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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:

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!

Meet Results |  GwinAq Results
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GwinAq Boys Take Second at Swim Meet of Champions

3/12 - A select group of Gwinnett Aquatics senior swimmers competed at the Southeastern Swim Meet of Champions (SMOC) this weekend in Augusta.  After an exciting final session on the fourth day of the meet the boys managed a 2nd place finish. It was a rare chance for the distance guys to be the heroes, entering the final event, the 1000 free, in 3rd with just a few points separating 2nd-4th, the group was able to get three scoring swims including Collier Stanton's victory, to move to second. 

Collier was the 2nd event winner that day, perhaps inspired by teammate Kate Johnson's earlier win in the same event. They joined Baylor Stanton, who won 4 events and set a new team record in the 200 breast, as the team's only event winners.  Jack Dunbar, Lucas Johnson, and Hannah-Claire Jowers all finaled while Nate Beeney,Max and Jenna Inlow, Paige Johnson, and Sean Lin all also scored for Gwinnett Aquatics. Baylor also picked up two new team records, one short course (200 breast) and one long course (200 back). 

Additionally Collier got his first ever Futures cut, Tadd Duffield picked up his first ever AAA (All-Star) time and Tadd and Nate got their first Sectional cuts. Many of the swimmers wrapped up the exciting weekend with a Long Course time trial Sunday afternoon.  Check it all out using the link below.  (We haven't gotten the meet results yet but will update that link when we do). 

Next up is the Divisional Champs for ALL swimmers in two weeks in Augusta!!

Meet Results | GwinAq Results |  LC Results
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Everyone Wins at Raffle Meet

3/4 - Gwinnett Aquatics and Spartan Aquatics hosted the 4th Annual Raffle Meet this weekend at GAC.  The Raffle Meet targets swimmers who did not compete at the State Champs (or those who did in events they don't have the cut).  This year about 200 swimmers competed for the chance to earn raffle "tickets" for a variety of prizes. 

Swimmers earned a raffle chance for every best time, heat winner, and new time standard achieved. In just two short sessions over 1000 chances generated and we gave out over 70 prizes through the weekend including backpacks, goggles, Squishmallows and Dancing Cacti.  At the end of the meet ASL swimmer Gabe Koch took home the grand prize, a $300 VISA gift card!

Next year it looks likely that the raffle meet will move to long course as Ga Swimming will add a new Peach State Champs meet (For state 10U and no-faster-than state 11-14 yr olds) in February that will likely take the place of this meet. 

For Gwinnett Aquatics it was clear our swimmers love winning stuff as we had over 60% best times which was even higher than the percentage we had at age group state or the qualifier!  Thirty-six swimmers won events: Timi Ajigbolamu, Elisa Basic, Justin and SteveMichael Bennett, Abby Bold, Shaylah Bopp, Kate Breiding, Aubrey Chisolm, Tadd Duffield, Brianna Exil, CJ Gast, Kendall Granberry, Emily Hardy, Morgan Henry, Sarah Heppe, Cade Holder, Cameron Jones, Alex Matveev, Aliana McCann, Grant McGee, Brandon Noble, Aaron Passman, Riley Pynn, Nicolas Ramdeo, Lillie Robinson, Ernesto Santiesteban-Pizarro, Addi Shaffer, Jude Stanton, Jimmy Wang, Ella and Emery Wells, Elsie Wethington-Mercer, Cole Wright (Gold), Andy Zhu, and Benicio and Helena Zimmerman!

Additionally Ethan Tull picked up his first BB times and Rose Aguilar, Arthur Bombard, Emma Gonzalez, and KitKat Jacobsen got their first B times. 

Next up is the Meet of Champions this weekend for our top Senior swimmers and then the Divisional Champs for ALL swimmers in two weeks in Augusta!!

Meet Results | GwinAq Results 
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Gwinnett Aquatics Eleventh at Age Group State

2/20 - Gwinnett Aquatics' 14 and Unders had a bittersweet outcome at the Georgia Age Group State Champs this weekend. By almost all measures we had a very successful meet with the athletes having a high percentage of best times and our relays going 100% (first time that's happened in my memory).  But because we had so many athletes swimming up in a new age group for the first time we had only enough scoring swims to finish 11th, our lowest finish in some years.   That's what pro teams call a great "rebuilding" year. 

Seriously though, the fast swims that we saw this weekend indicate a very bright future for our team at the next couple state meets. Collier Stanton was the exception to our youth movement, it being his last age group state champs.  And he made the most of it medaling in six events (2nd 4 times!) and picking up new senior sectional cuts.  Way to go old man.  While he was our only top ten finisher, Ernesto Santiesteban-Pizarro, Aliana McCann, Kate Breiding, Emily Hardy, Jude Stanton, Ella Wells, and Kendall Granberry all scored as well. 

In addition Hardy and Breiding picked up their first 13-14 AAA (All-Star) time while Cate Joyce and Lillie Robinson got their first AA times and McCann got her first as an11-12.  CJ Gast got her first A as an 11-12 and Alaeelah McMahon got her first BB. 

Next up is the raffle meet next weekend for swimmers who did not compete at state and for those who did to swim some other events. Then it's three weeks to our big end of season champs, Divisionals at UGA March 24-26! 

Meet Results | GwinAq Results 
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