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	Team USA Men's Olympic Head Coach Eddie Reese to Speak at NAC Senior Awards Banquet This Thursday May 8! The Nashville Aquatic Club Senior Awards and Team Banquet will be held at 6:00 p.m. this Thursday May 8 at the Marriott Vanderbilt Hotel. The May 8 banquet will feature all awards for members of the Senior 1 and 2 groups, our graduating athletes appreciation, and our featured guest speaker, Coach Eddie Reese of the University of Texas. Featured Banquet Speaker Eddie Reese will be the Men's Head Coach for the 2008 USA Olympic Team in Beijing. The 2005 and 2006 American Swim Coaches Association Coach of the Year, Reese has coached current Team USA star swimmers such as Brendan Hansen, Aaron Piersol, and Ian Crocker just to name a select few. Our 2008 Graduating Seniors are: Taylor Camp, Erik Campbell, Ava Caulkins, Mike Crady, Maddie Garrett, Chris Housden, Hayes Johnson, Mary Killian, Jennifer Kwok, Curtis Lovelace, Jordan Slaughter, Jackson Wilcox, and Samantha Williams. Click here for More Information on the 2008 NAC Banquet
	The Quest for a 35th LSC Championship Begins as NAC Swimmers Earn 122 New Southeastern Cuts at XCEL Meet! Alex Goss Sets New Team Record in 200 Breaststroke! Nashville Aquatic Club's quest to earn the team's 35th Southeastern Swimming LSC Championship got off to a start this weekend as the team swam to an amazing 122 new Southeastern cuts at the XCEL Spring Fling LC Meet in Brentwood. 12 year old Alex Goss set a new NAC Team Record in the 11-12 Boys 200 meter Breaststroke. Alex's time of 2:47.45 easily bettered the mark of 2:52.25 set by Chase Lovelace in 2005. Goss joined Carrie Johnson and Zsozso Biegl in posting all time NAC Top 10 Performances in individual events while three NAC relays posted times on the Top 10 List.. Swimmers winning individual events at the meet included: Joey Schneider (4x), Parker Camp (3x), Riley Frost (3x), Katelyn McEvoy (3x), Jarvis Werkhaven (3x), Emma Blackwood (2x), Michelle Chintanaphol (2x), Alex Goss (2x), Megan Goss (2x), Carrie Johnson (2x), Katrina Keirns (2x), Seth Akers-Campbell (1x), Ted Curtiss (1x), Maclin Davis (1x), Andrew Dobbs (1x), Anna Grainger (1x), and Samantha Williams (1x). Click here for more from the XCEL Spring Fling LC Meet.
	Hodgson Qualifies for Olympic Trials at Ohio State Grand Prix! Sixteen year old Dakota Hodgson qualified for the 2008 USA Swimming Olympic Team Trials in the 200 meter Butterfly to close a very successful Ohio State Grand Prix Meet for Nashville Aquatic Club. With Dakota's qualification, this marks the seventh high school age NAC swimmer to qualify for the Trials in the past twelve months! Other highlights included Hayes Johnson swimming under the Olympic Trials standard in the 100 and 200 meter Backstrokes. Johnson also qualified for the 2008 US Open (Summer Nationals) in the 200 IM. Jackson Wilcox swam under the Olympic Trials standard in the 400 meter Freestyle. In addition to the three swimmers noted above, NAC swimmers Deirdre Jones, Caroline Reeves, Curtis Lovelace, Kellyn Angell, Maddie Garrett, and Eleanor Phillips placed swims in the top 24. Our Girls Relays placed in the top 4 in each of the three events (4x100 Freestyle, 4x200 Freestyle, and 4x100 Medley). The meet featured twenty NAC swimmers competing against swimmers such as World Record Holders Michael Phelps, Aaron Piersol, and Katie Hoff to name a few. The swimmers competing were qualifiers from the NAC Travel Team. Click here to read more from the meet!

Nashville Aquatic Club........Tradition, Dedication, Excellence
The Nashville Aquatic Club aims to give each of our athletes the opportunity to go as far in the sport of competitive swimming as their talent and desire will allow. Through swimming, we aim to develop physical fitness, self-discipline, and self-esteem in our athletes so that they may reach their full physical and mental development.