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2025-26 SCY 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.

Sep 15-18 - Mandatory Parent Meetings (more info below)

Sep 20-21 - Sr1/2/3 Campout & Whitewater

Sep 21 - Prep/Jr Whitewater

Sep 27 - Fall Workday

Oct 4 - Pentathlon @ GAC
    - Replies due tomorrow!!!

Oct 17-18 - Fall Racing Series #2 @ GAC
    - Replies due!

Nov 1-2 - Fall Racing Series #3 @ GAC

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.

September Payments Past Due

September payments are now past due. Most families are done with training fees, but have will have activity fees from the July meets. 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

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.

Growing Up Through the Eyes of an Age Group Swimmer
  "Swimming begins at different ages for everyone, with some people being thrown in the water at 3 years old and others not joining the sport until high school. For those that do start out at a young age, there is a shared experience to be found there. I started swimming when I was 8 years old with a local summer league, and now, at 18, I only have one week left before I’m a “swammer.” There are thousands of swimmers just like me who will never be able to recall their childhood and teenage years without remembering swimming as well. Here’s a look into what it’s like to grow up as a swimmer.
  10-and-Under
  These are the sweet, sweet years where the main concerns on a young swimmer’s mind are what snacks they get to eat in between races and what color ribbon they won." Click Here to read the full article

2024-25 SCY 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.

2024-25 SCY Standard Breakers
2024-25 SCY IMX Report
2024-25 SCY Fast 5
All-Time SCY Top-10
GwinAq SCY Records
Fall/Winter Attendance Awards
Winter Attendance Awards

2024 LCM Season Recap

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

Practices Ramping Up, Parent Meetings This Week!

  Thank you to all families who already attended their parents meetings earlier this week! All Senior groups have theirs tonight, and Prep and Junior are tomorrow. As previously mentioned, those are an important step in making sure our membership understands and is on board with our goals for Gwinnett Aquatics.

  As a reminder, all families are expected to make a meeting, so if you missed them this week be sure to attend the appropriate make-up meeting (schedule TBA). After September 30th, swimmers whose families have not attended a meeting will not be allowed to swim until they have a meeting scheduled (for which there will be a $40 fee).

  On the practice front, all groups are building up both volume and intensity, but mostly continuing to work on the fundamental skills that will set us up for great swims later in the season. This is also a great time to remember that when it comes to long-term improvements, consistency is at least as important as intensity and focus, so let's make sure we keep up the good work, and especially a great attendance!

  And the season is also picking away from the pool: our Pentathlon is just over two weeks away, and RSVPs are due tomorrow! In addition, the campout and whitewater are both this weekend already! You can find full info on them in the article below. As you can tell, there's a LOT going right away, and lot more about all of it below. So as always be sure to read on, stay up to date, and follow up (RSVPs!) where needed.

Mandatory Parent Meetings Sep 16-19

  As mentioned above, thanks to all parents who already attended one of parent meetings earlier this week. These are a great way for new families to get a better grasp of our program, and an important reminder for returning families as well.

• Jr/Prep: Thursday, Sep 18th, 6:30pm
• Sr2/Sr3: Wednesday, Sep 17th, 7:00pm
• Senior1:Wednesday, Sep 17th, 6:00pm

  If you missed the meeting for your group, please contact a coach ASAP so you we can either schedule a make-up or get a link for the recording.

Senior Campout Sep 20-21 / Prep Whitewater Sep 21

  Our annual Senior (for all Senior groups) camping trip will be this weekend, September 20th and 21st. Swimmers will drive up to the campground in Ocoee, TN, after practice, and go whitewater rafting Sunday. We're camping at the Hiwassee/Ocoee State River Park (404 Spring Creek Rd, Delano, TN 37325). Cost is $70.00 and includes rafting, dinner sat and breakfast Sunday (the cost will be billed to your account). Swimmers will need $ for lunch Saturday and Sunday. The swimmers are expected to organize transportation and tent arrangements. They will not need a lot of food/snack items.

  On Sunday, Prep swimmers and parents are welcome join the high-schoolers for some Whitewater rafting on the Ocoee river! That group should leave Snellville around 7:30am with a group of parents to arrive at the outfitters by 10:30am - coaches will already be up at the rafting site camping with the older swimmers so we will need at least 1 parent to drive for every 4-5 swimmers going. In the past the parents have worked this out between them and we did not have to organize the transportation. Cost for that is $47.00 (also billed to your account).

  Replies for both of those are already past due (though if anyone would like to join the rafting group, we might still have some extras so please contact us ASAP). Deadline for Youth (17&U) Whitewater Waivers and the Camping Trip Code of Conduct is tomorrow, Thursday, September 18th! You can find both documents at each of the event pages (links below).

First Meet Will Be GA/SPAC Pentathlon Oct 4th

  Our first meet of the season will once again be our Pentathlon, to be hosted at the Greater Atlanta Christian School (GAC) (1575 Indian Trail Rd, Norcross, GA 30093) on Saturday, October 4th. All swimmers are expected to attend! Here's the schedule for the meet (please note warm-up times might change a little after we get all the entries in):

• Session 1 (13&O): 7:30am warm-ups
• Session 2 (12&Us): 12:15pm warm-ups

  Replies for this meet are due tomorrow, Thursday, September 18th - you can use the link below to sign up. If you anticipate any possible scheduling conflict, please use the 'notes' section to let us know. If you have any questions please contact your child's coach.

Baylor Stanton Named to 2025-26 Nat Jr Team!

  Earlier this week, USA-Swimming announced the 2025-26 National Junior Team, and while we were expecting it to be the case, we're super proud Baylor Stanton made the team for the second year in a row! The team is composed of the most promising 18&U swimmers in the country - those selected have one of the top 5 times in an Olympic event amongst all eligible swimmers, and Baylor made it in three events! You can read more about the Nat Jr Team and also check out the full roster on the link below.

Help Ga-Ga Renew its SafeSport Club Recognition

  Gwinnett Aquatics has been a SafeSport recognized club for 4 years (since shortly after the introduction of the program), and it's time for us to renew that status. In order to do so, we now need the help of our parents. We have already taken care of all the requirements we have as a club, but the last one is to have a percentage of both of parents and athletes over 13 to take a SafeSport course through USA-Swimming. The swimmers already did their part, so now we need the parents to do theirs! Here's how to go about taking the course:

• For Parents, the course is called "Parent’s Guide to Misconduct in Sport"; you need to log on to your account at www.usaswimming.org and then head over to the USA-Swimming University (you can either click on the 'Education' link at the top right corner, or go to www.usaswimming.org/learn);

  Again, in order to get our certification renewed, we need at least 10% of our families to take that respective course. Thanks to those who already did it, but we're still short of that number. If you have any questions or run into any issues while trying to do so, please just reply to this newsletter.

Fall Workday Sep 27th

  Our Fall Family Workday will be next Saturday, September 27th, starting at 8:00am - we are usually done by noon, and it's ok for families to plan on being there for a 2h shift instead of the whole time. There's a lot we'll need help with so please keep this date open and come help!

  We will be doing grounds work and putting up most of the tent - and all the pieces going up will need to be cleaned beforehand. Stronger workers will need gloves for helping with the tent. For those who would rather do grounds work, we often run out of yard tools so please bring yours - especially wheelbarrows and hedgers. Also, don't forget to bring some insect repellent and sunscreen to work on the grounds!

  If you can’t come on this date, we will some extra work that can be done 5:30-7:30pm the two days before and Monday after. If you need to work one of those please email coach Hugh (hugh@gwinnettaquatics.com) beforehand to coordinate it.

Coming Up: Fall Racing Series #2 Oct 17-18

  Our second meet of the season will be the #2 in our Fall Series, back at GAC, (1575 Indian Trail Rd, Norcross, GA 30093), October 17th & 18th. All swimmers are expected to attend! This meet will offer a few longer events (in freestyle and backstroke) than the Pentathlon. Here's the general schedule for the meet:

• Friday
  • All ages (500 Free): 3:30pm warm-up
• Saturday
  • 13&O swimmers: 7:30am warm-up
  • 12&U swimmers: warm-up no sooner than 11:30am (please note, depending on entries younger age groups might be moved to a 3rd session)

  Replies for this meet are due Thursday, October 2nd - you can use the link below to sign up. If you anticipate any possible scheduling conflict, please use the 'notes' section to let us know. If you have any questions please contact your child's coach ASAP.

2025 LCM Season Recap

  Gwinnett Aquatics once again put together a great season! Through any season, our favorite indicator of our team's success is always USA-Swimming's Virtual Club Championships (VCC), as it really takes a whole team effort to put up a great score there.

  Our swimmers did just that, getting just shy of 119k points, which was good enough to put us into the top 300 nationally (out of 2500 clubs), and 9th in the LSC - where we are about 19th in size. Number of swimmers makes a big difference in this score, as otherwise you don't fill up age groups; in the VCC Score report below, you can see how we stack up against clubs that compared with clubs about the same size (up to 150 swimmers, we had around 110), we were 7th place in the country, and by far the highest ranked club in Georgia! Below there's also a summary of how we got that score.

  Our next favorite yardstick is usually our IMX Scores - you can find more info on what those are in that link, but basically in order to get a score swimmers need to compete in every stroke as well as the IM, which means they are capable of competing in a wide range of events. That in turn usually leads swimmers to have a wider range of possible improvements as they continue through the sport.

  And just as in VCC, our swimmers really shined when it came to IMX: we had 30 swimmers complete all the events required for their age group, 28 of which broke the 1.000 points mark! Of those, 7 scored over 3.000, including Baylor Stanton and Hannah-Claire Jowers who both broke the team record for their age groups! Baylor was once again well over 5k points and led the country in his age! You can see the full report for everyone who completed those events in the link below - and a shout out should also go to Collier Stanton for going way above 4k points!

  In addition, Jowers and Baylor combined with Kate Breiding, Emily Hardy and Emory Wells to break a whooping 16 individual Team Records during the season! On top of that, we had the best year we can ever remember for our relays, with our swimmers combining to break an astounding 12 Relay Records!!! Those were: 10&U Girls 200 Free; 11-12 Girls 400 Medley, Senior Girls 400 Medley, Senior Boys 800 Free, and an HUGE shout out to both our 13-14 Girls and Boys, who all broke their 200 and 400 Free AND Medley Records - that was 4 records each, ALL the relays they swam at their championship meet!

  Talking about championship meets, we placed 6th at Age Group State, only coming behind much larger teams and beating a few teams that outnumber us more than 2 to 1! At Senior State, we placed 7th, with the same outsize quality, and had a few of our swimmers wrap up the season with a 20th place finish at Summer Juniors! Well, and not to mention having Baylor Stanton rep the USA and make finals at the World Junior Championships!

  Congrats to all our swimmers and thanks to everyone who helped make this such a successful season! You can check out all the reports in the links below, including Season Fast 5, and All-time Top 10 - which also had quite a few new entries this past season!

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!

2025-26 School Year Practice Schedule:

• Senior: Mon, Wed, Fri 3:00pm-6:00pm; Tue, Thu 3:00pm-6:15pm; Sat 8:00am-10:30am
• Senior2/3: Mon-Fri 2:45pm-5:15pm; Sat 7:00am-9:15am
• Prep: Mon/Wed/Thu 6:15pm-8:30pm; Fri 6-8:15pm; Sat 11:00am-1:00pm
  • P1 only Tue 6:15pm-8:30pm (starts in October)
• 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
• Pre Team: Mon/Wed 5:15pm-6:00pm