Our very own Coach Daun (who is the reigning SES Age Group Coach of the year) has just earned yet another honor. Daun has been selected to be the Southeastern Swimming representative for the Women in Governance program held at the annual USA Swimming Convention. The mission of the Women in Governance program is as follows: The Women in Governance program is geared towards identifying, educating, supporting and mentoring female coaches who wish to be more involved in organizational governance. Coach Daun will be heading to Denver this September to...

Congratulations to Zara Kocak and Bryce Winzenread to who just returned from competing in London at the Adam Peaty Race International. Both girls were representing the NCSA All-Star team that they qualified for in April. Despite a slightly different format, Zara and Bryce adapted well to swim fast. On the first day, Zara ended up 5th overall and 1st in the 18 & U in the 200 Fly- swimming a new team record time of 2:15.60 and US Open cut. That same evening, Bryce swam a new team record 2:34.19...

Congratulations to all of our swimmers who competed this weekend in the Excel May Open. As this was only our first meet of the season, we were very impressed with results that we saw from all age groups. Congratulations to our 3 swimmers who hit Summer Junior qualifying times, our 6 swimmers who together broke 9 team records and our 11 new SES Championship team qualifiers. In addition, while the season is still young, Congratulations go out to Brooklyn Lewis who is currently ranked #1 in the country for 12...

Congratulations to Emmeline Perry who re-qualified for Para Nationals in the 100 Breast at the 2025 Bill Keating Memorial Para-Swimming Open hosted at Xavier University. Emme is classified as an S9 and her time of 2:03.44 earned her a spot in the 2026 Para National Meet in Boise, ID. What's particularly impressive is that in Para-Swimming, there are no age groups. In fact, Emme who is 13, was the youngest swimmer in her event which included two athletes in their 20s. While Emme is a member of our Junior 2...

The 2025 Excel Aquatics Awards ceremony this weekend, was another beautiful event were we honored the 2024-25 seasons- and we sure had a lot to celebrate! This past calendar year has seen two of the most successful seasons in Excel's history. The numbers of team records, the team championships, our national rankings and countless other metrics, all point to team who's growth and development are at the very top of the country. The afternoon stared with our youngest swimmers receiving awards for IM Tough and for winning the 8 &...

The first annual Live Like Kate Rust 5k race was a huge success! With over 500 runners and walkers participating, the memory of Kate was honored in a special way. The 3.1 mile course that wound through the Bridgemore Neighborhood was full of Excel Swimmers, families and even coaches. In addition, the Thompson Station and Summit school community was there is full suport as well. Kate's family has graciously decided to donate some of the proceeds from today's events towards our bulding fund for a facilty in the Bethesda area....

Congratulations to our Excel swimmers who traveled to Louisville to compete in the Triton Derby meet this last weekend. Despite having a small number of swimmers, we ended up winning the combined team total and recording some fast swims along the way. Congratulations to the 5 new swimmers who earned their spot on the 2025 Summer SES Championship team! A huge "Thank You" goes out to the host team Triton Swimming for putting on such an exciting meet. By The Numbers: 56 Number of Excel Swimmers 270 Number of Excel...

Congratulations to our Excel Swimmers, Head SES Open Water Zone Coach Andreea, and all of the Souhteastern Swimming Open Water Zone team for a fanstastic race this weekend in Ft Meyers Beach Florida. Zone teams are comprised of swimmers only in a specific LSC but and are highly selective. Of the 15 total swimmers on the SES team, 4 were from Excel (Lifetime was the other team with multiple swimmers with 2). Campbell Johnson who is 14, was our only swimmer competing in the 5K while the other three, Brooklyn...

Congratulations to our Southeastern Swimming Athlete Representatives for receiving two awards from USA Swimming. There are four Athlete Representative spots in the LSC- The Senior Rep, a Junior Rep and two representatives At Large. This year, our own Alexander White is one of the At Large representatives. Among their other duties is the responsibility to plan and host a leadership summit which they did over the weekend of April 4-6th. The summit drew 25 swimmers from teams all across the LSC and the programming and many of the presentations were...

Congratulations to our 4 Open Water National swimmers who just returned from Sarasota where they competed in a couple of different distances. We started the weekend off with Campbell Johnson who finished 16th in the boys 5k race with a time of 1:02:12. Up next were our two girls competing in the 7.5k, Zara Kocak and Sarah Carrico. Zara ended up 11th with a 1:44:13 and Sarah 31st with a 1:50:30. Finally Zaki Ibrahim swam the 7.5k race in a time of 1:46.39 which earned him 29th. Up next for...