GREATER PENSACOLA AQUATIC CLUB

GPAC traveled to Panama City for the PCST Speedo Long Course Invite May 11 th . GPAC had 29 swimmers attend the meet, totaling 104 swims and achieving 52 best times- 50% total best times for GPAC! 23 of the athletes who attended the meet achieved at least one personal best time. GPAC had two swimmers win individual events at the meet. Taylor Clements (15), won the 100 Free and Callie Harris (14), won the 200 Back. Congratulations to Aaron Benken (13), Isla Fox (12), Scarlett Harshman (12), Amelia Ilnitskiy...

GPAC hosted the annual Flip Flop Invitational on May 4 th and 5th. GPAC had a total of 93 swimmers participate in the meet with 86 GPAC swimmers achieving at least one life-time best. In total, GPAC had 349 best times out of 505 swims, coming out to 69% best times for GPAC as a whole. GPAC had 5 High Point recipients: Ansel Ramos (7) scored 16 points for GPAC and won the 50 Back, Lane Robinson (11) scored 52 points, winning the 50 Fly, 200 IM, 100 Fly, 50...

GPAC traveled to Tallahassee, Florida January 26-28 to compete in their last meet before the 2024 Southeastern Championships. GPAC had a total of 57 swimmers attend the meet, totaling 472 swims and achieving 211 best times- 45 % total best times for GPAC! 100% of the athletes who attended the meet achieved at least one personal best time. Aliza Gardner, 10, won high point for her age group. Aliza swam nine personal best times and won 5 of her events. Aliza qualified for SES in three events and three bonus...

GPAC kicked off the new year with its annual Winter Invitational held at UWF aquatic center January 12-14. Out of the 128 swimmers that competed, 121 of those swimmers achieved at least one personal best time, amassing over 57% best times for the team. Anatolie Badila, 10, won the high-point award for his age group for the third consecutive meet this season. Anatolie swam seven new personal best times and won 7 of his individual events. GPAC had twelve other swimmers win individual events at the meet: Addison Adams, 9,...

Gravy Bowl Recap 2023 GPAC hosted the annual GPAC Gravy Bowl Invitational on the weekend of November 17-19. GPAC had a total of 148 swimmers attend our invitational and 144 GPAC swimmers achieving at least 1 New Best Time! Overall, GPAC had a total of 698 Best Times out of 934 Total Swims, coming out to 75% Best Times for GPAC as a whole! GPAC had four swimmers win the high point award for their age group. Anatolie Badila, 10, and AJ Gillespie, 10, tied for the award in the...

GPAC named Bronze Medal Club for 2024 GPAC earned USA Swimming’s Club Excellence Bronze Medal club designation for 2024 announced by the national governing body this week. This is the first award for the club since USA Swimming initiated the program in 2000 to identify swim clubs throughout the country that are producing national-caliber athletes. “This is truly a great honor to have our club recognized by USA Swimming as a high-performing program,” said GPAC head coach Greg Johnson, who has been with the club since 2010. “This has been...

Malone repeats as Most Outstanding, Clements wins title and GPAC takes 7th at SES Champs HUNTSVILLE, AL—Ian Malone and Taylor Clements notched new individual titles and a tremendous team effort led the GPAC team to a seventh-place finish at the 2022 Southeastern Swimming Long Course championships held in Huntsville, AL July 14-17. “It was a really exciting weekend,” said GPAC’s new age group coach Logan Cale. “The swimmers were very positive and very supportive of each other. Watching GPAC swimmers win their events and the team placing so well was...

It seemed a little more like paradise this year, as the clouds broke and sun shone on a large GPAC squad that captured second place at the Nike Paradise Invitational held in Panama City Beach September 19-21. GPAC had over 85 swimmers attend the meet; the most swimmers at an away meet in over five years! Friday night at the meet had the 13 and over swimmers racing in a sprint pentathlon, where each swimmer competed in a 50-yd race of each stroke, and a 100-yd individual medley. Scores were...

Southeastern Swimming announced this week its annual list of All-Star swimmers for 2013-2014, and eleven GPAC swimmers were among the best in the LSC. This is the most swimmers GPAC has had on the All-Star roster in four years, and ties the all-time high from 2008 and 2010. For the short course season, eight swimmers earned the honor of All-Star: Coulson Barfield, Braden Barkley, James Henderson, Renee Henderson, William Henderson, Cameron Jones, Makayla Ludwick and Walker Parra. Braden posted three events with top-five rankings (100 free (5th), 200 Fr (4th)...

In its annual list of who’s who in swimming and academia released this week, USA Swimming has named GPAC’s Tatiana Oberley and Nate Thomas to the Scholastic All-America team for 2013-2014. Tatiana, 16, is a junior at Pensacola Christian Academy and swims with Coach Phil on the Senior team. This is her first appointment to this prestigious list, and her impressive breaststroke swims posted last winter coupled with her GPA exceeded the requirements to make the team. Nate Thomas, 18, is now a freshman at Purdue University, and made the...