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Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to all of our Age Group Sectional Swimmers who competed this weekend in Cary, North Carolina. Our team of just under 40 swimmers finished 6th behind some very fast teams from North Carolina and Georgia. 36 Number of Excel Swimmers 165 Number of Excel Races 74 Number of Lifetime Best Races 45.4% Percentage of Lifetime Best Races 3 New Team Records 18 New USA Swimming Motivational Times Full Results

Benji DeMotte

Region 1 and 8 & Under Championships Congratulations to all our swimmers who competed in either the Region 1 meet or the 8 & Under Championships this past weekend. We walked away with two more combined team championships and a slew of other awards along the way. Congratulations to Silas Rowe and Savannah Copa-Brzozowski for winning the high point awards for the 8 & Under Meets. These two combined team wins, combined with last week's combined win at the SES Championships secures our winning the 2024 Triple Crown! Team Scores...

Benji DeMotte

Excel Wins the 2024 Southeastern Winter Championships! Congratulations to all of our swimmers who swam this past weekend in the SES Championship meet. When the dust all settled, Excel came out on top of the combined team score, both the boy's and girl's team score and we won 5 of the 8 age group titles. Congratulations to Zaki Ibrahim for winning the 13-14 Boy's High Point title and to Zaki Ibrahim, Kinsgton Dealy, Caleb Asebrook and Abram Rickstrew who swam a staggering 3:14.41 in the 400 Medley Relay to set...

Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to all our swimmers who competed in the 2024 Mardi Gras meet here in Brentwood. With 426 of our swimmers racing, it was a great way to finish off the regular season. Congratulations to 12 new SES, 6 new Age Group Sectionals and 1 new NCSA Junior National qaulifiers. As always, thank you so much to all our parent voluteers who make every meet possible! Now, onto Championship Season! By The Numbers 426 Number of Excel Swimmers 2,573 Number of Excel Races 1,683 Number of Life Time Best Races...

Benji DeMotte

Excel Giving Back! Over the last month, Excel families have been working together to provide Christmas gifts for 5 different families that we’ve “adopted” through our partnership with Franktown Open Hearts. These families have children that participate in the Franktown after-school programming designed to offer educational and social opportunities to the Franklin community. This past Saturday, we collected, sorted and loaded up over 100 gifts that were donated by our Brentwood families. From there, three different caravans of swimmers, parents and coaches spread out across Franklin to deliver the presents....

Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to each of our swimmers who swam this past weekend at the 2023 TYR Meet of Champions. This is typically an amazing meet for us and this year certainly fit that mold. With just over 400 swimmers competing, we walked away with 2 new team records, 3 new naitonal team members, 8 new age group sectionals team members and over a 100 total SES team members. A special "Thank You!" goes out to all our parent voluteers who worked so hard to make this event possible. By the Numbers:...

Benji DeMotte

This past Saturday, just under 200 of our swimmers competed in a 1 day meet that was specifically designed to focus on the longer events. While this wasn't a typical format, we were thrilled with the results as we picked up 8 new SES Winter Championship qualifying times and even 6 new team records! Thanks so all our parent voluteers who helped make this possible. By the Numbers 194 Number of Excel Swimmers 346 Number of Excel Races 258 Number of LIfetime Best Races 74.6% Percentage of Lifetime Best Races...

Brennan Riddle

This past weekend Excel Alumni and current Arizona State University swimmer, Zoe Summar, competed at the TYR Pro Series Meet in Mission Viejo, California. This multi-stop series of meets held by USA Swimming sees some of the best swimmers in the world come together and compete and continues Excel's tradition of sending athletes and representation at this meet as our own John John Lai competes at the previous edition in Knoxville, Tennessee. Zoe competed in the 100 Breaststroke, 50 Backstroke, 200 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, 200 Breaststroke, and 200 IM. Zoe...

Benji DeMotte

As we celebrate our historic first Triple Crown of Championships, we need to pause to reflect what this means for our program. The term “Triple Crown” is used across sports and always to reflect an accomplishment higher than simply being a one-time champion. In cycling, it refers to winning the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the UCI Road World Championships Road Race in the same season. In 1999-2000 the University of Arkansas Men’s Track & Field programs became the first SEC team to ever to win the Triple...

Daun Lutz

The Excel Aquatics program and three of our swimmers were recently featured in an article in the Tennessean published on November 27th. It featured Gavin Fu, Callum Farneth, and Charlie Turner since those swimmers won every event they swam at the recent TNAQ meet. We are so proud to have had our team and swimmers featured in this article. It's a short read, so enjoy.