Fall Series Wraps Up With Meet #3 - The Spooktacular

  Spartan Sweeps All Three Meets, Wins Fall Series

11/4 - Spartan Aquatics made a clean sweep of it taking the third and final meet of the GA Fall Series at Freeman Aquatic Center this weekend. Gwinnett Aquatics was second in the meet by just enough to take over 2nd overall in the series after trailing Lifetime through the first two meets. Peachtree Aquatics was fourth.

The meet featured the longer distances in fly and breast and a 1000 free/400 IM session on Sunday, as well as the first relays of the year! It was one of the largest IM/1000 session since the series began.

At the conclusion of the meet the series high point winners were announced. It included 4-time winners Baylor Stanton and Abigail Heizer in the 15O age group. The high point winners were:

• 8U Reynolds Bowers (GA), Andrew Chen (LIFE)
• 9-10 Ava Zielinski (SPAC), Riley Pynn (GA)
• 11-12 Aliana McCann (GA), Ian Hwang (LIFE)
• 13-14 Emily Hardy (GA), Lance Grimm (SPAC)
• 15-18 Abigail Heizer (SPAC), Baylor Stanton (GA) 

For Gwinnett Aquatics Reynolds Bowers, Kate Breiding, Jude El-Alam, Emily Hardy, Aliana McCann, Riley Pynn, Baylor Stanton, Vincent Tuck, and Emery Wells all won events. 

In addition Tuck got his first AA of the season.  Sarah Heppe, Riley Pynn, Lillie Robinson, Addi Shaffer and Ella Wells earned their first A times and Alli Burns and Yuchelle Wong got their first BB times. Nyziah Barnaby, Violet Pincombe, and Isabella Powell got their first B time. 

Ella Wells and Alex Matveev had their first state qualifying swims of the season. 

Up next will be the first Invitational and prelim/finals meet of the season, the Woodie B Malone meet at Dynamo.  All swimmers should attend. 

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Swimmers Stretch Their Legs at Fall #2

10/21 - Swimmers from Spartan, Gwinnett Aquatics and Lifetime competed in some longer events this weekend at the Fall Series second meet at GAC.  Spartan came out the winner followed by GwinAq then LIFE (just 13 points back).  Events this time included the longer free, back and IM events as well as the 500 (140 swimmers participated in that event Sunday!) 

With just one meet left to go in the series the high point races in a couple age groups is very tight.  You can see the top five in each using the link below.  The current leaders are: Reynolds Bowers, Thomas Nicely, Ava Zielinski, Riley Pynn, Aliana McCann, Ian Hwang, Dakota Stanfield, Lance Grimm, Abigail Heizer, and Baylor Stanton.

The final meet will be in two weeks, November 2-3 at GAC.  That meet will feature the longer fly and breast races as well as 11 and over 400 IMs and 1000s! 

 

Gwinnett Aquatics had a number of extraordinary individual efforts.  Six swimmers combined to win 16 events: Reynolds Bowers, Kate Breiding, Aliana McCann, Lily Nejman, Riley Pynn, and Baylor Stanton. 

McCann and Collier Stanton picked up their first AAA (All-Star) times of the season. Nate Beeney, Kendall Granberry, Paige Johnson, Cate Joyce,
Aaron Passman, Sophia Quinn, Vincent Tuck, Jimmy Wang, and Cole Wright all got their first A times of the season, while Sarah Heppe, Emily Hillensheim, Jaidyn Joiner, Valarie Monroe, and Jude Stanton got their first BB times and Anna Buckley, William Buckley and Abby Wong got their first B times (Wong's first ever!). 

Meanwhile Jude El-Alam, Kendall Granberry, Cate Joyce, Aaron Passman, Vincent Tuck, and Cole Wright got their first state cuts of the season. 

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Spartan Wins Pentathlon in Close Race, Next Up Fall Series 2 October 19-20

10/6 - SPAC won the first meet of the Fall Series today at their pool at GAC in one of the tightest 3-way races we've had. SPAC scored 654 points to GA's 489 (3rd) and LIFE's 534 (2nd). New member of the Fall Series League, Peachtree Aquatic Club (PAC) scored a respectable 145 with a smaller squad.  In addition swimmers were ranked based on their combined time in all five races with the winners in each age group winning a special "Pentathlon Champion" Fall Series T-Shirt Based on cumulative time for all five events the T-Shirt winners for best times in each age group were:

8U: Reynolds Bowers, Ben El-Alam & Thomas Nicely
9 yr olds: Valarie Monroe, Jaden Bae
10 yr olds: Mokara Collier,Aaron Campbell
11 yr olds:  Aliana McCann, Jacob Kim
12 yr olds: Isabel Traynor, Ian Hwang
13 yr olds: Madison Pierce, Vincent Tuck
14 yr olds: Karoline Groves, Lance Grimm| 15O: Abigail Heizer, Baylor Stanton.

The meet was also the first of the Fall Series for which there will be High point winners. There is a link to this meet's high point leaders below.  The High point winners in each age group (standard double year) at the end of the series will receive a High Point winner towel! 

For Gwinnett Aquatics after a slow start we were able to win 4 of the 6 age groups in the afternoon to keep it close.  66 swimmers achieved their first time standards of the season, and 19 their first state cuts, including some for the first time. Those numbers included Emery Wells who got her first AA times while Morgan Henry and Zoe Jinadu got their first BB's and Knox Estep, Arina Kovalenkov, Valarie Monroe, Andrian Strokan, and Yuchelle Wong got their first B times!  In addition Jinadu and Strokan got their first ever state cut. 

The next meet in October 19-20, back at Freeman Aquatic Center at the Greater Atlanta Christian School, with some new longer events.

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