Fall 2 Meet Next Weekend October 19-20

10/11 - Gwinnett Aquatics and Spartan Aquatics will host the second meet of the season, Fall 2, at Freeman Aquatic Center at the Greater Atlanta Christian School Saturday October 5.  This meet will offer swimmers the opportunity to swim the next distance up of the free, back and IM.  It will also offer a 2nd day of swimming on Sunday dedicated just to the 500 free. 

The meet will be the second of the 2024 Fall Series for which there will be a team champion as well as individual high point winners. Those individual winners in each age group (standard double year) at the end of the series will receive a special High Point winner towel! Current leaders are linked below. 

Heat sheets are available now for download. We encourage everyone to print their own copy as there will be none available at the venue.    Please note: the 500s require positive check-in by 1:20 on Sunday. The heat sheet for those is the same as a psych sheet since it won't be seeded until after check-in. They will be swum fast to slow alternating girls, then boys.

Session 1, Saturday, October 19 (13Os)  – Warmup: 730am / Meet Starts: 815am
Session 2, Saturday, October 19 (10Us, 11-12 boys) – Warmup: 11am / Meet Starts: 1145am
Session 1, Saturday, October 19 (13Os, 11-12 girls)  – Warmup: 230pm / Meet Starts: 315pm
Session 1, Sunday, October 20 (500-all ages)  – Warmup: 1pm / Meet Starts: 145pm

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Spartan Wins Pentathlon in Close Race, Next Up Fall Series 2 October 19-20

10/6 - SPAC won the first meet of the Fall Series today at their pool at GAC in one of the tightest 3-way races we've had. SPAC scored 654 points to GA's 489 (3rd) and LIFE's 534 (2nd). New member of the Fall Series League, Peachtree Aquatic Club (PAC) scored a respectable 145 with a smaller squad.  In addition swimmers were ranked based on their combined time in all five races with the winners in each age group winning a special "Pentathlon Champion" Fall Series T-Shirt Based on cumulative time for all five events the T-Shirt winners for best times in each age group were:

8U: Reynolds Bowers, Ben El-Alam & Thomas Nicely
9 yr olds: Valarie Monroe, Jaden Bae
10 yr olds: Mokara Collier,Aaron Campbell
11 yr olds:  Aliana McCann, Jacob Kim
12 yr olds: Isabel Traynor, Ian Hwang
13 yr olds: Madison Pierce, Vincent Tuck
14 yr olds: Karoline Groves, Lance Grimm| 15O: Abigail Heizer, Baylor Stanton.

The meet was also the first of the Fall Series for which there will be High point winners. There is a link to this meet's high point leaders below.  The High point winners in each age group (standard double year) at the end of the series will receive a High Point winner towel! 

For Gwinnett Aquatics after a slow start we were able to win 4 of the 6 age groups in the afternoon to keep it close.  66 swimmers achieved their first time standards of the season, and 19 their first state cuts, including some for the first time. Those numbers included Emery Wells who got her first AA times while Morgan Henry and Zoe Jinadu got their first BB's and Knox Estep, Arina Kovalenkov, Valarie Monroe, Andrian Strokan, and Yuchelle Wong got their first B times!  In addition Jinadu and Strokan got their first ever state cut. 

The next meet in October 19-20, back at Freeman Aquatic Center at the Greater Atlanta Christian School, with some new longer events.

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Gwinnett Aquatics Seniors Wrap up Long Course 2024

7/30 - The last nine swimmers wrapped up the 24 long course season this past weekend at two of the top senior meets of the year. The Futures meet was in Huntsville, AL while the Georgia Senior State Champs were in Athens. 

Baylor Stanton led the way at Futures scoring all six of his events, winning three.  Collier Stanton and Hannah-Claire Jowers also scored four times to make this quite the power trio. 

At State it was a very different experience with fully half of the group of six at their first ever Senior State Champs.  Nonetheless four of them, Nate Beeney, Jack Dunbar, Sarah Heppe and Brandon Noble all scored. 

Along the way Baylor picked up another team record and Jimmy Wang picked up his first even AA time!  Collier and Brandon were 100% best times. 

Now everyone gets a couple weeks off before we start it up all over again.  Pre-season 2024-25 starts August 12!  Regular schedule starts Sept 9 with the first meet just 4 weeks later. 

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Ga⚡Ga Seventh at Age Group State Champs!

7/17 - Gwinnett Aquatics took seventh overall this weekend at the Georgia Age Group State Champs, third in the Medium Teams division (against much larger teams, and even beating all but one of the teams from the Large Teams Division).  

Like last year, scoring was shared by a large group of swimmers. We had fourteen swimmers score, almost as many as last year just not quite as highly.  This is actually a great achievement as so many of those top swimmers from last year are now in the bottom of their age groups.  Led by our top scorer Ernesto Santiesteban-Pizarro we had seven swimmers with top ten finishes.  Others were Kate Breiding, Emily Hardy, Jude Stanton, Ella Wells, and Cole Wright.  Also scoring were Eddie El Osta, Cate Joyce, Aliana McCann, Riley Pynn, Vincent Tuck, Emery Wells, and Benicio Zimmerman, who now heads off to Texas! :-(

But the real catalyst for our high finish were our great relays with over 35 swimmers getting in on the scoring action.  That included two relays that broke team records.  Breiding, Hardy, Joyce, and Brianna Exil broke the 13-14 200 medley and Cameron Jones, Justin Bennett, Nic Ramdeo, and Andy Zhu broke the 200 free relay. 

On top of all that Hardy and Wright earned their first AAA (All-Star) times (Cole's first ever!), while Joyce, Stanton, Bri Exil and Andy Zhu picked up their first ever AA's and Zimmerman got his first ever A times.  In addition Alex Matveev all got his first state cut.

Now it will be the Senior swimmer's turn as most of them start their State and Futures Champs this weekend. Everyone else now has a break and we look forward to seeing them back for preseason August 12. 

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