highest level meet we'll attend at the end of the season.

  Below we also have the practice schedule for the summer, which we'll switch to as soon as Gwinnett County Schools let out on May 22nd. As always when we publish this far out, there might be minor tweaks and changes to some groups, but it's very close to the final, so families who have not been with us for the summer before can start making plans for it.

Winter Attendance Awards

 Congratulations to the swimmers listed below for achieving the attendance level recommended for their training group (listed below for each group) through the second half of the SCY Season, from December through March!

  As a reminder, those numbers are what we feel is the minimum attendance for swimmers in each group to reap the most benefits out of the program. While our approach for swimming keeps the long haul in mind, and we discourage younger swimmers from attending too many workouts so that they have something to build into and look forward to when they get older, it is important to note that those who fall too far below those recommended numbers are likely not learning and improving as much as other swimmers with similar ages and at the same level, and might struggle in the future if they are not ready to incrementally improve their attendance.

Masters Group Growing (and Going) Strong!

  Our Masters group continues to have both a great time and great workouts! At this point they are meeting Mon/Wed 6:00am-7:00am, Mon/Wed/Fri 12noon-1:00pm and Tue/Thu 6:00pm-7:00pm - about 15 min of on deck dryland warmup and 45 min swim each day. It is being coached by Coach Andrea in the midday and Coach Hugh in the evenings, and there are always different levels of workouts each day so anyone should be able to find a level they are comfortable with.

  The group has also attended a few meets by now, and we not only had coaches at those as well, but Coach Hugh has even joined in for a relay and a few swims! The cost is $75/month, and if you would like to join please contact coach Hugh (hugh@gwinnettaquatics.com).

Ga-Ga Online Spirit Wear Shop!

  We'd like to remind everyone we have a great online Spirit Shop with a great variety of items - pink and purple shirts, sweatshirts, and more! We love the looks of it, and have gotten great feedback on the material as well.

  So, if you'd like to sport some awesome new team schwag this summer, now's the time to put an order! With this shop, there is no order deadline, no minimum, and a LOT to choose from! More options, more colors, and hopefully something for everyone. You can use the link below to access the store online. If you don’t see something you wish we had, please reach out to Amy Stanton (awstanton@gmail.com) - we'd love to see if we can make it happen!