Hi Team Another successful HS Swim Meet for the ladies!!!!! State Champs again, congratulations to you all. These 7 BISC ladies were heavy contributors to the big win: Rylee DuPont, Aria Michael, Lena Everett, Olivia Longridge, Harper Rich, Lily Rehder, Audry Keigley. Another 7 on the team were former BISC athletes as well. Event Champions were: 200 Med Relay - Olivia, Lena, Aria, Rylee 200 Free - Lily Rehder 200 Free Relay - Camden, Lily, Audrey, Rylee 100 Fly - Aria Michael 400 Free Relay - Audrey, Olivia, Lily, Aria...

What a great weekend of swimming. Two Bluefins came home with the High Point Ferry Boats, Lily Rehder for the girls and Wyatt Majors for the boys. Well done you two, way to keep it in the family. Thank you Mr. Britt for making the Ferry Boat trophies and allowing us to keep with this great tradition. Thank you to all of our support staff / board members / officials and parent volunteers that make this thing really work. We got great feedback from the other teams, our kids swam...

We are back from our long and hot weekend in Coeur d' Alene Idaho. Our season opener was Western Zone Open Water Championships and was a super strong way to start our season off. I am very proud of these athletes coming off a break and doing so well. We are making our mark in this type of event. Next year these races will be held in Maui HI in June. Time to train hard :). More details on this will be forthcoming. These races open water races are hectic,...

PN NCSSL Championship Meet Re-Cap This meet at the Snohomish Aquatic Center was specially designed for swimmers who did not yet have PNS Champs times and were younger or new to the sport. It was a 10 lane, 25 yard venue. BISC did very well with the 20 swimmers we brought placing 3rd out of 9 teams and brought home a trophy for the trophy case! Seizing the opportunity and placing in the top 3, earning medals were: June Brown (event champion 50 Brst & event champion as a member...

Age Group Champs Re-Cap Age Group Champs for 12 & unders was also at WKCAC and lasted 3 full days with prelims & finals each day. Swimming personal best times in the morning sessions was the goal to create the best chance to make it back for finals to earn points for BISC. For every best time in the morning sessions, a post-it note went up on the wall and as our design on the wall grew so did our swimmer’s confidence and our team points. BISC, with only 18...

Senior Champs - BISC took 8th Place out of 33 Teams with only 17 athletes. This meet was brutally long. No break between prelims/finals and finish times as late as 9:15pm. You want to know why we train the way we do? So, we can SHOW UP on the last day of a 4-day meet and kill it. We did just that. We had an amazing start to this meet. Our distance crew swimming the 1500 and 800 Free Relays got us on the scoreboard with best times and great...

MayBISC May & June News Update Coaches Corner: Train, or remain the same. Champions aren’t made on race day, they are made in the weeks before, in the early mornings, in every hard set you choose to finish strong. The end of July might feel far away but every practice between now and then is a brick you are laying in the foundation of your success. It won’t be easy, but you are not here because its easy. You are here because you are chasing something bigger. Show up, work...

Open Water Jr. Nationals re-cap Tessa Hurguy was the only swimmer from PNS to be represented in Sarasota Florida this April at Open Water Nationals. This was Tessa's first Junior Nationals and first Jr national level 5K. She swam the distance in Open Water in a time of 1 hour nine minutes and placed 16th for 15 and Under Girls. 55 girls started the race. The sun was shining, winds were 12mph and there was some fun racing going on. Tessa did an amazing job and we are so proud...

Spring Finale Recap Our last short course meet brought short course yards meets to a finale in Snohomish. BISC brought a team of 35 swimmers to race against 8 other teams from our LSC. Some of our swimmers were wanting to complete meet rubrics while others were looking for a final time drop before the season was over. In all sessions, they ran heats using 6 lanes so there was ample space for warm-up & cold down in 3 lanes between races which was really great. Those who had time...

Speedo Sectionals - Boise Idaho 600 athletes, from 6 states, over 4 days at 2750 ft above sea level. We had our work cut out for us. BISC showed up and placed 17th overall out of 75 scoring teams with only 5 athletes in attendance. Every swimmer made a finals appearance or several. For Wyatt, Tessa and Kyler, it was their very first Sectionals meet. Kyler Boyden: Kyler had a really nice first Sectionals with .48 drop in 100 free. 3.28 drop in 100 back for a 55.95, .61 drop...