In the just completed PNS 14&U Champ meet, PDST swimmers Tang, Amy; Liu, Katie; Jia, Maddy; and Wang, Gracie timed 2:09.46 (first place at the meet) in the 200 medley relay and ranked 10th in the national 10&Under age group. PDST swimmers Tang, Amy; Liu, Katie; Jaime Chen; and Wang, Gracie timed 1:58.49 (first place at the meet) in the 200 free relay and ranked 23rd in the national 10&Under age group. Congratulations.

A great performance by PDST swimmers at the PNS 14 and Under Champ Meet What a great performance by PDST swimmers at just finished PNS 14 and Under Champ Meet at KCAC through the weekend of Dec. 13th-15th 2013. PDST finished 4th overall in the team scoring with 1594 points (all points unofficial at this time) behind King (3474 points), BC (3127points) and IST (1623 points) at the meet. This is second year (back-to-back) PDST finished 4th at this meet. Our warmest congratulations once again to the 56 PDST swimmers...

PDST swimmers continued its march at the Champ meet, after 2 days, we are training IST by 61 points, current number 4 in team score behind King, BC and IST going into the final day tomorrow. Here are some highlights our our scoring events and swimmers - great job for our swimmers!!! Day 1 Finals (Friday night) Event 5 Girls 13-14 100 Yard Backstroke ========================================================================= Name Age Team Prelims Finals Points...

14 & Under SC PNS Championship Meet PDST Friday morning highlights Check how PDST is doing at the meet at: http://results.teamunify.com/pnws2/ Event 1 Girls 10 & Under 100 Yard Backstroke ========================================================================= Name Age Team Seed Finals Points ========================================================================= 1 Tang, Amy Y 10 PDST-PN 1:03.23 1:03.68 20 3 Wang, Gracie 10 PDST-PN 1:08.32 1:10.42 16 7 Jia, Maddy Z 9 PDST-PN 1:16.14 1:14.68 12 Event 11 Girls 10 & Under 50 Yard Freestyle =========================================================================...

This year, PDST will send 56 swimmers to attend PNS 14 and Under Champ meet Dec 13th-15th at KCAC, Federal Way. PDST congratulates to these swimmers and wish them the best at the Champ meet.

To ALL PDST families: Happy Thanksgiving and happy holidays! Friday November 29th 2013 Schedule changes (due to MW and BAC post-Thanksgiving closure schedule) (updated Nov. 6th) Pre-Comp Group will practice at MW 12-12.45PM (this is the makeup for Nov 23rd practice) Nov Group practice at BAC 5.45-6.45P canceled. Novice Group will practice at MW 12.45PM-1.45PM Regional Group practice at MW 7.30-8.45PM canceled. Regional Group will practice at JCC 7-8.30PM. Adv Group practice at JCC canceled. Adv Group will practice at MW 12-1.45PM. Age Group will practice at JCC 4.30-6PM (shortened)....

We have a few incidents where a PDST email had gone into junk/spam folder of the receiving PDST parent's email. The way to ensure you receive team email is to configure this email address "[email protected]" as one of your contacts in your email contact directory as PDST email is routed through Teamunify server. Thanks for your attention.

A compilation of the PNS Top 25 and National Top 25 has been completed: http://www.teamunify.com/TabGeneric.jsp?_tabid_=89579& team=pnws2 PDST swimmers Rachel Jin and Nathan Shao made theNational Top 25 rank - check out which event the swimmer made the National 25 rank following the link. Congratulations to Rachel and Nathan!!!

2014 Pacific Coast All Star Meet will be hosted by Pacific Northwest Swimming January 4-5, 2014 in Olympia at the Evergreen State College Pool. Head Coach, Assistant Coach, Chaperone and Athlete Applications as well as Athlete Selectrion Criteria are posted to the PNS website under SWIMMERS > Age Group Swimming dropdown box. Please contact Age Group Vice Chair John Skroch with any questions - [email protected]

PDST and PDBC would like to congratulate all of our award winners for the 2012-2013 season: Swimmer's awards nominated and present by PDST coaches: PDST Award Dev Group Nov. Group Age Group Reg Group Adv Group Best Attendance Julianne Wu Wenna Zhang Max Wu Ryan Zhang Jason Xu Most Improvement Lucas Hou Derek Young Jamie Chen Gracie Wang Delora Li Best in Practice Maria Zhang Grace Wang Ben Yu Kathryn Hao Matthew Xie PDST winning High Points Swimmers: Boy Swimmer Matthew Xie (PNS Champ 5thx2, 3rd, 4thx3, 7th) Girl Swimmer...