Rachel Pelzek of Chattahoochee Gold swim team has accepted a swim scholarship from Western Kentucky University. Rachel is a senior at Sequoyah High School and has competed for Gold since the eighth grade. She says the scholarship offer never would have happened without her coach, Mark Schilling.

"I can literally say that Mark is the reason I have stayed with this sport and am able to swim in college. He has never given up on me and he constantly inspires me to reach higher goals than I ever thought possible." Rachel is mostly a sprint freestyle swimmer and plans to major in Exercise Science at WKU.

Alarii Levreault-Lopez, who has been a member of Chattahoochee Gold since he was 5, has accepted a swim scholarship to Louisiana State University. Alarii says he knew LSU was the college for him when he visited the campus. "I was so honored and amazed by the way the entire swim team treated each other that there was no way I could think of going anywhere else to swim for the next four years." He adds, "Chattahoochee Gold has been nothing short of the greatest life experience any teenager could ask for. I've learned so much in and out of the pool from the team coaches and swimmers that I'll remember for the rest of my life. Gold really prepared me for the next step in my life and I couldn't be more thankful." Alarii will study Petroleum Engineering at LSU.