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Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to the 10 Excel Swimmers who competed this week in Florida. While most of us swam only in the 2024 USA Swimming Spring Cup, one swimmers, Zaki Ibrahim, also traveled across the state to Sarasota where he also competed in the Open Water Junior National Meet. While the outdoor venue presented us with some new obstacles, all 10 of our swimmers swam fast and had a blast. By The Numbers: 10 Number of Excel Swimmers 59 Number of Excel Races 19 Number of Lifetime Best Races 32.2% Percentage of...

Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to all of our swimmers who competed this last weekend in the TNAQ April Invite. Our small group of just over 100 swimmers represented Excel very well including setting two new team records! One of the most exciting aspects of this race was swimming against the University of Tennessee swimmers who were using it as a tune up for Olympic Trials. We would like to send a huge "Thank You" to our host team TNAQ who put on a great meet and we look forward to seeing you all...

Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to all of our swimmers who kicked off the long course season last weekend here at home! With only a one day format being offered, each swimmer had a short schedule but it was still a great way to gauge where we are kicking off the season. A huge "Thank You" to the coaching staff who work so hard with our swimmers to make this possible. Finally, thank you as well to the parent volunteers without whom, we wouldn't be able to host meets. By The Numbers 273 Number...

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...