We have two new seasons quickly approaching- Long Course and Summer League. For newer families, it may seem like an either/or but rest assured, every swimmer should consider doing both.

While most of our calendar year is dedicated to a short course season, there are many reasons for all of our swimmers to focus on long course as well. As the season is so much shorter, long course opportunities are relatively rare and therefore every meet is of a heightened importance. Furthermore, many USA swimming opportunities are only available to swimmers who compete in long course. Select camps, zone teams and ultimately Olympic Trials can only be earned in long course races.

Summer League is a whole different animal. While the competition maybe a little less experienced than in a club meet, Summer League is a great opportunity for new swimmers to experience the sport for the first time. With new swimmers comes new families, many of whom are also experiencing our sport for the first time. Our Excel swimmers who are swimming on, or even coaching the team is the best way to demonstrate what their own swimmer could someday be. Remember too, that like school teams, Summer League teams don't expect that your swimmer will skip an Excel practice to attending theirs. Just show up and represent them at meets. Additionally, Summer League is just plain fun! We have plenty of graduating seniors who have never skipped a summer league season.

So remember, both seasons are valuable for your swimmer's development and we look forward to beginning the summer seasons with you all. 

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 3-7-25 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:  26
Age Group Sectional Qualifiers: 46
SES Winter Championship Qualifiers: 132
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):

SES Teams National Rankings
Excel #36
HSA #59
TNAQ #86
Ensworth #126
NAC #199

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 3rd

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 

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