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Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to our 9 swimmers who have been selected to represent the Southeastern LSC at the 2023 Southern Zone Age Group Championships! The Southern Zone Championships is one of 4 meets around the country that attract the most talented 11-14 year old swimmers, from each region. Our zone is one of the very fastest with teams coming from North Carolina, Florida, Texas and of course the Southeastern LSC. With over 75 teams in the LSC, having 9 swimmers (just under 20% of the total Zone Team) from our team is...

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.

Benji DeMotte

Checking in with Coach Steven and our High Performance Team In the Spring of 2021, Coach Steven created a High Performance Team at Excel specifically to focus on our elite swimmers and their pursuit of national competitions. Although our club has a long history of elite swimming, he felt that due to recent growth in both numbers and performance at the age group level, it was time to create a group that extends across all sites, but is specifically for those swimmers who have already achieved a national time standard....

Benji DeMotte

Good Luck to Meredith DiPasquale and Zoe Summar who will represent Excel Aquatics at the US Open Meet this weekend in Huntsville, AL. Due to Covid, the format is slightly different than in years past as there are two sessions per day, but they are timed finals. Both of our swimmers start things off tomorrow with Zoe in the 200 IM and 100 Back and Meredith in the 100 Fly. Zoe will finish things up for us on Saturday with the 200 Back and 200 Breast. Good Luck Ladies and...

Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to our Excel Swimmers who swam this weekend in the 2020 Fall Fest meet. Although we had to adapt our format to fit our current restrictions, the meet was fun and we swam fast. Although we weren't able to allow spectators, our families were able to watch the live feed (pictured above) to see all the action. Full Results By the Numbers: 295 Excel Swimmers 1009 Excel Races 588 Lifetime Best Races 96 Swimmers with all Lifetime Bests 13 New Age Group Sectional Cuts 21 New SES Championship A...

Benji DeMotte

Excel Aquatics Wins the 2020 Southeastern Short Course Championship! Congratulations to all of our swimmers who were part of winning the SES title in Huntsville AL. With a combined score of 2,418.5 points, we ended up first out of 45 teams. But that wasn't the only win we had... Excel placed 1st in the: Combined Team Score Age Group Combined Team Score Age Group Men Age Group Women 10 and Under Boys 11-12 Boys Men's Open High Point- Joseph Jordan SES Championships By the Numbers 127 Excel Swimmers 709 Excel...

Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to our 8 and Under Girls team for their first place finish at the 2020 Western Regional Meet! The Boys finished third and combined, Excel came in second overall. A special Congratulations goes out to our High Point winners as well: Chloe Gregory- 1st for the Girls Addie Davis- Girl's Runner-Up Charlie Turner- Boy's Runner-Up We are so proud of all our 8 and Under Swimmers and their coaches. Keep up the great work! The 8 and unders were not the only swimmers in the meet however. We also...

Benji DeMotte

Congratulations to all of our Excel Swimmers who competed this last weekend at the High School State Championships meet in Knoxville. We are especially proud of our two-time State Champion Joseph Jordan who won the 50 Free with a 20.41 and the 100 Free with a 44.73! Other top 16 Individual Finishers: Girls 200 Free- Zoe Summar 4th and Meredith DiPasquale 9th Boys 200 Free- Connor Wright 8th and Nick Zaharescu 12th Boys 200 IM- Cade Hickson 11th, Jason Wang 12th and Ollie Land 16th Girls 50 Free- Kailey Orr...