One more down, one spot to go. The Waves took another big step up at the Inland Empire Short Course Championships, finishing second for the first time in team history this past weekend.  The feat was accomplished by team record performances in nearly every age group. The Waves were led by our 15 & over boys, who demolished 10 team records and had 3 of the top 10 highest point scores in their age bracket.  Conner Hickey broke four team records, swimming the 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 fly and...

2nd PLACE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER--CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT OUR AWESOME CHAMPS WEEKEND!   Entries for Shamrock are due TODAY! All Waves swimmers should sign up Parents--please plan on volunteering NO PRACTICE ON MONDAY, MARCH 12--MEET RECOVERY DAY Waves Board Announcements Monthly Board Meeting: March 3 @ 9 AM Annual Meeting Tentatively Scheduled for March 20 --Vote in new members, approve any By-Law/Organizational changes Questions, comments, concerns, etc-- email Team President Dave Millet IES Breakout Swim Clinic Come hang out with Olympic Gold Medalists Josh Davis and Misty...

NORMAL PRACTICE AT EWU & WHITWORTH THIS FRIDAY (REGIONALS & SENIORS: PLEASE PRACTICE WITH AGE GROUP) Congratulations to Cheney High School Senior Rustin Babcock! Rustin finished 2nd at State in both the 50 Free & 100 Free (Both in team record fashion!), and swam on a pair of scoring relays!  Great Job, Rustin!!! IES CHAMPS--THIS WEEKEND Timeline, Psyche Sheet, & Itinerary Please RSVP for the TEAM DINNER Parents--we need timers T-Shirts available at the Waves Store and during the weekend SHAMROCK SHAKE UP--MAR 9-11 All Waves swimmers, please attend Entries...

WAVES WIN 14&U CHAMPS FOR 4th YEAR IN A ROW!!! It was an amazing weekend.  Get ready for an epic recap of an epic weekend!  Great work, Waves!!! Coach Kevin and Madi Lydig were at the Missouri Grand Prix.  Click here for the recap. Click on the Waves Facebook Page to see more highlights from our weekend. IES CHAMPS Please RSVP to the Team Dinner-- click here for more info and to RSVP Itinerary is posted. SHAMROCK SHAKE UP Our biggest hosted meet of the year is March 9-11 All...

WAVES WIN 4th CONSECUTIVE 14&U CHAMPS TITLE! Going in to a swim meet with 98 swimmers can make a coach pretty confident.  When you find out that your team makes up 30% of all the swimmers in a meet, you begin to dream big.  What followed was beyond anyone's wildest expectations. The Waves absolutely dominated the 2012 IES 14&U Championships Meet this past weekend, scoring 1509.5 points, more than three times the number of points as the second place team (475.5).  More impressively, nearly every swimmer on the team scored...

Madi Lydig and I flew over to Missouri for one of the meets that is in the Grand Prix series.  The Grand Prix meets are designed for the professional swimmers to race, tune up, and prepare for US nationals or Olympic Trials.  Madi swam 4 races, and the results were awesome! Madi dropped over 1 second in the 100 back setting new 15-18 and Open records.  She moved up from 100+ place to 47th. Madi dropped over 2 seconds in the 200 back setting new 15-18 and Open records.  She...

Wow, what a meet.  The Last minute miles was a showcase of toughness, great racing, and brave kids trying some of swimming’s hardest races out (many for the first time.)  Each of the 25 kids that raced was allowed to chose one event; either the 500, 1000, 1650, or the 400 IM.  From those 25 races, came an astounding number of amazing results:   Distance by the numbers: 24 out of 25 swims was a season best! (The one that wasn’t had a flu and missed 3 days before the...

FRIDAY, FEB 10--THE WHITWORTH LOCKER ROOM WILL BE CLEANED OUT.  ALL LOCKS WILL BE CUT, ALL ITEMS WILL BE REMOVED.  PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT LEAVE ANYTHING IN THE LOCKERS OR IN THE LOCKERROOMS.  THANK YOU--Whitworth Aquatic Center Staff Friday, Feb 10: All Whitworth practices cancelled EXCEPT SENIORS.  Cheney practices are a go! Monday, Feb 13: All Cheney Practices cancelled; all Whitworth practices cancelled EXCEPT SENIORS & Masters Cheney High School Senior and Waves swimmer Rustin Babcock dominated his high school district meet with 1st place finishes in the...

The Waves took 24 swimmers over to Ellensburg to compete in the regional winter invitational.  From those 24 kids, we got 67 best times, 9 team records, 9 new Age Group Sectional times, 1 new Western Zone time, and a whole host of Inland Empire Championship times.  It was a great tune up for the championship meets coming next month.  We are very excited to see what we can do in the next month!   Just a brief explanation of those standards: the Age Group Sectional times are the equivalent...

Winter Invite ROCKED--click here to read all about it You know who else rocks?  Our Masters Team who recently swam in Wenatchee. Does anyone else want to swim at the last minute mile?  We have a few limited slots avalible to anyone wanting to enter late.  Just email me, and we will work something out.  JUNIOR CHAMPS--ENTRIES DUE TODAY ENTER BEFORE MIDNIGHT: NO LATE ENTRIES ACCEPTED!!! Rough Draft of Weekend’s Events T-Shirts: pre-order directions in the link RSVP to the Team Lunch: Saturday—2 PM @ Wallace Residence Hall Cafeteria IES...