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Congratulations to Courtney Gross for being selected to the 2016 Disabled Sports USA E-Team.  The E-Team was developed to provide national leadership and opportunities for individuals with disabilities to develop independence, confidence, and fitness through participation in community sports, recreation and educational programs. The Issaquah Swim Team Coaching Staff is very exciting for Courtney with this opportunity to expand her involvement with Disabled swimming. Way to Courtney!!!

The Age Group Invite was a great showing for our swimmers last weekend.  There were 257 best times, 1 first time swim, 10 new gold times, 24 new regional times, 8 new zone times and 1 new sr sectional time.  Way to go Sockeyes keep the momentum going as we come to the end of the short course season. Top 6 Finalist        Askilsrud, Luke             4th 200 Breast       5th 200 IM             5th 50 Breast                Baron, Samantha         1st 50 Fly                1st 100 Breast      ...

I hope everyone else enjoyed our distance swim on Sunday.  For many of our athletes it was the first time to swim the mile in a meet.  Thanks again to everyone that helped out to make the meet go smoothly.  There were 35 best times, 25 first time swims, 28 new gold times, 6 new regional time and 1 new Sr Sectional time achieved during the meet.  Great job Sockeyes!!!! Sr Sectional Time        Bradley, Christina                         1000 Free              Regional Times                                         Baron, Samantha                         1650 Free                    ...

The psych sheet and timeline for this weekend are posted under the meet.

The long course season is fast approaching and many of our long course meet deadlines will start to become active this weekend.  Our short course season hasn’t even finished and we are already planning for the long course season.  For those of you that are new to the team or to swimming our swim season is broken into two parts.   The first part is the short course season (Sept-Mar) which we are currently in and we swim in pools that are 25 yards or meters in length.  The second part...

The Winter Challenge was a mid way point through the second half of the short course season.  The Sockeyes took the meet in stride and had a great showing.  Our athletes only have a couple of meets left in the short course season.  All of your hard work is paying off and keep it up.  We had 419 best times, 103 first time swims,          81 new silver swims, 76 new gold swims, 9 new regional swims and 8 new western zone swims.     Western Zone Times                                Askilsrud,...

Husky Invite had 22 best times, 3 first time swims, 3 new gold swims, 3 new Age Group Regional swims and 4 new Sr Sectional swims.   Sr Sectional Times                                    Dimeco, Sarah                               200 Back        Lee, Andrew                                   100 Free                                       O'Daffer, William                          200 Fly                                         Zimmermann, Markus                200 Fly Age Group Regional Times                    Dimeco, Sarah                               200 Back                                     Yue, Brandon                                100 Free                                Gold Times                                                 Polyakov, Nikita                           100 Free        200 Breast    200 Fly                                  Best...

The Washington Open had 64 best times, 7 first time swims, 6 new Gold times, 11 new Age Group Regional swims,3 new Western Zones swims and 1 new Sr Sectional swim. Sr Sectional Times        Bradley, Christina                         100 Fly                                  Western Zone Times        Gasson, Louis                                100 Fly                                  Age Group Regional Times        Gasson, Louis                                200 Free        Huynh, Isabelle                             200 IM          200 Back                                     Kim, Jeremy                                   200 Free                                       Polyakov, Nikita                           50 Free           500 Free        100 Fly...

Our 9&U had a fun meet last weekend at Hazen.  Great performances by our youngest athletes at the meet.  There were 15 first time swims, 43 best times, 9 new silver times and 9 new gold times swam at the meet.  Way to go Sockeyes!!!   Gold Times        Johnson, Finley                             50 Breast       50 Back                                        Kampf, Juliana                             25 Free        Kujat, Payton                                100 IM                                         Liu, Chloe                                       25 Breast                                      Shah, Anika                                   100 IM          50 Back                                        Tan,...

We started 2016 off with a bang at the January Challenge.  The Curtis Pool is a great pool that produced tons of great swims over the weekend.  It was a great showing coming off of the winter break that allowed our athletes to recharge their bodies and gear up for the remainder of the short course season.  We had 100 first time swims, 377 best times, 70 new silver times, 70 new gold times, 17 new 14&U Champ times, 3 new Age Group Regional times and 1 new Western Zone...