May 19 - 25
Brentwood
No Monday Practices
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule except:
No Junior Practice at GCC on Saturday
Spring Hill
No Monday AM Practices
No Bronze, Teal or Junior Practices on Tuesday
No Saturday Practices
Murfreesboro
No Monday Practices
May 26 - June 1
Brentwood
No Monday Practices
Summer Schedule Begins
Gallatin
No Monday Practices
Last week of Winter Schedule
Spring Hill
No Monday Practices
Summer Schedule Begins
Murfreesboro
No Monday Practices
Summer Schedule Begins
June 2 - 8
Brentwood
No Practices on Friday and Saturday
Gallatin
No Practices on Friday and Saturday
Spring Hill
No Practices on Friday and Saturday
Murfreesboro
No Practices on Friday and Saturday
I wanted to take this opportunity to share a very personal update with my Excel Family. As many of your know, my wife Jess and I have been in the adoption process for about a year.
We are thrilled to announce that we have been placed with a birth mother and her due date is rapidly approaching. This of course is incredibly exciting but unfortunately, never a sure thing until after the birth. Therefore sharing where we are in the process isn't easy but I do want to let you know that any time in the next three weeks, we expect to travel to where the mother lives to be with her during the birth, and stay for 10-12 days with our new baby before returning home.
Our coaching staff is fully up to speed and ready to continue with all day to day operations during my absence and I am very grateful to have their support.
Thanks so much for being an incredibly supportive group of families and I look forward to sharing more good news very soon.
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!
Spring Hill - This Monday, following the Meet, we will be canceling all Monday AM practices but will resume afternoon schedule as normal.
Coach Carrie
Gallatin- While we will have a full practice schedule for Monday, there will be no Junior practice on Saturday, 5/24 at the GCC.
Coach Andreea
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
5/16-18 Excel May Open
6/6-8 Firecracker
Our Weekly Update for 5-16-25 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-
2025 Long Course Season Running Totals
NCSA Junior National Qualifiers: 28
SES Summer Championship Qualifiers: 111
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):
SES Teams National Rankings
Excel #45
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 Short Course
8 & Under Girls
Abi Brownyard 13
Alexa Copa Brzozowski 7
Makena Nelson 7
8 & Under Boys
James Dyatlovitsky 15
Bode Mello 15
Nico Pantana 7
9 & 10 Girls
Arden Ford 29
Savannah Copa Brzozowski 24
Violet Vitale 14
Maya Foerester 14
9 & 10 Boys
Owen Akard 20
Walker Lewis 17
Chris McMurtray 14
11 & 12 Girls
Caroline Dealy 55
Brooklyn Lewis 26
Maya Li 17
11 & 12 Boys
Boston Boyd 43
Charlie Turner 35
Henry Schopfer 30
13 & 14 Girls
Mae Li 34
Lily Irvine 14
Millie Wood 10
13 & 14 Boys
Gabe Gortarez 22
Campbell Johnson 17
Callum Farneth 15
15-18 Girls
Allie Joyce 32
Zara Kocak 25
Bryce Winzenread 22
15-18 Boys
Zaki Ibrahim 22
Evan Xu 16
Gavin Fu 16
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