# Team 1629: Garrett Coalition (GaCo)

Accident, Maryland, USA. Rookie year 2005. District FCH.

## Who backs them

- School: Northern Garrett High School & Southern Garrett High School
- Sponsors: Garrett County Public Schools, Pillar Innovations, Beitzel Corporation, Wilson Supply
- Website: http://www.garrettcountyschools.org/frc1629
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frc1629
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channelucxzje3t4xn_fhgb49nbvebq
- X: https://twitter.com/frc1629
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frc1629
- GitHub: https://github.com/gaco1629

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **93.02**, rank 703 of 3708 (81.1th percentile)
- Record: 33-23-0 over 56 matches (59% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 20.7, teleop 72.1, endgame 0.2
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 64%, RP2 14%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FCH District Pasadena MD Event presented by Plummer Industries | 2026mdpas | 2 | 4 | 9-3-0 | 38 | 1 | 121.3 | 70 |  |
| FCH District Severn MD Event presented by Arcfield | 2026mdsev | 4 | 6 | 8-4-0 | 36 | 5 | 153.2 | 38 |  |
| FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by C-CAM, VSU, Go Tec, and NASA | 2026chcmp | 7 | 19 | 6-6-0 | 31 | 8 | 154.3 | 96 |  |
| Daly Division | 2026dal | 8 | 53 | 4-6-0 | 16 |  | 93.0 |  |  |
| WVROX | 2026wvrox | 22 | 22 | 10-14-0 | 49 |  | 73.5 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District Event Winner (2026mdpas)
- District Championship FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist (2026mdsev)
- District Championship Engineering Inspiration Award sponsored by SpaceX (2026chcmp)
- District Engineering Inspiration Award sponsored by SpaceX (2026mdsev)
- Judges' Award (2026mdpas)

## Name history

Every name FIRST recorded for this team, newest first. A span states the first and last season the name was on the team.

- 2008 – now: Garrett Coalition (GaCo)
- 2005 – 2007: Garrett Coalition

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 30
- Awards: 86, over 20 seasons

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Impact | 16 | 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2010 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 15 | 2026, 2025, 2023, 2022, 2016, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008 |
| Winner | 11 | 2026, 2025, 2023, 2022, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2006 |
| Leadership | 7 | 2026, 2024, 2023, 2020, 2015, 2012 |
| Finalist | 7 | 2024, 2023, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2013, 2006 |
| Innovation in Control | 6 | 2024, 2012, 2011, 2007, 2006 |
| Autonomous | 4 | 2025, 2024, 2019 |
| Entrepreneurship (no longer given) | 4 | 2017, 2015, 2008 |
| Judges' | 2 | 2026, 2025 |
| Team Sustainability | 2 | 2023 |
| Impact Finalist | 2 | 2022, 2019 |
| Quality | 2 | 2018, 2006 |
| Team Spirit | 2 | 2018, 2016 |
| Creativity | 2 | 2011, 2009 |
| Driving Tomorrow's Technology (no longer given) | 2 | 2010, 2008 |
| Excellence in Engineering | 1 | 2013 |
| Woodie Flowers | 1 | 2012 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Gracious Professionalism, Imagery, Industrial Design, Rising All-Star, VOTY.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Daly Division |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by C-CAM, VSU, Go Tec, and NASA | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2026 | FCH District Severn MD Event presented by Arcfield | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2026 | FCH District Pasadena MD Event presented by Plummer Industries | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2025 | Archimedes Division |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by Qualcomm | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2025 | CHS District Blacksburg VA Event presented by Volvo | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2025 | CHS District Pasadena MD Event presented by Plummer Industries | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2024 | Newton Division | Alliance 3 · 3rd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | CHS District Severn MD Event | Alliance 1 · captain | Finalist |
| 2024 | CHS District Blacksburg VA Event | Alliance 2 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | Alliance 8 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | CHS District Timonium MD Event | Alliance 2 · captain | Won the event |
| 2023 | CHS District Blacksburg VA Event | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2022 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Newport News Shipbuilding | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2022 | CHS District Greater DC Event #3 Day 1 | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2022 | CHS District Greater DC Event #2 Day 1 | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2019 | Tesla Division |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | Alliance 2 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | CHS District Owings Mills MD Event sponsored by Leidos | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2019 | CHS District Haymarket VA Event sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | Daly Division | Alliance 3 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | CHS District Central Maryland Event sponsored by Leidos | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2018 | CHS District Greater DC Event co-sponsored by Micron | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2017 | Archimedes Division | Alliance 5 · 3rd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2017 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2017 | CHS District - Northern Maryland Event | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2017 | CHS District - Southwest Virginia Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | Archimedes Division |  | Not picked |
| 2016 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | CHS District - Central Maryland Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2016 | CHS District - Northern Virginia Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2015 | Carson Division |  | Not picked |
| 2015 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2015 | Greater Pittsburgh Regional | Alliance 6 · captain | Won the event |
| 2014 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2014 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2014 | Virginia Regional | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2013 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2013 | Buckeye Regional | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2013 | Pittsburgh Regional | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2012 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2012 | Buckeye Regional | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2012 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2011 | Archimedes Division |  | Not picked |
| 2011 | Buckeye Regional | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2011 | Pittsburgh Regional | Alliance 6 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2010 | Archimedes Division |  | Not picked |
| 2010 | Buckeye Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Top four |
| 2010 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 4 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2009 | Newton Division | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2009 | Pittsburgh Regional | Alliance 5 (read from the playoff lineups) | Top four |
| 2009 | Washington DC  Regional | Alliance 2 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2008 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2008 | Buckeye Regional | Alliance 3 (read from the playoff lineups) | Top four |
| 2008 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 4 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2007 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 2 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2007 | Pittsburgh Regional | Alliance 3 (read from the playoff lineups) | Top four |
| 2006 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2006 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 1 (read from the playoff lineups) | Won the event |
| 2006 | Pittsburgh Regional |  | Finalist |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 93.0 | 703 / 3708 | 81.1 | 33-23-0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 63.2 | 365 / 3687 | 90.1 | 46-17-0 | 6 |
| 2024 | 35.2 | 198 / 3475 | 94.3 | 42-19-0 | 7 |
| 2023 | 53.4 | 227 / 3284 | 93.1 | 39-19-1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 33.5 | 303 / 3053 | 90.1 | 40-17-0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 25.0 | 407 / 3763 | 89.2 | 32-23-2 | 5 |
| 2018 | 142.3 | 20 / 3617 | 99.5 | 49-14-1 | 7 |
| 2017 | 101.0 | 529 / 3331 | 84.1 | 26-26-1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 30.7 | 937 / 3114 | 69.9 | 38-26-0 | 7 |
| 2015 | 53.5 | 170 / 2873 | 94.1 | 2-1-35 | 3 |
| 2014 | 60.5 | 157 / 2697 | 94.2 | 27-11-0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 41.3 | 231 / 2510 | 90.8 | 21-17-0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 18.4 | 116 / 2332 | 95.1 | 20-16-0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 26.5 | 195 / 2053 | 90.5 | 20-16-0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3.6 | 72 / 1801 | 96.1 | 21-13-4 | 3 |
| 2009 | 22.7 | 262 / 1675 | 84.4 | 21-11-0 | 3 |
| 2008 | 29.2 | 56 / 1498 | 96.3 | 21-10-0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 9.4 | 510 / 1295 | 60.7 | 8-14-1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 19.2 | 110 / 1125 | 90.3 | 29-11-0 | 3 |

A season is chosen with `?year=` on this URL.

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