Swimmers To Get Season Started at Long Course Kickoff

4/20 - The first meet of the 2025 Long Course season will be the GA Long Course Kickoff hosted by Gwinnett Aquatics at Georgia Tech next weekend May 3-4.  The meet will include all events 400m and below with older swimmers (13&over) swimming in the mornings and younger (12&Under) in the afternoon.  

And as if swimming your first long course race of the year isn't exciting enough, we'll make it even more exciting with custom tattoos for heat wins, best times, new QTs, whatever your coach decides.

The psych sheet is posted below.  Heat sheets will be available for download on Thursday May 1.. 

Session 1, May 3 (13O swimmers)  – Warmup: 930am / Meet Starts:1030am
Session 2, May 3 (12U swimmers) – Warmup: 230pm / Meet Starts: 315pm
Session 3, May 4 (13O swimmers) - Warmup: 930am Meet Starts: 1030pm
Session 4, May 4 (12U swimmers) - Warmup: 245pm / Meet Starts: 330pm

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Gwinnett Aquatics a Close Third at Divisionals

3/31 - Gwinnett Aquatics was third this weekend at the Northeast Divisional Champs at UGA, just missing out of 2nd as ASL passed us in the final session to take 2nd by a mere 200 points.  It was an unexpectedly close race for us as we were well outpaced by both ABSC, who won, and ASL last year.

The Senior and 9-10 age groups led the way taking 2nd (the 9-10 girls narrowly missed winning), while all other groups were third.  Individually, Riley Pynn and Baylor Stanton led the way with 6 event wins. Five other swimmers won events (for a total of 22 events!), and 154 more medaled (top-3).  But truly it was a total team effort as 76 different swimmers scored, 48 in the top 8!  

One of the more incredible races was the 500 Friday night where, in the same race, Collier Stanton picked up his first ever Summer Junior Nationals qualifying time and Tadd Duffield got his first ever Futures cut in the 200. Other highlights included Baylor Stanton's 4 team record swims and the 11-12 girls team of Jasmine Coe, CJ Gast, Aliana McCann and Victoria (Veronica) Tannure breaking the 200 free relay team record. But the most emotional moment of the meet for me was seeing Cameron Jones get up and race for first time this year after six months of rehabbing his knee injury last fall, and picking up a AAA time to boot.

Finally I have to shout out to our incredible parents. Your great spirit and team support were noticed by (and mentioned to me repeatedly) everyone: other coaches, officials, even pool staff. And it wasn't just the outfits and pots and pans. It was the way you support all the swimmers (not just your own) in such a positive way. Thanx to all the parents who helped organize the car decorations, shirts, theme-ware and the catered meals too. It really helped make this a special weekend for the swimmers.

Achievers and Standard breakers for the meet were:

• Event Winners - Pynn, Stanton, Kate Breiding, CJ Gast, Aliana McCann, Aaron Passman, and Collier Stanton
• Medalists - Duffield, Jones, Lucas Babcock, Reynolds Bowers, Jasmine Coe, Jude El-Alam, Gatlin Granbery, Emily Hardy, Paige Johnson, Brooks Pynn, Daniella Rose, Ainara Sanchez, and Ella and Emery Wells.
• First AAA Time - Cameron Jones
• First AA Times - Justin Bennett
• First A Times - El-Alam, Tannure, Jacob Matthew, James Sears
• First BB Times - William Buckley, Kaylin Lee
• First B Times - Talha Besic
• First Summer Juniors- Collier Stanton
• First Futures - Tadd Duffield
• First State Cuts - Bennett, Henry Boltin, Cameron Jones, and Jude Stanton

Now we get a few fun practices and a little rest until after spring break when we start up the long course season April 14. Our first long course meet is just four weeks from this Saturday!

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