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Suzanne Rychlik

Saturday Practice This Week all at Sumner: Gold Elite/Silver Elite: 8-10 AM Silver/Gold: 10-11:30 Blue/Bronze Clinic: 10:30-11:30 AM (Focus on Flip Turns)

Suzanne Rychlik

Valley Aquatics News Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 PRACTICE CHANGES THIS WEEK: Sorry for the delay in communicating about these changes. KCAC is closed on Thursday and Friday due to the WIAA Girls State Meet. These are the changes that will impact swimmers for Sumner/KCAC. FWCC practice on Thursday remains the same. Thursday, November 13th Friday, November 14th Gold Elite 4:30-6:30 PM @ Sumner 4:30-6:30 PM @ Sumner Sprint Performance Off 4:30-5:30 PM @ Sumner Gold 5:30-7 PM @ Sumner 5:30-7 PM @ Sumner Silver Elite 5-7 PM @ Sumner 5-6:30...

Brad and Charis Tucker

Hello VAST families! We have recieved a timing assignment for the upcoming Q meet. You can go here to view and sign up. Or, log into your VAST account and sign up for the Job Sign Ups listed next to the Q meet event. If we are unable to fill the positions via volunteers, the positions will be assigned to families with swimmers in attendance per the VAST volunteer policy. Good Luck to all the Q meet swimmers! Charis - VAST volunteer coordinator

Derek Frenzel

We will send a more detailed newsletter out tomorrow, but here are the important details for today and tomorrow. Tonight is a normal practice schedule at all pools. Tomorrow, Veterans Day, has some practice changes. Silver elite, gold elite, and sprint performance is from 10-12 at the Sumner HS pool. Blue, gold and silver in Sumner is normal. FWCC blue and bronze is normal. There are no practices at kcac, so silver swimmers can go to Sumner. Please email me by the end of the day if you missed the...

Brad and Charis Tucker

Hello VAST Fall Classic volunteers! The hours for this meet have been input, with adjustments for families that stayed additional time. To view your current hours, follow the steps below Go to www.swimvast.org Log into your account If you are not directed away from the homepage after logging in, click on the silhoette in the upper right corner of the VAST homepage and select My Account On the left side bar on the back office page, use your mouse to hover over My Account (if not automatically taken there) On...

Suzanne Rychlik

Hey VAST Families, Just a quick update about Monday’s practice & Entries for the VAST Fall Classic. We just received word that effective with this year, that the King County Aquatic Center will be closed on certain holidays and that includes Indigenous People’s Day this coming Monday. This will affect both KCAC and Sumner practice schedules (federal Way Community Center will remain the same for Federal Way Blue & Silver Swimmers). Practice on Monday at Sumner will run as follows: Gold Elite: 6:30-830 PM Gold & Sprint Performance: 5-6:30 PM...

Suzanne Rychlik

Unfortunately, we just received word that due to air quality in the Curtis High School pool, the meet this weekend is canceled. I will be posting refunds to your account for the meet fees before the end of October. We are so sorry for the change. Please reach out with questions. Suzanne [email protected]

Suzanne Rychlik

Do you need some more VAST Caps with your swimmers names. to get through the summer? We are doing a quick order for more Silicone Caps (no latex this order) to hopefully get in time for our summer meets. Silicone caps are $15 per cap and you must order two. Please fill out one form per swimmer if getting different names on caps. Caps will be billed on your June bill. Order close Monday, May 12th. NO LATE ORDERS! https://forms.office.com/r/1jaH8XvGPB

Suzanne Rychlik

Valley Aquatics News Monday, March 10th, 2025 PRACTICE CHANGES THIS WEEK: The Practice Changes for the rest of the month can be found here: March Practices changes due to WKCAC changes Week of March 10th Please note that WKCAC is open Monday-Thursday this week. However, Monday-Wednesday has some different changes as there is a diving event going on and we cannot use our usual space. We will be sharing the pool under the scoreboard with other teams and some groups will be shifting for a day to Sumner. Mon. 3/10...

Derek Frenzel

With the quick power outage the pumps went out and we need to be out of the pool at 7pm. If you are away from the pool please be ready to pick up your swimmer. Thanks!