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2023-24 Season Calendar
Click on this link to view the Calendar for the entire season

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

Apr 27-28 - LC Kickoff @ Tech
    - Please double check your entries!
    - Hosted by us!

May 4 - Team Awards Banquet, 2:00pm @ Camp Creek Elementary (more info below)

May 10-12 - Spring Splash @ Dynamo
    - Replies due tomorrow!!!

May 15-18 - Atlanta Classic @ Tech
    - Replies past due!

May 30-Jun 1 - Bulldog Summer Invite @ UGA

Jun 1-2 - Betsy Dunbar Invite @ Tech

Jun 8 - Death Valley Open Water @ Clemson, SC

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 go out around the 20th, and 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.

The Second Swim Speed Boost: Why Do Swimmers Perform Better in Finals?
 "Meets featuring a preliminaries/finals setup are an expected part of the competitive swimming journey. Swimmers in these competitions frequently compete twice daily, the morning critical to extend action into the evening. Many swimmers notice that their performance improves during finals, with many achieving faster times than during prelims. Several factors contribute to this phenomenon. This article will look at three major factors that can explain why swimmers tend to swim faster during finals: Motivation, opportunity and the time of day.
  Motivation
  One of the main reasons why swimmers swim better during finals is because they are more motivated. The main goal in prelims is to get to the finals, so swimmers may not feel the same pressure or desire to perform at their absolute best. However, in finals, swimmers know they are competing for medals, titles, and personal records, which can increase their motivation and drive." Click Here to read the full article

2023 LCM Season Recap

Team Records, Relay Records, IMX Records, Country-leading IMX Scores, 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.

2023 LCM Standard Breakers
2023 LCM VCC Scores
2023 LCM IMX Scores
2023 LCM Season Fast 5
LCM All-Time Top-10
GwinAq LCM Records
GwinAq IMX Records
2023 Spring & Summer Attendance Awards

2022-23 SCY Season Recap

2022-23 SCY Standard Breakers
2022-23 SCY VCC Summary
2022-23 SCY IMX Scores
2022-23 SCY Fast 5
SCY All-Time Top-10
GwinAq SCY Records
GwinAq IMX Records
2022 Fall/Winter Attendance Awards
2022-23 Winter Attendance Awards

Stanton and Dunbar Go Against Pros in San Antonio!!!!
    - And Spring Workday in the Books, Practices Ramping Up Fast!

  We'd like to thank everyone that came out to help with our Spring Workday (as well as the days before and after)! We got a great crew and were able to get through all the important items we needed to! Special thanks to the Greens for all their hard work through the entire weekend fixing the culvert down by the field - that was one large job!

  If you couldn't make it, there's still some items we could use help with, and if you'd like to help with some of those please contact coach Hugh (hugh@gwinnettaquatics.com). There's also a little more we'll have our Senior groups help with, but for the most part we are good to go for the summer season, and our kids are pumped about being outdoors again!

  And while most of the team was back home getting back into training and helping get the facility ready for the summer, Jack Dunbar and Baylor Stanton were in San Antonio, Texas, racing against some of the best swimmers in the world! In a stacked meet, Stanton broke two team records (in both Backstrokes) and also made his first ever A-Final in a Senior-level national meet!

  Back at home, practices in all groups are picking up steam fast, and swimmers continue to look better every day! With our first meet just over a week away, and the championship meets only 12-14 weeks from today, you can expect us to continue making the most of our time as we get ready to rock this LCM Season!

First Meet of the LCM Season will be LC Kickoff Apr 27-28

  The first meet we will attend for the 2024 LCM season will be the Long Course Kick-Off at Ga Tech, April 27-28.Complete meet info, including the meet schedule, is 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 - please note we already know we'll have to move afternoon warm-ups back quite a bit, those will now start at 2:45pm both days.

  Replies for this meet are now past due, and our entries are posted below. As usual, please remember to double check your entries for possible mistakes!! If you missed the deadline but are available to attend please contact your coach ASAP. We'll update the link with the psych sheet as soon as it's out.

  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).

Coming Up: Dynamo Spring Splash May 10-12

  In May, most of our team will be attending Dynamo's Spring Splash on May 10-12, at Dynamo Chamblee (3119 Shallowford Rd, Atlanta, GA 30341). Note: we do recognize this is mother's day weekend, and for the second year in a row there are no real alternatives we can work on to maintain our meet calendar. A small group of swimmers (who have Futures cuts) will be able to attend Atlanta Classic the following weekend instead.

    This is a 2.5-day timed final meet (11&O all have events on Friday; on Saturday and Sunday 13&Os swim in the morning, 12&Us in the afternoon). You can already find the full meet information (including the event line-up and warm-up times) in the event page linked to below.

  Replies for this meet are due tomorrow, Thursday, April 18th! For some LCM meets, we need to send our entries well in advance in order to guarantee our spot, thus the earlier than usual RSVP deadline. As usual, if you anticipate any potential scheduling conflict please use the 'notes' section to let our coaches know.

Coming Up: Atlanta Classic May 15-18

  As mentioned above, we'll have a small group of swimmers attending this year's Atlanta Classic, which will take place May 15-18 at the McAuley Aquatic Center at Tech (750 Ferst Dr, Atlanta, GA 30332). This meet has qualifying times (Futures cuts), and this year it will be a 3.5 day meet, with a distance event on Wednesday and then Prelims/Finals Thursday through Saturday.

  This meet has been attended by some of the greatest names in the recent history of the sport, and this year promises to bring in even more start power, as it's been promoted by USA-Swimming. Amongst the confirmed teams and coaches, we can expect to see squads from this year's USA Men's and Women's Head Olympic Coaches!

  With this being a small select group, entries are already posted below. However, as always, please double check your entries for possible mistakes!

Team Banquet Will Be May 4th, 2:00pm!

  The 2024 Gwinnett Aquatics Team Banquet will be Saturday, May 4th, at Camp Creek Elementary  (958 Cole Dr SW, Lilburn, GA 30047). This is always a great event where we look back on the last couple seasons (in this case, the 2023 LCM and the 2023-2024 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 in soon. Once you get the invitation, please respond to it whether or not you are attending so that we can plan accordingly.

2023-24 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. Our swimmers rocked and broke 130k points for only the second time in our program history!

  That score was less than 4.000 points shy of our best ever from two seasons ago, and good enough to put us in the top 400 clubs in the country (out of 3.000) - in fact we were very close to cracking the top-300 in #310. That is far more impressive when you take into consideration our size (teams our size don't fill out all the spots and therefore can't quite score as high). In Georgia, we were 5th, only behind (and quite close to a few) teams which have over 300 swimmers!

  Another metric we like to look at is the IMX Report - which you can also take a loot at below. We had 46 swimmers compete in all events needed to have a score for their age, and out of those an incredible 39 scored over 1k points! That also included 11 swimmers cracking the 3k points barrier, 2 of which (Baylor and Collier Stanton) who scored well over 4.000 - Baylor's score of nearly 6k points was also the highest amongst all swimmers his age in the country! You can find the complete IMX report for the entire club 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 98 swims added to that this season!!!

  In addition, Kate Breiding, Hannah-Claire Jowers and Baylor Stanton all broke team records! And that first one deserves a note: we were not aware Kate had broken the team's 11-12 girls 100 back record, until we ran the top-10 report, as she did so in only the second meet of the season (the Fall Series #2), where we don't expect to see those. We didn't even run a record report after that meet, and so it went under the radar for the entire season. So, a delayed and VERY deserved congrats, Kate!!!

  Finally, out of those team records, Baylor also set four State Records, including a new National Age Group (NAG) Record in the 15-16 Boys 200 Back at our last meet of the season! That's our first-ever NAG record, and it's hard to put it into perspective as that swim moved him ahead of some of the greatest names the sport has ever seen, (Ryan Murphy, Aaron Peirsol, and everyone else!) for that age.

  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 final list of Standard Breakers.

LCM Season Overview

    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 11-14 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 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 your 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 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!

  All meets and dates are already listed on the Season Calendar (link below), below is a brief overview of the most important ones. Below there's also a link to the Summer Practice Schedule (please note there might still be a few changes to it between now and when school lets out, but it's mostly final).

• Apr 28-28: 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 23rd: Summer Practice Schedule starts
• July 12th-14th: 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 18th-21st: Age Group State/JO's
• this is 2.5 weeks before school is scheduled to start, so ideally all 14&U swimmers and families attending this meet should schedule vacations after that.
• July 26th-28th: 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 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 24th-28th: USA-S Futures Champs
• these meet wraps-up the weekend before school starts. Swimmers who choose to compete at this level should only schedule vacations for after this meet, or work out alternatives with their coaches as soon as possible. We will likely not attend the Senior/Jr Nationals in Irvine this year, so this will be highest level meet we'll attend at the end of the season. This year's meet is scheduled to take place in Huntsville, AL, and for this meet we'll set-up team travel.

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 Spring Interim Schedule (April 15th-May 11th):

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