Now that our holidays are in the books, we look back on the last two weeks of training with lots excitement for the championship season. We had a couple of key indicators of good things to come that I want to share with you all.

First, Williamson County Parks & Rec have been incredibly supportive of our program for a long time. Specifically, the aquatics team at the Brentwood ISC allowed us to hold additional practices, even when the facility was closed and that greatly increased what we were able to accomplish this break. 

Second, our attendance was way up over last year. Not only did we see much larger numbers than normal, we also saw an influx of returning college visiting swimmers. In fact, our attendance was so good, we had just about 50 swimmers who hit perfect attendance for the last two weeks and earned their special green Holiday Training cap. 

So now we turn our attention to the Championship Season. In the last two short course seasons, Excel has won the team title at the 8 & Under Championships, the Region 1 Championships and finally the Southeastern Winter Championships earning us the coveted Triple Crown. While winning even one of those meets is a huge task, we are aiming at sweeping all three for a third time in a row.

If the last two weeks are any indicator of the rest of the season, we are ready to go! 

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 1-3-25 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:  20
Age Group Sectional Qualifiers: 34
SES Winter Championship Qualifiers: 106
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):

SES Teams National Rankings
Excel #39
HSA #65
TNAQ #72
Ensworth #126
NAC #168

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 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
Boston Boyd
Jack Calhoun

Caroline Dealy

Campbell Johnson

Zara Kocak
Brooklyn Lewis
Chris McMurtray
Silas Rowe
Charlie Turner

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

Abi Brownyard

Savannah Copa-Brzozowski

Maya Foerster

Emily Georgieva

Walker Lewis
Bode Mello

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

Owen Akard

June Buffington

Elizabeth Conti

Parker Dyatlovitsky

Arden Ford

Katy Francisco
Lily Furlong

Harper Grant

Lincoln Kelly

Emma Nguyen

Abby Simkins

Hannah Simkins

Ryder Smith
Silas Rowe

Violet Vitale

Heat Winners 

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