GREATER PENSACOLA AQUATIC CLUB

Region IV Championships Meet Recap

Breanna Johnson

GPAC hosted the 2024 Short Course SES Region 4 Championships February 23rd-25th , and it was a great meet to end the year on for GPAC. The team had a total of 119 swimmers participate in the meet with 118 of them achieving at least one new best time. In all, GPAC achieved 570 best times out of 821 total swims: coming out to 69% best times across the team.

GPAC had twenty swimmers win individual events at the meet: Marcela Dos Santos (12) with 6 events, Lane Robinson (11) with 5 events, AJ Gillespie(10) with 4 events, Nathan Yoon (14) with 3 events. Ben Ashford (16), Max Little (16) and Logan Robinson (17) all had 2 event wins. The following swimmers all won one individual events: Isla Fox (12), Graeson Garcia (14), Kevin Herr (17), Amelia Ilnitskiy (14), Braedon Jacobs (17), Oliver Johnson (13), Addison Lee (16), Marie Prestwood (14), Lincoln Purdy (8), Anderson Saksa (12), Cain Scoggins (16), Ben Stewart (13), Tristan Varrichio (14).

Congratulations to the following swimmers who swam best times in all their individual events over the weekend: Addison Adams (10), Abby Ashford (14), Jeffrey Ball (13), Jaxson Braddock (11), Sean Buison (14), Bill Caves (13), Amelia Clanton (12), Caden Coy (12), Caleb Coy (14), Owen Dawsey (16), Brody Flemming (12), Karlie Franks (11), Annabelle Godwin (11), Clara Gray (9), Jack Hebert (17), Ava Howell (13), Braedon Jacobs (17), Kaedance Killingsworth (14), Truman King (10), Brody Kirk (10), Max Little (16), Ian Malone (16), Chris McGrath(13), Mandy McKian (13), Berkeley Mefford (8), Logan Robinson (17), Laliyah Roland (10), Maliyah Roland (10), Galen Schwartz (9), William Terrell (14), Justin Washburn (12), Landis Wood (17), and Bailey Yoon (9).

Although the meet took place a week earlier, these swimmers posted Southeastern championship qualifying times at the Region 4 meet: Addison Adams (10), Anatolie Badilia (11), Aliza Gardner (10), AJ Gillespie (10), Amelia Ilnitskiy (14), Noah Jacobs(15), Addison Lee (16), Max Little (16), Nicholas Lypko, Ian Malone (16), Anderson Saksa (12), Justin Washburn (12) and Nathan Yoon (14).

The following swimmers posted new Sectional qualifying times: Addison Adams (10) and Nathan Yoon (14).

Congratulation to swimmers who achieved NEW Motivational Time Standards:

B: Abby Ashford, Anatolie Badila, Kennedy Carter, Bill Caves, Jaysa Ciccone, Caden Coy, Owen Dawsey, Isla Fox, Isabelle Garcia, AJ Gillespie, Clara Gray, Helen Gray, Joshua Guello, Ava Howell, Hannah Hunt, Emma Joachim, Kylie Kilgore, Brody Kirk, Maddy McKian, Emma McLaughlin, Brandon Miller, Henry Ramos, Laliyah Roland, Anderson Saksa, Benjamin Stewart,. Charlie Striepeck, Stella Vail, Tristan Varrichio and Bailey Yoon.

BB: Anatolie Badila, Kennedy Carter, Jaysa Ciccone, Caden Coy, Owen Dawsey, Isla Fox, Amelia Ilnitskiy, Oliver Johnson, Emmalyn Kirchberg-Voskull, Troy Lee, Sarah Lewis, Tyler Lewis, Nicholas Lypko, Emma McLaughlin, Brandon Miller, Laliyah Roland, Maliyah Roland, Anderson Saksa, Caroline Smith, Benjamin Stewart, Charlie Striepeck, Stella Vail, Tristan Varrichio, Justin Washburn, Rigby Whiteley, Landis Wood and Bailey Yoon.

A: Addison Adams, Callie Harris, Jack Hebert, Amelia Ilnitskiy, Anderson Saksa, Brianna Smith, Avery Witte, Landis Wood and Nathan Yoon.

AA: Addison Adams, Graeson Garcia, Noah Jacobs, Max Little, Kiley Menser, Lane Robinson and Nathan Yoon.

AAA: Benjamin Ashford, Braedon Jacobs, Addison Lee, Max Little, Logan Robinson.