January Fun Meet
1/21 - About 25 swimmers particpated in the January Fun meet today. After all the hard work over winter break there were a lot of best times and a few new time standards. Check our results using the link below.
GA Winter Qualifier February 10-12 @ Greater Atlanta Christian
1/15 - Gwinnett Aquatics will host the GA Winter Qualifier at the Freeman Aquatic Center at Greater Atlanta Christian School February 10-12. The meet is open to all levels of swimmers. This will be a very special event, with tatoos for swimmers achieving new state cuts, awards based on single-year age groups, and a great facility.
GA Winter Invite Meet Info | Hy-Tek Events File
Directions to GAC | Campus Map (go to 2nd entrance, up hill, and left into parking lot)
Swimmers Get 2011 Off to Fast Start
1/16 - Our swimmers got the year started off right with a great showing at the Rays' Coaches Invite. Twenty-five different swimmers scored, more than in the past three years, and 14 had 100% best times while numerous swimmers picked up new State cuts. Anna Jahns and Elizabeth Garreau both won events. Juliana Carey, Rory Martin, Jacob Rees, Blake Reynolds, Ben Taylor and Megan Yang all medaled. Reynolds earned his first ever AAA (All-Star) times. Bailee Hammett and Brad Wyzykowski got their first AAs, Alandas McGraw his first A, Ian O'Hara his first BB, and Sydney Reynolds her first B times.
This year's meet was a great start after some really good winter training. This year we had a much higher percentage of best times because so many swimmers did such a good job training over the break. If we can keep our attendance up (and those who didn't do so well over the break can increase their attendance) we will have a big finish to the season.
Coaches Invite Results | GwinAq Results
USAS Standard Breakers | Pix
Senior Swimmers 11th at Senior State
12/12 - The GwinAq Senior swimmers had their best showing ever at the Georgia Senior State Champs. They finished 11th, 6th amongst medium-sized teams, at the meet at UGA held last weekend. While it wasn't our highest finish, it was the best meet top to bottom we've ever had in mid-season. Anna Jahns earned the first AAAAs of the season in three events, breaking the 13-14 girls team record in two - the 500 free and 1650. In both she just missed the senior team record and in the mile she was 6th. Elizabeth Garreau was 15th in the 100 breast. The boys 200 free relay of Rory Martin, Dillon Kasson, Peter Meadows and Ben Taylor broke the team record as well. All of the other relays were either the fastest of 2nd fastest relays ever swum in season! Meanwhile Meadows, Garreau, Anna Tait, and Megan Yang all picked up their first AAA's of the season.
Senior State Results | GwinAq Results
USAS Standard Breakers
Gwinnett Aquatics 2nd at Lanier Winter Invite
12/5 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished 2nd at this weekend's Lanier Winter Invite in Gainesville. Led by multiple event winners Bailee Hammett, Ryan Haskins and Emily Trettel the team scored over 4000 points, compared to SwimAtlanta's 6000 and Summit Chase's 2000. George Bujoreanu, Josh Fountain and Ian O'Hara all won events as well. In add ti on Trettel and Amelia Campbell picked up their first AA times while Juliana Carey, Nyota Edjijimo, Griffin Hammett, and Ashley Williamson got their first A times. Ava Callis, Bryce Peden and Kyle Yang earned their BB times.
Lanier Winter Invite Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Multi-meet Weekend for Most Swimmers
11/21 - About 70 Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers competed in the dual meet with ABSC Friday night at the UGA natatorium. Absent most of our Senior team (who were are High School meets), it was not as competitive a meet as years past with ABSC winning most of the events. However George Bujoreanu, Griffin Hammett, Blake Reynolds, Elizabeth Garreau and Anna Jahns accounted for five wins and there were tons of best times. Toria Coffey picked up her first ever state cut!
At the Woodie B Malone Invite we had a little more competitive success with a number of swimmers medalling and lots of new time standards. Anna Jahns won the mile and Megan Yang the 200 IM, while George Bujoreanu, Elizabeth Garreau, Rory Martin, Blake Reynolds and Ben Taylor all had top-3 finishes. Martin, Taylor and Dillon Kasson all picked up their first AAA (All-Star) times of the season, while Garreau and Peter Meadows got their first AA's. Abby Culbertson and Bradford Wyzykowski moved on to the A ties list and Georgia Aguirre and Harry Duncan got their fist BBs.
ABSC Dual Results | GwinAq Results
Woodie B Invite Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Two Records Fall at Swim-A-Thon
11/12 Nearly 100 swimmers completed their Swim-A-Thon over the last three days at Gwinnett Aquatics pool. Swimmers completed up to 200 lengths, including a timed swim of 400 to 2400. Anna Jahns competed her 2400 for time in team record time of 29:07 and George Bujoreanu completed his timed swim of 800 in record time as well. Check out all the results using the link below.
Swimmers Look to Establish IMX Scores at Rays' Meet
11/6 About seventy GwinAq swimmers competed in the IMX Invite in Marietta this weekend, most looking to complete the five IMX events (in addition to others) in order to establish their first IMX scores of the season. there were plenty of standard breakers and a few 100 best time achievers. Charlie Fountain, Josh Fountain, Anna Jahns, and Rory Martin all had top-three finishes. IMX scores should be tabulated later this week so be sure to check back to see how we did. On Saturday we also held a fun meet at the Quinn Ridge pool. Results for that meet can be viewed using the link below.
Meet Results | GwinAq Results | Fun Meet Results
Elizabeth Garreau Named Scholastic All-American
10/18 - Last weekend USA Swimming released the list of 2010-11 Scholastic All-Americans with our own Elizabeth Garreau's name on it. To qualify Elizabeth had to achieve a Junior National Bonus time (1:05 in 100 breast) and maintain a 3.5 or higher for the academic year. She is a Senior at Brookwood High School and was one of 74 Georgia swimmers in grades 10-12 earning this honor. The Georgia LSC had the 4th highest number of Scholastic All-Americans in the US. This year's qualifying times are now posted on the USAS website.
USAS Scholastic All-American List | 2011-12 Scholastic All-American Qualifying Times