LSC Spring Meeting

4/19 - The Georgia LSC Spring Meeting was this weekend in Athens. Below is a review of some of the action taken.

1. Elections: Administrative Vice Chair - Phil Hurd (re-elected), Age Group Chair Falco Fleischman (re-elected), Treasurer Martin Hilliard
2. Coaches Committee - elected Jason Turcott chair, All-Star Banquet will be Sept 25 in Atlanta
3. Age Group Committee - eliminated the Boys 800 and Girls 1500 at LC State Champs this summer. Event order will be changed. Short Course State Champs will be February 25-27 at Savannah hosted by GCAT. last chance to qualify will be two weekends earlier.
4. Senior Committee - State Champs will be December 3-5 at Ga Tech. For 2011 Sr Zone team will be selected based on a scoring system using times from short course 2010-11 season.
5. Tech Planning - Committee formed to recommend redrawing divisions at fall meeting.
6. Board - Will look at providing some seed money, followed by regularly budgeted funds for Georgia Swimming Virtual Hall of Fame once it gets more info on site concept and design. Funded GA swimmers selected to National Youth Team trip this summer.

2010-11 Short Course Meet Schedule
Long Course State Champs Qualifying Standards - HTML    |   PDF
Spring 2010 Board Minutes

Dynamo Wins Age Group State Champs

3/1 - Dynamo Swim Club defended its title as the large team champs at the Georgia Age Group State Champs in Savannah this weekend. The Marietta Marlins won the medium teams and Brunswick Y won small teams. Britheny Joassaint, Jeffrey Durmer, Darby Wayner, Alex Taylor, Mariam Soufi, and Jimmy Yoder were the high point winners in their age groups.

State Champs Results: Boys    |    Girls
Team Scores

Zone Select Camp Named

2/20 - Nine Georgia athletes have been named to the Southern Zone Select Camp to be held Memorial Day weekend in Louisville Ky. They are Katherine Weeks, Aja Malone, Julia Durmer, Eleanor Sills, Taylor Weiss, Gunnar Bentz, Jimmy Yoder, Zach Bunner, and Alan Rabstejnek, Swimmers ages 12-14 were chosen based on their zone ranking in each event or their IMX scores. Congrats to our athletes.

Select Camp List

12/13 - SwimAtlanta won the large team division of the Georgia Senior State Champs this weekend at Georgia Tech. Marietta Marlins and Warner Robbins took the medium and small team categories. In a youth movement, thirteen year-old Kylie Stewart won the outstanding swimmer awards for the girls while 15 yr-old Gabe Eichel won the boys award. Over 600 swimmers are competing in the event/ Through two days SwimAtlanta leads the completion and many swimmers have picked up new Junior National and Sectional cuts. Check out the results using the links below.

Senior State Champs Results
Senior State Team Scores

Six Georgia Athletes, One Coach Chosen for Select Camp

10/13 - Six Georgia athletes and one coach have been chosen to participate in the USA Swimming Select Camp in Colorado S[prongs October 29- November 1. The athletes are: Patricia Forrester, Taylor Schick, Allen Browning, Preston Jenkins, Brent Murray and Conor Sweeney. They are from GCAT, DYNA and SA. Coach Yit Lim of Marlins was selected to the women's team coaching staff.

Complete Select Camp List

Georgia Swimmers on Scholastic All-American List

10/5 - Almost sixty Georgia swimmers were designated Scholastic All-Americans by USA Swimming this past weekend. Scholastic All-Americans must achieve at least one Junior National bonus cut and have a 3.5 GPA. The complete list can be viewed using the link below.

USAS Scholastic All-American Release

LSC Meetings September 26-27

9/28 - The fall Georgia LSC Meetings were held this past weekend. The 2009-10 budget was passed, including a 2% increase in LSC meet fees, an increase in the cost of All-Star Towels and Zone meet participation and a $3 increase in membership fees starting in 2011. The 2010 long course schedule was set. The Age Group state meet will be at Dynamo July 15-18, Sr Sectionals at UGA July 15-18 and Sr State at GA Tech July 23-25.

LC 2010 Meet Schedule
FY 2010 LSC Budget

GA All-Stars Recognized, Hear Amanda Weir Speak at LSC Banquet

9/28 - The LSC's annual All-Star Banquet was held yesterday for swimmers who achieved a AAA time or better during the LC 2008 or SC 2008-09 seasons. Olympian and American Record holder Amanda Weir of SwimAtlanta was the guest speaker. Her coach Chris Davis was recognized as the Senior Coach of the Year. Wil Bayer and Yit Lim shared the Age Group Coach of the Year awards. Rockdale's Drew Ellwanger won the Bill Young Award that recognizes excellence in a graduating senior member of a Georgia Swimming team. Also recognized were some 60 athletes who made the USA national top ten recognition as well as state record breakers.

Long Course Recap

8/30 - Now that all the long course meets have ended and results uploaded to the national database we're able to take a look at the successes of the past season within the LSC. Let's start with two new American Records, set by SwimAtlanta's Amanda Weir and ABSC's Mary Descenza, at the World Champs in Rome in July (you might also note ex pat Eric Shanteau's records in the 100 and 200 breast...I'm just saying). We also had some national age group record breakers. Seth Beer (left) from SwimAtlanta broke the national 11-12 boys records in both the 50 and 100 back at Age Group State and Zones. The 13-14 girls' 800 free relay from Dynamo Swim Club of Taylor Schick, Nicole Stafford, Jamie Christy,and Hayley Durmer broke that national record at Senior State Champs. In addition the 11-12 boys relay of Beer, Brandon Gross, Alfonso Castillo and Jake Williams from SwimAtlanta surpassed the record in that event but have not yet been confirmed by USAS.

Also this season, numerous state records were broken. You can view the new records, as well as meet results and the season's Top 20, using the link below. The Top 20 list is generated three times each year and lists the 2o fastest swim in each event in the 11-12, 13-14, 15-16 and 17-18 age groups.

Long Course Meet Results
Long Course State Records
Long Course Top Twenty - Girls
Long Course Top Twenty - Boys

ABSC Third at US Open, SWAT's Freeman Wins 1500 at Juniors

8/12 - Athens Bulldogs took third last week at the US Open meet in Seattle. Troy Prinsloo, Robert Margalis and William Cregar all medalled with Prinsloo winning the 1500. This week a number of Georgia athletes are competing in the Junior National Champs, also in Seattle. SwimAtlanta's Will Freeman won the 1500 while Dynamo's Graham Munger and John Lane and the Marlins' Kylie Stewart have finaled.

US Open Results
Real Time Junior Nationals Results
Video of Will Freeman's Winning 1500

Georgia Team Fourth at Zone Champs

8/2 - The Georgia Zone Team finished in fourth place at the Southern Zone Championships in Orlando that ended last night. Seth Beer won four events breaking the zone meet record in three. Nicole Stafford and Katherine Weeks each won two and Alan Rabstejnek won one. The 11-12 boys set a new meet record in the medley relay as well.

Zone Results (PDF)

7/31 - Eric Shanteau took 2nd in the 200 Breast tonight at the World Champs in Rome missing the Gold by a mere .01 behind Hungary's Daniel Gyurta. Earlier this week he was third in 200 IM and fourth in 100 breast. Also today Amanda Weir was fourth in the 100 free after breaking the American record in the semi-finals. Yesterday Mary Descenza took 4th in the 200 fly after a world-record breaking 2:04 in the morning. She retains the American record.

Video Of Descenza's World Record Swim
Pool Results (July 26-Aug. 2)  |  Open Water Results (July 21, 22 and 25)

SwimAtlanta Wins Senior State

7/26 - SwimAtlanta won the Georgia Senior State Champs this weekend at UGA. Scoring over 2000 points they ran away with the title followed by Dynamo and Marietta Marlins, in a close battle for second, scoring 741 and 663 points respectively. Rounding out the top five were Chattahoochee Gold and Athens Bulldogs. The Outstanding Swimmers of the meet were SA's Jana Mangimelli and GOLDS's Michael Arnold.

Also this weekend, Courtney Peters, of the Marlins, was elected Junior Representative for Georgia Swimming. She will join Senior Rep Jake Stephens representing the athletes at Georgia and USA Swimming meetings.

2009 Senior State Champs Results
Senior State Team Scores

Dynamo Wins Age Group State

7/19 - Dynamo prevailed as State Champs in a tight race with SwimAtlanta at the Age Group State Champs at Georgia Tech this weekend. Marietta Marlins and Brunswick Y prevailed in the medium and small team categories respectively. Girls high-point winners were Chloe Miller (10U), Aja Malone (11-12) and Kylie Stewart (13-14). Alex Mayfield (10U), Ethan Neault (11-12) and Jimmy Yoder won the boys award.

Complete Results
Team Scores

This weekend was also the Senior Sectional Champs in Knoxville. A samller than usual delegation for Georgai was compeiting. Results are avialalbe using the link below.

Senior Sectional Results

Sr Circuit, Finale Meets Start 2009 Champs Meets

The first round of championship meets for the long course season were held last weekend. About 200 swimmers attended the inaugural Sr Circuit Meet at Dynamo while over 450 were at the Finale at Adamsville. Both meets featured some fast swimming with many swimmers getting their State cuts.

Sr Circuit Results
Summer Finale Results

Hersey Wins 200 Fly - Descenza, Weir Make World Champs Team

7/12 - SwimAtlanta and University of Texas standout Kathleen Hersey won the 200 fly last night at US Nationals in Indianapolis, touching out another GA swimmer, ABSC's Mary Descenza. Both swimmers qualify for the US team for World Champs next week in Rome. They are joined by SwimAtlanta's Amanda Weir who was 2nd in the 50 free and 100 free and GA ex pat Eric Shanteau who won the 200 breast in near-American record time and was 2nd in the 100 breast and 200 IM. The meet runs through July 11 in Indianapolis. Other finalists from Georgia have included Robert Margalis, Mark Dylla, Bryan Lundquist, Kara Lynn Joyce and Sabir Muhammad. View results as well as video of the exciting 200 fly race using the links below.

Complete Results on omegatiming.com
World Championship Team Roster
Video of the 200 Fly finals featuring Hersey and Descenza going 1-2

Georgia Swimming Elects New Board Members, Sets 2009-10 Schedule at Spring Meeting

4/25 - Georgia Swimming held its semi-annual meeting this past weekend at the new Frances Meadows Community cent in Gainesville. three new officers were elected. The new Chairman is Jerry Faulkner. Adam Byars was elected Senior Chair and Teresa Coan was elected secretary. Phil Hurd will fill the vacant Vice-chair position for the term. The senior committee moved the Senior Circuit meet to July 10-12 to be held at Dynamo. The new harder qualifying times for the Senior State meet were distributed (and are available using the link below).

Finally the short course 2009-10 meet schedule was bid. The Senior State meet will be December 8-10 at Ga tEch. The Age Group State meet will be February 28-30 ain Savannah. The meet schedule is available using the link below and will always be available in the left hand navigation bar.

State Qualifying Times
SC 2009-10 Meet Schedule

Dynamo Wins Age Group State, SwimAtlanta Senior Sectionals

Age Group State Results
Senior Sectional Results

Georgia LSC Meeting Sets Budget, LC Schedule

9/22 - The Georgia LSC set the LC 2009 schedule and next year's budget at its fall meeting this past weekend. Age Group State returns to Georgia Tech July 16-19 and Senior State will be at UGA July 23-25. The Age Group and Senior committees also plan to revise the State Champs qualifying standards for next summer within the next month. At the Awards Banquet on Sunday, swimmers heard from guest speaker Eric Shanteau. Erica Malagon was honored wit the Bill Young award.

2009 LC Meet Schedule
HOD, BOD Minutes
LSC Budget