This week we wrap up our 2024-25 Season with our final three long course meets: Senior Champs (July 17 - July 20), Age Group Champs (July 24 - July 27), and Futures (July 23 - July 27). The above swimmers have made cuts in one (or more) events, and we look forward to seeing more time drops at our final meets of the season. Congratulations to everyone on their hard work this past year!

One of our Harrisonburg Gators were named as part of the 2024-25 Virginia Swimming All Star Team list for the short course season: Elias Kite. To qualify for the All Stars team, swimmers must finish the season with one of the top 5 fastest times in the LSC in any event in their age group. (*Harrisonburg Gators) Several additional swimmers ranked in the top 10 for their age group and are called out below. Erin Baxley ranked 2nd in the 13/14 Girls 200 Back (SCY), 5th in the 200 Fly...

For the 2025 Great Community Give, our BIG goal was to not only have the most donors during the 9-10am power hour, and also to secure a top three spot for number of donors in the medium non-profit category and reach 200 donors. While we didn't hit all of our goals, we DID win the 9-10am power hour, and received a $700 prize from Cardinal Dental Specialists for our combined efforts! Over the course of the day, we had 137 donors and placed 10th out of 46 medium-sized small-profits (22nd...

2024 ISCA East Elite Showcase Meet Results From April 2 - April 5, four of our age group swimmers (ages 14/under) wrapped up their short course season by traveling to enjoy the sunshine with their families to compete in the 2024 ISCA East Elite Showcase in St. Petersburg, FL. L to R: Vivi Hess, Isaiah Kite, Elias Kite, and Eliza Hewitt Our group swam a total of 33 races over the course of four days, achieving 12 best swims along with 6 top 10 finishes. There were 3 new motivational...

2025 Eastern Zone Sectionals Meet Results| Short Course This year we had four swimmers qualify and compete at the 2025 Speedo Eastern Zone Sectionals meet held in Christiansburg, VA from March 27 - March 30, 2025. As a qualifying meet our swimmers earned cuts from the following time standards. Congratulations to Molly Beckwith, Kaleb Erb, James Hewitt, and Liam McMahon for their hard work in achieving the cuts in order to attend this meet! All four swimmers qualified for finals in the below events, and all four placed top 8...

2025 Clover Cup Meet Results | Short Course From March 21-23, twelve of our swimmers traveled to Richmond, VA to attend the Clover Cup. Our team swam a total of 61 events at this prelims/finals meet over the course of 2 days, and 36 were best times. In addition, a total of 162.27 seconds were dropped! Swimmers on deck: Lily Anne Anderson, Olivia Dameron, Silas Dameron, Igor Dmytriyev, Graham Ebersold, Poppy Ebersold, Charles Gochenour, Viv Hess, Elias Kite, Isaiah Kite, Lane Coleman, and Skelly Coleman. There were 7 new motivational...

2025 Virginia Swimming Age Group Championship Meet Results | Short Course Five of our 14/younger swimmers competed at the 2025 Virginia Swimming Short Course Age Group Championship meet in Christiansburg, VA from March 13 - March 16, 2025. This was a qualifying meet, so each of our swimmers earned cuts from the following time standards. This was our last weekend with Coach Curtis on deck as well. Congratulations to Igor Dmytriyev, Eliza Hewitt, Elias Kite, Isaiah Kite and Brandon Shafer for achieving the cuts needed to swim at this meet!...

2025 Virginia Swimming Senior Championship Meet Results | Short Course Six of our 15/older swimmers competed at the 2025 Virginia Swimming Short Course Senior Championship meet held in Richmond, VA from March 6-9, 2025. In order to earn a spot to compete at Champs, these swimmers each earned qualifying times from the following time standards. Congratulations to Molly Beckwith, Rachael Bing, Kaleb Erb, James Hewitt, Alison Hooke, and Liam McMahon on their hard work this season in achieving these cuts! Parents on deck were excited to cheer on their swimmers...

After a few weather delays, the Virginia High School League Class 3 State Swimming meet was held on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 in Richmond, VA with many of our Gator swimmers represented on deck. High Schools in the Valley included East Rock High School, Rocktown High School, Spotswood High School, Turner Ashby High School, and Wilson Memorial High School. Throughout the day we received pictures from our swimmers and families along with texts of their time drops and podium finishes. We've highlighted our current (and recent) swimmers below. Be sure...

2025 Southwest District 9 & Older Championship Meet | Short Course This year we had forty-five of our 9 & older swimmers compete in the 2025 SW District 9/Older Championship meet in Christiansburg. We had several seniors swimming the final meet of their swim careers, and so many swimmers working toward personal best times as well as making both USA Swimming motivational cuts and last minute Age Group and Senior Champs qualifying times. Over the last few months our swimmers have been training hard in the water and that showed...