Our youngest group of swimmers cleaned up at the Pentathlon last weekend.  We had 5 athletes bring home a trophy in the overall pentathlon results.  We had 117 best times, 20 first time swims, 25 new silver times and 3 new gold times.   Great job swimmers. Trophy Winners 8yo boys                1st Nathan Hu           2nd Cole Canaday            3rd Collin Tan        6th Brett Wang 9yo girls                 6th Ruth Magnotti Gold Times                                                  Jung, Hyunwoo                             50 Free        Magnotti, Ruth                               50 Back        Seven, Emerson                           50 Back        ...

Last weekend at the March Madness meet we had a lot of great swims from our athletes.  We can tell that the month of March is a very important time of year for our athletes.  We have one more meet to try and qualify for the regional meet in 3 weeks.  Looking at the performances from the meet there were 55 first time swims, 332 best times,       49 new silver times, 59 new gold times, 10 new regional times and 2 new zone times.  Good luck swimmers at the...

The February Age Group Invite marked the start of the championship part of our season which start in March.  Our swimmers have meets every weekend until April.  Let’s get excited to watch some fast swimming over the next 4 weekends.  We had 208 best times, 7 first time swims, 3 new silver times, 21 new gold times and 14 new Age Group Regional times achieved at the meet.  Good luck Sockeyes in March!!!! NW Age Group Regional Times                       Arroyo, Abigail                     100 IM                               Canaday, Keaton                  100...

Great job at the distance meet yesterday swimmers.  We had  9 first time swims, 31 best times, 12 new gold times, 1 new Age Group Regional time and 1 new Sr Sectional time.  Keep up the hard work March is coming quickly. Western Region Sr Sectional Time                        McRae, Catherine                 1650 Free NW Age Group Regional Time      Ueda, Blake                         1650 Free                      Gold Times      Butcher, Reilee                     1650 Free                      1000 Free                           Calhoun, Morgan                  1650 Free                      1000 Free      Hung, Matthew                    ...

The Winter Challenge is the time of the season that leaves us with just over a month left in our short course season.  March is fast approaching.  Keep your focus over the month of February so you can have an awesome month of March.  At the meet we had 111 first time swims, 474 best times, 66 new silver times, 92 new gold times, 12 new age group regional swims, 6 new 14&U Western Zone swims and 1 new team record. Team Records                                     Male 13‑14 100 IM Jeremy Kim...

Our younger athletes on the team competed at the Snowflake Classic meet.  We had 13 first time swims, 34 best times,   7 new silver times and 1 new gold time.  Great job Sockeyes. Gold Times      Magnotti, Ruth                     100 IM              Silver Times      Bussey, Adelaide                 100 IM              50 Breast      Deutsch, Erin                       50 Free      Koturanova, Anastasia          50 Free                  Minotte, Sophia                    100 IM                   Naroski, Jenna                     100 IM                   Shang, Julia                         50 Fly               Best Times...

The Washington Open meet last weekend was a chance for our older swimmers to compete against swimmers that will be here in March for our Sr Sectional and Regional meets.  It was a good test to see how they did with their training over the winter break.  We had 74 best times, 2 first time swims,   2 new gold times, 2 new 14&U SC Champ swims, 5 new WA State Senior Champ Swims, 9 new NW Age Group Regional swims, 1 new Western Regional Sr Sectional swim and 2...

Last weekend Pacific Northwest sent a swimming delegation to the 2017 Pacific Coast All Star meet in Pacifica, California.  The Pacific Northwest All Star team consists of 32 swimmers with 8 boys and 8 girls from the 11-12 and 13-14 age groups that are selected for the team.  Issaquah Swim Team was fortunate enough to have Louis Gasson, Christopher Harig, Jeremy Kim and Marius Rakickas be selected for the team.  The All Star meet is a dual meet between Southern California Swimming, Pacific Swimming, Pacific Northwest and Oregon Swimming.  It’s...

January Challenge was the start of our second half of the short course season.  It’s been a couple of weeks since our last competition.  We looked strong coming off of our post winter break.  There were 177 first time swims, 476 best times, 105 new silver times, 76 new gold times, 19 new 14&U Short Course Champ swims and 1 new Age Group Regional swim.  Keep up the hard work swimmers as March will be here before we know it. Age Group Regional Time      Tu, Gillian                             50 Fly...

Great job Sockeyes at the Senior State Championships last weekend.  We finished in 3 place in the team standings and there many exciting races to watch that our swimmers were part of. There were 115 best times, 9 new WA State Sr Champ swims, 10 new Northwest Age Group Regional swims, 2 new Western Zone Age Group swims, 8 new Western Region Sectional swims, 11 new Futures swims, 5 new Winter Jr National swims, 2 new Summer Jr National swims and 2 new Winter National Swims.  We also had 11...