The First Day of the West Coast Aquatics invitational was a huge success for the first wave of the Rapids crew.  With 4 swimmers at Day 1 of the meet we had 8 PB’s, 3 swims moving onto the Semi’s of the 50m Stroke eliminator’s, a new Age Group National time and one new Club Record.

Day 1 Itinerary:

5:30AM: Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, finish packing

6:15AM: Drive to Watermania

6:30AM: pile in Rob’s Car and head down to Federal Way

1 pit stop & 3hours & 30min later we arrived

10:00am We checked out the pool…very nice facility, see attached picture

We them headed to the hotel checked in, picked up subway for lunch and headed back to the pool for an 11:30 W.U.

At this point our four Sr. Rapids Swimmers (Kyle B, Jack H, Marissa Y & Claire L) were all are tired, stiff and a little cranky.

But that didn’t prevent them from putting up some impressive in-season results.

Here are a few of the highlight efforts

                                                                                                                      Entry time         New PB

Yasuda, Marisa         50m Fly                30.85      30.27(New AGN Time & Club Record)

Hong, Jack       50m Fly           28.51    28.05

Bower, Kyle        50m Fly           31.53    30.99 

Lin, Claire        50m Back          34.56    33.86 

Lin, Claire        200m Free         2:21.05   2:18.58

Hong, Jack       200m Free       2:08.91   2:06.07   

Hong, Jack         200m Fly         2:26.02   2:21.14 

Bower, Kyle        200m Fly         2:31.97   2:30.94         West Coast Aquatic's Live Results