The Southeastern LSC has just announced their 2025 Age Group Zone All-Star team and Excel is well represented with a total of 6 boys on the team. The Zone team is made up of 48, 11-14 year old male and female swimmers who will travel to Orlando, FL to compete in the Southern Zone Age Group Sectional Championships. They will compete against similar zone teams from LSCs all across the Southeastern United States in their final Long Course meet of the summer. Congratulations to: Gavin Chen Keaton Hubbard Prescott Johnson...

This past Friday, NewsChannel 5 ran a feature on two of our Excel Swimmers. Sports reporter Brian McKeegan traveled up to Gallatin to meet with Zara Kocak and Bryce Winzenread. After filming many of our Gallatin swimmers training, Mr McKeegan sat down with Zara and Bryce to interview them. They covered everything from their training schedule to their future dreams. As our sport gets relatively little attention, this type of exposure is really exciting for us all. You can check it out here.

The 2025 Age Group Zone Meet is quickly approaching. While this is not an Excel meet, it is an opportunity for our swimmers to represent the Southeastern LSC to compete against other conferences from all across the southeasten United States. Taking place from July 30th to August 2nd in Orlando, Fl, this will be a highly competitive meet where only a few 11-14 year old swimmers will be selected. If you are interested in being selected, please read through the selection process and then fill out an application here. From...

Congratulations to our own Zara Kocak and Bryce Winzenread who were mentioned in SwimSwam's acticle "Way Too Early Recruit Rankings: Girls High School Class of 2027" Zara was noted for being currenlty ranked #2 in the 100 fly while Bryce was mentioned in the Honorable Mention section for both her 100 Breaststroke and 200 IM. Bryce and Zara are the only Tennessee high school swimmers listed and they are joined by HSA's Abigail Chan as the only swimmers mentioned from the SES conference. Congratulations to you all!

Congratulations to all of our Excel swimmers who earned the 2025 NISCA All-American status for their high school swimming performances over this past year. To be eligible, each swimmer must hit a qualifying time and subit an application to NISCA. The final list was just released last week and you can access it here. Excel All-Americans: Max Boylan 100 Breast Sarah Carrico 200 Medley Relay, 500 Free Allie Joyce 200 Medley Relay Zara Kocak 100 Fly, 500 Free Bryce Winzenread 100 Breast

Each year, the American Swimming Coaches Association ranks the top 50 Age Group programs. The calculations are based on the number of swimmers from 9 to 14 years of age that acheive either AAA or AAAA times. This year, we were ranked #42 for those teams that have more than 400 members. We weren't alone in the Southeastern Conference. While we were the only big team recognized, a big shout out to: TNAQ Birmingham Swim League Auburn Aquatics Lifetime Southeast All who placed in the small team category. Congratulations to...

This past week, we had three of our senior swimmers travel up to Fishers Indiana to attend the SwimStrong Dryland Camp. Sarah Carrico, Samuel Martin and Zaki Ibrahim spent five days with 80 other swimmers from across the country spending time in the classroom, gym and in the pool. Additionally, college coaches from 17 different schools were on site and available to all the swimmers. The camp concluded with a short course meet where each swimmer swam a couple of events to implement everything that they picked up during their...

Congratulations to the small group of swimmers that we swam in the 2025 HSA June Invite this past weekend. This was a fast prelims/finals meet that attracted fast teams like Dynamo and Kansas City Blazers. Congratulations to Zara Kocak who picked up two more summer junior cuts and a team record and to both Kingston Dealy and Issac Barritt who each earned their spot on the National Team with a new NCSA Junior National cut. Finally, a big shout out to Hensley Ann Brown for hitting her first SES Summer...

Congratulations to all of our swimmers who swam this past weekend in the 2025 Firecracker meet. This was one of only four meets that we host in the prelims/finals format and the excitement was at an all-time high! When the dust settled, we ended up with 4 new team records, 11 new members of the SES team and a new Summer Junior qualifier. None of this could have been done without a whole lot of help so we have some "Thanks!" to hand out: Our meet sponsors Premiere Pools and...

Congratulations to Bryce Winzenread for competing in her first USA Swimming National Championships this past week. Coming off a quick turn around from competing in London just 10 days earlier, Bryce swam all three Breaststroke events. The highlights were her earning second swims in both the 50 and 100 Breast and setting two team records along the way. Her 50 Breast prelim swim of 32.84 lowered her own team record by .1 but did earn her a spot in the D final where she once again, set a new record...