Smaller Group Competes at Dunbar Invites

6/02 - Gwinnett Aquatics had two different small squad of swimmers at the Betsy Dunbar Invite at Georgia Tech this weekend. Most were using it to catch up for missed sessions earlier this season.  This meet was also faster than the previous ones but we still managed a few top 8 finishers: Lucy Bower, Reynolds Bowers, Hannah-Claire Jowers, Aaron Passman, Vincent Tuck, Ella and Emery Wells, and Yuchelle Wong. 

Passman and Wong earned their first AA times of the season while Bri Exil, Jude Stanton and Cole Wright got their first A times. Hailey Lord got her first BBs and Yusuf Besic got his first B time. Additionally Passman and Victoria Tannure got their first State cut of the season and Kat Jacobsen got her first B-State cut.

This weekend is a BIG one with Baylor in Indy at US Nationals, a large group competing at the Dynamo Summer Invite Thursday through Saturday and about 40 swimmers will take on the Death Valley Open Water swim in Clemson on Saturday. Whew! There will be no practices Thursday through Saturday.

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Sign-up Now Open for Evaluations for the 2025-26 Season 

6/2 - Registration in now open for new swimmers evaluations for the 2025-26 season.  Getting your eval done and registering early will give you the best chance of getting a spot. 

Evaluations are currently available Mondays and Fridays at 530pm through Aug 8.  Beginning Aug 12 they will move to Tuesdays and Thursdays at 530pm.  

Evals are free and take about 10 minutes but sometimes we have quite a few swimmers in attendance so it takes a little longer. Just use the link below to register.  High school aged swimmers should email coach Hugh Convery for a pre-registration meeting rather than an evaluation. 

Our pre-season will start August 11 with the full schedule starting September 8.  The first meet will be October 4.  We are looking forward to a very exciting year with one of our strongest teams ever!

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Team Splits for Bulldog Invite and Summer Kickoff

5/19 - Gwinnett Aquatics had two different squads in competition this weekend. Six senior swimmers were at the Bulldog Grand Slam in Athens while most of the rest of the team competed at the Summer Kickoff at Georgia Tech. 

The Athens meet proved to be one of the fastest so far this year with many of the areas fastest high school and college aged swimmers posting some fast early season times.  For most of our swimmers it was a chance to post some fast in-season times.  For Baylor it was one last meet before he heads off to the US Nationals June 3-7. He had some solid swims in his Nationals events and also picked up a new team record in the 200 fly.  In addition Nate Beeney got his first ever AA of the season. 

Meanwhile at the Summer Kickoff many swimmers competed in their second long course meet of the season but most were still doing many events for the first time.  GaGa swimmers were impressive in the smaller competition with fifteen swimmers winning events: Lucas Babcock, Lucy Bower, Kate Breiding, Giselle Davis, Ben El-Alam, CJ Gast, Emily Hardy, Cameron Jones, Cate Joyce, Aliana McCann, Brooks Pynn, Ainara Sanchez, Ernesto Santiesteban-Pizarro, Andrian Strokan, and Emery Wells. 

McCann earned her first AAA time of the season while Nicholas Ramdeo got his first AA times and Yuchelle Wong her first A. Emily Hillensheim, Abbie Lee, and Abby Wong got their first BBs and Skylar Smith got her first B time. Ella Wells and Yuchelle Wong got their first state qualifying times of the season as well.

Up next about 40 swimmers will attend the Dunbar Invite at Tech followed by the Dynamo Summer Invite and the Death Valley Open Water swim in Clemson the following weekend.

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