October 13 - 19
Brentwood
No Saturday Practices
Gallatin
No Monday Practice
No Saturday Practices
Spring Hill
No Saturday Practices
Murfreesboro
No Monday Practices
No Tuesday Practices other than Senior/Varsity AM
October 20 - October 26
Brentwood
No Monday Practices
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Spring Hill
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice Schedule
October 27 - November 3
Brentwood
Normal Practice Schedule
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Spring Hill
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice Schedule
Congratulations to the small group of Excel swimmers who competed this past weekend at the 2024 Memphis Tiger Invite. The University of Memphis pool proved to be a fast and exciting venue where our swimmers really shined. A special "Thank You" to our host team Memphis Tiger for welcoming us to their first home meet of the year.
Meet Report below.
By the Numbers
31 Number of Excel Swimmers
154 Number of Excel Races
93 Number of Lifetime Best Races
60.4% Percentage of Lifetime Best Races
4 Swimmers with All Lifetime Best Races
29 New USA Motivational Time Standards
6 New SES Winter Championships Cuts
1 New SES Qualifier
1 New IM Hall of Fame Qualifier
Welcome to the Southeastern Championship Team
Savannah Copa-Brzozowski
New IM Hall of Fame Level 1 Qualifier
Owen Akard
5 Biggest Swims of the Meet
Alexa Copa-Brzozowski 100 Free- 33.33 second drop (-23.81%)
Emma Brownyard 200 IM- 51.27 second drop (-22.94%)
Alexa Copa-Brzozowski 25 Free 4.36 second drop (-17.81%)
Savannah Copa-Brzozowski 100 Fly- 18.29 second drop (-17.45%)
Gracie Presley 100 Free- 16.35 second drop (-15.89%)
Swimmers with All Lifetime Best Races
Evageline Custer
Jackson Custer
Emerson Grauzer
Bixby Wesley
New SES Time Standards
Savannah Copa-Brzozowski 100 Fly, 200 IM
Harper Grant 200 IM
Violet Vitale 500 Free
Hayes Akard 100 Fly
Owen Akard 500 Free
New USA Swimming Motivational Time Standards
New AAA Times
Owen Akard 50 Back
Lane Andre 100 Back
New AA Times
Owen Akard 200 IM
Sarah Carrico 200 Back
Silas Rowe 50 Fly
Evan Xu 100 Free
New A Times
Owen Akard 500 Free
Lane Andre 200 Free
Sara Carrico 200 Back
Violet Vitale 500 Free
Evan Xu 100 Fly
New BB Times
Emma Brownyard 50 Free
Anna Busteed 100 Back, 100 IM
Sara Carrico 100 Breast
Savannah Copa Brzozowski 100 Back, 100 Fly, 100 Free, 50 Breast, 200 IM
Harper Grant 50 Free
Anna Lasher 100 Fly
Silas Rowe 200 Free, 500 Free
Violet Vitale 50 Breast
Bixby Wesley 50 Breast
Riggin Wesley 200 Free
New B Times
Abi Brownyard 50 Back
Emma Brownyard 200 IM
Gracie Presley 50 Back, 100 Free, 100 Breast
Bixby Wesley 50 Free
Riggin Wesley 100 Breast, 50 Free
Nominated by the Excel Coaches
Anna Lasher who held 1:01/1:00 for repeat 100 freestyles on our fastest average set
Miller's Thrillers
It's that time of year again, time for Excel Aquatics annual trip into the haunted woods of Spring Hill at Miller's Thrillers!
Over the last couple of years, a group of our bravest swimmers head to Miller's Thrillers with some of bravest coaches and tour "Hillybilly Hollar". This year, we will be meeting on Saturday, October 26th at 8:00 pm. Please purchase your tickets for the Hillybilly Hollar and the Slash Pass (total of $50) in advance to assure that we can all go in together. Parents, sibling, friends are all invited.
USA Swimming's Virtual Club Championship
Throughout the long 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 tends to favor those athletes that are attending meets, swimming a lot of events, racing hard but most importantly, improving throughout the year. Winners will receive a "Heat Winner" bag tag.
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
10-19 Pumpkin Spice
10-21 Registration deadline for VCC Meet
11-4 Excel VCC Meet
Our Weekly Update for 10-11-24 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-
2025 Short Course Season Running Totals
NCSA Junior National Qualifiers: 18
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):
SES Teams
Excel #8
TNAQ #30
Ensworth #43
Baylor #65
HSA #85
SwimCloud.com Excel Rankings in the SES Conference (73 teams):
8 & U Girls 1st
8 & U Boys 1st
9-10 Girls 1st
9-10 Boys 1st
11-12 Girls 1st
11-12 Boys 1st
13-14 Girls 1st
13-14 Boys 1st
15-18 Girls 2nd
15-18 Boys 1st
IM Hall of Fame: Achieved a cut in every event:
Level 1: SES Level 2: Age Group Sectionals Level 3: NCSA Junior Nationals
Owen Akard
Charlie Turner
Boston Boyd
Jack Calhoun
IM Tough Qualifiers
8 & Under 50 Fly, 50 Back, 50 Breast, 200 Free & 200 IM in the one season
9-10 100 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 500 Free & 400 IM in one season
Owen Akard
Lily Furlong
Owen Akard
Silas Rowe
Heat Winners
8 & Under Girls
Katelyn Xu 8
Abi Brownyard 8
Savannah Copa Brzozowski 8
8 & Under Boys
James Dyatlovitsky 5
Lincoln Kelly 3
Bode Mello 3
Lionel Sudduth 3
9 & 10 Girls
Anna Busteed 9
Maya Li 8
Lane Andre 6
9 & 10 Boys
Owen Akard 9
Silas Rowe 6
Jack Calhoun 5
Andrew DuBray 5
11 & 12 Girls
Caroline Dealy 7
Maddie Troutt 5
Leela Devela 3
11 & 12 Boys
Boston Boyd 5
Joseph Laurie 3
Ben Edwards 2
James Gortarez 2
Keaton Hubbard 2
Kipton Thompson 2
Charlie Turner 2
Lucas Zeman 2
13 & 14 Girls
Izzie Payton 3
Julia Day 2
Cadence Hammock 2
CJ Koslin 2
Mae Li 2
Lorelai Richardson 2
Kirsty Scott 2
Millie Wood 2
13 & 14 Boys
Evan Xu 6
Campbell Johnson 4
Louie Koslin 3
15-18 Girls
Sarah Carrico 5
Zara Kocak 3
Lyndel Laudencia 2
Joanna Li 2
Grace Moody 2
Evie Riley 2
Sara Grace Terrell 2
Madeline Webb 2
15-18 Boys
Mercer Mimms 4
Max Boylan 3
Zaki Ibrahim 3
Alex White 3
Matthew Amodio 3
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