Pumpkin Spice Splash is Here
Pumpkin Spice Splash is Here
October 23-29th
Brentwood
No Monday Practices
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Longview
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice Schedule
October 30th-November 5th
Brentwood
Normal Practice Schedule
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Longview
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice Schedule
November 6-12th
Brentwood
No Friday or Saturday Practices
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Longview
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice Schedule
Tomorrow is the first day of our second home meet of the season. The first ever "Pumpkin Spice Splash" will kick off a shortened 2 day format which will be only the second time that many of our swimmers have raced this season.
While it does fall in the peak of our training for many of the older groups, we still expect to see some huge jumps in performance from our first meet.
Keep a special eye on some of our younger swimmers who may be swimming some events for the first time. Remember too that all of our 12 and under groups are currently ranked first in the SES conference and that only should be more pronounced after this weekend.
Remember that at the end of each day, you can see a quick recap on all of our social media!
Congratulations to the whole Calkins Family for their successful week in Kona Hawaii! Mom Tara qualified for the first ever All-Women’s Ironman World Championships this year and she took the whole squad with her. Excel Swimmers Madeline and Griffin Calkins were able to compete in the Keiki Dip-n-Dash which was a sprint swim and run. But the big event was this past Saturday where Tara completed the 140.7 mile race in 11:50.47 which placed her 80th out of 332 of the best triathletes in the world. Congratulations to the whole Calkins family!
USA Swimming's Virtual Club Championship
Throughout the short course season, we will be carefully following our team's national ranking as we aim to break into the top 40 for the first time every. You can follow along. here!
Over the course of the short course season, our club will be tracking a series of recognition programs to help motivate our swimmers to succeed un a multitude of events. While ultimately these programs do reward success, they are designed to be achievable by any level of swimmers, not just those with the most experience. You can always find the running totals for each at the bottom of the Excel Extras.
Heat Winner: Place in the top three swimmers in your age group for number of races won throughout the year. This award to favor those athletes that are attending meets, swimming lots of events, racing hard but most importantly, improving throughout the year. Winners will receive a "Heat Winner" bag tag.
IM Tough: 8 & Younger Swimmers- Swim a legal 50 Fly, 50 Back, 50 Breast, 200 Free & 200 IM during the season
9 & 10 Swimmers- Swim a legal 100 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 IM and 500 Free during the season
IM Hall of Fame Level 1- Attain a Southeastern Championship Qualifying time standard in every event available for your age group.
IM Hall of Fame Level 2- Attain an Age Group Sectionals Championship Qualifying time standard in every event available for your age group.
IM Hall of Fame Level 3- Attain an NCSA Junior National Championship Qualifying time standard in every event available for your age group.
All of our parent volunteers play a vital role in hosting meets. We simply could not host meets in your absence. While most jobs take little training or experience, meet officials go through an educational and training process that enables them to help officiate at all meets. In fact, our own Excel officials have outnumbered the host team officials in both our first two meets. We are very grateful to our officiating crew but are always looking for new members. Meet officials
Ensure a safe and fair competition for all our athletes
Satisfy all their volunteer requirements
Have the best seat in the pool
Have access to hospitality
If you have any interest in becoming a USA Swimming Certified official, please contact Laura DeMotte at officials@excelaquatics.org
October 21-22 Pumpkin Spice Invite
October 26th TNAQ Registration Deadline
November 3rd Excel VCC Grand Prix Registration Deadline
November 10th-12th TNAQ Meet
November 18th- Excel VCC Grand Prix
Our Weekly Update for 10-20-23 has been released so check it out! You may have noticed that we are receiving intros from a wide variety of sources. Olympians, SEC Champions, officials, swim moms and vendors are just some of the folks who have made an appearance. If you are traveling and want to send us an intro from a unique location, we'll be sure to include it. Interested in seeing where they all come from so far? Check out Excel Aquatics from around the world below!
Looking for information on any of our coaches? Check out our Coaching Tab the website. If you have questions for a coach this will help guide you-
2023-24 Season Running Totals
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings in the SES Conference (73 teams):
1st Excel
2nd Ensworth
3rd NAC
4th TNAQ
5th McCallie/GPS
SwimCloud.com Excel Rankings in the SES Conference (73 teams):
8 & Under Girls 1st 8 & Under Boys 1st
9-10 Girls 1st 9-10 Boys 1st
11-12 Girls 1st 11-12 Boys 1st
13-14 Girls 2nd 13-14 Boys 1st
15-18 Girls 4th 15-18 Boys 3rd
IM Tough Qualifiers:
9-10
Abbie Georgieva
Brooklyn Lewis
Caroline Dealy
Clayton Gann
Keaton Hubbard
Heat Winners
8 & Under Girls
Ava Grace Barker 4
Savannah
Copa-Brzozowski 3
Anna Duggin 3
8 & Under Boys
Owen Akard 5
Silas Rowe 5
Jaxon Fennig 4
9 & 10 Girls
Caroline Dealy 10
Emma Fleming 5
Brynn Humphreys 3
Morgan Meinardi 3
Lissy Robinson 3
9 & 10 Boys
Keaton Hubbard 10
Jack Calhoun 5
Jack Granstaff 3
Bennett Whitaker 3
11 & 12 Girls
Mae Li 11
Lynnea Laudencia 3
Kate Rust 3
Avarie Trinidad 3
11 & 12 Boys
Chris Georgiev 7
Ari Rosner 4
Logan Ayca 3
Ben Edwards 3
Roman McLaughlin 3
13 & 14 Girls
Zara Kocak 5
Rylee Tomaszewski 4
Bri Johnson 3
Zoe Carothers 3
13 & 14 Boys
Caleb Asebrook 9
Zaki Ibrahim 5
Landon Quinn 3
Wyatt Hamilton 3
15-18 Girls
Allison Travis 3
Kacie McDonough 3
Janie Grace Moss 2
Sadie Smith 2
15-18 Boys
Samuel Martin 6
Alex White 5
Josh Hession 4
Josh Trinidad 4
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