GREATER PENSACOLA AQUATIC CLUB

Panama City Swim Team Invitational Recap

Logan Cale

Panama City Swim Team Invitational 

GPAC traveled to the Panama City Swim Team Invitational from September 22nd- 24th for three great days of racing! GPAC had a total of 72 swimmers swam in the meet, with 61 of the team’s swimmers achieving at least one new personal best. Overall, GPAC had 61% new best times – 269 best times out of 439 swims. Great job, team!

Swimmers who achieved ALL Best Times:

Kennedy Carter (10), Hayden Coffey (12), Marcela Dos Santos (11), Jack Driskell (11), Isla Fox (11), Kylie Kilgore (12), Aj Martinez (11), Chris McGrath (13), Arthur Phillips (11), Meryl Ramos (9), Laliyah Roland (10), Anderson Saksa (11), Will Terrell (14), Justin Washburn (12), Hayden Weber (16), Nathan Yoon (13)

Congratulations to our event winners:

Marcela Dos Santos (11)- Marcela won the 11-12 500 Free; 200 Free; 100 Free!

Aidan Hall (14)- Aidan won the 13-14 200 Breast and 100 Fly!

Callie Harris (13)- Callie won the 13-14 100 IM and posted 2 New Best Times! 

Amelia Ilnitskiy (13)- Amelia won the 13-14 200 Fly and posted 8 New Best Times! 

Max Little (16)- Max won the Senior 100 Breast and 200 Breast and posted 1 New Best Time! 

Arthur Phillips (11)- Arthur won the 11-12 500 Free! 

Axel Phillips (10)- Axel won the 10&Under 200 IM; 100 Fly; 100 Free and posted 5 New Best Times!

Rowan Schwartz (12)- Rowan won the 11-12 50 Breast;100 Breast and posted 6 New Best Times! 

Nathan Yoon (13)- Nathan won the 13-14 200 Fly! 

The team had many swimmers who achieved New Motivational Time Standards:

B: Addison Adams, Sophie Bridges, Isla Fox, AJ Gillespie, Amelia Ilnitskiy, Kylie Kilgore, Ava King, Tyler Lewis, Nicky Lypko, Maddox McKian, Graham Murrell, Arthur Phillips, Meryl Ramos, Laliyah Roland, Maliyah Roland, Justin Washburn

BB: Anatolie Badila, AJ Gillespie, JoJo Harris, Amelia Ilnitskiy, Arthur Phillips, AJ Stuckey, Lex Vaughn, Grace Walen, Nathan Yoon

A: Anatolie Badila, Marcela Dos Santos, Rowan Schwartz

AA: Marcela Dos Santos, Max Little 

AAA: Axel Phillips

AAAA: Axel Phillips

GPAC will travel to Mobile, Alabama for some more fast swimming at the CMSA Vance Rose Invitational the weekend of October 7th-8th, and then head up the road to Auburn the following weekend.