THANK YOU PARENTS,
Hello Piloteers,
I wanted to thank you for the time and effort you all put into the meet the past weekend. I talk to my swimmers incessantly about what a "Team" can accomplish when they all work together. We have literally transformed from a number of separate groups to a "Team" as far as our meets are concerned. Everyone, from our meet director, to our officials, to our timers came together to host one of the best meets I've ever been a part of. It couldn't have come at a more opportune time.

In an effort to host more prestigious meets (Juniors 2011, Grand Prix 2011 or 2012 and eventually Nationals) we have been under the microscope of USA swimming. Your hard work has brought us another step closer to reaching those goals. Please enjoy your well deserved break from hosting meets. We will be back at work this summer with two important meets (June invitational and Southeasterns). We'll need to bring the same enthusiasm and dedication to those meets in order to keep this trend going.

Congratulations, we can all feel very proud about this one.

Coach Jim Rumbaugh

Pilot Aquatic Club : January Classic Invite 2010

Winter Swimming action continued last week as Pilot Aquatic Club hosted its annual January Classic Invitational at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center. Pilot’s last competition took place over a month and a half ago, making the goal of the home invitational to test out new strokes and racing strategies made from the mid-season championship meet in Nashville.
The meet featured over 900 swimmers from 30 separate teams, and was clearly the best and smoothly run meet Pilot has hosted since opening Allan Jones Aquatic Center in the summer of 2008.
Reflecting this, Pilot swimmers left with many accomplishments. Pilot had 42 athletes that swam to all-time personal best times. Also, 27 swimmers swam to Southeastern Championship time standards, and 7 swimmers also accomplished Age Group Sectional Time Standards, which qualifies them to compete against the Southern Zone’s best age groupers (14 & unders) mid-March in Charlotte North Carolina.
Upcoming meets for Pilot Aquatic Club include the ACAC Lois Weir Invitational in Oak Ridge February 5th-7th, TISCA High School State Championships in Nashville (Feb. 12-13), District 8 & under Championships and Southeastern last chance meet, held at Baylor School of Chattanooga the 20th-21st of February. These meets will be Pilot’s last chances to prepare for Southeastern Championship in Nashville, and either Age Group or Senior Sectional Championship meets later in March.
A special thanks goes out to all parents, workers, officials, and coaches that contributed to the Pilot Aquatic Club’s January Classic Invitational 2010. Your contributions created a great atmosphere for over 900 swimmers to compete in. Thank you and GO PACK! -- AW 1-25-2010 Full Meet Results

PACK Cranks up the Volume at Music City Invitational 
            Pilot Aquatic Club athletes gained significant momentum this past weekend.  It has been a season of new coaches and different approaches in the team’s training.  The Music City Invitational, held at Centennial Sportsplex in Nashville this past weekend, was the team’s first Championship meet of the short course season.  Most of the training groups on the team rested several days in preparation for racing fast in the prelims/finals format.  72 athletes swam lifetime best swims at the meet and 55 athletes swam times qualifying them to swim at Southeastern Championships in February.  There were also 9 Pilot Swimmers who swam times qualifying them to compete in Senior Sectionals held in early March.
            Highlighting swimming action was Will Kerr(12) when he tied a PACK team record for the 100 Breast (1:08.16) set by Ned Vickers in 1985.  Will also broke Music City Meet records in the 50 freestyle, 50 backstroke, 50 breaststroke, and 100 breaststroke.  Congratulations to Will and his fine accomplishments! 
            Other top 8 finishes included Christian Baker(14), Hayden Baker(16), O’Neill Bergeron(18), Ashley Darby(12), Lucy Fortune(14), Alex Hines(10), Chelsea Kyle(16), Bryar Long(12), Bethany McNabb(12), John Myhre(14), Braeden Price(10), Adam Thomas(13), and Lexi Tutor(17) .

Full Meet Results

Congratulations to all Pilot athletes and their performances this past weekend in Nashville.  Currently there are 9 Pilot swimmers who missed the action this past weekend in their preparation for Short Course Junior Nationals held at Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. Kennedy Higdon, Hayden Baker, Hannah Pinion, Jenny Darby, JP Gaylor, Evan Pinion, Alex Ward, Matt Absher, Dylan Rasnick, Audrey Brown, & Ally Hardesty are all representing Pilot Aquatics in the National spectrum. Click Here for meet information and results on Short Course Junior nationals.  Good luck and GO PACK!
            Pilot Aquatic Club’s next competition will be the Pilot January Classic held at Allen Jones here in Knoxville from January 15th through the 17th.  For meet information on Pilot Aquatic Clubs January Classic Click Here.  See you at the pool!

PACK Southeastern Qualifiers:

Caleb Allen(16), Christian Baker(14), Hayden Baker(16), Matthew Bales(11), Kate Banick(14), Meg Beasley(17),O'Neill Bergeron(18), Hayden Burns(12), Kate Caldwell(16), Reese Catron(12), Jaron Cook(13), Ashley Darby(12), Zeke Duck(17), Lucy Fortune(14), Allison Fowler(15), Rachel Fowler(15),Drew Freeman(13), Emily Galdun(16), Nicki Galler(17), Mallory Gardner(12), Chris Glafenhein(12), Chris Goodman(15), Alex Hines(10), Ross Kellet(17), Will Kerr(12), Chelsea Kyle(16), Nick Lambson(14), Alli Lapps(11), Bryar Long(12), Josh Lucheon(16), Blake Macnair(16),Zach Mason(18), Bethany McNabb(12),Kaitlyn McNabney(16), Sam Melhorn(12), Grant Mills(17), Ben Myhre(16), John Myhre(14), Whitney Owen(14), Fallon Parker(16), Braeden Price(10), Jamie Ragland(12),Kaylie Rasnick(13), Trenton Reed(12), Ethan Sanders(10), Quinn Smith(12), Andrew Spencer(16), Adam Thomas(13), Alex Thomas(16), Madison Thomas(15), Lexi Tutor(17), Mia Wallace(15), Camilla Wang(14), Aaron Williams(17), Jon  Woo(14), Nicolas Woo(12)

PACK Sectional Qualifiers:

Hayden Baker(16), O’Neill Bergeron(18), Nicki Galler(17), Chris Goodman(15), Chelsea Kyle(16), Zach Mason(18), Ben Myhre(16), Madison Thomas(15), Lexi Tutor(17)

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