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City of Jonesboro, AR - Government's Post The Jack Deacon Invitational Made a Big Splash in Jonesboro! This past weekend, more than 145 swimmers from three states came together at the Jonesboro City Pool & Recreation Center for the largest USA Swimming event Jonesboro has hosted in 25 years — the Jack Deacon Memorial Invitational. The meet honored the incredible legacy of Jack Deacon, who helped start Jonesboro’s first swim team in 1958, chaired the YMCA Swim Team Committee for 12 years, and later served as President of the Arkansas...
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On April 18th, 2023 the mayor of Jonesboro official declared the day Jonesboro Jets day in honor of the Jets accomplishments to cap off their Short Course season. This has been a very successful year for Jets swimmers and the Jets team as a whole. These accomplishments include: 885 Best times from Jets swimmers 23 State Qualifiers - the most in over a decade 6 Sectional Qualifiers- the most in over a decade 30 AAU Junior Olympic Champs Qualifiers 3rd Place finish in the Girls 14 and Under State Champs...
Our Jets swimmers that competed in Tupelo, Mississippi on April 15th-16th have a lot to cheer about heading into the long course season. All fourteen of our Jets swimmers produced at least one best time with ten of the fourteen swimming 100 percent best times. Eight of our Jets swimmers achieved Long course state times, with two being new state qualifiers, and four more jets swimmers added 'B' times to their swimming resume. Katie Rowe, Caroline Rowe, Adison McGaha, Gabby Ni, Caroline Ni, and Shelby Gibson swam Long course state...
Five Swimmers from our Jets Swim Team competed at the ISCA East Elite Showcase in St Petersburg Florida. This competition consisted of 1500 the best swimmers from 100 different clubs all over the Eastern United States. There were teams in attendance from Texas, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Minnesota, Washington DC, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Rhode Island, New York, Colorado, Michigan, Connecticut, Illinois, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Dakota, Oregon, New Jersey, South Carolina, Wisconsin and many others. The five female swimmers competing for the Jets were Lily Gilbow, Adison McGaha, Caroline Ni,...
There were 13 Jets athletes in attendance April first for the April Pools Day meet in Searcy, Arkansas. They brought home 16 Gold, 6 Silver, and 10 bronze medals from the meet. Among our top three finishers were Mayar Hadki, Adam Hadki, Addyson Barber, George Pfriemer, Dexter Mellow, Natalie Caruso, Alana Rodriguez, Jaylynn Morgan-Price, Cali Byrd, and Jackson Reed. Cogratulations to Annapierce Fairhead, Mayar Hadki, George Pfriemer, Youssef Hadki, Dexter Mellow, Jaylynn Morgan-Price, and Addyson Barber on completing events that they had never swam before! The team finished with 31...
The relay pictured above, consisting of Katie Rowe, Londyn Moore, Adison McGaha, and Taylor Johnson broke the state record in the Girls 13-14 400 yard Freestyle Relay at the ARSI 14 and under champs in Benton on March 5th, 2023. They broke this record by over 2 seconds! The record was previouosly held by the Fort Smith Tideriders from 1995. Great Job Jets!
Congratulations to all of our Jets Swimmers on our successful Championship Season! We had multiple Jets swimmers representing their high schools at both the 4A and 5A High School state Champs. At 5A state champs, a relay team consisting of Madison Fischer, Katie Rowe, Daya Tucker, and Taylor Johnson won two state titles for Valley View High School. Katie Rowe took home two inidivual state titles, Daya Tucker had two top three finishes, and both Taylor and Madison had two top five fishes. At 4A state champs, Elizabeth took home...
College Announcements! Jets High School Seniors! All four of our high school seniors that swim will continue their swimming on collegiate teams!! Will Little: Washington University of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) Libby Pollock: Maryville University (St. Louis, MO) Fritz Vetter: Ouachita Baptist University (Arkadelphia, AR) Bret Serpas: Fordham University (New York) Coach Sydney will be attending Arkansas State University and will continue coaching for Jets! This past season, Jets alumni competed for their schools: Jack Little, Arizona State; Reese Graham, Henderson State; Cade Rivers, Henderson State; and Carsen Cotter,...
