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
GwinAq Swimmers Compete at Tidal Wave Quad Meet
10/22 -Seventy-five Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers competed at the Tidal Wave Quad Meet at Cobb Aquatic Center today. It was a chance for most to try some new distances after the intersquad meet three weeks ago. The results were impressive. Josh Fountain, Elizabeth Garreau, Anna Jahns, Dillon Kasson, Nick Leavenworth, Rory Martin, Ian O'Hara, Sydney Reynolds, Anna Tait and Christopher Thompson all combined to win eighteen different events. Fifteen swimmers had 100% best times. We also had more swimmers earn their first USAS standards. The list of those achieving standards is now posted and it is the most swimmers we've ever had this early in the season. In two weeks we'll expand our repertoire even more at the IMX meet.
Meet Results | GwinAq Results
Meet Pix (by Ada Ghali) | USAS Time Standard Achievers
Blue Gobies Win Intersquad
10/7 - Led by 5-event winners Jacob Rees and Abby Culbertson, the Blue Gobies beat the Yellow Gobies 885-823. This despite three Yellow Gobies sweeping their age groups - Rory Martin, Bradley Downs and Anna Jahns. There were plenty of new time standards being achieved including Downs' and Martin's AAAs, Jahns, Megan Yang, Anna Tait, Elizabeth Garreau. Dillon Kasson and Peter Meadows' AAs, and new swimmer Blake Reynolds A time, just to name a few. There were also quite a few swimmers who got 100% best times. Look for the newsletter this week for that list. And check back later for some great meet pix.
Senior Swimmers 10th at State Champs
7/26 - Gwinnett Aquatics was 10th this weekend at the Senior State Champs at Ga Tech, just missing a ninth-place finish by 2 points! Nine swimmers scored compared to just four last year. Brandon Leavenworth (3x), Elizabeth Garreau, Anna Tait (2x), and Anna Jahns all had top-10 finishes while Rory Martin, Nick Leavenworth, Peter Meadows, Ben Taylor and Megan Yang all scored in consolation finals. Jahns rebroke her new 400 ad 1500 records. Tait, Yang ad Dillon Kasson picked up their first AAAs of the season. It was a great meet for the group with many of the swimmers who scored qualifying top 20 out of 50th or 60th place! This was our highest placement in four years and with our 11th place finish at AG State should move us up five or six place in the LSC in the Virtual Club Rankings.
Senior State Results | GwinAq Results
USAS Standard Breakers
GwinAq 11th at Age Group State Champs
7/18 - Gwinnett Aquatics had one of its highest finishes in a long time at Age Group State. Led by Jacob Rees’ and Bradley Downs’ multiple 2nd place finishes, the team took 11th overall, 4th in medium sized teams. Rees and Downs scored enough points to qualify for the Georgia Zone team and, with our own Elizabeth Garreau and 45 other Georgia swimmers, will compete against the best swimmers in the south next week in North Carolina. Both swimmers also broke a team record. Rees in the 400 IM and Downs in the 100 Breast. Meanwhile Anna Jahns broke three team records in one swim – the 400, 800 and 1500 free all while taking 2nd in the state in 1500. She also broke the 100 fly record. She is the first girl in five years to break a team record, hopefully the first of many. Josh Fountain also got in the act, scoring 15th in the 400 IM. Conor Gamble and Dorian Rosenburg also contributed as part of our top-8 scoring 11-12 relays.
Also this weekend Anna Tait, Elizabeth Garreau and Brandon Leavenworth competed in the Senior Sectional meet at UGA as a tune-up for this week’s Sr State Champs. All three competed well with Garreau and Leavenworth having some top-40 swims against a fast mostly college aged field. Tait had 100% best times.
Age Group State Results | GwinAq Results
Senior Sectional Results | GwinAq Results
Championship Meets Start With Finale, Sr Circuit
7/11 - Swimmers at both the Finale and the Sr Circuit meet did a great job kicking off the championship season this weekend. Eight swimmers – Brandon Leavenworth, Rory Martin, Dillon Kasson, Ben Taylor, Jacob Rees, Bradley Downs, Josh Fountain - all won events. Rees' win came in a team-record breaking effort in the 400 free. Kayla Harrison, Nick Leavenworth, Alandas McGraw, Peter Meadows, Megan Yang, Abby Culbertson, Conor Gamble, Griffin Hammett, Sarah Jahns, Jerrick Neu, Dorian Rosenburg, Haley Shepard, and Michael Thompson all had top-8 finishes.
Kasson, Hammett, Jahns, Nick Leavenworth, Heana Park, Greg Paulukaitis and Bailee Hammett all made new state cuts (Hammett's first!) Harrison, Paulukaitis, Amelia Campbell earned their first AA times of the season, Ada Ghali and Nathan Grose their first BBs, and Ali Barskiy and Sam Mauldin got their first ever B times.
Sr Circuit Results | GwinAq Results | Pix
Finale Results | GwinAq Results
GwinAq Swimmers Compete in Sarasota, Marietta
6/23 - At the Sarasota Sharks Open 19 of our 13 and Over swimmers took some Georgia to the Florida scene. Elizabeth Garreau won the 100 breast, while Anna Jahns got 2nd and Rory Martin 3rd in the 800 free and 100 back respectively. Ben Taylor, Megan Yang, and Anna Tait also finaled. Garreau, Martin, Taylor, and Brandon Leavenworth all picked up their first AAAs this season. Tait and Peter Meadows earned their first AAs and Alandas McGraw his first A time. Brad Wyzykowski picked up some new state cuts.
At the Hixon Invite here in town, Jacob Rees and Bradley Downs combined to win eight events, some in meet record time! Josh Fountain picked up his first AA and Toriah Coffey, Tylah Keys and Michael Thompson their first BBs. Fountain, Greg Paulukaitis, Conor Gamble and Dorian Rosenburg picked up new state cuts.
Meet Results | GwinAq
Results | Pix
Meet Results | GwinAq
Results | USAS Standard Breakers
Making Waves in Two States
6/12 - GwinAq athletes were at work in two different venues this this weekend. In Clemson 19 swimmers competed in the Death Valley Open Water Swim, winning 8 of the 10 races. Anna Jahns won every race except the 5k, where she was 3rd in the 13-14 age group. Nick Leavenworth won the guys 3k, Ben Taylor the 2k, and Brandon Leavenworth the 1k and ½ k. Josh Fountain was 5th in the 11-12 3k and Harry Duncan was 8th in the 10U 1k. Nick, Ben, Anna and Peter Meadows won special awards for competing in all 5 races (11.5k). Meanwhile at Georgia Tech 30 swimmers computed in the SCAT Invite. Jacob Rees won 3 events and Elizabeth Garreau one. Greg Paulukaitis got his first state cut, He and Clarke Swain got their first A times, Ava Callis her first BB and Matthew Buckley his first B time.
Death Valley Results | SCAT Invite Results
Death Valley Pix
GwinAq Swimmers Compete at Dunbar Invite
6/6 - Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers competed in their second long course meet of the season at the Dunbar Invite at Georgia Tech. In a fast meet our swimmers showed they are ready for a great season with many swimmers hitting some big milestones early. Bradley Downs and Jacob Rees picked up their AAAA;s (Down's first ever) while many others picked up next time standards and state cuts.
Long Course Season Kicks Off With GA Invite May 14-15
5/10 - The GA Invite this weekend May 14-15, hosted by Gwinnett Aquatics at the Bransby Outdoor YMCA was the first meet of the season and a great way to start the summer. Despite the cold temperatures the kids posted some fast times and enjoyed the meet format. At this very special meet, swimmers had the chance to win tickets for some of the Y's outdoor attractions like the moon bounce, paddle boats and climbing wall. Our parents did a great job too running a fun meet in sometimes trying conditions. Results can be viewed using the link below.
We're Baaack!
3/28 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished fourth at the Divisional Champs this weekend in a close battle with ABSC and DAQ for a place on the podium that saw DAQ move ahead of our guys in the fifth and final session to win by a mere 100 points 3300 to 3180. This despite the GaGa swimmers being outnumbered more than 2 to 1! Despite not bringing home any hardware it was a successful return to our most competitive form in every way. The 3100 points we scored was a 1200-point increase from last year and equal to the points we scored when we took 2nd in 2009. We won the 8U, 10U and 12U boys age groups and the combined 10U boys and girls. We had more swimmers win (6), place top 3 (9), or final top 8 (14) then the previous three years. And we had some great rock-n-roll spirit to top it all off.
Individually there were more achievements than can be listed here. There is a partial list below. There will be more in the weekly newsletter that will come out later this week. We'll also have our picture album up later this week. Congratulations to all our swimmers.
Event Winners: Bradley Downs (2), Conor Gamble (2), Elizabeth Garreau, Anna Jahns, Jacob Rees (5), and Megan Yang (3)
Medallists: Issam Bradley, George Bujoreanu (2), Morgan Duncan, Toriah Coffey, Josh Fountain, Brandon Leavenworth (2), Dorian Rosenburg, Anna Tait, Brad Wyzykowski (7)
New Team Records: Mark Atuan, Rees and Yang
News Time Standard Achievers: AAAA - Yang; AAA - Nick Leavenworth, Peter Meadows, Heana Park, Ben Taylor; AA - Kayla Harrison, Rosenburg; A - Tylah Keys, Greg Paulukaitis, Emily Trettel; BB - Nathan Grose, Andrew Nickerson, Julie Seals, Michael Thompson; B - Aatiq Bradley, Ava Callis, Harry Duncan, Ally Murray, Casey Schuermann
New State and Sectional Cuts: Sr Sectionals: - Meadows and Taylor; State - Alandas McGraw, Campbell, Park
Meet Results | GwinAq Results | Pix | USAS Standard Breaker