What an incredible weekend of celebrations! 

This past Saturday, like many of you, I had the honor of running in the first LLKR 5K race. And while, I didn't finish first, I won.... because we all won by simply being part of such a celebration of Kate's life. The experience of running in a crowd of Excel, for this incredible event, was an experience that will stay with me for life. 

Then the very next day, I was again honored to be a part of the awards ceremony. While as a staff, we are very cognizant of tracking meet to meet performance, when we gather the data for an entire season, the results can be surpassing. Listing to the endless lists of Excel firsts, I was reminded of all the hard work that so many people put into these successes. The swimmers, our coaches and parents, all put in incredible amounts of time and energy and Sunday was a very visible celebration of the results of those efforts.

Thank you to each and everyone of you for all that you do.

The 2025 Excel Aquatics Awards ceremony this weekend, was another beautiful event were we honored the 2024-25 seasons- and we sure had a lot to celebrate! This past calendar year has seen two of the most successful seasons in Excel's history. The numbers of team records, the team championships, our national rankings and countless other metrics, all point to team who's growth and development are at the very top of the country. 

The afternoon stared with our youngest swimmers receiving awards for IM Tough and for winning the 8 & under championships. Our 9-14 year olds were up next with their slew of accomplishments, including earning 2nd at Age Group Sectionals. Finally our senior swimmers were recognized for among other things, the 28 swimmers who have achieved NCSA Junior National time standards and therefore a place on our national team.

One other note about the ceremony, we also recognized the Open Water National Team, our first Para Swimming national qualifier, our Athlete Rep to the SES conference and our two National Camp participants.

A huge "Thank You" to our host Brentwood Baptist Church for efforts to bring this event to life. 

USA Swimming's Virtual Club Championship 

Murfreesboro- Just remember that our summer schedule will start one week later than the other sites as Rutherford County schools get out one week later. We will begin our summer schedule on Monday June 2nd.
- Coach JJ

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 5-9-25 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
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

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