NAC - Nashville Aquatic Club NASHVILLE AQUATIC CLUB
Serving the Middle Tennessee Area Since 1975
P.O. Box 128318 Nashville, TN 37212 / (615) 321-3510


2009 NAC October Open
October 24 - 25, 2009

Nashville Aquatic Club Dominates the October Open!

After two days of competition the Nashville Aquatic Club came out on top by a solid margin of 324.5 points ahead of second place Swim Atlanta and 559 points ahead of third place Excel Aquatics. NAC won age group high points in 8 & under girls, 10 & under boys, 11-12 Girls, 13-14 Boys and Senior Boys on their way to an outstanding team performance.

Jackson DeFore led the way for NAC in another dominating performance winning all 8 of his events in record breaking fashion. He shattered the meet records in every event he swam posting many of the top times in the country thus far this season. Sophie Pilkinton also broke a meet record in the 50 Free on her way to the 11-12 girls high point victory. NAC had 139 different swimmers post 569 best times.

Numerous swimmers made new or first time Southeastern cuts at the October Open. For a complete list of all swimmers qualified for Nike Music City and Southeastern Championship click here.

Weston Bailey - 50 Fly, 100Fly Alex Gray - 100 Breast, 200 Breast
Paige Colaberdino -100 Back Tammy Guo - 50 Breast
Becca Dedert - 200 Breast Seth Kyriakidis - 200 Free
Rachel Deutsch - 50 Free Austin Morris - 50 Breast
Aspen Dimmick - 100 Fly Artyom Pavlichenko - 200 Breast, 100 Breast, 500 Free
Chatham Dobbs - 200 Back, 200 Fly, 400 IM Taylor Piranian - 100 Breast, 200 Breast
Hudson Dobbs - 50 Back, 100 Fly Eli Rawls - 50 Free
Andrew Dupuis - 50 free Theresa Smith - 100 Breast, 200 Breast
Julia Jane Eskew - 50 Free, 100 Breast Elizabeth Stinson - 200 Free
Morgan Flynn - 200 Fly David Windley - 50 Breast
Phillip Fossee - 50 Free, 100 Breast, 200 Fly  

 

Many swimmers had swims that placing them into the top 16 in the Mythical Age Group Championships and USA Swimming rankings. Let's keep up the good work. The full meet results and info can be found here.

The Nashville Aquatic Club had 25 swimmers place top 10 in the high point standings within their age group.

8 & Under
Ellie DeFore 1st, Tammy Guo 2nd
John Windley 9th

10 & Under
Youli Yao 6th, Ophelia Pilkinton 7th, Julia Jane Eskew 9th,
Jackson DeFore 1st, Ford Ray 4th, Austin Morris 7th, Eamon Morris 10th

11-12
Sophie Pilkinton 1st, Annie Kyriakidis 3rd, Carrie Johnson 8th
John Franklin Crenshaw 9th

13-14
Michele Chintanaphol 3rd,
Taylor Charles 2nd, Ted Curtiss 4th, Alex Goss 5th
Wesley Nealy 6th, Matt McPherson 10th

Senior
Megan Goss 7th
Parker Camp 1st, Dakota Hodgson 3rd, Maclin Davis 7th
Kyle Johnson 8th

Many swimmers qualified for the 2009 Nike Music City Invitational Dec. 4-6, 2009 and 2010 Southeastern Championship Meet Feb. 25-28. All swimmers who have qualified to swim in these meets are posted on the website here. These meets are the focal point of our current swimming season. We will need everyone to do their best to qualify in an attempt to help avenge our loss to Lakeside last December and defend our Southeastern title.