By The Numbers:
56 Number of Excel Swimmers
270 Number of Excel Races
222 Number of Excel Lifetime Best Races
82.2% Lifetime Best Races
32 Swimmers with All Lifetime Best Races
5 New SES Summer Championship Qualifiers
34 New SES Summer Championship Cuts
137 New USA Swimming Motivational Time Standard

5 Biggest Swims of the Meet

Reese Mehr, 50 Fly- 27.55 second drop (-41.45%)
Zoe Chen, 50 Fly- 20.74 second drop (-28.75%)
Abigail Brownyard, 50 Breast- 17.12 second drop (-24.23%)
Savannah Copa-Brzozowski, 200 IM 1:00.75 drop (-23.81%)
Emma Schaefer, 50 Breast- 16.18 second drop (-22.66%)

New Summer SES Qualifiers

Ava Grace Barker
Artie Boyd
Allie Papa
Patton Mumford
Kipton Thompson

New 2025 SES Summer Championship Cuts

Ava Grace Barker 50 Back
Emma Brownyard 50 & 100 Free
Savannah Copa-Brzozowski 50 & 100 Free, 50 Breast, 200 IM
Caroline Dealy 200 Free
Lilly Furlong 50 Fly, 50 Back
Harper Grant 50 Back
Morgan Meinardi 100 & 200 Free, 200 IM
Allie Papa 50 Back
Violet Vitale 50 Fly
Hayes Akard 50 Fly, 200 IM
Artie Boyd 50 Back
William Boyd 50 Back, 50 & 100 Fly
Freddie Burks 200 IM
Zaki Ibrahim 200 Back
Patton Mumford 50 Fly
Kipton Thompson 50 & 100 Breast

Swimmers with All Life Time Best Races

New USA Swimming Motivational Time Standards

Congratulations to our Excel Swimmers, Head SES Open Water Zone Coach Andreea, and all of the Souhteastern Swimming Open Water Zone team for a fanstastic race this weekend in Ft Meyers Beach Florida. Zone teams are comprised of swimmers only in a specific LSC but and are highly selective. Of the 15 total swimmers on the SES team, 4 were from Excel (Lifetime was the other team with multiple swimmers with 2).

Campbell Johnson who is 14, was our only swimmer competing in the 5K while the other three, Brooklyn Lewis, Boston Boyd and Henry Schopfer were all competing in the 2K race. Campbell just returned from Open Water Junior Nationals and was therefore our only swimmer with Open Water experience, our other three were rookies.... not that you can tell by the results. 

Results:
Campbell Johnson- 1:14:39 5K, 5th out of 38
Brooklyn Lewis- 42:44 2K, 6th out of 47
Henry Schopfer- 41:14 2K, 7th out of 46
Boston Boyd- 41:40 2K, 10th out of 46

While it seems like almost every weekend, we are competing somewhere, this weekend will be dedicated to celebrations. On Saturday, we will be celebrating the life of Kate Rust, a swimmer who we lost last September. While her time with us wasn't incredibly long, her impact and our memory of her will be. Kate was a swimmer at our Spring Hill site and was an incredible teammate. Her coaches described her as having a quiet leadership but a bright smile. The Rust family is hosting the Live Like Kate Rust 5k on Saturday in her honor and while I will be running, surrounded by 100s of members of our Excel Family, I will be thinking of Kate, the Rusts, and all our Excel families that make up such an incredible organization.

The very next day, on Sunday, we'll have our end of the season awards celebration. At 2:00pm at the Brentwood Baptist Church, I invite all of our families to join us in celebrating what was our most successful short course season ever. Every year, this event turns out to be a lot of fun, lots of pictures, and of course a celebration of incredible kids.

I am incredibly humbled to be part of both these events and I look forward to sharing them with you!

All team members and their families are cordially invited to the Excel Aquatics Awards Banquet.  This event will take place on May 4th at 2pm at the Brentwood Baptist Church.  We certainly hope to see everyone there to celebrate all of the individual and team acheivements from this past short course season.  You will receive more information in your email regarding specific directions to get to the correct auditorium once you arrive at Brentwood Baptist.  It is a large campus.

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 5-2-25 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:  28
SES Summer Championship Qualifiers: 111
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):

SES Teams National Rankings
Excel #45
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 Short Course

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