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2024-25 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.

Dec 21 - Pre/Blue/Gold Holiday Party, 10:00-11:30a

Dec 23-Jan 4 - Holiday Practice Schedule (updated 12/16)

Jan 17-19 - Eastern Classic @ Dynamo
    - Replies due!

Jan 18-20 - Novant LCM Invite @ Charlotte, NC
    - Please double check your entries!

Jan 31-Feb 2 - GA/SPAC Qualifier @ GAC

Feb 15-16 - Peach State Champs @ Tech

Feb 21-23 - Age Group State Champs @ Savannah, Ga

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.

December Payments Past Due

December 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).

Monthly Fees
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Education Column

We come across a few great articles on a variety of topics - parenting, nutrition, mental training, sports parenting, drills, etc. In this column we'll share the best one every week.

How Swim Practice Can Help With Final Exams 

"As December ripens, winter training becomes more intense, and finals season begins. It can be hard during regular weeks to balance being a successful student and then a successful athlete. Finals is a different challenge. Trying to remain mentally and physically healthy can be a bit of a struggle.
  Swimming can feel like an extra stressor on top of all the other anxieties. Though school should always come before swimming, sometimes going to practice can help manage the stress of finals week. Here are some reasons why going to practice can help you do better during finals week.
  Exercise Helps Focus
  Science has continually proven that exercise helps brain development." Click Here to read the full article

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

Stanton Wins High Point at Jrs, GaGa Makes it Six in a Row @ Lanier Winter Invite!
     - Stanton, Jowers Break More Team Records!!
     - Stanton gets first 17-18 State Record!!!

  Last weekend was a very busy, very successful weekend for Gwinnett Aquatics! First, we had three swimmers (2 more than last year, matching our highest number of individual qualifiers for this meet!) at Junior Nationals in Greensboro, NC where all three did well and Baylor Stanton won the High Point Award! And second we had over 80 swimmers at the Lanier Winter Invite where Ga-Ga was able to win the meet for the sixth year in a row!!

  At juniors Baylor made A-finals in six events, winning three and placing top 5 in two others, and as mentioned above that was good enough to secure him High Point for boys at the meet;  Collier Stanton and Hannah-Claire Jowers made their debuts at Juniors with five new best times and a number of heat wins! 

  Baylor (500 Free, 400IM, 200 Fly) and Hannah-Claire (100 Breast) also picked up some new Team Records, and Baylor broke his first 17-18 Georgia State record (400 IM); his time in the 400 IM was also the fastest 18&U time in the nation so far this season!

  Meanwhile in Gainesville Gwinnett Aquatics won the Lanier Winter Invite, defending its title for the sixth straight year! With most of our Senior1 group not participating, it was up to our Senior 2 and 3 and the Age Group swimmers to carry the scoring, which they did! Ga-Ga had more swimmers score and make top-10 than ever before and a whopping seventeen swimmers combined to win over 30 events, our most ever!!!

  In addition twelve swimmers picked up new time standards, four got some new state cuts and quite a few more got new Peach State cuts:

• Event Winners: Justin Bennett, Reynolds Bowers, Ben El-Alam, Bri Exil, CJ Gast, Kendall Granberry, Emily Hillensheim, Jaidyn Joiner, Aliana McCann, Lily Nejman, Aaron Passman, Riley Pynn, Lillie Robinson, Addi Shaffer, Vincent Tuck, and Ella and Emery Wells.
• Standard Breakers: A - Kat Jacobsen; BB - Nyziah Barnaby, Anna Buckley, Ben El-Alam, Arina Kovalenkov, Grant McGee, Valarie Monroe; B - John Matthews, JJ Sanchez, Aaron Vu, Kevin Yang, and Jimmy Zhang.
• New State Qualifiers: El-Alam, Exil, Monroe, and Shaffer.

  Between the two meets, Jowers, Kovalenkov, Nejman, Sanchez, Ella Wells, as well as Yusuf Besic, Arthur Bombard, Vance Chalmers, Jude El-Alam, Arina Kovalenkov, Kaylin Lee, Alex Matveev, Nicolas Ramdeo, Eva Saldana, Vincent Tuck and Cole Wright (Gold) were all 100% best times! As always, you can check out full meet results and team results for both meets, as well as our updated list of Standard Breakers for the season, on the links below.

  The Lanier Invite was also the last chance to qualify for the first meet of 2025, the Eastern Classic meet January 17-19. While some of our top Senior swimmers will be at a meet in Charlotte, another select group will attend this meet at Dynamo. You can see those who qualified with the link in the meet article, and that list is also available at the Eastern Classic Event Page. All other swimmers should attend the Saturday Fun Meet at our pool the following weekend.

  Now, we have one of the most beneficial training times for swimmers all over the country: Christmas training! All swimmers should look to increase their number of practices during this break from school. Swimmers whose families are traveling should make arrangements to train where you are going. More info and the complete practice schedule for the break is available in the article below (the schedule is also posted on the column to the left).

Holiday Training Starts Monday!

 As mentioned above, our Holiday Training Schedule kicks off on Monday, December 23rd! We are all psyched up for some great training over the break! All over the country swimmers use this time to get in some extra work in preparation for the big championship meets coming up in February and March.

  Our Holiday Training Schedule is posted below, and on the left column. Please note that, while trying to accommodate for extra water time for most groups, enough space for some of our college swimmers to practice with us during that time, and also give our staff a few breaks here and there, practice times are more fluid than usual, with groups starting and finishing at different times depending on the day.

  As always, Senior, Sr2 and Prep1 will have a few doubles, and most groups will have workouts every day except for Christmas day. Remember that Prep and Senior swimmers are expected to keep up their training schedule during holidays (and will always take advantage of days off from school to actually increase their training hours). For younger swimmers, breaks of more than three to four days could set you back!

  If you are traveling, you should make arrangements to train the same number of workouts as your group at home will do. The best option is to arrange to train with a team where you are going; if that is not possible, find a pool with adequate training hours and space and take workouts with you (you should have talked to your coach a few weeks ago about this already, but if you haven't do so ASAP).

Coming Up: Eastern Classic Jan 17-19

  The Dynamo Eastern Classic will take place January 17-19 Dynamo Chamblee (3119 Shallowford Rd, Chamblee, GA 30341). This meet has qualifying times: 'A' Times for 15&O swimmers, and 'BB' times for all other age groups. You can find a link below with a list of all swimmers qualified for this meet.

  This is a Timed Finals meet on Friday, and on Saturday and Sunday it is Prelims/Finals for 11&O (13&O Prelims in the morning, 11-12s Prelims are in the afternoon), and timed finals for 10&U (also in the afternoon). Just as in previous years, eligible swimmers who plan on attending this meet are expected to maintain their training through the school holiday. Those who don't make the list or who cannot maintain their attendance through the break will have a Fun meet at our pool the following weekend.

  RSVPs for this meet are due Thursday, December 26th. Please note we'll have a short turnaround to submit our entries after this date, so if your swimmer's name is on the list below AND they will commit to training over the school break please go ahead and RSVP! Complete meet info is available in the event page (link below).

Restock your practice equipment, team apparel during the Holidays!

  With the gift giving season around the corner swimmers should think about asking Santa to help them update their training equipment and swim apparel! Remember, except for meets where older swimmers are instructed to wear technical suits, EVERY swimmer should now be competing ONLY in a Gwinnett Aquatics Team Suit, and those are available at our Reddiset Swim Shop.

  Additionally a number of swimmers do not have all their required training gear, or have gear that is now worn out (unfortunately fins, mesh bags and other equipment do not last forever). You can check out the required gear for each group on the link below. Reddiset also has group bundles, for those who need to buy all new equipment!

  You can access our shop either by clicking on the link below, or by going to their main site and clicking on 'Team Login' on the far right and entering 'gaga' (all lowercase). When you visit that site, you'll see there's a number of discounts you can get, all listed in red at the top of the page.

Up Next: Novant LCM Invite Jan 18-20

  The Novant Invitational is a Prelims/Finals LCM meet Saturday-Monday (Monday is a school holiday) taking place in Charlotte, NC. This meet is intended for Senior swimmers with Sectionals cuts and above. Most of our other swimmers will attend Eastern Classic at Dynamo that same weekend.

  Replies for this meet are past due, and our first draft of entries are posted below. As always, please double check your entries for possible mistakes! We will arrange team travel for this meet, and while final price will depend on how many people are signed up - we expect this will be between $275.00 and $335.00 for lodging and transportation (we'll confirm that cost within the next week or so). Swimmers and families are also welcome to arrange those by themselves. When you RSVP, please use the 'notes' section if you would NOT like to travel with the team (if 'notes' section is left blank we will assume your swimmer will travel with the group)..

Swim-a-Thon All Wrapped-up!

  This year's swim-a-thon is now all wrapped up, and we raised over $21,500 as a team. THANK YOU SO MUCH for all that participated - we had 81 swimmers join in the fundraiser!  Gold team won the pizza party with $5,660! We had 21 swimmers raise $300 or more, with 9 of them hitting at least $500! 

  Jenna Inlow raised a whopping $1000 for our team; Ernesto Santiesteban-Pizarro was second with $975; Emily Hardy raised $815 and Reynolds Bowers raised $800. Absolutely incredible!!! Jenna, Ernesto, Emily and Reynolds all won lunch with a swimmer or coach of their choice. Justice Parker, Kataleia Jacobsen, Aiden Green, Hailey Lord, Brandon Noble and Henry Morgan all get to be a coach for a day. Looking forward to seeing them in action!

  And shout out to GA-GA Masters that also joined the effort and some even earned a sweatshirt! For those swimmers that raised $190 or families that raised $300, look out for an email from our SAT coordinator, Amy Stanton (awstanton@gmail.com), to get sizes for the sweatshirt. If you do not receive an email  and know your swimmer raised the goal amount, please reach out to Amy! 

  Thanks again to all our swimmers and families for working hard to support our team!

Masters Group Growing Strong!

  Our Masters group continues to go (and grow) strong and have both a great time and great workouts! At this point they are meeting 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 cost will be $75/month, and we are also considering offering some lunchtime on Mondays and Fridays as well. If you would like to join please contact coach Hugh (hugh@gwinnettaquatics.com).

  At this point, we do not plan on helping with coaching at meets - so those interested in competing will be doing so on their own. Depending on the level of interest in competitions, we may add coaching at meets in the future.

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!

2024-25 School Year Practice Schedule:

• Senior: Mon, Wed, Fri 3:00pm-6:00pm; Tue, Thu 3:00pm-6:15pm; Sat 8:00am-10:30am
• Senior2: Mon-Fri 2:45pm-5:15pm; Sat 7:00am-9:15am
• Senior3: Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri 2:45pm-5:15pm; Wed 2:45pm-4:05pm; Sat 7:00am-9:15am
• Prep: Mon, Wed, Thu 6:15pm-8:30pm/8:45pm(P1); Fri 6-8:15pm; Sat 11:00am-1:00pm
• P1 only Tue 6:15pm-8:30pm
• Jr Team: Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri 6:15pm-8:15pm; Sat 11:00am-1:00pm
• Gold: Mon/Wed/Fri 5:30pm-7:00pm; Sat 10:00am-11:30am
• Blue: Tue/Thu 5:45pm-7:00pm; Sat 10:00am-11:30am

Pool Address
2800 Quinbery Dr
Snellville GA 30039
Phone - (678) 902-6856