Practice Schedule for the Next Three Weeks
Practice Schedule for the Next Three Weeks
Embedded Files
March 31 - April 6
Brentwood
No Practices on Saturday
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Spring Hill
No Practices on Friday or Saturday
Murfreesboro
No Practices on Friday or Saturday
April 7-13
Brentwood
Normal Practice Schedule
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Spring Hill
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practie Schedule
April 14 - 20
Brentwood
Normal Practice Schedule
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Spring Hill
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice Schedule
NCSA/Swimstrong Drylands Championships
NCSA/Swimstrong Drylands Championships
Our final two meets of the 2024/2025 Short Course Season are in the books and much like the rest of the season, we have a whole lot to be proud of! While our National Team was split between two different meets, the combined results ended up with a National Champion, new team records, new Winter and Summer cuts and finally two members of the NCSA International Team. Congratulations to everyone who competed this weekend to close out the Short Course season.
By The Numbers (both meets combined)
21 Excel Swimmers
150 Excel Races
43 Lifetime Best Races
28.7% Percentage of Lifetime Best Races
2 Members of the NCSA International Team
3 New Team Records
1 New Summer Junior Cut
1 New 2024 Winter Junior Cut
6 New NCSA Cuts
14 New USA Swimming Motivational Time Standards
New NCSA International Team Qualifiers
Bryce Winzenread
Zara Kocak
New Team Records
Zara Kocak Open Women's 200 Fly 1:58.09
Bryce Winzenread Open Women's 100 Breast 1:01.30
Bryce Winzenread Open Women's 200 Breast 2:13.24
New 2025 Summer Junior National Cuts
Allie Joyce 200 Back 1:57.97
New NCSA Junior National Cuts
Maryellen Lewis 100 & 200 Free
Claire Mewbourne 200 Breast
Grace Moody 200 Back
Gavin Fu 100 Back
Nathan Lumsdaine 400 IM
New USA Motivational Time Standards
New AAAA Times
Matthew Amodio 1,000 Free
Gavin Fu 200 Free
Zaki Ibrahim 200 Back
Allie Joyce 100 & 200 Back
Maryellen Lewis 100 & 200 Fly, 200 Free
New AAA Times
Lyndel Laudencia 50 & 100 Free
Nathan Lumsdaine 400 IM
Grace Moody 100 & 200 Back
New AA Times
Nathan Lumsdaine 100 Fly
From the Head Coach
From the Head Coach
We are so proud of all that our athletes accomplished this year! As we wrap up the 2024-25 short course season and review the season performance report, nearly every metric points to this being our most successful season in club history. Each season begins with our coaching staff setting new goals that build upon the previous year's achievements. With the results now in from the 2024-2025 short course season, our staff is beyond excited for what lies ahead in the summer long course season.
Excel Aquatics has reached many historic milestones this year, and the future of our program has never looked brighter. We are so grateful to have you as part of the Excel family, and together, we look forward to even greater success.
Here are the top achievements from this season and almost all have never been accomplished before in our history.
NCSA Individual Event Champion
2 Members of the NCSA International Team (Competing in London)
4 2025 Summer Junior National Qualifiers
2nd place Team Finish at Age Group Sectionals
4 13-14 on the National Team
5 Open Water National Qualifiers
59 New NCSA Cuts
25 New Team Records
Third Consecutive Triple Crown
5th Consecutive SES Championships
1 National Select Camp Qualifier
1 National Diversity Camp Qualifier
1 Paranational Qualifiers
6 Scholastic All-Americans
4 High School State Champions
223,655 VCC points- highest point total ever by 1,330
8 2024 Winter Junior Qualifiers
18 Level 1 IM Hall of Fame (SES cut in every event) 5 Level 2 IM Hall of Fame (AGS cut in every event)
38 IM Tough Qualifiers
With this kind of season in the history books, what lies ahead is even more exciting. Congratulations to all of our parents, coaches but especially our swimmers for the season that we've just had!
Zaki Ibrahim to attend National Diversity Camp
Zaki Ibrahim to attend National Diversity Camp
Every year, USA Swimming offers different select camps both at the Zone and National Levels. While they are all extremely competitive to participate, they all offer a unique experience to many of the very top athletes in the country. One of those is the National Diversity Camp held May 1st through the 4th in Colorado Springs at the Olympic Training Center. This year, our very own Zaki Ibrahim has been selected to attend and along with Coach JJ Langhals, will be representing Excel Aquatics there in a couple of weeks. Congratulations to Zaki!
Zara Kocak and Bryce Winzenread to Compete in London
Zara Kocak and Bryce Winzenread to Compete in London
The National Swimming Club Swimming Association has selected their All-Star Team from last week's NCSA Junior National Championships and Excel will be sending 2 of our athletes to compete at the Adam Peaty Race International meet in London, UK. Zara earned her spot by co-winning the 200 Butterfly in a team record 1:58.09 while Bryce punched her ticket in the 100 Breast, also with a team record swim of 1:01.30.
Earning a spot on the NCSA All-Star team is highly competitive that this is the first time in Excel Aquatics' history that we have ever placed 2 swimmers on the same team.
Congratulations to both Zara and Bryce!
Open Water Zones and Nationals
Open Water Zones and Nationals
One of the lesser known branches of our sport is Open Water Swimming. Open water races can be in freshwater lakes and rivers, oceans or even indoor pools (usually with the lane lines removed). Like conventional swim meets, races can be different lengths but open water meets usually only occur in the summer months. While open water races are generally open to anyone who wants to swim, we have two coming up that have highly competitive selection processes.
The first is Open Water Nationals held next week, April 4-6th, in Sarasota Fl and qualifying is extremely difficult. Only those swimmers who have achieved the national cuts in distance events qualified. However, we are thrilled to have 5 Excel Swimmers qualified based on their distance races over this last short course season.
Sarah Carrico Open Girls
Zara Kocak Open Girls
Campbell Johnson 13-14 Boys
Matthew Amodio Open Boys
Zaki Ibrahim Open Boys
Just three weeks later, Open Water Zones will be held on April 25-27 in Fort Meyers Beach Fl, where the Southeastern Swimming LSC will send a team to compete against the other LSCs in the Southern Zone. Swimmers are selected for this race based on their distance events in the short course season. This year, 9 Excel swimmers were selected which is the highest number from any team in our LSC (TNAQ was second with 6).
Brooklyn Lewis 11-12 Girls
Sarah Carrico 15-16 Girls
Zara Kocak 15-16 Girls
Boston Boyd 11-12 Boys
Henry Schopfer 11-12 Boys
Campbell Johnson 13-14 Boys
Caleb Blair 15-16 Boys
Zaki Ibrahim 15-16 Boys
Matthew Amodio 17-18 Boys
Congratulations to all our distance swimmers who have achieved this very elite level!
MTHSAA Awards
MTHSAA Awards
The Middle Tennessee High School Swimming Association hosted their annual awards banquet this week where Excel spent a little time on the big screen. The female athlete of the year was Excel Swimmer Zara Kocak who swims for Station Camp High School. Her incredible performances at the High School State meet where she won the 100 Fly (53.88) and the 500 Free (4.51.73) where enough to earn her this prestigious honor.
Additionally, Excel Summer League Coach Jim Chapman who coaches at Brentwood Academy was the Tom Fay Award recipient for his efforts of leading BA's teams to 14th (women) and 12th (men) place finishes.
Announcements
Announcements
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!
Excel Recognition Programs
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 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.
Want to become an official?
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
Upcoming Dates
Upcoming Dates
4/6 Senior Dinner
5/4 Awards Ceremony
5/3-4 Ensworth Spring Splash
Weekly Update Video
Weekly Update Video
Our Weekly Update for 3-28-25 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!
Coaching Staff
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-
Contact Us.pdf2025 Short Course Season Running Totals
NCSA Junior National Qualifiers: 28
Age Group Sectional Qualifiers: 46
SES Winter Championship Qualifiers: 132
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)
8 & Under Girls
Abi Brownyard 13
Katelyn Xu 8
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
Anna Busteed 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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