October 27 - November 3
Brentwood
No Saturday Practices
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Normal Practice Schedule
Spring Hill
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
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November 4 - 10
Brentwood
Normal Practice Schedule
Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Spring Hill
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
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November 11-17
Brentwood
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Gallatin
Normal Practice Schedule
Spring Hill
Normal Practice Schedule
Murfreesboro
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Congratulations to Excel's Coach Daun Lutz who was just elected Southeastern Swimming's Age Group Coach of the Year by the all the coaches in the LSC!
Coach Daun has been the lead coach for the 10 & Under swimmers at our Brentwood Location for the last 3 years. Much of Excel's recent success stems from the growth at our younger age groups that Daun engineers. From facilitating our 7 summer league teams to coordinating our evaluations and on-boarding over 200 swimmers each season, Daun ensures that we have healthy numbers entering our program each year. However, once those young swimmers arrive on deck, it's Daun's coaching that really shines through. Our 10 & Under swimmers are consistently a top ranked group within the LSC, Zone and even nationally.
Here is her nomination letter:
Daun Lutz oversees the 10 & under training groups at Excel Aquatics. Her exceptional ability to develop young athletes has significantly contributed to Excel's achievements in 2024:
2024 Region 1:
8 & under Boys Team Champions 8 & under Girls Team
Champions High Point Winner for 8 & under Boys High Point Winner for 8 & under Girls 2024 SCY
2024 SC Southeastern Championships:
Girls 10 & under Team Champions
Boys 10 & under Team Champions
2024 LCM Southeastern Championships:
Boys 10 & under Team Champions
10 & under Boys High Point Winner
Daun Lutz's leadership extends beyond her coaching role. Daun also serves as a Zone Coach and Administrative Vice Chair of Southeastern Swimming. With over a decade of experience at the age group level, Coach Daun's development of 10 & under swimmers has played a crucial role in Excel's success in not only our youngest athletes but ultimately all of our age groups as even our National Team swimmers began under "Coach Daun."
Congratulations to each of our swimmers who competed in the 2024 Pumpkin Spice Splash meet. While this was a short two day format, we got a lot of fast swimming in. A special congratulations goes out to our 2 new SES members, our 2 new team record holders and our national team swimmers who earned another 4 NCSA Junior cuts!
Thank you to our visiting teams made the trip to Brentwood and to our parents, coaches and swimmers who worked so hard to put on a fantastic meet!
Meet Report below.
By the Numbers
449 Number of Excel Swimmers
2,029 Number of Excel Races
1,478 Number of Lifetime Best Races
72.8% Percentage of Lifetime Best Races
180 Swimmers with All Lifetime Best Races
3 New Team Records
4 New NCSA Junior National Cuts
5 New SES Winter Championship Qualifiers
78 New SES Winter Championship Cuts
345 New USA Swimming Motivational Times
5 Biggest swims of the meet
Prescott Johnson 100 Fly- 1:04.71 drop (-44.71%)
Gareth Oldham 50 Free- 26.02 second drop (-41.20%)
Aaron Huang 100 Free- 38.38 second drop (-40.13%)
Audrey Jenkins 50 Free- 19.86 second drop (-36.65%)
Aaron Huang 50 Free- 14.37 second drop (-36.21%)
New Team Records
Savannah Copa-Brzozoswki
8 & Under Girls 200 Back 2:53.01
8 & Under Girls 500 Free 7:16.35
Walker Lewis
8 & Under Boys 500 Free 7:19.48
New NCSA Junior National Cuts
Maryellen Lewis 200 Fly
Zaki Ibrahim 100 Back, 500 Free
Carter Souliere 200 Breast
Welcome to the SES Winter Championship Team
Maya Foerster
Lily Furlong
Sadie Krisko
Griffin Oldham
Henry Schopfer
New SES Winter Championships Cuts
Sarah Carrico 100 Free
Savannah Copa-Brzozowski 100 Back
Maya Foerster 100 Breast
Charlee Folk 50 Fly
Arden Ford 100 & 200 Free, 50 Back, 100 Fly, 100 IM
Lily Furlong 50 Back
Lily Irvine 100 Breast
Sadie Krisko 100, 200 & 500 Free
Brooklyn Lewis 50 & 100 Breast, 50 Fly
Maryellen Lewis 100 & 200 Back
Maya Li 50 & 200 Free
Vanni Ly 50 Breast
Ruby Meredith 100 Free, 50 Back
Claire Mewbourne 400 IM
Savannah Shore 50 Back
Violet Vitale 200 Free
Madeline Webb 400 IM
Bryce Winzenread 200 Free
Hayes Akard 200 & 500 Free
Caleb Blair 200 Free
William Boyd 50 & 100 Fly
Max Boylan 200 Free
Jack Calhoun 200 IM
Neil Cartailler 50 Free
Gavin Chen 50 & 100 Breast
Kingston Dealy 200 IM
Marios Gerasimopoulos 200 IM
Gabe Gortarez 50 & 100 Free, 100 Fly
Keaton Hubbard 50 & 500 Free, 50 Fly, 100 IM
Zaki Ibrahim 100 Free, 100 Back
Campbell Johnson 50 & 200 Free, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 400 IM
Louie Koslin 100 Back
Walker Lewis 50 Back
Nathan Lumsdaine 200 Free
Roman McLaughlin 100 Back
Christopher McMurtray 200 Free, 100 IM
Griffin Oldham 50 Breast, 50 Fly
Leo Pantana 100 Back
JJ Saslo 100 Breast
Mason Schaefer 100 Back
Henry Schopfer 100 Free, 100 Breast, 50 & 100 Fly, 100 & 200 IM
Carter Souliere 50 & 200 Free, 200 Breast
John Terrell 200 Free
Alexander White 200 & 500 Free
Lucas Zeman 100 Back
Swimmers with All Lifetime Best Races
Brian Adam
Maven Adam
Everett Adkins
Henry Adkins
Daksh Ajmera
Kokone Akimoto
Ashley Anderson
Aarna Arora
Owen Aryal
Abhinav Aswathy
Katherine Baker
Sophia Bales
Maria Benkert
Aaron Berry
Hudson Berry
Kessler Berry
Caleb Blair
Philip Borcsa
Arthur Boyd
Boston Boyd
William Boyd
Emma Brownyard
Frederic Burks
Michelle Burnam
Nathanial Carmichael
Violet Carnes
Ellery Carson
Ivanka Chandelkar
Gavin Chen
Lydia Chewning
Josephine Conkwright
Alivia Conti
Elizabeth Conti
Sebastian Cothran
Katherine Cromwell
Charlotte Crosby
Felicity Crosby
Quinnten Curnes
Sritha Dabbara
Aditya Das
Julia Day
Antonella Da La Cruz
Sydney Deepe
Alex Dos Santos
James Dyatlovitsky
Lillian Farley
Grier Faulk
Catalina Fitz Garcia
Charlee Folk
Ben Frye
Augusta Gaudioso
Magalie Gaudioso
Valentina Gaudioso
Nicholas George
Elias Gerasimopoulos
Corbett Geurin
Gabe Gortarez
Cadence Hammock
Lynlee Hammock
Elizabeth Hand
Greyson Haney
Reese Hartung
Brody Henning
Ella Hinkle
Brooks Hodgin
James Hodgin
Brennan Hoelscher
Connor Hoey
Michael Hogan
Sara Horton
Daniel Hsiao
Aaron Huang
David Huang
Keaton Hubbard
Kai Hyatt
Zaki Ibrahim
Audrey Jenkins
Cambell Johnson
Prescott Johnson
Virginia Jones
Zoya Kennedy
Aayan Kharat
Sanya Kharat
Abigail Kidd
Noah Kim
Kaito Kinnaird
Oana Kocak
Raylan Kohler
Nia Kolhatkar
Elyse Korenberg
Owen LaTourette
Knox Leuchter
Brooklyn Lewis
Maryellen Lewis
Walker Lewis
Samantha Li
Scott Li
Aiden Liew
Tyan Litton
Dustin Liu
Lydia Livingston
Athena Loveall
Thomas Lucia
Amelia Ly
Jackson Mallory
Molly Manos
Erdin Mataj
Henos Mathios
Mahilon Mathios
Layne McClymonds
Eli McDermott
Maxwell McLaughlin
Roman McLaughlin
Kieran Mckernan
Morgan Meinardi
Ruby Meredith
Mason Meyers
Thea Mulligan
Sofia Munchoor
Ryan Namazirad
Ella Nguyen
Tatum Nielsen
Tory Nielsen
Kate O'Reilly
Griffin Oldham
Meyer Oldham
Sloane Oldham
Mia Organ
Gavin Osterman
Owen Osterman
Sofia Owen
Niccolo Pantana
Nishtha Patel
Sanvi Patil
Samuel Phillips
Austin Ray-Whitworth
Silas Rickstrew
Austin Roeder
Landon Roeder
Preston Roeder
Ari Rosner
Amir Sadogursky
Cater Sanders
Keegan Sanders
Simon Sapozhkov
Gabe Scanga
Henry Schopfer
Shiping Shan
Michael Sheng
Reagan Shields
Savannah Shore
Abigail Simkins
Hannah Simkins
Alice Smith
Henry Smith
Hudson Smith
Eve Solberg
Noelle Solberg
Brody Solorzano
Carter Souliere
Siena Stevens
Noah Steifel
Lionel Sudduth
Claire Summers
Mary Tatum
Emily Thomas
Lilah Thomas
Kipton Thomas
Sofia Tikhonov
Avarie Trinidad
Charlie Turner
Anna Waltman
Evelyn Waltman
Oliver Werner
James Whitaker
James Williams
Aiden Winegar
Cayden Woods
Mely Woods
John Wyrzykowski
Anna Yun
Rihanna Zucal
David Zuhl
New USA Swimming Motivational Times
New AAA Times
Boston Boyd 50 Free
Jack Calhoun 200 IM
Gavin Chen 50 Back, 50 Fly, 50 Free
Zaki Ibrahim 100 Back, 100 Breast
Lily Irvine 100 Breast
Brooklyn Lewis 100 IM, 200 Back
Mae Li 400 IM
Carter Souliere 100 & 200 Breast
Madeline Webb 400 IM
Bryce Winzenread 400 IM
New AA Times
Owen Akard 200 Free
Boston Boyd 50 & 100 Back, 200 IM, 500 Free
Max Boylan 200 Free
Jack Calhoun 50 & 100 Fly, 50 Back, 100 Free
Sarah Carrico 200 IM
Neil Cartailler 50 Free
Caroline Dealy 200 IM
Kingston Dealy 200 Free
Ben Edwards 50 Free, 100 Back, 200 IM
Arden Ford 50 Back, 50 Breast, 100 IM, 200 Free
Marios Gerasimopoulos 200 IM
Gabe Gortarez 50 & 100 Free
Keaton Hubbard 500 Free
Zaki Ibrahim 100 Free
Campbell Johnson 50 & 200 Free, 400 IM
Jacob Keen 200 Free
Brooklyn Lewis 50 Breast, 50 Fly
Maryellen Lewis 100 & 200 Back
Maya Li 200 Free
Nathan Lumsdaine 200 & 500 Free
Vanni Ly 50 Breast
Christopher McMurtray 200 Free
Ruby Meredith 100 Free
Claire Mewbourne 400 IM
Mason Schaefer 100 Back
Henry Schopfer 50 & 100 Fly
Carter Souilere 50 & 200 Free, 200 Fly
Charlie Turner 100 Fly, 100 Breast
Alexander White 500 Free
Lucas Zeman 500 Free
A Times
Caleb Blair 200 Breast, 200 Fly
Boston Boyd 100 Fly
Max Boylan 400 IM
Emma Brownyard 100 Breast
Anna Busteed 50 Breast
Jack Calhoun 100 Back
Gavin Chen 50 & 100 Breast
Savannah Copa-Brzozowski 100 Back
Ben Edwards 100 Fly, 100 Free
Charlee Folk 50 & 100 Free
Arden Ford 100 Fly, 100 Free
Lilly Furlong 50 Back
Christopher Georgiev 100 & 500 Free
Abigail Georgieva 100, 200 & 500 Free
Gabe Gortarez 100 Fly
Maddix Hitchcock 200 Free
Michael Hogan 100 Back, 200 Free
Keaton Hubbard 50 Fly, 50 Free
Lily Irvine 100 Free, 100 IM
Michael Issa 100 Free
Louie Koslin 50 & 100 Free, 100 Back
Lynnea Laudencia 100 Fly
Brooklyn Lewis 100 Fly
Maryellen Lewis 100 Breast
Walker Lewis 50 Back
Maya Li 200 IM, 500 Free
Vanni Ly 100 IM
Roman McLaughlin 100 Back
Brooks McManigle 50 Free
Christopher McMurtray 100 IM
Ruby Meredith 50 Fly
Griffin Oldham 50 Breast
Izzy Payton 100 Free
Simon Sapozhkov 100 & 200 Free, 50 Back
Henry Schopfer 100 & 200 IM, 100 Free
Fraser Scott 200 IM
Ryder Smith 100 IM
Zack Taylor 50 Free
Violet Vitale 200 Free
New B Times
Adam Maven 50 Free
Kokone Akimoto 100 Breast
Owen Aryal Owen 50 Fly
Cash Bailey 50 Back
Lillian Beers 200 Free
Aaron Berry 50 Back
Arthur Boyd 50 Fly
Hensley Brown 200 IM
Abigail Brownyard 50 Free
June Buffington 100 Fly, 200 Free
Zoe Chen 50 & 200 Free, 50 Fly
Josephine Conkwright 50 Free
Elizabeth Conti 50 Breast
Quinnten Curnes 50 Free
Addison Davis 200 IM
Ryan Deepe 100 Free
Leela Devela 50 Breast
Matthew Douglas 50 Breast
Avery Downing 100, 200 Free
Anna Duggin 50 Breast
Cooper England 200 IM
Derek Folk 50 & 100 Free
Katy Francisco 200 IM
Gwen Fuchs 50 Free
Emily Georgieva 50 Back, 200 IM
James Gortarez 50 & 200 Free, 50 Back
Callum Goryn 50 Free
Emerson Grauzer 50 Fly, 50 Breast, 200 Free
Lynlee Hammock 100 Breast
Elizabeth Hand 50 & 100 Free
Brody Henning 200 & 500 Free
Maddix Hitchcock 100 Fly
New B Times continued
Brennan Hoelscher 50 Back
Connor Hoey
Sara Horton 50 & 200 Free
Aaron Huang 100 Back, 200 Free
Keaton Hubbard 100 Breast
Prescott Johnson 50, 200 & 500 Free, 100 Fly
Virginia Jones 100 Free
Noah Kim 100 Back
Penny Koslin 100 Breast
Athena Loveall 50 Free
Morgan Meinardi 50 Fly
Body Bello 50 Breast, 200 IM
Mason Meyers 200 IM, 100 Back
Kate O'Reilly 200 IM
Gareth Oldham 50 Free
Griffin Oldham 50 Back
Meyer Oldham 50 & 100 Free, 50 Fly, 50 Back, 50 Breast, 100 IM
Sloan Oldham 100 Breast
Leonardo Pantana 50 Free, 100 Breast
Allie Papa 100 IM
Lilly Park 50 Back, 100 Free
Gracie Presley 50 Free, 50 Breast, 100 Back, 100 IM
Merfy Qualls 50 Free
Lorelai Richardson 100 Free
Noble Rickstrew 50 Fly
Silas Rickstrew 100 Back, 100 & 200 Breast
Amir Sadogursky 50 Free
Theo Sartori 100 Breast, 500 Free
Adelia Schopfer 100 Fly
Michael Sheng 50 Free, 50 Fly
Zixiang Sheng 100 Back
Savannah Shore 100 Fly
Alexis Smithson 50 Free, 100 IM
John Terrell 100 IM
Lilah Thomas 50 Free
Kipton Thomas 200 IM
Mac Turner 100 Fly
James Whitaker 50 Breast
Abigail Wilbeck 500 Free
Adeline Willard 100 IM, 50 Fly, 50 Free
BB Times
Hayes Akard 100 Back
Matthew Amodio 100 & 200 Back
Lane Andre 100 Breast, 200 IM
Logan Ayca 100 Free
Lilly Beers 200 IM
Philip Borsca 50 Fly, 100 IM
William Boyd 50 Free, 50 & 100 Back
Hensley Brown 200 Free
Emma Brownyard 200 IM
June Buffington 50 Back
Frederic Burks 50 & 100 Free
Emily Chambers 50 Free
Elizabeth Conti 50 Back, 100 Fly
Quinn Curnes 50 Breast
Caroline Dealy 200 Fly
Avery Downing 50 Free
Benji Engers 50 Free
Mark Feitel 500 Free
Maya Foerster 100 Breast
Charlee Folk 200 IM
Katy Francisco 100 Back
Gwen Fuchs 50 Back
Lilly Furlong 50 Free, 100 IM
Christopher Georgiev 100 Fly
Abigail Georgieva 100 Breast
Sydney Glass 200 IM
Gallum Goryn 100 Back, 100 & 200 Free
Jackson Granstaff 100 Back
Emerson Grauzer 100 Back
Cadence Hammock 100 Back, 100 Breast
Brody Henning 50 Free, 100 Fly
Emma Hewett 100 Brest, 500 Free
Wyatt Higgs 100 Fly
Aaron Huang 50 & 100 Free
Keaton Hubbard 100 IM, 50 Breast
Jonas Huey 50 & 200 Free
Ryan Issa 100 Free
Bri Johnson 200 Free
Keaton Kempel 50 Free
Noah Kim 50 Free
Mollie Kraft 500 Free
Sadie Krisko 200 Back, 400 IM
Knox Leuchter 50 & 100 Breast, 100 Free
Walker Lewis 50, 100 & 500 Free, 50 Fly, 50 Back
Maya Li 100 Fly
Roman McLaughlin 50 Free, 100 Fly
Brooks McManigle 100 Fly
Morgan Meinardi 100 Back, 500 Free
Claire Mewbourne 100 Fly
Mason Meyers 50 Back, 100 Free, 50 & 100 Breast
Emma Nguyen 100 & 200 IM, 100 Breast
Gareth Oldham 50 Back
Griffin Oldham 50 Free, 100 IM
Leonardo Pantana 100 IM, 50 & 100 Fly, 100 Back
Allie Papa 50 & 500 Free
Will Pellatiro 200 Free
Caden Riker 100 Back
Ari Rosner 100 Back
Henry Schopfer 100 Breast
Peyton Schreier 50 Back
Michael Sheng 100 Breast
Abigail Simkins 100 Back, 100 Fly
Hannan Simkins 200 Free
Ryder Smith 200 IM, 500 Free
Sean Taylor 100 Back
John Terrell 200 Free
Avarie Trinidad 500 Free
Charlie Waller 100 Fly
Anna Waltman 100 Free
Riggin Wesley 200 IM
Luke Yaras 200 IM
Travis Zhu 50 Back, 100 Free
Nominated by the Excel Coaches
Annabella White, Brentwood Senior 1- Held 1:05 and lower for fastest average 100s on Wednesday
Lionel Sudduth and Reagan Shield, Gallatin Bronze - big efforts to learn proper technique on breaststroke and practice bilateral breathing in freestyle
Miller's Thrillers
It's that time of year again, time for Excel Aquatics annual trip into the haunted woods of Spring Hill at Miller's Thrillers!
Over the last couple of years, a group of our bravest swimmers head to Miller's Thrillers with some of bravest coaches and tour "Hillybilly Hollar". This year, we will be meeting on Saturday, October 26th at 8:00 pm. Please purchase your tickets for the Hillybilly Hollar and the Slash Pass (total of $50) in advance to assure that we can all go in together. Parents, sibling, friends are all invited.
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!
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.
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
10-26 Registration deadline for VCC Meet
10-28 Registration deadline for City of Mason Meet
10-29 Registration deadline for TNAQ Fall Invite
11-2 Excel VCC Meet
11-15 TNAQ Fall Invite
11-15 City of Mason Meet
Our Weekly Update for 10-25-24 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!
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-
2025 Short Course Season Running Totals
NCSA Junior National Qualifiers: 18
SES Winter Championship Qualifiers: 86
USA Swimming Virtual Club Rankings (~3,500 Teams):
SES Teams National Rankings
Excel #15
HSA #30
TNAQ #40
Ensworth #61
McCallie/GPS #127
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 1st
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
Charlie Turner
Boston Boyd
Jack Calhoun
IM Tough Qualifiers
8 & Under 50 Fly, 50 Back, 50 Breast, 200 Free & 200 IM in the one season
Emily Georgieva
Bode Mello
9-10 100 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 FR, 500 Free & 200 IM in one season
Hayes Akard
Owen Akard
Katy Francisco
Lily Furlong
Silas Rowe
Heat Winners (updated through Memphis Tiger Meet)
8 & Under Girls
Savannah Copa Brzozowski 13
Abi Brownyard 9
Katelyn Xu 8
8 & Under Boys
James Dyatlovitsky 10
Walker Lewis 6
Bode Mello 6
9 & 10 Girls
Anna Busteed 10
Violet Vitale 8
Lane Andre 7
9 & 10 Boys
Owen Akard 12
Jack Calhoun 10
Silas Rowe 6
Andrew DuBray 6
Gareth Oldham 6
11 & 12 Girls
Maya Li 14
Caroline Dealy 12
Martha Manire 5
Sofia Owen 5
Maddie Troutt 5
11 & 12 Boys
Boston Boyd 8
Charlie Turner 6
Gavin Chen 5
13 & 14 Girls
Izzie Payton 5
Julia Day 4
Cadence Hammock 4
Lillian Beers 4
Samnatha Li 4
13 & 14 Boys
Campbell Johnson 7
Evan Xu 6
Ari Rosner 4
Louie Koslin 4
15-18 Girls
Sarah Carrico 7
Zara Kocak 5
Madeline Webb 4
15-18 Boys
Zaki Ibrahim 8
Gavin Fu 5
Max Boylan 5
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