Gator Gazette

Our co-hosted meet with PPD is just around the corner! We are extremely excited for this opportunity! Our hosted swim meets are our best fundraisers. When we co-host, we make a percentage of the revenue based on the number of volunteers we have. Check your inbox soon for a SignUpGenius for volunteer positions! For more information, review the Meet Packet.

Alligator Aquatics was recently invited to the Boilermaker Aquatics Gold Fever hosted at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN! Over 20 of our athletes will be competing the weekend of January 31st at the first-class Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center. Go Gators...and Boiler Up!

For families attending the BA Gold Fever, our hotel block is available until Jan. 1, 2025. Book a room at the Alligator Aquatics rate by visiting: https://www.alligatoraquatics.org/page/events#/team-events/upcoming/1557536

Congrats to all of our swimmers and all the hard work they have put into this short course season so far! Can you believe we are already halfway through the season with just a handful of meets left!? All of our swimmers' hard work and dedication has really shown these last few meets and we are looking forward to what the rest of the season will bring!

As we look ahead, we have MANY swimmers who have already qualified for the Alligator Aquatics Championship Team with Regionals and even State qualifying times! CONGRATULATIONS! We hope to be adding more Alligators to this growing Championship Team roster in the near future!

ISCA - East Coast Elite Showcase Swimming Championships 2025

We would like to also share with you an exciting opportunity for our age group swimmers to swim at the ISCA East Coast Elite Showcase Swimming Championships in St. Petersburg, FL April 2-5, 2025. The ISCA Elite Showcase Classic is a national-level swim meet. It's one of the top meets in the country for age group swimmers. This is not a required meet of Alligator Aquatics, but a fun and unique opportunity for our swimmers to compete on a larger scale and see a variety of athletes from the USA. This event does require swimmers to have individual age group time qualifications, however if you qualify in just one event you earn 4 BONUS events! You can swim up to 10 events for the entire meet! This is a FUN and FAST prelims/finals meet.

To learn more about this meet and the age group qualify time standards please review the Meet Packet.

Coach Stacy and Coach Adam will be holding an informal Q&A Zoom meeting (more information coming soon...) to help answer any questions you or your swimmer might have after reviewing the meet packet. Please attend this meeting if you have expressed interest, are looking for a few more details on what to expect should your athlete decide to attend the meet or if you're simply interested in how to help make this a future goal for your athlete!

Please fill out the attached Google Form if you are interested in being part of the ISCA Q&A meeting and you will be sent a meeting link via email to attend virtually. ISCA Q&A Meeting Form

• ISCA Elite Showcase Meet Packet

Wishing the Alligator Aquatics Families a joyful holiday season! May your holidays be filled with warmth, cheer, and plenty of reasons to celebrate your hard work and dedication in and out of the pool. Here's to a new year of smashing goals and making waves!

With the incoming new year, please make sure your USA Swimming memberships are up to date! Most memberships expire on 12/31/2024 if they have not been renewed. For more information, visit our SWIMS information page. Questions? Contact Russell at rmathews@alligatoraquatics.org

Illinois Swimming recently released Winter Time Standards for the 2025 Winter Championship Season. View the standards with the corresponding links below:

Note the new Age Group State format with 2 separate events; 10&U Championships on March 8-9 and 11-14 Championships on March 13-16, 2025.

Winter Regional Championship - Age Group Standards (Feb. 28 - Mar. 02)

Winter Regional Championship - Senior Standards (Feb. 28 - Mar. 02)

Winter Senior State Championship (Mar. 06 - Mar. 09)

Winter 10&U State Championship (Mar. 08 - Mar. 09)

Winter 11-14 State Championship (Mar. 13 - Mar. 16)

For more championship standards, visit our Time Standards webpage.

Congratulations to our recent swimmers' of the meet! These athletes have demonstrated great sportsmanship and improvement at our recent competitions.

AA Winter Splash:

Bionic - Sophia Cooper

Quicksand - Elizabeth Roman

Phoenix - Marco Clementi

Blaze - Julia Adamczyk

Apex - Claire O'Neill

Congratulations to December's swimmer spotlight, Quentin Redel! Quentin has displayed immense team sportsmanship and support as he battles a knee injury. We wish Quentin a speedy recovery and hope he can hop back in the pool soon!