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MSA takes on Best of The South! MSA took two athletes to Mcauley Aquatic Center at Georgia Tech for this Age Group Sectional level meet, achieving great successes and amazing opportunities for growth throughout the weekend. Avianna competed in 50 Freestyle and 100 Backstroke as one of the youngest in her age group earning a great experience to compete with Top Level athletes from all over the south including teams from Southeastern, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina! Annabelle earned 47 points placing MSA in 24th...

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We hope you have enjoyed the MSA hosted Winter Clinic as much as we enjoyed having you as part of it! This was very much a trial run to see what we felt worked well and what adjustments we would like to make in the future. We loved being able to offer this program to the community for those who wanted to dip their toes in the water, increase their skill base, and stay active during the winter months with Summer Leagues right around the corner or year-round programs taking...

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MSA has completed our 2024 SCY Winter Southeastern Championship! This is our Big Team Event we work towards each Fall/Spring. We had an incredible amount of success amongst our individual qualifiers and our relays we put together! Southeastern Championships are composed of teams who qualify athletes for this fast meet from all of Tennessee, Alabama, and the Panhandle of Florida. At these meets you can oftentimes expect to compete alongside (or be) Top-Ranked Age Group Athletes, future college athletes, college athletes, Olympic-Trial Qualifiers, and National Team members! 10&Under Haylee, Mckinley,...

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Host Team Website: https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/sehsa/page/home Facility: Huntsville Aquatic Center 2213 Drake Ave SW Huntsville, AL 35805 Meet Format: 3-Day Timed-Finals Meet for 10&Under 3-Day Prelim-Finals Meet for 11&Over *1650 will run as Timed-Finals on Thursday night fast to slow alternating female and male heats (combined ages) *11-12 will bring back Top-10 into Finals *11-12 Relays will swim in Finals Session *13&Over will bring back Top-20 into Finals Arrival Times: Please make sure to check which days and sessions your child will swim. You may view your events on the website under...

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The Madison Titans Masters Team sent 28 swimmers to Auburn on February 3-4 to compete in the 2024 Southeastern Zone Masters Championship (the Southeastern Zone comprises 8 southeastern states). The Titans emerged from last year's meet (February, 2023) as the champion team, dethroning the "dynasty team" which draws membership from the entire state of Georgia. The Georgia team responded this year by bolstering their ranks and sending 36 swimmers to the competition. In a close battle, Georgia finished with 1544 points, as our powerful Madison Titans were close runners-up with...

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MSA had a terrific weekend competing at the Region 3 Championship! Our 10&Unders swam in the middle session as Timed-Finals scoring 206 out of the 887.5 total points! The following athletes were our 10&U individual earners: Sean Haylee Alessa Mckinley Rhylan Raymond Joey Jonathan Grace Allison Amelia Brynton (Team High-Point) Annie Jack Molly Evan Isaac Alice Willem Our 11&Over Athletes had the opportunity to swim this meet as Prelim-Finals which is something our LSC and Region has been trying to accomplish for many years. This is an amazing opportunity for...

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Getting Ready for College Recruiting Deciding what type of college for you. Division 1 – “the big division” Minimums = varies by school, preferably NCSA or above. Some coaches will send their “walk-on times”. Mid-Majors (CAA, AAC, WAC) or BIG Five (SEC, ACC, BIG 10…. Separate National champs for Men and Women Division 2 – “the growing division” Minimums = sectional level or above State or private schools with widely different ranges in size Combined national champs that also includes the 1000 Free Division 3 – “no athletic scholarships” Minimums...

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Kyle Parker started working for The City of Madison at the age of 15. After attending college at Auburn University he moved back home and was hired as Madison City Aquatics Director in 2011. He played a major role that year in obtaining automatic defibrillator donations for Dublin Pool and oversaw the installation of equipment for its’ disability access. He developed a new swim lesson program accessible for citizens with disabilities as well as developed the orientation and training program for the city’s seasonal lifeguards. His memory lives on in...

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Good afternoon, As many of us now know, The City of Madison has updated the weather alert system for Dublin Memorial Park. Click Here for more information We are excited that The City of Madison has found a proactive way to mitigate our athletes' risk in cases of lightning and other weather phenomenons. I firmly believe this is a step in the right direction to help keep our families and athletes out of harm's way. This appears to be a much less subjective and reactive approach than the previous ways...

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Congratulations to all of our athletes and parents at this incredible meet! We hope all of our families have made it back safely and are staying out of harm's way during this winter storm. MSA had an incredible amount of success this weekend with athletes picking up Winter SES Cuts, completing IMR/IMX Challenges, and even qualifying for ISCA Senior Cup! During the course of the weekend, MSA athletes accumulated over 225 Personal Best Times, 26 Winter SES Qualifiers, and 4 ISCA Senior Cup Qualifiers (with a few more well on...