Stingrays Runners Up at Senior Sectional

3/15 - Georgia swim teams are participating in a number of senior championship meets this month, including the All-American Short Course meet in Austin TX and the NCSA Juniors in Orlando. At one of the recent faster meets, the Southern Zone Eastern Sectional Champs held last weekend in Raleigh, the Stingrays out of Cobb County took second in the combined Team Race.

SwimAtlanta Wins Age Group State

2/28 - SwimAtlanta won the large team division of the Age Group State Champs this weekend in Savannah, handily defeating defending champs Dynamo Swim Club by over 1000 points. Marietta Marlins again won the medium teams division while Douglas County won its first small teams title. HIgh point winners were: Brianna Bender, Dillon Hall, Lauren Case, Brennan Pastorek, Kylie Stewart and Griffin Garratt. This summer we will have new state champs time standards. A link to the new standards is below.

Meet Results    |     Team Scores

12/15 - Dynamo Swim club won the combined championship at the US Junior National Champs last week at Georgia Tech. Dynamo took second in both the men's and women's races to edge Bolles of Florida by a mere 6 points. Georgia Swimming clubs SwimAtlanta and Stingrays were 4th and 6th respectively. It was a great showing by Georgia swimmers both as competitors and hosts (also Dynamo).

Jr Nats Results

SwimAtlanta Wins Senior State Champs

12/26 - SwimAtlanta won the Georgia Senior State Champs this weekend December at Georgia Tech. Dynamo was second and the Stingrays third. Derek Onken and Anna Neumeister were named the outstanding swimmers.

Sr State Champs Results | Team Scores

Georgia Swimming Fall Meeting

10/1 - Business at the Georgia Swimming Fall Meeting last weekend was brisk and substantial. By the conclusion of the House of Delegates Sunday we had next year's budget (which included a few spending cuts and fee increases in light of the current economy), established next year's long course meet schedule, and established new time standards. For the schedule, the Age Group State meet will be the 2nd weekend in July in Augusta, Senior Circuit the third weekend, and Senior State, since it will no longer be the Zone selection meet, will move to the final weekend in July during Zones. The 15-18 zone team will be selected in Spring based on short-course times. Both championship meets will have tightened time standards which should be out by year's end.

2011 Budget | LC 2011 Schedule
Technical Planning Committee minutes

Georgia Banquet Recognizes All-Stars

At the All-Star Banquet last weekend over 200 of Georgia Swimming's top athletes were recognized at the Atlanta Hilton Northeast. The All-Star towels were handed out while the athletes heard from guest speaker and National Team member Nick Thoman. In addition GCAT's Bill Forrester was named Senior Coach of the Year while Dynamo's Jon Beber was named Age Group Coach of the Year. Sadly neither the Betsy Dunbar nor the Bill Young scholarships were awarded due to lack of nominations. Each year Georgia swimming members (or their parents!) are encouraged to submit nominees for the two awards during the summer. The Bill Young award goes to the top graduating senior nominee based on both swimming and non-swimming achievements. The Betsy Dunbar goes to a graduating college swimmer who has continued to participate in Georgia meets during college.

Long Course Recap

9/22/10 - Now that Pan Pacs have ended I have been able to run the end of season reports. Check out the links below to see the season's Top Twenty. Also be sure to look at the new Georgia Swimming records after the all-out assault by our 13-14 boys . Almost every record in that age group fell. Gunnar Bentz (DYNA) and Jimmy Yoder (RAYS) combined for eleven of them. Other record breakers were: Andrew Tang (LINS), Marco Leo (SMAC), Ethan Young (CCAC), Matias Koski (DYNA), Stephen Kekacs (ASL), Gabe Eichel (ASL), Brent Murray (SA), Neil Versfeld (ABSC),Brianna Bender, Haley McInerney (SA), Kylie Stewart (DYNA),and Morgan Scroggy (ABSC).

GA 2010 LC Top Twenty, Boys   |    GA 2010 LC Top Twenty, Girls
GA Long Course State Records    |    Hy-tek LC Records file

Georgia Swimmers at Paralympics World Champs

9/16/10 - Georgia Swimming was well represented at the International Paralympic Committee World Championships in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Glenda Orth was the lead starter, Curtis Lovejoy was a great men's team captain, Lantz Lamback won 2 silvers and 1 bronze and Ashley Owens won 2 gold and 1 silver. One of Ashley's golds was the last pool event of the meet where she anchored the women's 34 point free relay. Ashley came from 15 meters behind to pass England for the victory. Jeff Rout was the sports scientist for Team USA. Team USA finished 2nd in the medal count with 57 medals; Ukraine had 58.

Team USA Dominates Pan Pacs, - Weir, Scroggy , Hersey Contribute

8//10 - Team USA won 19 of 24 Golds and nearly half of the silver medals at the Pan Pac Championships that concluded in Phoenix today. ABSC's Morgan Scroggy and SwimAtlanta's Amanda Weir and Kathleen Hersey had a hand in it. Scroggy took Silver in the 200 free and Gold in the 800 free relay, Likewise, Weir earned Silver in her individual event, the 50 free, and Gold in the relay, the 400 Free Relay. Hersey won the Bronze medal in the 200 fly. Native son Eric Shanteau also scored, taking third in the 200 breast.

USAS Pan Pac Page

ABSC 10th at Nationals, Dynamo 2nd at Juniors

8/15/10 - ABSC took 10th and a number of Georgia athletes scored at last week's Senior National Champs in Irvine. SwimAtlanta's Kathleen Hersey led Georgia swimmers, winning the 200 fly and medalling in the 100. ABSC's Morgan Scroggy took a couple of thirds and a fourth. SA's Amanda Weir was third in the 50 free. On the guys' side, ABSC's Mark Dylla was 2nd in the 200 fly and William Cregar scored in the 400 IM. Dylla and all three girls were chosen to represent the US at the Pan Pac Championships.

The following week Dynamo Swim Club was runner-up in the same pool at the Junior National Champs. Dynamo won the men's 800 free relay, while DYNA's Kylie Stewart, SA's Brent Murray, and ASL's Gabe Eichel were all finalists. Stewart and Murray were chosen to the USA Jr Pan Pac team competing in Hawaii later this month.

USAS Nationals Page
USAS Junior Nationals Page

Georgia Team Second at Zone Champs

7/31/10 - The Georgia Team finished second at the Southern Zone Championship Meet at Georgia Tech this week. They finished just behind the Florida Team and missed winning the boys scoring even more narrowly. Hosted by Dynamo, the meet featured the top team of all the LSC's through the southeast.

Southern Zone Champs Results

SwimAtlanta Wins Senior State Champs

7/26/10 - SwimAtlanta won the large team division of the Senior State Champs held this past weekend at Georgia Tech, outpacing the field by a large margin. The Marietta Marlins won Division II and the GA Tech team won Division III. Drew Onken and Courtney Peters were named the Outstanding swimmers of the meet. The meet was also the selection meet for the Georgia Zone team. Twenty athletes were chosen for the team. They were:

• Josie Cuda, Lily Tang, Rachel Astles, Katie Evans, Lydia Jones, Alli Crenshaw, Meghan Faulkner, Shannon McNulty, CJay Wiley, Melissa Postoll, Katherine Clark
• Devyn Hughes, Robbie Swan, Thomas Nguyen, Tyler Graff, Aidan Sweeney, Michael Reynolds, Elliott Brockelbank, Eric Collins, Nicholas Brown, Alex Schafer

Senior State Champs Results | Team Scores

Dynamo Wins Senior Sectional, Age Group State Champs

7/19/10 - Dynamo defended their Age Group State Champ and Senior Sectional titles both on the same weekend this weekend. At UGA they held off Lakeside and a number of talented college swimmers to win the meet. At their own pool they won a close battle with SwimAtlanta for the Division I (large teams) title. Marietta Marlins won Division II and Golden Isles Swim Team won Division III. The meet featured new state records by Brianna Bender (10U 200, 400 free,) Gunnar Bentz (13-14 100 free, 400 IM) and Jimmy Yoder (13-14 200, 400 free). High Point Awards went to Britheny Joassaint, Tan Dunn, Jackie Jeschke, Alex Taylor, Darby Wayner, and Jimmy Yoder. The meet was also the selection meet for the zone team that will compete next week at Georgia Tech. The 11-14 yr old members will be:

• Jackie Jaschke, Lauren Case, Haley McInerny, Megan Evonsion, Alexis Glunn, Nicole Fye, Lindsay Wallace
• Alex Taylor, Andrew Tang, Ethan Young, Derek Cox, Robert Wylie, Taylor Delk, Tyler Mazurek
• Darby Wayner, Caty Hulsey, Mariam Soufi, Katie Christy, Taylor Weiss, Caitlin Cooper, Abigail Meyer
• JImmy Yoder, Gunnar Bentz, Powell Brooks, Lawrence Moore, Keenan Sweeney, Scott Berry, Nathon Burwick

AG State Champs Results | Team Scores
Senior Sectional Results | Team Scores

2009-10 Short Course Season Recap

4/28/10 - The 2009-10 short course season is in the books and it's time to look back and see how we did. Below are links to the final Top 20 and the updated records from the season. Despite the absence of supersuits, over a dozen records were broken and the Top 20 is one of the fastest ever.

GA 2009-10 SC Top Twenty, Boys   |    GA 2009-10 SC Top Twenty, Girls
GA Short Course State Records    |    Hy-tek Records file

LSC Spring Meeting

4/19/10 - 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

3/1/10 - 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

2/20/10 - 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

12/13/09 - 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

10/13/09 - 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

10/5/09 - 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

9/28/09 - 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

9/28/09 - 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

8/30/09 - 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

8/12/09 - 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

8/2/09 - 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)

7/31/09 - 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)