Congratulations to the our newest Southeastern Championship Excel Team! Our win by over a 1,000 points is the biggest in our history and we couldn't be more proud of the effort by all our swimmers. Not only is this now our 5th consecutive SES championship but it also completes our 3rd consecutive Triple Crown win!
Thank you so much to all our coaches and parent volunteers who put in a very long weekend to make this dream possible. 

By The Numbers:
1st Place- Girls, Boys and Combined Team
1st Place- 10 & Under Boys, 11-12 Boys, 13-14 Boys and Open Girls
131 Number of Excel Swimmers
789 Number of Excel Races
400 Number of Lifetime Best Races
50.7% Percentage of Lifetime Best Races
13 Swimmers with All Lifetime Best Races
12 New Team Records
4 New National Team Members
11 New NCSA Junior National Cuts
4 New Age Group Sectionals Qualifiers
17 New Age Group Sectional Cuts
102 New USA Swimming Motivational Time Standards

Team Scores 

Swimmers with All Lifetime Bests

New Team Records

Mae Li 13-14 Girls 50 Back 26.69

Bryce Winzenread Open 50 Breast 28.77
Open 200 Breast 2:14.93

Gavin Fu Open Boys 50 Fly 22.34

Gavin Chen 11-12 Boys 200 Medley Relay 1:48.84
Griffin Oldham
Henry Schopfer
Boston Boyd

Jacob Keen 13-14 Boys 400 Medley Relay 3:38.33
Fredric Burks
Callum Farneth
Gabe Gortarez

Allie Joyce Open Girls 400 Medley Relay 3:43.24
Bryce Winzenread
Zara Kocak
Madeline Webb

Alex White Open Boys 200 Free Relay 1:26.45
Max Boylan
Mason Schaefer
Gavin Fu

Gavin Fu Open Boys 400 Free Relay 3:05.59
Josh Hession
Zaki Ibrahim
Max Boylan

Carter Souliere Open Boys 200 Medley Relay 1:33.90
Max Boylan
Gavin Fu
Alex White

Josh Hession Open Male 400 Medley Relay 3:23.94
Max Boylan
Zaki Ibrahim
Gavin Fu

Allie Joyce Mixed Open 200 Medley Relay 1:36.91
Max Boylan
Gavin Fu
Madeline Webb

New Summer Junior Cut

Bryce Winzenread 200 Breast 2:14.93

New National Team Members

Claire Calhoun
Marios Gerasimopoulos
Campbell Johnson
Mae Li

New NCSA Junior National Cuts

Claire Calhoun 100 Breast
Sarah Carrico 200 & 1,650 Free
Allie Joyce 200 Free
Lyndel Laudencia 200 Back
Maryellen Lewis 50 Free
Mae Li 100 Back
Gavin Fu 50 & 500 Free
Marios Gerasimopoulos 100 Fly
Mason Schaefer 100 Fly

New Open Water National Cut

Campbell Johnson 1,650 Free

New Age Group Sectional Qualifiers

Cooper England
Maya Li
Vanni Ly
Walker Lewis

New Age Group Sectional Cuts

Savannah Copa-Brzozowski 100 Fly
Charlee Folk 100 Back, 100 Fly
Oana Kocak 100 Back
Maya Li 50 Free
Vanny Ly 50 Free, 100 Breast
Ruby Kate Meredith 50 Back
Violet Vitale 200 Free
Cooper England 100 Free
Clayton Gann 200 IM
Walker Lewis 50 & 100 Back
Griffin Oldham 100 Fly
Jack Terrell 500 Free
Bennett Whitaker 200 & 500 Free

New USA Swimming Motivational Time Standards

We did it! By winning the combined team title at the 2025 Southeastern Winter Championships, we defended our Triple Crown. While the season isn't over, this weekend was an opportunity for me to reflect on the progress that we have made as a team. As each of the meets in the Triple Crown has an almost entirely unique set of athletes, winning all three indicates that each level of our team is thriving.

Thriving, but not done improving. While we are the Southeastern Champions, we don't have to look very far outside of our conference to find teams ranked ahead of us. In fact, in cities as close as Atlanta or Louisville, we can find teams ranked in the top 15 of the country and as the Head Coach, I will be challenging our coaching staff to keep pushing ourselves to close those gaps.

So congratulations to each Excel family, you now have a new champion in your household but know this, the best us yet to come!

USA Swimming's Virtual Club Championship 

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.  

Our Weekly Update for 2-28-25 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-

NCSA Junior National Qualifiers:  26
Age Group Sectional Qualifiers: 46
SES Winter Championship Qualifiers: 132
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):

SES Teams National Rankings
Excel #36
HSA #55
TNAQ #82
Ensworth #121
NAC #190

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 2nd 13-14 Boys 1st
15-18 Girls 1st 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 Caroline Dealy
Boston Boyd Brooklyn Lewis
Jack Calhoun Boston Boyd

Gavin Chen Gabe Gortarez
Caroline Dealy Campbell Johnson

Arden Ford
Gabe Gortarez
Josh Hession
Keaton Hubbard
Zaki Ibrahim
Campbell Johnson
Zara Kocak
Brooklyn Lewis
Chris McMurtray
Silas Rowe
Henry Schopfer
Charlie Turner
Bryce Winzenread

IM Tough Qualifiers
8 & Under  50 Fly, 50 Back, 50 Breast, 200 Free & 200 IM in the one season

Farley Beth Brown

Abi Brownyard

Savannah Copa-Brzozowski

Maya Foerster

Emily Georgieva

Walker Lewis
Bode Mello

Nico Panatana

Henry Reed

Addie Willard

9-10 100 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 FR, 500 Free & 200 IM in one season
Hayes Akard

Owen Akard

Artie Boyd

June Buffington

Ellery Carson

Elizabeth Conti

Savannah Copa-Brzozowski

Parker Dyatlovitsky

Maya Foerester

Arden Ford

Katy Francisco
Lily Furlong

Harper Grant

Emerson Grauzer

Lincoln Kelly

Walker Lewis

Chris McMurtray

Emma Nguyen

Leo Pantana

Lily Park

Gracie Preseley

Alice Reseland

Silas Rowe

Abby Simkins

Hannah Simkins

Ryder Smith

Nora Tice

Violet Vitale

Heat Winners 

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