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GwinAq Fourth at Rays Coaches Invite
1/18 - Multi medalists Josh Fountain, Conor Gamble Mason McIntyre and Sam Kim led Gwinnett Aquatics to a fourth place finish this weekend at the Coaches Invite. Kim picked up a win in the 50 fly and his first ever AAAA (sliver cap!) times in the breaststrokes. Morgan Duncan, Elizabeth Garreau, Anna Jahns, Dillon Kasson, Ellen Kendall, Brandon and Nick Leavenworth, Samie Matthews, Morgan McIntyre, Greg Paulakaitis, Dorian Rosenburg, Isaiah Sanders, Casey Schuermann, Kailee Springer, Audrey Tendean, and Brad Wyzykowski also scored. Kasson earned his first AAA (All-Star) time of the season, Tendean her first AA, Paulakaitis and Peter Meadows their first A, Alex Lubsey BB, and Rosa Escobar and Sarah Jahns their first B times. Matthews, Paulakaitis, Tendean, Wyzykowski and Abbey Culbertson earned their first state cuts.
Seniors Thirteenth at State Champs
12/14 - Gwinnett Aquatics senior swimmers finished thirteenth at the Senior State Champs at Ga Tech this weekend. While this is not one of our higher finishes there were some good individual efforts. Kailee Springer scored in the 200 breast and earned an Academic All-American time in the 100 breast. Morgan Duncan picked up a new sectional cut and her first AAA of the season in the 200 back. Anna Tait and Jen Taylor got their first AAs. Mark Ataun, in his first short course state meet earned a second swim in both breaststrokes and had 100% best times.
Split Squad Wins at Lanier, Third at Woodie B
12/7 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers took on area teams at two different meets last weekend, winning the Lanier Winter Invite in Gainesville while placing third at the Woodie B Invite at Dynamo.
At Woodie B Mark Atuan and Isaiah Sanders both won events and Sam Kim medalled in four to lead GwinAq scorers, as Nick Leavenworth, Alandas McGraw and David Yang all got their first state cuts.
Brad Downs, Charlie Fountain, Terra Freking, Griffin Hammett, Anna Jahns, led the scoring at Lanier while Samie Matthews, Dorian Rosenburg and Casey Schuermann got their first state cuts there. Meanwhile Dillon Kasson and Conor Gamble earned their first AA times, Freking, McGraw, Bailee Hammett, Audrey Tendean and Ashley Williamson their A times, Matthews Schuermann and Brad Wyzykowski their BB and Nathan Grose, Jacy MacConvery, Richard Shimandle, and Clark Swain their first B times.
Woodie B Results
Lanier Invite Results
Lanier Invite Pics
2009 Swim-A-Thon
11/19 - The 2009 Swim-A-Thon is mostly in the books and it featured more swimmers completing 200 lengths than ever before as well as some big improvements on the timed swim portion. Griffin Hammett broke the record for the 8U 800 while Ellen Kendall and Dillon Kasson both got close to the open girls and 13-14 boys records respectively. Check out all the improvement using the link below.
Swimmers Take on New Events at IMX Meet
11/9 - About sixty Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers competed in the USA Swimming IMX events at the IMX Invite at Mountain View this weekend. Josh Fountain, Sam Kim, Mason McIntyre all won events while 32 others scored. McIntyre joined Kim on the AAA list while Amelia Campbell, Elizabeth Garreau, Anna Jahns, Joel Nickerson and Megan Yang got their first AA's and Keaton Batye, Conor Gamble, Alandas McGraw David Yang picked up their A times. Results as well as some pictures from the weekend are available using the links below.
GwinAq Falls to ABSC in Dual Meet
10/17 - The Athens Bulldogs defeated Gwinnett Aquatics 751-551 in a dual meet at the UGA natatorium last night. GwinAq nonetheless swam well with ten swimmers winning events and Sam Kim becoming the first swimmers to get a AAA (All-Star) time this year.
GwinAq Swimmers Named All-Americans
10/10 - Two Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers, Andrew Ruffing and Ellen Kendall were named last week to the USA Swimming Academic All-American list. In order to be named both had to have a 3.5 GPA and make at least a Junior National bonus time. Ruffing is now swimming at National-champion Auburn, Kendall is in her senior year at Grayson.
Blue Gobies Win Closest Intersquad Ever
10/3 - The Blue Gobies edged out the Yellow Gobies by a mere two points in the 2009 Gwinnett Aquatics Intersqaud meet tonight at the Mountain Park pool. The Blue Gobies took the early lead in the fly but the Yellow then led for most of the meet only to lose the lead in the last event.