Category: General

Twice per year, namely at the end of August, and the end of December, Excel Aquatics takes a brief 3-4 week break in between sessions. Although we are not teaching lessons during this time, we always have a few families of beginner swimmers ask what they can do, if anything at all, to help their…
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Over the course of my swimming career, there were always times during the season that I wanted to take a break. The temptation was always there, year after, especially during the holidays. Particularly in college, when a swimmer is home during break, and there are LOTS of things to do, it is very easy to…
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Often times in swimming, children enter the competitive side of the sport EXTREMELY fast…..transitioning from a once per week lessons program of 30-45 minutes to a 2-3 day per week program of hour long practices can be a bit daunting and overwhelming for both children and their parents. This “rushed” experience many times will lead…
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Over the past 4 years, Excel Aquatics has been fortunate enough to work with, teach, and coach some excellent individuals. One program in particular that we have had the pleasure of working with for the past few years has been the LaSalle Advanced Marketing class, led by Mr. Michael Levy. Mr. Levy has been a…
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At the end of the summer each year, we always receive inquiries from families looking to sign their children up for a competitive swim team. They have gone through a learn to swim program (many times ours in either Schenectady or Albany), and are looking to have their child swim on a team during the…
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A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to take some footage with our GoPro (normally used to underwater video analysis) of Coach Kevin swimming in Crystal Lake. After a few weeks of compiling the different clips, below is the video. Let us know what you think 🙂

With Ironman Lake Placid in the books for many of the Excel Swimmers who raced this past Sunday, we wanted to congratulate everyone who competed! Coach’s Keith and Kevin tracked everyone throughout the day, and we both really enjoyed not only seeing some fast results, but some monster time drops from previous years. One question we always…
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First let me start off by saying last night was AWESOME! The Men’s 200 Breaststroke was possibly the most exciting race of the trials, and some of the other races (Men’s 100 Free) also lived up to the hype. Hopefully tonight will have a couple of more good races, with a few surprises sprinkled in….
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**Editors note-this blog was originally posted on June 30th, 2016 Unfortunately today we have a very small window to write this post, so we’ll keep this short and sweet…. Men’s 200 Breaststroke 1-Kevin Cordes 2-Will Licon Josh Prenot will certainly be in the mix, but we think Cordes is the sure fire winner, with Licon…
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A little late posting this entry, but with all of the swimming going on this week, it is easy to get distracted. As a brief recap, we have done okay with a few of our picks, but there have been some great surprises over the past couple of nights. Our favorite surprises have been- 1)…
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