Fall Series 2 October 17-18

10/12 - The second meet of the Fall Series is this weekend at Freeman Aquatic Center at the Greater Atlanta Christian School. This meet will feature longer races in the free and back and IM events and shorter events (or same distance) for fly and breast.

This will be the 2nd of three meets in the series. The last one will be November 1-2, after which the team champions and individual high point winners will be crowned. You can view the current team scores and high point leaders on the Fall Series page.

The psych sheet is posted below.  Heat sheets will be available for download on Thursday Oct 15. 

Session 1, November 17 (All ages, 500 free)  – Warmup: 4pm / Meet Starts:445pm
Session 2, November 18 (13O swimmers) – Warmup: 730am / Meet Starts: 840am
Session 3, November 18 (12U swimmers + some make-up 13O swimmers) - Warmup: 1215pm / Meet Starts: 1pm (note change)

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Spartan Wins Pentathlon in Close Race, Next Up Fall Series 2 October 17-18

10/5 - 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 645 points to GA's 587 (2nd) and LIFE's 521 (3rd). New member of the Fall Series League, Metro Atlanta Aquatic Club (MAAC) was fourth but picked up two individual wins.  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:

8&Under:  Ainara Sanchez, Jordan Ha
9 yr olds: Reynolds Bowers, Dennis Sarajlic
10 yr olds: Emma Gonzalez, Ethan van Maanen
11 yr olds:  Zoe Greene, Devon Lekawa
12 yr olds: Aliana McCann, Keegan Roney
13 yr olds: Isabel Traynor, Ian Hwang
14 yr olds: Haley Pierce, Cameron Jones
15&Over: Sarah Paisley Owen, 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, we scored more points than in the last two years and moved up a spot and within 50 points of winning!   70 swimmers achieved their first time standards of the season, and 22 their first state cuts, including some for the first time.

Those numbers included Tadd Duffield who got his first AAA (All- Star) times while Emma Gonzalez and Nick Ramdeo got their first A's, Timi Ajigbolamu, Harrison Riggle and Allen Zhu their first BBs, and a whopping 11 swimmers got their first B times!  They were: Lucas Babcock, Shaylah Bopp, TJ Davis, Kaira Duncan, Will Hillesheim, Zoe JInadu, Alex Matveev, Mason Meng, Ainara and JJ Sanchez, and Evan Strokan. In addition Ajigbolamu got his first ever state cut. 

The next meet in October 17-18, back at Freeman Aquatic Center at the Greater Atlanta Christian School, with some new longer events.

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Stanton 6th at Jr World Champs

While the rest of the team was on a break, Baylor Stanton traveled to Otopeni, Romania, to represent Team USA internationally! He had qualified to swim the 200IM back at Nationals in June.

It was his first time representing the Stars and Stripes and he did his country proud. Stanton was the top US athlete in the event, going a best time of 2:01.10 in prelims and then lowering that time again to 2:01.00 in the finals, where he finished 6th. That's 6th place in the world!!! He also set a new team record in that event!

The USA led the medal table as well as the team scoring, and while Baylor was done swimming by day 2 of the 6-day meet, he kept contributing long after being done racing, leading nearly every cheer from the stands. While that means he came back without a voice, he got recognized with the Team Spirit award by the USA staff by the end of the meet!"

Way to go Baylor.

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