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2025 LCM Season Calendar
Click on this link to view all the important dates for next season!

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

Jul 17 - Practice Schedule Changes (State Swimmers):
- Sr1 regular schedule
- Sr2 8:10am-10:30am
- Prep/Jr 10:15am-11:30am
- Bl/Gld 10:15am-11:30am

Jul 18 - Practice Schedule Changes (State Swimmers):
- Sr1 regular schedule
- Sr2 8:45-10:30a & 4:30-6:00p
- NO other practices

Jul 19  - Practice Schedule Changes:
- Sr1/2 8:00am-10:30am
- NO other practices

Jul 17-20 - Age Group State Champs @ Columbus, Ga

Jul 21 - Fun Practice for ALL Blue/Gold 5:30pm-7:00pm

Jul 22 - Fun Practice for ALL Prep/Jr 9:30am-11:30am

Jul 24-27 - Senior State Champs @ Athens, Ga
    - Last chance to double check your entries!

Jul 30-Aug 3 - Summer Jr National Champs @ Irvine, Ca
    - Please double check your entries!

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.

July Payments Past Due

July payments are now past due. Invoices went out around the 20th. 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).

Monthly Fees
On-line Account

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Education Column

We come across a few great articles on a variety of topics - parenting, nutrition, mental training, sports parenting, drills, etc. In this column we'll share the best one every week.

Agency and Contribution
  "What’s possible and what’s required? It’s still surprising to me that some of these ideas aren’t widely held, because they seem so clear to me:
  Skill is a choice. Talent is overrated, and if we choose to get better at something, we probably can.
  Responsibility is a privilege. It’s not given to us, it’s taken. When we choose to be on the hook for something, it makes our work better.
  The benefit of the doubt creates connection. When we exclude people based on surface judgments, we penalize each other.
  Agency is our recognition of all three of these ideas, in one." Click Here to read the full article

2024-25 SCY Season Recap

Team Records, IMX Team Records, 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.

2024-25 SCY Standard Breakers
2024-25 SCY IMX Report
2024-25 SCY Fast 5
All-Time SCY Top-10
GwinAq SCY Records
Fall/Winter Attendance Awards
Winter Attendance Awards

2024 LCM Season Recap

2024 LCM Standard Breakers
2024 LCM VCC Scores
2024 LCM IMX Scores
2024 LCM Season Fast-5
LCM All-Time Top 10
GwinAq LCM Records
GwinAq IMX Records
2024 Spring/Summer Attendance Awards

Ga-Ga Swimmers Kick Off Championship Season at Coda Classic!

  About 80 Ga-Ga swimmers got the end-of-season Championship meets started with a bang at the Coda Classic at Dynamo last weekend. For some it was the last meet of the long course season while others were trying to tune up for the State Champs coming up the next two weekends.

  Overall, our swimmers achieved over 40 new time standards, and over 30 new state cuts, and B cuts! That's down compared to last year but for the best reason - we have more than ever before already qualified for state meets!

  Even without those state swimmers (who were mostly not racing in finals) we still had 30 swimmers with top-3 finishes including Lucy Bower, Jacob Matthew, Aliana McCann, Grant McGee, Nik Ramdeo, Ernesto Santiesteban-Pizarro, Jude Stanton, and Emery Wells, who all won events! Other top-3 finishers were Lucas Babcock, Nate Beeney, Reynolds Bowers, Eddie El Osta, Ben El-Alam, Emma Gonzalez, Kendall Granberry, Morgan Henry, Zoe Jinadu, Arina Kovalenkov, Josh Liu, Alex Matveev, Aaron Passman, Brooks and Riley Pynn, Lillie Robinson, Eva Saldana, Addi Shaffer, Collier Stanton, Andrian Strokan, Victoria Tannure, and Abby Wong.

  Bower picked up her first AA times of the season, Shaffer her first A times, and El Osta, Liu, and Nyziah Barnaby their first BBs! Henry, Liu and McGee picked up their first state cuts - Liu's first ever!

  Bower, Bowers, El-Osta, El-Alam, Stanton, Strokan, as well as Elisa Basic, Briana Exil, Cameron Jones, Shiven Patel, Sophia Quinn were all 100% best times! As usual, you can check out the full meet results, team results, and our updated list of Standard Breakers for the season all on the links below.

  And throughout the weekend, many of our swimmers also participated in the Gwinnett County Summer League Champ, and as always so many of them were shining quite bright there as well: Baylor Stanton, Hannah-Claire Jowers, Cameron Jones, Emily Hardy, Emery Wells, Amaya McCann all won High Point for their age groups while Kate Breiding, CJ Gast, Arina Kovalenkov all finished in the top-3! That's 9 of swimmers taking home a trophy, and Ga-Ga swimmers taking home 1/2 of the High Point Wins for the meet!!! Jowers and Stanton both also broke a few GCSL Records!

  All those swimmers had individual event wins, and we also had multiple other swimmers place at the meet. In addition, many of our swimmers were also on winning relays. Additionally, Jowers (Senior Girls 100IM) and Hardy (13-14 Girls 50 Free) both broke Team Records! Finally, Hardy got her first ever AAAA, Jinadu and Kovalenkov earned their first ever A times and Kaylin Lee got her first BB of the season!

  Now all that remains are the State and National Championship meets over the next three weeks, starting with the Age Group State Champs this weekend. Complete info on that meet below. For swimmers not in those meets practice is now over but we we do have fun day practices next week for the age groupers - check out the times for those in the left column, and more info below

  Our pre-season will start August 11th (except for Sr1, which will start a week after that), and you can find more info on that in the article below as well. Before that, we know our swimmers are ready to step up another notch from all the great swims we already had this season!

Age Group State Champs This Weekend Jul 17-20

  The Age Group State Champs are this weekend, July 17-20, at the Columbus Aquatic Center (1603 Midtown Dr, Columbus, GA 31906). Below is the time that swimmers need to be at the pool and ready to warm-up (so please be at least 15 minutes ahead of that). As it happens often, times for a few sessions have changed from the original meet announcement; times listed below are the most updated ones:

• Thursday
  • 800/1500 Free, Relays: 2:30pm
• 11-14 State Friday-Sunday
  • Prelims: 7:00am
  • Finals: 4:30pm
• 10&U TF & 11-14JOs:
  • Friday: 12noon
  • Saturday/Sunday: 11:45am

  All swimmers are expected to wear this year's Divisionals shirt (dark blue) on Thursday, this year's team shirt (teal) on Friday, last year's Divisionals shirt (purple) on Saturday, and any other team shirt on Sunday (preference for the Winter Training ones, or last year's team shirt, white). As always, if you do not have any of those shirts please wear another team shirt or a shirt of the same color.

  Final team entries and the Psych Sheet are all posted below. Our relay entries are also posted below, and as usual a note here - relays and relay orders can always be changed at the meet at the coaches' discretion (swimmers attending the meet as relay-only will definitely swim, but orders might be changed). You can also find a link to the complete heat sheet for the meet below.

  Below there's also a link to the meet host event page, where you can find a lot more information on the meet, including individual sessions Heat Sheets, and where they will be posting Heat Sheets for Finals throughout the meet as well. Finally, below there is also a link to the parking map around the facility - the parking deck is limited to coaches and officials, but there is plenty of free parking around the facility.

Fun Practices for Blue/Gold and Prep next week

  While swimmers not going to Age Group champs are off this week, we have Fun Practices scheduled for our younger groups next week, and ALL swimmers from those groups are welcome to attend! Blue and Gold will all be on Monday, July 21st, 5:30pm-7:00pm; Jr/Prep will be on Tuesday, July 22nd, 9:30am-11:00am.

  These are always a great chance for us to wrap-up the season with the swimmers, hand out some of the hardware collected over the previous weekend, and have some fun and games in the pool. Hope you can make it! After those, all our younger swimmers (except those still training for Sr State, Zones or Futures) will be off until the pre-season kicks off on August 11th.

Registration for 2025-26 Swim Team Now Opens - Few Groups on Waitlist!

  Registration for next year's swim team are open to the general public. As expected, some of our groups (Gold, Jr and Prep) are already on a waitlist. Swimmers who have not yet registered for those groups should sign-up for the waitlist ASAP, and we will try to take on a few more into each of those groups, but are also committed to maintaining the quality of our program, which means swimmers in each group to a manageable number.

  Fees for all groups will remain the same as last year, but we will switch to billing 11 months. The registration will increase to $175 and will now include a Team Suit! That registration does not include USA-Swimming registration, which we will once again charge returning swimmers in November. Practice times and coaches will remain largely unchanged. You should sign up for the same group you are currently in unless you received a move-up letter - those went out last week.

  In order to register for next year you do need to have your account current. If having your account current and covering the registration fee will be a financial difficulty, please contact a coach right away to make other arrangements. This is also a great time to put in a good word on our club to help us recruit new swimmers! New swimmers will need to schedule an evaluation using the form below - however, HS-aged swimmers do not need an evaluation, they should instead e-mail Coach Hugh to set up a meeting.

Up Next: Senior State Champs Jul 24-27

  This year's LCM Senior State Champs will be back at the Gabrielsen Natatorium at UGA (330 River Rd, Athens, GA 30602), July 24-27. This is a full, 4-day (that's correct, this meet is now four days rather than 3) Prelims/Finals meet.

  This will be the main end of season meet for all swimmers with State cuts (note that, as the meet has been expanded to 4 days, these cuts are now the same as they were for the SCY meet back in December) not attending Futures, Zones, or Jr Nationals. Those swimmers should have plans to attend Finals all four days. As such, we STRONGLY encourage those swimmers to have a place to stay in Athens rather than drive back and forth.

  Swimmers attending Junior Nationals the following week should work out participation on a few days with their coach.

  Replies for this meet are now past due, and our entries are posted below. As always, please double check your entries for possible mistakes! Below you can also find our first draft of relay line-ups for the meet - and as always, please note that relays and relay orders can always be changed by the coaching staff up to and at the meet.

Coming Up: Speedo Junior National Championships Jul 30 - Aug 3

  The Summer Jr Nationals are the highest-level meet available to 18&U swimmers in the country through the entire year. This year's meet is scheduled to take place in Irvine, CA.

  This will be a Team Travel meet. For this meet, swimmers get some assistance from the LSC, and the club covers the rest of the costs for the trip. All qualified swimmers should plan on attending this meet.

  More info on the meet is available at the USA-Swimming landing page for it (link below), and our entries are posted below. As always, please double check your entries for possible mistakes!

Pre-season Starts August 11th

  Our 2025-26 pre-season training will start during on the 2nd week of school, on Monday, August 11th, and will run through September 4th, with all groups being off on Labor day. Here's the pre-season schedule:

• Senior (starts August 18th): Mon/Wed 3:00pm-5:30pm, Tue/Thu 3:00pm-5:45pm
• Sr2 & Sr3: Mon/Wed 2:45pm-5:00pm, Tue/Thu 2:45pm-5:15pm
• Prep & Jr: Mon-Thu, 5:45pm-7:45pm
• Gold: Mon/Wed, 5:00pm-6:30pm
• Blue: Tue/Thu, 5:15pm-6:30pm

  All groups will have a mix of play for dryland, some introduction to swimming skills (and some training for the older groups), and plenty of water polo! As mentioned above, there will be no practices on Labor Day (September 1st). The regular season will then officially start on Monday, September 8th.

Masters Group Growing (and Going) Strong!

  Our Masters group continues to have both a great time and great workouts! At this point they are meeting Mon/Wed 6:00am-7:00am, Mon/Wed/Fri 12noon-1:00pm and Tue/Thu 6:00pm-7:00pm - about 15 min of on deck dryland warmup and 45 min swim each day. It is being coached by Coach Andrea in the midday and Coach Hugh in the evenings, and there are always different levels of workouts each day so anyone should be able to find a level they are comfortable with.

  The group has also attended a few meets by now, and we not only had coaches at those as well, but Coach Hugh has even joined in for a relay and a few swims! The cost is $75/month, and if you would like to join please contact coach Hugh (hugh@gwinnettaquatics.com).

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!

2025 Summer Practice Schedule (updated 5/26)