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2025-26 SCY 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.

Sep 26 - Practice Schedule Changes:
        - Sr1/2/3 2:45pm-5:15pm
        - All other groups regular schedule

Sep 27 - Fall Workday

Oct 4 - Pentathlon @ GAC
    - Please double check your entries!

Oct 9-11 - Fall Break Schedule Changes (more info below)

Oct 17-18 - Fall Racing Series #2 @ GAC
    - Replies due!

Nov 1-2 - Fall Racing Series #3 @ GAC

Nov 5-13 - Swim-a-Thon!

Nov 14-16- SwimMAC LC/SC Invite @ Charlotte
    - Replies due!

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.

October Payments Due

October payments are now 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
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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.

Commitments Are Greater Than Goals
  "While speaking to an NFL team I had each player write their goals on a piece of paper. After a few minutes I had them rip up the paper they had just written on.
  You could feel their anger and frustration while they ripped up the paper they had just spent time and energy writing on. I then asked, "How many of you wrote down win a Super Bowl?"
  All the hands went up. I told them that every person in every NFL meeting room has the same goal but only one team wins a championship. So, it's not your goals that will take you to where you want to go.
  It’s your commitments that will lead you to your goals." 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

Campout & Whitewater Cap Off Week!

  After another great week of training, last Saturday our Senior swimmers headed up to the Hiwassee/Ocoee Scenic River State Park in Tennessee for our annual campout. It was a fun activity, with everyone pitching in to help cook and clean Saturday dinner and Sunday breakfast, plus lots of team bonding and floating down the river and playing on a rope swing!

  On Sunday they were joined by a few brave Prep and Junior swimmers and parents for some whitewater action in the Ocoee river, with well over 40 Ga-Ga swimmers and family members braving the rapits! Between the campout and whitewater we were able to get a few great pictures, so you can also check those out in the picture gallery below (and if you have any more, please add to it!)

  This week, while practices continue to ramp up, we'll also have a busy Saturday with our Fall Workday. You can find more info on that below and in the event page - and as we mentioned before we really appreciate everyone's efforts (literally) to get our tent and property ready for the winter. Below you can also already find our schedule for the upcoming Fall Break, as well as more info on it and important info to keep in mind for the school winter break in February.

  And talking about practice schedule changes, this Friday we'll run a slightly modified schedule to allow our older swimmers to get out a little earlier and enjoy some regular teenage life while supporting their HS football teams - those schedule changes, as always, are listed in the left column. 

  Finally, below you can also already find our entries for next week's Pentathlon, as well as the link to sign-up to help running the meet - as always, we'll rely on our families' help to run great meets for our swimmers through the season! RSVPs for the Fall Series #2 are also already due. As you can see, there's a LOT to stay up to date with, so be sure to read on!

Fall Workday This Saturday Sep 27th

  Our Fall Family Workday will be this Saturday, September 27th, starting at 8:00am - we are usually done by noon, and it's ok for families to plan on being there for a 2h shift instead of the whole time. There's a lot we'll need help with so please keep this date open and come help!

  We will be doing grounds work and putting up most of the tent - and all the pieces going up will need to be cleaned beforehand. Stronger workers will need gloves for helping with the tent. For those who would rather do grounds work, we often run out of yard tools so please bring yours - especially wheelbarrows and hedgers. Also, don't forget to bring some insect repellent and sunscreen to work on the grounds!

  If you can’t come on this date, we will some extra work that can be done 5:30-7:30pm the two days before and Monday after. If you need to work one of those please email coach Hugh (hugh@gwinnettaquatics.com) beforehand to coordinate it.

First Meet Will Be GA/SPAC Pentathlon Oct 4th

  Our first meet of the season will once again be our Pentathlon, to be hosted at the Greater Atlanta Christian School (GAC) (1575 Indian Trail Rd, Norcross, GA 30093) on Saturday, October 4th. All swimmers are expected to attend! Here's the schedule for the meet (please note warm-up times might change a little after we get all the entries in):

• Session 1 (13&O): 7:30am warm-ups
• Session 2 (12&Us): 12:15pm warm-ups

  Replies for this meet are now past due, and our entries are posted below. Please, remember to always double check your entries for possible mistakes! If you missed the deadline but are available to attend please contact your coach ASAP.

  In addition, as we are co-hosting this meet, we will need a few volunteers for each session. You can use the link below if you'd like to sign up to help. If you are new to the team and don't quite know what some of those jobs entail, please don't hesitate to ask - none of them require any prior experience, and we'll need as many families as possible helping out with our hosted meets through the year.

Coming Up: Fall Racing Series #2 Oct 17-18

  Our second meet of the season will be the #2 in our Fall Series, back at GAC, (1575 Indian Trail Rd, Norcross, GA 30093), October 17th & 18th. All swimmers are expected to attend! This meet will offer a few longer events (in freestyle and backstroke) than the Pentathlon. Here's the general schedule for the meet:

• Friday
  • All ages (500 Free): 3:30pm warm-up
• Saturday
  • 13&O swimmers: 7:30am warm-up
  • 12&U swimmers: warm-up no sooner than 11:30am (please note, depending on entries younger age groups might be moved to a 3rd session)

  Replies for this meet are due Thursday, October 2nd - you can use the link below to sign up. If you anticipate any possible scheduling conflict, please use the 'notes' section to let us know. If you have any questions please contact your child's coach ASAP.

Fall Break Practice Schedule Oct 10-14th

   As mentioned above, we will have a few changes to our schedule during Gwinnett County Schools' Fall Break October 9th-13th. As this is still early season, we'll have a few groups double on Thursday, our older groups (Prep and above) will have practice Friday morning, and then we'll be off until Monday. Here's the schedule for each group during those days:

• Thursday, Oct 9th:
• Senior 1: 8:15am-10:00am & 3:00pm-6:15pm
• Senior 2: 7:30am-9:00am & 2:45pm-5:15pm
• Senior 3: 2:45pm-5:15pm
• Prep: 10:00am-11:30am & 6:15pm-8:30pm
• Jr Team: 6:15pm-8:15pm
• Blue & Gold: 5:30pm-7:00pm
• Friday, Oct 10th:
• Senior 1: 8:00am-10:30am
• Senior 2 & 3: 7:00am-9:30am
• Prep & Jr: 10:00am-12:00noon
• Blue & Gold: off

 ALL groups will be off on Saturday, Oct 11th, and return to their normal practice schedule on Monday, October 13th. Please note that, while we are trying to give everyone a longer break during Fall Break, Gwinnett County Schools also has a Winter Break in their calendar (Feb 12th-16th), and that is very close to the Championship Season in March. Therefore, we expect all swimmers to stay in town during that one, as we will HAVE to maintain training at that time.

Coming Up: SwimMAC LC/SC Invite Nov 15-16

  The SwimMAC LC/SC Invite will take place in Charlotte, NC. Prelims will be LCM at the SwimMAC pool at the Charlotte Lattin School (9502 Providence Rd, Charlotte, NC 28277), and Finals will be SCY at the Klein Aquatics Center (1440 Carmel Rd, Charlotte, NC 28226). This meet is intended for Sr1 swimmers with State Qualifying times and a few Sr2 swimmers (if you are not sure please check with your coach).

  Replies for this meet are due Thursday, October 2nd. We will offer team travel for this meet (if you would NOT to do team travel please indicate on the 'notes' section. In order to set-up team travel, we appreciate getting all RSVPs promptly!

2025 LCM Season Recap

  Gwinnett Aquatics once again put together a great season! Through any season, our favorite indicator of our team's success is always USA-Swimming's Virtual Club Championships (VCC), as it really takes a whole team effort to put up a great score there.

  Our swimmers did just that, getting just shy of 119k points, which was good enough to put us into the top 300 nationally (out of 2500 clubs), and 9th in the LSC - where we are about 19th in size. Number of swimmers makes a big difference in this score, as otherwise you don't fill up age groups; in the VCC Score report below, you can see how we stack up against clubs that compared with clubs about the same size (up to 150 swimmers, we had around 110), we were 7th place in the country, and by far the highest ranked club in Georgia! Below there's also a summary of how we got that score.

  Our next favorite yardstick is usually our IMX Scores - you can find more info on what those are in that link, but basically in order to get a score swimmers need to compete in every stroke as well as the IM, which means they are capable of competing in a wide range of events. That in turn usually leads swimmers to have a wider range of possible improvements as they continue through the sport.

  And just as in VCC, our swimmers really shined when it came to IMX: we had 30 swimmers complete all the events required for their age group, 28 of which broke the 1.000 points mark! Of those, 7 scored over 3.000, including Baylor Stanton and Hannah-Claire Jowers who both broke the team record for their age groups! Baylor was once again well over 5k points and led the country in his age! You can see the full report for everyone who completed those events in the link below - and a shout out should also go to Collier Stanton for going way above 4k points!

  In addition, Jowers and Baylor combined with Kate Breiding, Emily Hardy and Emory Wells to break a whooping 16 individual Team Records during the season! On top of that, we had the best year we can ever remember for our relays, with our swimmers combining to break an astounding 12 Relay Records!!! Those were: 10&U Girls 200 Free; 11-12 Girls 400 Medley, Senior Girls 400 Medley, Senior Boys 800 Free, and an HUGE shout out to both our 13-14 Girls and Boys, who all broke their 200 and 400 Free AND Medley Records - that was 4 records each, ALL the relays they swam at their championship meet!

  Talking about championship meets, we placed 6th at Age Group State, only coming behind much larger teams and beating a few teams that outnumber us more than 2 to 1! At Senior State, we placed 7th, with the same outsize quality, and had a few of our swimmers wrap up the season with a 20th place finish at Summer Juniors! Well, and not to mention having Baylor Stanton rep the USA and make finals at the World Junior Championships!

  Congrats to all our swimmers and thanks to everyone who helped make this such a successful season! You can check out all the reports in the links below, including Season Fast 5, and All-time Top 10 - which also had quite a few new entries this past season!

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!

2025-26 School Year Practice Schedule:

• Senior: Mon, Wed, Fri 3:00pm-6:00pm; Tue, Thu 3:00pm-6:15pm; Sat 8:00am-10:30am
• Senior2/3: Mon-Fri 2:45pm-5:15pm; Sat 7:00am-9:15am
• Prep: Mon/Wed/Thu 6:15pm-8:30pm; Fri 6-8:15pm; Sat 11:00am-1:00pm
  • P1 only Tue 6:15pm-8:30pm (starts in October)
• Jr Team: Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri 6:15pm-8:15pm; Sat 11:00am-1:00pm
• Gold: Mon/Wed/Fri 5:30pm-7:00pm; Sat 10:00am-11:30am
• Blue: Tue/Thu 5:45pm-7:00pm; Sat 10:00am-11:30am
• Pre Team: Mon/Wed 5:15pm-6:00pm