Naperville's Mary Descenza and Lake Forest's Matt Grevers took home the gold at the USA Swimming Short Course Nationals in Atlanta this past weekend.

Descenza, 23, currently representing the Athens Bulldog Swim Club won the women's 500-yard freestyle on Thursday evening with a 4:39.33. "Let this be a lesson to everyone out there," Descenza told USA Swimming. "You can still swim off-events and do great." Descenza recently graduated from The University of Georgia and swam for Rosary High School. She is also a multiple NCAA Division-I Champion specializing in the butterfly events.

Grevers has found a new butterfly-niche at Tucson Ford Dealers Aquatics in Tucson, Arizona. The 22-year-old swam the men's 100-yard butterfly in a blazing 45.80 on Friday evening. The 2007 graduate of Northwestern University and first ever 3-time NCAA Division-I Champion was about a half-second ahead of national butterfly powerhouse Davis Tarwater (46.35) of Club Wolverine (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

Four extremely fast women representing the New Trier Swim Club took a tenth place finish in the women's 4 x 100-yard freestyle relay on Saturday evening. Alisa Finn, 16, Betsy Webb, 17, Emily Dominski, 18, and Katherine Shumway, 16, sped their way to a 3:23.23.