New Season Kicks Off with Pentathlon This Saturday October 4

9/28 - Gwinnett Aquatics and Spartan Aquatics will host the first meet of the season, the 13th Annual Pentathlon, at Freeman Aquatic Center at the Greater Atlanta Christian School Saturday October 4.  Swimmers will be ranked based on their combined time in five races with the winners in each age group winning a special "Pentathlon Champion" Fall Series T-Shirt complements of Reddiset.

The meet will also the first of the 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! 

The psych sheet is now posted.  Heat sheets will be available now for download October 1. We encourage everyone to print their own copy as there will be none available at the venue.   

Session 1, Saturday, October 5 (13Os) – Warmup: 730am / Meet Starts:830am
Session 2, Saturday, October 5 (12Us) – Warmup: 1245pm / Meet Starts: 130pm (note change)

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Stanton 6th at Jr World Champs

While the rest of the team was on a break, Baylor Stanton traveled to Otopeni, Romania, to represent Team USA internationally! He had qualified to swim the 200IM back at Nationals in June.

It was his first time representing the Stars and Stripes and he did his country proud. Stanton was the top US athlete in the event, going a best time of 2:01.10 in prelims and then lowering that time again to 2:01.00 in the finals, where he finished 6th. That's 6th place in the world!!! He also set a new team record in that event!

The USA led the medal table as well as the team scoring, and while Baylor was done swimming by day 2 of the 6-day meet, he kept contributing long after being done racing, leading nearly every cheer from the stands. While that means he came back without a voice, he got recognized with the Team Spirit award by the USA staff by the end of the meet!"

Way to go Baylor.

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Ga⚡Ga Shines in Post Season

  While most of the team wrapped up their season a week ago or more, three Gwinnett Aquatics swimmers still had their most important meets of the season: Hannah-Claire Jowers, Baylor and Collier Stanton spent a whole week in California, racing against the top 18&U swimmers in the country at this year's Summer Junior Nationals Championships in Irvine!

  Baylor led the way with 5 scoring swims, including 3 podium finishes and a new Team Record in the 400IM - those were also good enough to make him the third highest individual scorer amongst the boys in the meet, and place Ga-Ga in the top-20! In both their first trips out West to compete at this meet, both Collier and Hannah-Claire had a few great time drops (including in time trials), heat wins (which means ALL our swimmers at the meet had heat wins!), and moved up in seed in nearly all of their events!

  Since the standards to compete at this meet are already so high, there were no new Standard Breakers, but Collier did pick up an additional Summer Jrs cut! You can check out full meet results, team results and team time trial results and in the links below, along with the Standard Breakers list we had last week after Senior State.

  Now, while the rest of the team is all on a break and getting ready to start pre-season next week (more info on that in the article below), Baylor, on his birthday (Happy Birthday!), is getting back into training as he prepares to represent Team USA at the Junior World Championship in Romania late this month! There's not a lot of information out on that meet yet, but you can bet there will be a live stream, and he will swim the 200IM on August 18th.

  And while the rest of the team recharges their batteries to get ready for the 2025-26 season, please take note of a few things that take place either during that or right as we start the regular season: our team fitting on August 26 and 27 (note date change), and our yearly mandatory parent meetings on September 15-18. As usual, complete info on those in the articles below.

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Ga⚡Ga Seventh at Senior State Champs

7/28 - Gwinnett Aquatics finished seventh this weekend at the Georgia Senior State Champs at UGA. As was the case last year, it was an unusual meet as it fell on the same weekend as Futures and many teams, including us, were at less than full strength.

Nonetheless we were able to win the boys 800 free relay in record time and have five swimmers drop top-8 swims. Nate Beeney, Jack Dunbar, Hannah-Claire Jowers, and Baylor and Collier Stanton combined for nine top-10 finishes.  Hannah Burke, Sarah Heppe, Paige Johnson, and Cole Wright also had scoring swims.

Baylor improved on his 200 breast team record. He, Collier, Jack and Nate were the members of the record setting 800 relay while Jowers, Burke, Cate Joyce, and Lillie Robinson broke the team record in the 400m medley relay.

On top of all that Jowers picked up her first AAAA (silver cap), Beeney his first AAA, and Justice Parker his first AA.  In addition Beeney and Heppe got their first Senior Sectional times, and Hannah-Claire and Collier their first Juniors cuts this season.

Jowers and the Stanton brothers are now off to Junior Nationals which starts Wednesday as the rest of us take a well-deserved break until preseason starts August 11. 

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