GREATER PENSACOLA AQUATIC CLUB

GPAC welcomes summer at the Tom Lalor Invitational GPAC hosted the annual Tom Lalor Invitational this past weekend from June 2-4. GPAC had a total of 83 swimmers participate in the meet with 75 of GPAC swimmers achieving at least 1 best time. In total GPAC accumulated 335 best times out of 581 swims over the weekend, coming out to 57% best times overall. GPC boasted several high point winners, with a pair of 8 & unders winning the prize: Meryl Ramos (8)- Meryl won 5 out of her 7...

Landon Garcia picked for USA Swimming’s regional diversity camp Landon Garcia, a member of GPAC’s Senior Green training group, was selected to attend the Southern Regional Diversity Select camp that will be held in Houston, TX June 1-4. Landon is GPAC’s first swimmer to make or attend a USA Swimming select camp since the pandemic put a halt to these camp experiences for the swimmers, and the first since William Henderson attended the camp in 2017. Landon, 14, applied and was selected for the camp based on his eligibility from...

GPAC Takes 5th at Southeastern Champs HUNTSVILLE, AL- Led by four individual champions tallying 10 wins, many scoring relays and a number of team record-setting performances, the 25-member GPAC team finished fifth among over 30 teams at the 2023 Southeastern Swimming short course championships held in Huntsville, AL February 24-26. “The team performed superbly,” said GPAC head coach Greg Johnson. “We knew we had some great scoring potential going into the meet, but some things we didn’t account for fell into place for us, and we were able to take...

Malone repeats as Most Outstanding, Clements wins title and GPAC takes 7th at SES Champs HUNTSVILLE, AL—Ian Malone and Taylor Clements notched new individual titles and a tremendous team effort led the GPAC team to a seventh-place finish at the 2022 Southeastern Swimming Long Course championships held in Huntsville, AL July 14-17. “It was a really exciting weekend,” said GPAC’s new age group coach Logan Cale. “The swimmers were very positive and very supportive of each other. Watching GPAC swimmers win their events and the team placing so well was...

It seemed a little more like paradise this year, as the clouds broke and sun shone on a large GPAC squad that captured second place at the Nike Paradise Invitational held in Panama City Beach September 19-21. GPAC had over 85 swimmers attend the meet; the most swimmers at an away meet in over five years! Friday night at the meet had the 13 and over swimmers racing in a sprint pentathlon, where each swimmer competed in a 50-yd race of each stroke, and a 100-yd individual medley. Scores were...

Southeastern Swimming announced this week its annual list of All-Star swimmers for 2013-2014, and eleven GPAC swimmers were among the best in the LSC. This is the most swimmers GPAC has had on the All-Star roster in four years, and ties the all-time high from 2008 and 2010. For the short course season, eight swimmers earned the honor of All-Star: Coulson Barfield, Braden Barkley, James Henderson, Renee Henderson, William Henderson, Cameron Jones, Makayla Ludwick and Walker Parra. Braden posted three events with top-five rankings (100 free (5th), 200 Fr (4th)...

In its annual list of who’s who in swimming and academia released this week, USA Swimming has named GPAC’s Tatiana Oberley and Nate Thomas to the Scholastic All-America team for 2013-2014. Tatiana, 16, is a junior at Pensacola Christian Academy and swims with Coach Phil on the Senior team. This is her first appointment to this prestigious list, and her impressive breaststroke swims posted last winter coupled with her GPA exceeded the requirements to make the team. Nate Thomas, 18, is now a freshman at Purdue University, and made the...

For the second year running, GPAC is proud to award special t-shirts to the team members who made the efforts to attend a majority of the home meets, as well as a majority of all meets on the schedule. The shirts are not mutually exclusive, and many swimmers will be awarded both shirts. “Meet Monster” t-shirts are being awarded to swimmers who attended 13 out of the 16 meets on the schedule for both the short course and long course seasons. This year, GPAC had 37 swimmers meet this impressive...

It’s hard to believe that another new swim season has begun. GPAC team members opened the 2014-15 short course season with the second annual team photo day and time trials meet at the UWF Aquatic Center on August 23. The morning began with over 130 new and returning swimmers lined up for a handful of new “goodies,” including the team shirt and cap. In addition to the team uniform, swimmers were treated to some cool GPAC shades and a ball cap, courtesy of the team support fund! Senior team parent...

Perhaps it was because it was his first event of the meet. Or perhaps it was the excitement of being selected to his first-ever Zone team representing Southeastern Swimming and GPAC. Either way, Walker Parra finished what was left over from his tremendous Southeastern Championships two weeks earlier to put his name in the GPAC record books for a fourth time in a season. Parra, 12, established a new team record in the 400-meter freestyle (4:39.26) at the Southern Zone Age Group Championship in San Antonio, TX July 29-August 2,...