Chinook Families, The Long Course portion of our season has begun with both the IST Sockeye Madness (King County Aquatic) coming up as well as the Pac Coast Invitational (Snohomish) this weekend - May 18-19th - swim fast and cheer on Chinook! Also with a fast and heavy meet schedule for long course comes the need for parent volunteers. Keep a look out on our volunteer lists that come out soon for each meet! Thank you Chinook families and look forward to seeing you at a meet soon!

Good afternoon Chinook Families! We had an incredible short course season full of success and on behalf of the entire organization we want to congratulate our swimmers on their accomplishments and personal bests this season! Looking forward to a great long course season! It's with a huge amount of gratitude that we thank the 2023-24 Chinook Board Members for setting the standard of excellence and having Chinook be a place where families and swimmers want to excel their swimming careers. You have set a great standard for the incoming board...

We have two new coaches to welcome to the Chinook family! Ananya Kumar will be the site lead in Renton assisted by Mariko Buchanan. We are so excited to have you on our team! Ananya - I started swimming competitively at eight years old in Southern California on the Mission Viejo Nadadores. I loved racing the 100 breaststroke and 500 free. I swam through high school on my varsity team, and decided to end my swimming career my senior year. I started age group coaching during college in San Diego,...

A lifelong swimmer, Clara has over 20 years of experience working with children. She has spent the last six years as an adapted swim instructor teaching children with special needs and physical limitations to enjoy aquatic recreation. She loves to connect with developing swimmers to help them build a solid foundation where they feel empowered to achieve their goals in the water. Because of her experience as an adapted swim instructor, Clara excels at explaining challenging concepts in a simple way. Despite her pink hair and playful attitude, Clara holds...

It's with great pleasure that Chinook announces that Coach Gunther Niklas will be joining us for 2023-2024 season starting in September! Coach Gunther will work with our Bellevue Red and White teams. Though you will all see him at meets and other Chinook events. Here is a little more about Gunther: Gunther started swimming in 1972 at the Boys Club of Hollywood and continued as a competitive swimmer through High School and Jr. College. He has been coaching swimming for over 30 years at mostly small swim clubs. In addition...

Interested in trying out for Chinook? Team tryouts are coming to a pool near you! Tryouts are open and there is no need to pre-register. Renton - 6:00 PM, August 7th, Lindbergh Pool, 16740 128th Ave SE, Renton, WA 98058 Renton - 6:00 PM, August 16th, Lindbergh Pool, 16740 128th Ave SE, Renton, WA 98058 Bellevue - 10:00 AM, August 26th, Woodridge Swim Club, 12320 Southeast 14th Street, Bellevue, WA 98005 Prep your swimmer! They will need to demonstrate at least 25-yard swim all 4 strokes - backstroke, breastroke, butterfly,...