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The Jefferson Sea Dragons traveled north to Habersham County this past weekend to compete in the North Georgia Swim League Championship.

The NGSL meet was a little different than what the swimmers are accustomed due to the meet being more of a team effort than individual scores.

Jefferson snagged a respectable fourth place improving from last year’s finish in sixth.

Out of the 12 teams in the league, Jefferson is on the smaller side with 81 swimmers compared to the nearly 200 swimmers other teams brought.

Head coach Matthew Grant and recreation director Ben Dillard have both been credited with the success of the team this season.

The swimmers had a good meet at Habersham, with four first place finishes from Joshua Joransen, Gabrielle Joransen, and McKenzie Klinck.

Klinck also was one of 12 swimmers that won a high point award out of the 600 plus swimmers at the meet.

The Sea Dragons will be sending 17 swimmers to compete in the GPRA state meet this weekend in Tifton.
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Head coach Matt Grant, for the Jefferson city rec swim team, had a surprise for the young swimmers Thursday night.

Grant brought guests UGA assistant swim coach Harvey Humphries and two of the university’s champion swimmers. [Full Story »] 

The Jefferson Sea Dragons made quite a showing at the GPRA district swim meet at the Habersham Aquatic Center, Saturday.

The Sea Dragons qualified 17 swimmers for the state meet and set 45 personal records. The swimmers also had 15 fourth place finishes.

Coach Chad Klinck said, in his Sea Dragon Talk press release, “We are in the toughest region by far. Last year our district took 41 percent of the points for the entire state. A fourth place finish in our district is likely a top five at state.”
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The Commerce Tigersharks had a weekend off, but still used the off week to prepare for their upcoming meets.

Coming off strong performances at the Dacula Invitational on June 28, where the Tigersharks racked up 25 top ten finishes, the team extended some of its practices in anticipation of Thursday’s home stand against the Jefferson Sea Dragons and Saturday’s District Meet in Habersham County.
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The Jefferson Sea Dragons have been showing spirit at the past few swim meets.

At the June 14 NGSL Pentathlon in Winder, only the best swimmers participated.

The Sea Dragons had 17 swimmers attend and eight finished in the top 10 of their age group. [Full Story »]