Drawing teams from as far as Memphis, TN and Athens, GA, GPAC’s annual Tom Lalor Invitational continued to be the big summer event for many of the swimmers on GPAC. Swimmers from GPAC posted an impressive 63% best times, and the team gathered four new Southeastern qualifiers bringing the team total to 38.

Junior group member Walker Parra, 12, emerged as the sole high point winner for GPAC, though several other swimmers were in the running for the award. Parra swam eight out of 11 individual best times, and nabbed six individual victories. He posted a new ‘AAA’ time in the 200m individual medley and two new ‘AA’ times in the 50m freestyle and 100m breaststroke.

Paige Bridges and Maren Mackey, both 10, tied for second in the high point standings, and Brooke Ferrara, 16, Makayla Ludwick, 12, and AJ Luth, 14, came up just shy of winning their age group in points. Luth won six individual events, posting a new ‘AAA’ time in the 400m IM, and four new ‘AA’ times. Bridges and Ludwick won a trio of events each, with Bridges setting two new ‘AA’ times (200 IM, 50 BK) and Ludwick posting a new ‘AAA’ time in the 100m freestyle. Both Ferrara and Mackey won an individual event each, with Mackey setting a new ‘A’ time in the 100m breaststroke.

GPAC had several other swimmers win individual events at the meet. Cason Forst, 12 won the 50 and 100m butterfly, Ashton William Heath, 12, took the 100m freestyle, and Renee Henderson, 11, won the 100m freestyle. Steffen Mount, 17, won four individual events, and teammate Heidi Schellin won both breaststroke events. Seth Scoggins, 12, won the 100m breaststroke, Olivia Weekley, 17, won the 100m fly, and Cali Wilson, 12, won the 50m free.

The team had 19 swimmers account for 37 new Southeastern cuts. Congratulations to Coulson Barfield, Paige Bridges, Lexi DeJesus, Cason Forst, James Henderson, Renee Henderson, Cameron Jones, Makayla Ludwick, AJ Luth, Maren Mackey, Steffen Mount, Seth Scoggins, James Tracey, Cali Wilson, Nevada Wood and Thomas Young. Special congratulations to Trinity Devanney, Ashton William Heath, and Malia Ludwick who achieved their first Southeastern cuts!

The following swimmers posted life-best times in all of their events: Amy Brown, 14, Justin Durham, 11, Alexis Renee Heath, 9, Bryce Howell, 13, Berkeley Humphreys, 13, Brantly Keiek, 17, Ryan Longley, 16, Sarah Marks, 10, Nicholas Petruska, 15, Francisco Ramirez, 11, Nevada Wood, 13, and Thomas Young, 14.

Congratulations to the swimmers who made new motivational time standards:

B:            Alex Atherton, Amy Brown, Ashley Burroughs, Connor Devanney, Meghan Doyle, Landry Hadder, Alexis Renee Heath, Amelia Hoitt, Genna Hoitt, Bryce Howell, Berkeley Humphreys, Cannon Hutchens, Emily Johnson, Cameron Jones, Sam Laggan, Austin Lee, Rachel Lee, Alex Little, Justin Liu, Kyle Longley, Ryan Longley, Sarah Marks, Geza Maruschak, Gracie Matthews, Alexandra McCreary, Korbin Menser, Ria Pabby, Joseph Richbourg, Adriana Rivera, Alex Smith, Bryceon Snowman, Nevada Wood

BB:         Alex Atherton, Parker Brandt, Caitlin Bridges, Amy Brown, Ashley Burroughs, Trinity Devanney, Cason Forst, Claire Han, Ashton William Heath, Genna Hoitt, Berkeley Humphreys, Kristina Jacques, Emily Johnson, Erin Johnson, Cameron Jones, Brantly Keiek, Austin Lee, Rachel Lee, Rebekah Loesch, Kyle Longley, Ryan Longley, Malia Ludwick, AJ Luth, Sara Lypko, Sarah Marks, Geza Maruschak, Alexandra McCreary, Seth Scoggins, James Tracey, Cali Wilson, Nevada Wood, Thomas Young

A:            Caitlin Bridges, Lexi DeJesus, Trinity Devanney, Cason Forst, Ashton William Heath, James Henderson, Renee Henderson, William Henderson, Cameron Jones, Rebekah Loesch, AJ Luth, Jenna Luth, Maren Mackey, Walker parra, Noah Scoggins, Seth Scoggins, James Tracey, Cali Wilson, Thomas Young

AA:         Coulson Barfield, Braden Barkley, Paige Bridges, Cason Forst, Ashton William Heath, James Henderson, Renee Henderson, William Henderson, Rebekah Loesch, AJ Luth, Steffen Mount, Walker Parra, James Tracey, Cali Wilson, Thomas Young

AAA:      Coulson Barfield, Renee Henderson, William Henderson, Makayla Ludwick, AJ Luth, Walker Parra