Excel Extra 12-1-23

Practice Schedule for the Next Three Weeks

VCC Grand Prix

VCC Meet Report

Announcements

Excel Recognition Programs

Want to become an official?

SwimstrongDrylands.com

Upcoming Dates

Weekly Update Video

Coaching Staff

Practice Schedule for the Next Three Weeks

December 4-10th

Brentwood
No Monday Practices
No PM Friday Practices
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Longview
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice Schedule

December 11th-17th

Brentwood
Normal Practice Schedule
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Longview
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice Schedule

December 18th- December 24th

Brentwood
Special Holiday Schedule
Gallatin
Special Holiday Schedule
Longview
Special Holiday Schedule
Murfreesboro
Special Holiday Schedule

VCC Grand Prix

Last week, just under 200 of our swimmers competed in a 1 day meet that was specifically designed to focus on the longer events. While this wasn't a typical format, we were thrilled with the results as we picked up 8 new SES Winter Championship qualifying times and even 6 new team records! A special Thanks to all our parent volunteers who helped make this meet possible.
Congratulations to all.

VCC Meet Report

By the Numbers:

194 Number of Excel Swimmers
346 Number of Excel Races
258 Number of Lifetime Best Races
74.6% Lifetime Best Races
103 Swimmers with All Lifetime Best Races
6 Number of Team Records
46 Number of New USA Swimming Motivational Times
2 Number of New SES Winter Qualifiers
8 New SES Winter Championship A Cuts

5 Biggest Swims

Ben Edwards 100 Breast: 35.24 second drop (-26.90%)
John Terrell 500 Free: 2:09.63 drop (-24.78%)
Logan Ayca 100 Fly: 23.67 second drop (-22.67%)
Owen Ayral 50 Free: 23.57 second drop (-18.40%)

Matthew Douglas 200 IM: 44.13 second drop (-17.58%)

New Team Records

Zaki Ibrahim
13-14 Boy's 1,650 Free- 16:15.94
Jack Calhoun
9-10 Boy's 200 Breast- 3:11.52
Harper Grant
8 & Under Girl's 200 Breast- 3:35.71
Harper Grant
8 & Under Girl's 200 Back- 3:08.52
Hayes Akard
8 & Under Boy's 200 Breast- 3:48.27
Owen Akard
8 & Under Boy's 400 IM- 6:36.45

Welcome to the SES Winter Championship Team!

Logan Ayca
Boston Boyd

New SES Winter A Cuts

Mae Li 200 Back, 200 Breast
Madeline Webb 200 Breast
Logan Ayca 100 Back
Boston Boyd 100 Back
Ryan Issa 100 Breast
Nathan Lumsdaine 400 IM
Charlie Turner 500 Free

Swimmers with All Lifetime Best Races

Hayes Akard
Ashley Anderson
Cole Anderson
Owen Aryal
Logan Ayca
Eileen Baek
Sophia Bales
Bella Biskner
Eoin Brown
Emma Brownyard
Margot Cameron
Violet Carnes
Levi Carothers
Willa Claire Clark
Maddie Clendenin
Savannah Copa-Brzozowski
Quinnten Curnes
Caroline Dealy
Leslie Dean
Sydney Dean
Matthew Douglas
Ben Edwards
Sadie Ehleben
Sydney Farneth
Mark Feitel
Emma Fleming
Maya Foerster
Arden Ford
Lillian Furlong
Nicholas George
Christopher Georgiev
Abigail Georgieva
Sienna Glups
Gabriel Gortarez
James Gortarez

Callum Goryn
Harper Grant
Emerson Grauzer
Wyatt Higgs
Connor Huey
Keaton Hubbard
Kai Hyatt
Lily Irvine
Ryan Issa
Like Jabbour
Maxwell Johnson
Prescott Johnson
Lincoln Kelly
Hangyeol Kim
Tucker Larrabee
Tyler Larrabee
Natalie Leak
Brooklyn Lewis
Maryellen Lewis
Walker Lewis
Maya Li
Dustin Liu
Nathan Lumsdaine
Mia Madura
Evelyn Manning
Anthony Marciuc
Brecken McElwee
Kevin Mehr
Reese Mehr
Robert Mello
Mason Meyers
Navya Nayar
Emma Nguyen
Mia Organ
Allie Papa

Emmeline Perry
Caroline Philbrick
Merfy Qualis
Clara Reger
Silas Rickstrew
Elisabeth Robinson
Adrian Rodriquez
Mason Rogers
Silas Rowe
Juliana Sartain
Savannah Shore
Abigail Simkins
Hannah Simkins
Josiah Strahan
John Terrell
Sarah Terrell
Kipton Thompson
Rylee Tomaszewski
Allison Travis
Charlie Turner
Violet Vitale
George Von Reichbauer
Dylan Vu
Charlie Waller
Madeline Webb
Kherington Welter
James Whitaker
William Whitaker
Alex White
Annabella White
Abigail Wilbeck
Anna Clair Wilbeck
Grayson Willhite
Jacob Williamson
Nora Yin
Charlotte Ziskovsky

New USA Swimming Motivational Times

AAA Times
Maryellen Lewis 100 Fly

AATimes
Maddie Clendenin 100 Back
Caroline Dealy 500 Free, 200 back
Maryellen Lewis 200 Back
Madeline Webb 200 Breast
Alexander White 200 Breast

A Times
Claire Calhoun 200 IM
Maddie Clendennin 200 Back
Christopher Georgiev 400 IM
Cambell Johnson 500 Free
Mae Li 200 Breast
Rylee Tomaszewski 1,650 Free
Charlie Turner 500 Free
Charlie Waller 1,650 Free

BB Times
Boston Boyd 200 IM
Sadie Ehleben 500 Free
Sydney Farneth 200 IM
Harper Grant 100 Breast
Wyatt Higgs 100 Fly
Ryan Issa 100 Breast, 500 Free
Prescott Johnson 500 Free
Hagan Kla 100 Fly
Gavin Oldham 100 Fly
Clara Reger 100 Fly, 200 IM
Silas Rowe 100 Free
Annabella White 500 Free

B Times
Hayes Akard 100 Back
Cole Anderson 500 Free
Owen Aryal 100 Breast, 200 IM
Logan Aryal 100 Fly
Levi Carothers 100 Back
Elizabeth Conti 100 Fly
Matthew Douglas 200 IM
Luke Jabbour 200 Back
Tyler Larrabee 500 Free
Silas Rickstrew 500 Free
Julianna Sartain 100 Breast, 200 IM
Savannah Shore 100 Breast, 500 Free
John Terrell 500 Free
James Whitaker 200 IM

Announcements

USA Swimming's Virtual Club Championship

Throughout the short 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!

Excel Recognition Programs

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 to favor those athletes that are attending meets, swimming lots of events, racing hard but most importantly, improving throughout the year. Winners will receive a "Heat Winner" bag tag.
IM Tough: 8 & Younger Swimmers- Swim a legal 50 Fly, 50 Back, 50 Breast, 200 Free & 200 IM during the season
9 & 10 Swimmers- Swim a legal 100 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 IM and 500 Free during the season
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.

Want to become an official?

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

SwimstrongDrylands.com

Please remember to utilize our SwimstrongDrylands resources often!
They have recently posted a particularly fascinating article about recovering from muscle soreness. If this is of interest to you, check it out here.

Upcoming Dates

December 1-3rd- Meet of Champs
December 9th- 8 & Under Meet at NAC

Weekly Update Video

Our Weekly Update for 12-1-23 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!

Coaching Staff

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-

2023-24 Season Running Totals

SES Winter Championship Qualifiers: 92
NCSA Junior National Qualifiers: 13
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):
Nationally SES
39th 1st Excel
59th 2nd HSA
72nd 3rd TNAQ
75th 4th Ensworth
91st 5th NAC

SwimCloud.com Excel Rankings in the SES Conference (73 teams):
8 & Under Girls 1st 8 & Under Boys 2nd
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 2nd 15-18 Boys 4th

IM Tough Qualifiers:
8 and Under
Owen Akard
Hayes Akard

June Buffington

Silas Rowe

9-10

Will Boyd

Ellie Conti

Caroline Dealy

Sydney Farneth

Lilly Furlong

Clayton Gann

Abbie Georgieva

Keaton Hubbard

Brooklyn Lewis

Caitlin Sheehan

Violet Vitale

Theo Zambon Sartori

Heat Winners

8 & Under Girls
Harper Grant 13

Zayne Brick 8

Savannah Copa-Brzozowski 7

Ava Grace Barker 7

8 & Under Boys
Owen Akard 16

Silas Rowe 12

Derek Folk 7

9 & 10 Girls
Emma Fleming 10

Brooklyn Lewis 9

Morgan Meinardi 7

9 & 10 Boys
Bennett Whitaker 7

Jack Calhoun 6

Pierce Donovan 6

11 & 12 Girls
Caroline Dealy 15

Charlee Folk 7

Claire Calhoun 7

11 & 12 Boys

Chris Georgiev 12

Keaton Hubbard 11

Frederic Burks 7

Charlie Turner 7

13 & 14 Girls
Mae Li 13

Zoe Carothers 7

Rylee Tomaszewski 7

Bryce Winzenread 7

13 & 14 Boys
Caleb Asebrook 15

Zaki Ibrahim 6

Caleb Blair 6

Wyatt Hamilton 6

15-18 Girls

Zara Kocak 7

Janie Grace Moss 6

Claire Mewbourne 5

Kacey McDonough 5

Claire Reardon 5

15-18 Boys
Alex White 8

Joshua Hession 8

Samuel Martin 6

Matthew Montenegro-Strunk 6