Practice Schedule for the Next Three Weeks
Practice Schedule for the Next Three Weeks
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May 5-11th
Brentwood
Normal Practice Schedule
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Longview
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice ScheduleÂ
May 12-18th
Brentwood
No Practices Friday or Saturday
Gallatin
No Practices Friday or Saturday
Longview
No Practices Friday or Saturday
Murfreesboro
No Practices Friday or Saturday
May 19-May 25th
Brentwood
No Monday Practices
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Longview
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
Normal Practice Schedule
Para Swimming
Para Swimming
One of the lessor known branches of our sport is Para (Paralympic) Swimming which is competition open to athletes with physical disabilities. While most of these athletes compete in conventional USA Swimming meets, para meets offer them a unique opportunity to compete in a setting that can ultimately lead to competing in the Paralympics.
Unfortunately, many these opportunities are under utilized across our sport and especially within the Southeastern Swimming LSC. To help, expand our sport to these athletes, our very own Coach Shantel has recently accepted the position of Southeastern Disability Chair. Through her position, she will be a driving force in opening up access to training, support and competition for potentially dozens of local athletes. One of which.... swims for Excel! Next week, Coach Shantel and her Daughter Emme will be traveling to Cincinatti to compete in the Bill Keating Memorial Para Swim meet held at Xavier University. While this will be her first para meet, we are super excited to have her representing Excel and can't wait to cheer her on!
Leadership Retreat- Coach Daun
Leadership Retreat- Coach Daun
USA Swimming Leadership Conference
During the same weekend that Excel traveled to the TNAQ meet Coach Daun was representing Excel at the USA Swimming Leadership Conference. Following an application process with USA Swimming, Daun was selected to attend the conference along with 16 other coaches from all over the country. The conference was held at the La Foret Conference & Retreat Center in the Black Forest, just north of Colorado Springs, CO.
The intention was to help coaches assess their current leadership style and skills and provide opportunities to learn new skills. It also was a fantastic way to connect with other coaches and learn from them. There was a wide variety of teams represented from large teams with multiple Olympic Trials qualifiers to small rural teams, one of which recently joined USA Swimming after having been an AAU team for years. According to Coach Daun, "It was such an amazing opportunity to talk with all of these different coaches and learn what they do, how they do it, and most importantly why they do it." She learned that regardless of their location in the country, all teams deal with some of the same challenges that Excel does, including facility issues, staff changes, scheduling challenges, etc.
Part of the weekend involved exploring the WHY behind what we do day in and day out as coaches. As Daun explained, "The overriding WHY for most everyone, including myself, was our swimmers and the impact we can have on their lives, both in and out of the pool. That WHY is what drives everything we do and how we lead."
In addition to the friendships that Daun made with the other coaches in attendance, she also had the opportunity to connect with several staff members from USA Swimming. "It was great to learn how much they are ready and willing to help us when we need it", said Daun. USA Swimming staff went out of their way to ensure that all the coaches had a great experience. Hopefully Daun and other Excel coaches can attend some of USA Swimming's future conferences.
 AnnouncementsÂ
 AnnouncementsÂ
USA Swimming's Virtual Club ChampionshipÂ
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 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 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. Â
Want to become an official?Â
Want to become an official?Â
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 requirementsÂ
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
May 9th Excel May Open registration deadline
May 18th Excel May Open
May 20th Firecracker registration deadline
June 7th Firecracker Invite
Weekly Update Video
Weekly Update Video
Our Weekly Update for 5-3-24 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.pdf2024 Long Course Season Running Totals
NCSA Junior National Qualifiers:Â 19
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):
Nationally  SES
31st 1st Excel
38th 2nd TNAQ
46th 3nd Ensworth
65th 4th HSA
78th 5th NAC
SwimCloud.com Excel Rankings in the SES Conference (73Â teams):
8 & Under Girls 5th 8 & Under Boys 2nd
9-10 Girls 1st 9-10 Boys 1st
11-12 Girls 2nd 11-12 Boys 1st
13-14 Girls 4th 13-14 Boys 1st
15-18 Girls 4th 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
Caleb Blair Brooklyn Lewis
Boston Boyd Kingston Dealy
Syndey Farneth
Chris Georgiev
Charlie Turner
Heat Winners (Long Course)
8 & Under Girls
Emerson Grauzer 2
Savannah Copa Brzozowski 1
Maya Foerster 1
8 & Under Boys
Nico Pantana 2
Kiran Suryadevara 1
Henry Reed 1
9 & 10 Girls
Kokone Akimoto 2
Nayya Nayar 2
Hannah Simkins 2
9 & 10 Boys
Callum Goryn 4
Chris McMurtray 4
Theo Zambon Sartori 2
11 &Â 12 Girls
Caroline Dealy 7
Lily Irvine 3
Vittoria Cincinelli 2
Oana Kocak 2
Maddie Troutt 2
11 & 12 Boys
Frederic Burks 6
Boston Boyd 3
Gavin Chen 3
Simon Sapozhkov 3
13 & 14 Girls
Lyndel Laudencia 7
Claire Calhoun 3
Zoe Carothers 2
Mary Ellen Lewis 2
Izzie Peyton 2
Allison Travis 2
13 & 14 Boys
Gabe Gortarez 5
Campbell Johnson 5
Evan Xu 5
15-18 Girls
Sarah Carrico 4
Zara Kocak 4
15-18 Boys
Gavin Fu 6
Kingston Dealy 4
Matthew Montenegro-Strunk 3
Gavin Oldham 3
River Rockholt 3
Carter Souliere 3
Alex White 3
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