Derek Stone Where are you from? What brought you to Nashville? I grew up in Michigan and moved around Ohio for a few years before I landed in Nashville in 2015. I work for Abercrombie & Fitch in Asset Protection and I had the opportunity to move here. Two weeks after moving, I got married to my beautiful wife Hannah. I have a twin sister and she is a super star… She is no longer running (for now- she’s actually moving down to Nashville in January with her husband and...

On Sunday, December 9th, the NAC 8 & Unders from Green, White and Red Group travelled to Brentwood for the Excel Holiday Invitational. They raced hard and left with a ton of best times, great experiences, and Christmas tree ornaments for heat winners. Here are the Individual swims that finished in the top 10: Nicola Auman: 25 Free Bree Bentley: 25 Back, 50 Free, 25 Fly, 50 Breast, 100 IM Emma Caban: 200 IM*, 50 Free*, 25 Breast*, 100 Free*, 50 Breast* Iris Casey: 50 Fly, 100 Free, 50 Breast,...

Nashville Aquatic Club was proud to host the 2018 NAC Speedo Music City Invitational this past weekend. There were a ton of great swims to go around, including several new Southern Premier cuts! The coaching staff would like to send a huge thank you to the MeetCrew and all volunteers who helped the meet to run smoothly and efficiently! New Southern Premier qualifiers include Caroline Trichel, Anna Hulan, Peyton Strauss, Connie Wang, Cain Del Savio, Sadye Platek, Aurora Brame-Goldthwaite, Ivan Sloan, Bella Bacchetta, and Maggie Bishop. Here are our swimmers...

NAC Penny Pounding: Year 2 of the Christmas Campaign This year, NAC will be doing another holiday giving challenge that we call the Penny Pounding Campaign! For this campaign, NAC works with Project R12, a Nashville based nonprofit that does humanitarian work in Central Uganda. Project R12’s mission is to invest in people, not just projects, to help bring positive and sustainable change to poor communities. Our NAC athletes have the opportunity to help make this a reality through our very own Penny Pounding Campaign! Swimmers will bring in pennies,...

Oscar Guillamondegui Tell us about your athletic history—what have you done and what are you doing/training for now? I swam through high school and also ran cross country into freshman year in college. I then became a nihilist in residency—suffering from the standard effects of being ‘on-call' every other night, for ten years (seriously-36 to 44 hours in a row for ten years). I arrived in Nashville out of shape and had no desire to change it. The impetus to get in shape began when I asked my wife, Tarah,...

Nashville Aquatic Club swept into Newburgh, Indiana for a tri-meet with the Northern Kentucky Clippers and the host Sea Creatures and stomped the competition. The team easily won on the women’s side, besting the Clippers by 393 points. On the men’s side, a close battle came down to the wire, with NAC pulling out a W by just 44 points. It was great to see the swimmer’s step up in a new environment against some great competition. There was some awesome team support and cheering. We have a head of...

NAC had a great season opener with the Fall Face Off! There were a lot of first place finishes by NAC swimmers and quite a few new Music City Invite Qualifiers! Thanks to everyone who helped out in hospitality, on the meet crew or as an official! You made the first meet of the season a success! New Music City Invite Qualifiers Darby Mooney Maggie Bishop Hamp Lefler Benjamin Caillouet Chelsea Nicholas Kumi Sasaki Bella Bachetta Kelly Aquino Tate Barbieri Leo Frein Oscar Green Sammy Ibrahim Kardin Hong Top 3...

Oliver Agh Tell us about yourself. I am originally from Hungary. In 1995 I came to the US for college and swam for five years at D-1 Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. After college I ended up staying in Boca; I worked for BellSouth for a few years, but couldn’t stay away from swimming and became an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at FAU. I also coached and ran the Boca Master’s Swim team for several years. Four years ago it was time to go back to the...

Cissy Morse Tell us about your swimming career and how it started? I’m one of the few Nashville natives left; I grew up in Melrose off 8th ave., then later we moved to Brentwood. I currently live in Franklin. I actually started competing as a kid with NAC. I learned to swim at Glendale pool in Melrose (it was next to the Krystal) and then moved up to summer league at Brentwood Country Club, and then Brentwood Dolphin Club. When I was nine, I became an AAU swimmer with the...

NAC Masters: Getting to Know Sally Watson What do you do in Nashville? Tell us about your family and your life here? I am originally from northern Kentucky, and went to college at Indiana University. In 1990 I moved to Nashville to attend medical school at Vanderbilt. I met my husband here and this has been our home ever since. We have two wonderful boys: Billy, age 14; and Thomas, age 9. I am a pediatrician at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, with a subspecialty in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. My job...