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2023-24 Season Calendar
Click on this link to view the Calendar for the entire season

TU Event Page
Use this link for more info on each event and to sign-up for them.

Apr 27 - NO practices!

Apr 27-28 - LC Kickoff @ Tech
    - Hosted by us!

May 4 - Team Awards Banquet, 2:00pm @ Camp Creek Elementary (more info below)
    - RSVPs due tomorrow (was sent by email, more info below)

May 10-12 - Spring Splash @ Dynamo
    - Please double check your entries!

May 15-18 - Atlanta Classic @ Tech
    - Please double check your entries!

May 23 - Summer Practice Schedule Starts

May 30-Jun 1 - Bulldog Summer Invite @ UGA

Jun 1-2 - Betsy Dunbar Invite @ Tech

Jun 8 - Death Valley Open Water @ Clemson, SC

GwinAq's Reddiset Shop

Use the link below to access our swimshop with Reddiset - the only place you can order team suites, and you can also order all the equipment and much more. You can also access our shop by going to their main site and on clicking on 'Team Login' on the far right and entering 'gaga' (all lowercase).

GwinAq's Affiliate SwimOutlet.com

Gwinnett Aquatics is an affiliate of SwimOutlet.com. Use the link below to search SwimOutlet for some of the best prices on swim equipment. Be sure to use this link and your purchase will also support our program.

May Payments Due

May payments are now due. Invoices go out around the 20th, and payments are due on the 1st and are considered late after the 5th. Please note that if a payment is not received by the 10th, a $25 late fee is added. Most families are done with swim team dues, but still have activity account balances - those are items the club already paid on your behalf, so please pay your balance on time.

You can pay on-line, at the pool or Mail payments to:
Gwinnett Aquatics
1436 Benning Place NE
Atlanta GA 303077
(Or put in coach Hugh’s mailbox at the pool).

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Education Column

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Why Swimming Is Worth the Sacrifice and Time Demands

2023 LCM Season Recap

Team Records, Relay Records, IMX Records, Country-leading IMX Scores, and many new entries into our All-Time Top 10 LCM performances! That's just a snipped of the many highlights our swimmers had last season! You can check out more of those using the links below.

2023 LCM Standard Breakers
2023 LCM VCC Scores
2023 LCM IMX Scores
2023 LCM Season Fast 5
LCM All-Time Top-10
GwinAq LCM Records
GwinAq IMX Records
2023 Spring & Summer Attendance Awards

2022-23 SCY Season Recap

2022-23 SCY Standard Breakers
2022-23 SCY VCC Summary
2022-23 SCY IMX Scores
2022-23 SCY Fast 5
SCY All-Time Top-10
GwinAq SCY Records
GwinAq IMX Records
2022 Fall/Winter Attendance Awards
2022-23 Winter Attendance Awards

Back to Racing This Week!

  Although it's only been a few weeks since we came back from Spring Break, we have nearly 100 swimmers ready to start their competitive LCM season this weekend! As usual, complete information on the meet is available on the article below, and please note we've had to change the warm-up times for the afternoon sessions on both Saturday and Sunday.

  In addition, remember we are hosting this meet, and still need some help to run a great meet (more info on that below as well), and there are still a few open slots on both days. Finally, for those not attending please note there will be no practices on Saturday.

  If you think this season is already flying by, it picks up even more once school lets out! As we mentioned many times, this is quite a short season but those swimmers who plan to take full advantage of it make huge strides in that short amount of time. Remember these last few weeks of school are also crucial to lay the base for the summer training, so this is a very important time for swimmers to manage their school activities in a way that allows them to maintain a consistent attendance, and pick up their energy and focus while there. It's putting in great, consistent work NOW that's going to set us up for success in July!

LC Kickoff This Weekend Apr 27-28

  The Long Course Kick-Off is this weekend, April 27-28, at the McAuley Aquatic Center at Georgia Tech (750 Ferst Dr, Atlanta, GA 30318). Below are the warm-up times for each session. Please note there's been changes from the original announcement - times below are updated and already reflect all those changes. In addition, we'll likely have to split some of our warm-ups in two groups, which is a lot harder and messier if we don't have everyone there at the start - so as always please plan to arrive at least 15min prior to the start of warm-ups!

• Saturday & Sunday :
• 13&O: 9:30am warm-ups, 10:30am start
• 13&U: 3:00pm warm-ups, 3:45pm start

  All swimmers are expected to wear this year's team shirt (white) on Saturday, and this year's Divisionals shirt (purple) on Sunday. Updated team entries and Psych Sheet are posted below, as well as heat sheets for each session. Below you can also find a link to the pre-paid Parking, as well as an estimated timeline - emphasis on estimated there; meets often run faster or slower than those, and we provide them just so that swimmers can have an idea of how much time they should have between events.

  In addition, please remember we are hosting this meet, so we'll need our families' help in order to make this a successful meet for our swimmers. Like in the Qualifier and Raffle meet, families who sign up for work slots will get $20/session from their escrow account (up to $60 if you have that much left). This will be our last hosted meet of the season, and you can sign up to help on the link below. As of this writing we still have a few slots open, especially for the AM sessions and Sunday afternoon. We've always prided ourselves on never calling delaying a meet while we call for timers, so we really hope to get those filled up between now and the weekend.

Coming Up: Dynamo Spring Splash May 10-12

  In May, most of our team will be attending Dynamo's Spring Splash on May 10-12, at Dynamo Chamblee (3119 Shallowford Rd, Atlanta, GA 30341). Note: we do recognize this is mother's day weekend, and for the second year in a row there are no real alternatives we can work on to maintain our meet calendar. A small group of swimmers (who have Futures cuts) will be able to attend Atlanta Classic the following weekend instead.

    This is a 2.5-day timed final meet (11&O all have events on Friday; on Saturday and Sunday 13&Os swim in the morning, 12&Us in the afternoon). You can already find the full meet information (including the event line-up and warm-up times) in the event page linked to below.

  Replies for this meet are now past due, and our first draft of entries is posted below. Please, remember to always double check your entries for possible mistakes! Please note a few of our coaches are still working on their entries, and we'll update the link below before the weekend. If you missed the deadline but are available to attend please contact your coach ASAP.

Team Banquet Will Be May 4th, 2:00pm!

  The 2024 Gwinnett Aquatics Team Banquet will be Saturday, May 4th, at Camp Creek Elementary  (958 Cole Dr SW, Lilburn, GA 30047). This is always a great event where we look back on the last couple seasons (in this case, the 2023 LCM and the 2023-2024 SCY seasons). It's always great to see our swimmers dressed up and families all getting together to recognize and remember the previous year.

  The e-vite invitations for this event went out by email earlier this week. Please note we need all RSVPs by tomorrow, in order to be able to get a head count to the caterer. We currently can't post the e-vite link, so if you didn't get the email please contact Coach Hugh (hugh@gwinnettaquatics.com) ASAP. In addition, when you RSVP for this online, please be sure to mark down how many people TOTAL (swimmers, parents, siblings, etc) will be attending, so we can make sure we are ordering the right amount of food.

Coming Up: Atlanta Classic May 15-18

  As mentioned above, we'll have a small group of swimmers attending this year's Atlanta Classic, which will take place May 15-18 at the McAuley Aquatic Center at Tech (750 Ferst Dr, Atlanta, GA 30332). This meet has qualifying times (Futures cuts), and this year it will be a 3.5 day meet, with a distance event on Wednesday and then Prelims/Finals Thursday through Saturday.

  This meet has been attended by some of the greatest names in the recent history of the sport, and this year promises to bring in even more start power, as it's been promoted by USA-Swimming. Amongst the confirmed teams and coaches, we can expect to see squads from this year's USA Men's and Women's Head Olympic Coaches!

  With this being a small select group, entries are already posted below. However, as always, please double check your entries for possible mistakes!

Jack Dunbar to Swim and Study at Ga Tech!

  This has been long in the making, but it only just became official last week: Jack Dunbar will continue his studies and athletic career at Ga Tech! Jack will actually become school this summer, so in a few short weeks he will move in to campus and begin pursuing his Major in Mathematics and Minor in Physics. He will start training with the college group in late May, and officially join them for meets starting in the fall, competing at the NCAA D1 level and in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACCs). We wish him all the best in this next phase, Go Yellowjackets!!!

2023-24 SCY Season Recap

  While we are looking forward to the upcoming season, we'd also like to take the time to highlight and cherish some of the accomplishments of our swimmers through the SCY Season - and there were a lot of those! One of our favorite metrics on how we do as a team through a season is always USA-Swimming's Virtual Club Championship (VCC), as that requires a full team effort. Our swimmers rocked and broke 130k points for only the second time in our program history!

  That score was less than 4.000 points shy of our best ever from two seasons ago, and good enough to put us in the top 400 clubs in the country (out of 3.000) - in fact we were very close to cracking the top-300 in #310. That is far more impressive when you take into consideration our size (teams our size don't fill out all the spots and therefore can't quite score as high). In Georgia, we were 5th, only behind (and quite close to a few) teams which have over 300 swimmers!

  Another metric we like to look at is the IMX Report - which you can also take a loot at below. We had 46 swimmers compete in all events needed to have a score for their age, and out of those an incredible 39 scored over 1k points! That also included 11 swimmers cracking the 3k points barrier, 2 of which (Baylor and Collier Stanton) who scored well over 4.000 - Baylor's score of nearly 6k points was also the highest amongst all swimmers his age in the country! You can find the complete IMX report for the entire club in the link below.

  Below you can also find our Season Fast-5, as well as the updated All-Time SCY top 10 swims from the club. On the later one, you'll see all swims from this season are highlighted, and there were a whooping 98 swims added to that this season!!!

  In addition, Kate Breiding, Hannah-Claire Jowers and Baylor Stanton all broke team records! And that first one deserves a note: we were not aware Kate had broken the team's 11-12 girls 100 back record, until we ran the top-10 report, as she did so in only the second meet of the season (the Fall Series #2), where we don't expect to see those. We didn't even run a record report after that meet, and so it went under the radar for the entire season. So, a delayed and VERY deserved congrats, Kate!!!

  Finally, out of those team records, Baylor also set four State Records, including a new National Age Group (NAG) Record in the 15-16 Boys 200 Back at our last meet of the season! That's our first-ever NAG record, and it's hard to put it into perspective as that swim moved him ahead of some of the greatest names the sport has ever seen, (Ryan Murphy, Aaron Peirsol, and everyone else!) for that age.

  Thank you and congratulations to all swimmers for such a great season! Thank you as well to the parents who support both the club and our athletes allowing us to continue getting better every year! Below you can check out all the reports we already mentioned, as well as our final list of Standard Breakers.

Ga-Ga Online Spirit Wear Shop!

  We'd like to remind everyone we have a great online Spirit Shop with a great variety of items - pink and purple shirts, sweatshirts, and more! We love the looks of it, and have gotten great feedback on the material as well.

  So, if you'd like to sport some awesome new team schwag this summer, now's the time to put an order! With this shop, there is no order deadline, no minimum, and a LOT to choose from! More options, more colors, and hopefully something for everyone. You can use the link below to access the store online. If you don’t see something you wish we had, please reach out to Amy Stanton (awstanton@gmail.com) - we'd love to see if we can make it happen!

2024 Spring Interim Schedule (April 15th-May 11th):

• Senior: Mon-Thu 2:45pm-5:45pm; Fri 3:00pm-6:00pm; Sat 8:00am-10:30am
• Senior2: Mon-Fri 2:45pm-5:15pm; Sat 7:15am-9:00am
• Senior3: Mon-Fri 2:45pm-5:15pm; Sat 7:15am-9:00am
• Prep: Mon, Wed 6:45pm-8:45pm, Thu 6:15pm-8:30pm; Fri 6:00pm-8:15pm; Sat 11:00am-1:00pm
• P1 only: Tue 7:00-8:30pm
• Jr Team: Mon, Tue, Thu 6:45pm-8:45pm; Fri 6:15pm-8:15pm; Sat 10:45am-1:00pm
• Gold: Mon, Wed 5:45pm-7:30pm; Fri 5:30pm-7:00pm; Sat 10:00am-11:30am
• Gold Plus: Tue 6:45-8:45pm. 
• Blue: Tue, Thu 6:00pm-7:15pm; Sat 10:00am-11:30am.
• Blue Plus: swimmers will be able to attend Monday w/ Gold.