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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...

We will hold a PDST All-Parent meeting on Sept 19th, Thursday 7.30-8.30PM at Mercer Island Library (Address: 4400 88th Ave SE Mercer Island, WA 98040, phone: (206) 236-3537). Direction to the Library: http://www.kcls.org/mercerisland/print_directions.cfm The meeting will cover all asprect of PDST/swimming information to enable you to effectively go through the long swim season. Meeting agenda is listed below for your reference: 1.General PDST Info 2.How to use your PDST account (Live Demostration) –Your PDST account –How to find other PDST Member info –Meet sign up –Volunteer job signup –Purchase PDST...

Just a quick reminder to everyone taht today both JCC (a Jewish holiday) and BAC pools closed. We will only have Reg. Group practice at MW pool tonight.

From US Swimming By DR. ALAN GOLDBERG//COMPETITIVEDGE.COM Races are won and lost before the start! So many swimmers lose their races before they even get in the pool. This is because they allow themselves to get far too nervous leading up to their event, and especially the time they spend behind the blocks. They may be upset about a previous event, worried about the outcome of this one or overly focused on and intimidated by a rival swimmer. By the time they get up on the blocks for the start,...

Western Zone Athlete News Letter Issue 1

PDST is pleased to announce the deployment of our new team website and team management system which includes powerful online tools that will allow families to do everything from signing up for meets and volunteer jobs online to viewing all their swimmers results. Please visit: www.PDSwimTeam.org to check out.

PDST opens its 2013-2014 season on Saturday, Sept. 7th, 2013 with practices starting at 3PM.

In the just finished Western Zone Age Group Champ meet at Clovis CA, August 7th-10th, PDST swimmer Amy Tang won 100 back and broke the West Zone record with 1:11.83. She also won 50 back first place, 50 fly first place, 100 fly first place, 200 IM second place, and 100 free second place. Gracie Wang was 4th in 50 free and 50 back at the meet. Amy and Gracie led the relays with 1st place for 200 Medley relay, 2nd place for 200 free relay, 4th place for 400...