WEST Weekly
Good Morning WEST,
We hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. Due to the pandemic, WEST is planning on running workouts for team through the month of August upon reopening. As outlined in our packet, we will not be billing for this month as we normally take this month off - however, we want to give our swimmers every opportunity to get back into their training in preparation for the coming 2020 - 2021 season. Please read below for the most up to date information!
Washington Pools Reopening - PNS Petition
Greetings everyone! On behalf of PNS and all our aquatic communities, a petition has been launched to encourage the Governor to open the pools. Please help us spread the word far and wide.
Click SIGN THE PETITION (link to share is: http://chng.it/9DGDqZhcTL). Please sign the petition and then cast the largest, widest net you can toss out there to the world to get as many signatures as possible.
Official hashtag for your social posts: #TogetherWeSwim.
Thanks for your support and rocking this out—we got this! Go Aquatics!!
WEST Duathlon Fundraiser
Our fundraiser is live now and everyone can join! Just create a Strava account to log your exercise for the month of May and join our WEST Coast Aquatics club. Proceeds raised will directly benefit WEST Coast Aquatics, and a portion will be donated to Food Lifeline to help those in need in the Greater Seattle Area. Questions or concerns, contact Coach Emily!
Do you know someone interested in donating? We have a sample letter here for them to read to learn more about WEST!
Donations can be made out to:
WEST Coast Aquatics
15622 Country Club Drive
Mill Creek, WA 98012
Follow our team as we compete against each other to see who covers the most ground exercising! Top winners will win prizes from our Pro Shop!
Reminder - Complete Safe Sport Training!
Thank you to the parents and athletes that have completed their Safe Sport training, we’re doing great so far! As a reminder, WEST is working towards becoming a Safe Sport Recognized program and in order to accomplish that we need parents and athletes to complete an online course. We have also added a page to our website with information about Safe Sport here.
Please follow this link for directions if you have not yet completed the training. For parents to complete their course, they must use their swimmer’s information to login into the portal and then select the parent training from the classes offer - it’s free!: https://www.usaswimming.org/utility/landing-pages/safe-sport/learn
Alternatively, parents and athletes can also attend a Zoom Meeting hosted by USA Swimming to acquire credit for completing the courses. A separate email has been sent out to families with more information.
WEST Inventory Sale
WEST will be holding a summer blow out sale to help support our organization through the pandemic. We have been going through our inventory during this time and will be selling hats, pants, shorts, shirts, and towels. Most items have been marked down from their original price, so if you were interested in getting a certain swimmer swag item, now is a great time!
If you are a member we can charge your account if you are a non-member you can pay with cash or check to WEST Coast Aquatics. Orders emailed into Coach Margaret by Thursday at 2:00pm will be ready to be picked up the following Friday. If received after Thursday at 2:00pm, the order will be ready for the next Friday. We will have pick up times on Fridays from 10am to 2pm. Email in your orders to Coach Margaret.
Google Spreadsheet of the inventory list here. This is a VIEW ONLY document to show sizes that are available.
Pictures of shirts are available in a photo album on our Facebook here.
Hurry while supplies last!
Senior Recognition
Parent’s, please send a photo that you would like your swimmer to use for you graduating senior swimmer’s spotlight to [email protected] and any little blurb you might want to add.
Stay strong WEST and just keep swimming.
Best,
WEST Coaching Staff
