OCA senior Maddie Larkin is headed to Pomona College in Claremont, California next fall. Pomona is one of the top small liberal arts colleges in the nation and has a very successful women's swimming program. Although she had lots of opportunties to consider, Maddie descibed her choice to study and swim with the Sagehens as an easy one... "I was drawn to Pomona College not only by the sun and promising warmth of southern California, but by the academic challenge and tight knit swim team. I can’t wait to explore...

OCA ATHLETES PLACE 7th AT PNS 14 & UNDER CHAMPIONSHIPS! Congratulations to all OCA team members that competed at the 2012 PNS 14 & Under PNS Championships. OCA swam with tremendous tenacity and confidence! The entire staff is extremely proud of all of your accomplishments. These results reflect our team’s amazing commitment and spirit. This was a meet to remember. Our future looks great! Here are the highlights: OCA Placed 7th out of 39 teams OCA sent 32 athletes that competed in 161 individual events For full results see link...

Pacific Northwest Swimming All-Star Information Who, When, How to qualify, and How to apply! For swimmers age 11-12 and 13-14 (age as of January 5th, 2013) Once again the Pacific Northwest Swimming (PNS) will be organizing an All-Star team for travel to Santa Rosa, California, for competition on January 5-6, 2013. The top eight (8) PNS swimmers in each of the two (2) age groups, both girls and boys, will be selected at the 14 & under PNS Championships. The competition will feature All-Stars from the following four (4) areas:...

We are very proud of all the OCA girls who participated in the 3A/4A State High School Championship over the weekend. Special recognition to freshman Sabrina Kwan for winning the State Title in the 100 Fly 55:85 Here are the highlights of the weekend: 3A Emily Olson (Mercer Island) 200 IM 11th 100 Fly 14th Maddie Larkin (Mercer Island) 200 IM 10th 100 Back 12th Sabrina Kwan (Mercer Island) 50 Free 4th 100 Fly 1st Angela Riggins (Mercer Island) 200 Free 15th 500 Free 11th Kira Godfred (Mercer Island) 100...

USA Swimming's Scholastic All-American Team was named this week and it included OCA"s Knox Young. Knox just started his freshman year at Williams College In Massachucetts. Congratulations to Knox as jhe join several past OCA swimmers in regcognition for his accomplishments in and out of the pool as All American. 2011-2012 USA SWIMMING SCHOLASTIC ALL AMERICA TEAM

Do you love the water and like to race? There is a tryout opportunity for Olympic Cascade Aquatics competetive program next week. Please stop by to show us what you can do and learn about our program. Try out dates: Saturday September 8th 11am at Mercerwood Shore Club ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUGUST BY APPOINTMENT 206-920-9689 For a tryout, please come ready to jump in and show us what you can do. A member of our professional coaching staff will determine which training group would best meet your swimmer's needs and...

Sam Petrini headed to Indianapolis, Indiana to compete at US Swimming's Junior National Championships. At 15 Sam will be one of the youngest competitors at the meet and will swim the 200BR, 400IM, 200BK, and 400IM.

Team USA is having a blast in London and is ready to go. The team put together a great music lip-synch video to "Call me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen. WATCH IT HERE!

OCA is getting together to cheer for our TEAM USA superstars and celebrate the end of an awesome summer season! The opening ceremony for the Olympics in London is Friday and then eight straight days of OUR favorite sport SWIMMING. You saw all the amazing races to select TEAM USA at the Olympic Trials in June, now it is time to take on the world. Friday August 3rd 7:30pm at Mercerwood Shore Club for an Olympic Swimming viewing party. · Swimming starts at 8pm and continues to midnight. The swimming...

The Trials for the 2012 USA Olympic Swimming Team begin on June 25th in Omaha, NE. Check out information about the Olympic Trials HERE and make sure to watch some fast swimming and high drama on NBC with the schedule below. Olympic Trials Broadcasts All but the fastest heats of preliminaries will be webcast live at http://usaswimming.org The fastest three heats of preliminaries will be broadcast each day on NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus). They will be taped and air as follows: June 25 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. (all times...