LC Kickoff This Weekend April 27-28 at Ga Tech

4/21 - The long course season gets started this weekend April 27-28 and we couldn't be more excited to get this Olympic season underway.  The Long Course Kickoff will be at Ga Tech natatorium hosted by Gwinnett Aquatics! 

The meet will feature over 600 swimmers from 15 different teams.  AThe 13 and older agegroups and the 12 and Under age groups will swim together but scored out separately.   Session times are listed below.  Afternoon sessions have been pushed back some so be sure to take note. 

The psych sheet is posted below.  Heat sheets are now available for download using the links below.  Please be sure to print yours and take it with you as there will be none for sale at the meet. 

Session 1, Sat April 27  (13Os) – Warmup: 930am / Meet Starts: 1030am
Session 2, Sat April 27  (12Us)  – Warmup: 300pm / Meet Starts: 345pm
Session 3, Sat April 28  (13Os) – Warmup: 930am / Meet Starts: 1030am
Session 4, Sat April 28  (12Us) – Warmup: 300pm / Meet Starts: 345pm

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Gwinnett Aquatics Swimmers in Texas

4/8 - 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! Once back home Dunbar got the good news that he'll be swimming for the Ga Tech Ramblin' Wreck next year. Congrats Jack!

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Gwinnett Aquatics Third at Divisionals

   Stanton Breaks National 15-16 200 Back Record

3/25 - Gwinnett Aquatics was third this weekend at the Northeast Divisional Champs in Augusta.  It was a drop of one place for us as we faced two much larger teams in ASL (who won after being third last year) and ABSC who both had twice as many swimmers as us. 

The Sr boys and the 8U boys won their age groups, while the 9-10 boys and girls and the 11-12 boys were 2nd.  Individually, Reynolds Bowers led the way with 8 event wins followed by Baylor Stanton's six. Eight other swimmers won events (for a total of 25 events!), 14 more were top-3  But truly it was a total team effort as 85 different swimmers scored, 60 in the top 8! (topping last year for our highest ever). 

Of course one of the most exciting swims I've ever watched (and definitely the most exciting with one of our own swimmers) was Baylor Stanton's 200 back where he touched in 1:40.5 to break the National record for 15-16 boys, our first ever national record holder.  Stanton also broke three other team records. 

The team also, once again, showed great team spirit and voluntarism. 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. Standard breakers for the meet were:

• Event Winners - Bowers, Stanton, Jack Dunbar, Ben El-Alam, Kate Johnson, Aliana McCann, Ernesto Santiesteban-Pizarro, Emery Wells, and Gabriel Zimmerman
• First AAA Time - Justin Bennett
• First AA Times - SteveMichael Bennett
• First BB Times - Henry Boltin, Reynolds Bowers, Nolan Clinansmith, Emily Hillensheim
• First B Times - Aeden Hills
• First Senior Sectional Cuts - Brandon Noble
• First State Cuts - SteveMichael Bennett, Henry Breiding, Grant McGee, Aaron Passman, and Benicio Zimmerman

Now we get a few fun practices and a little rest until after spring break when we start up the long course season April 10!

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