Our long course meet season begins this weekend and I we are all excited to get things kicked off. Following the most successful short course season ever, this summer promises to be huge!

Short and long course seasons differ in a couple of ways that are important for all of our members to understand. While both regular seasons end with an SES championship, long course season doesn't offer an 8 & under, Region 1 or even Age Group Sectional championships. However, long course does offer an Age Group Zone championships. This a zone wide championship in which only selected athletes are invited to.

The other meaningful changes are that long course IMX scores are often used in the selection of USA Swimming select camps and other recognitions. At the very highest end of our sport, long course racesa are the only ones that can earn a swimmer a spot at the 2028 Olympic Trials meet.

Finally, one of our long term team goals is to earn a Club Excellence banner (similar to the others hanging in the ISC) and that too, can only be earned through long course racing.

So buckle up, this is going to be a fun season and one that we will all remember! 

All team members and their families are cordially invited to the Excel Aquatics Awards Banquet.  This event will take place on May 4th at 2pm at the Brentwood Baptist Church.  We certainly hope to see everyone there to celebrate all of the individual and team acheivements from this past short course season.  You will receive more information in your email regarding specific directions to get to the correct auditorium once you arrive at Brentwood Baptist.  It is a large campus.

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 4-25-25 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:  28
Age Group Sectional Qualifiers: 46
SES Summer Championship Qualifiers: 108
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):

SES Teams National Rankings
Excel #41
HSA #69
TNAQ #82
Ensworth #126
NAC #166

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 2nd

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 (as of SES)

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