Hello WEST Families, We hope everyone is doing well as the temperature drops outside, and winter weather starts to roll in. Luckily, our swimmers are able to stay warm and cozy in our heated pool thanks to our hard working boilers and air handler! Make sure to pack extra clothes, hats, gloves, and a warm jacket to stay healthy as you leave the pool - as locker rooms are still closed for changing. If you want to stay up to date with important information, please read the following: WEST Open...

In an effort to remain transparent, we want to provide everyone with an update following our member testing positive last week. Our lifeguard that was on duty and potentially exposed received a negative covid test result yesterday. We have not received word of anyone else from water aerobics showing symptoms or testing positive. We believe the case last week was isolated and contained. We have some reassurance that our Covid protocols are working and in our initial belief that the pool is not an easily transmittable place. However, we cannot...

Hello WEST Members, To encourage safety at our a facility, WEST Management has added cleaned plastic bins that will be at the end of each lane so that ALL swimmers can place their masks in them while they swim so that they do not get wet. This also gives our patrons the ability to wear their masks directly to their lanes so that we are actively encouraging the use of masks at ALL times throughout the facility, and making it the last article that they remove before immediately hopping into...

WEST Weekly Happy election day! We hope everyone was able to go out and vote either in person or by mail. Read on for this week’s information: Olympian Clinic - UPDATED TIMES Team members, please check your email - Coach Tim sent out a notice regarding an update to the clinic times this weekend. Please make sure your swimmer checks into their clinic time with their appropriate group and come with questions! Schedule Changes for this Weekend: NO TEAM PRACTICES both Saturday & Sunday. This is for Senior Elite, Senior,...

Dear West Community, We need to inform everyone that we received notice that one of our water aerobics patrons has tested positive for Covid-19. This person was getting a routine test before an unrelated medical procedure and has only shown very mild symptoms. This person was last in the facility on Thursday 10/29 at 7:45-9:15am. Those persons with the potential exposure have been notified and are strongly encouraged to get tested. We are suspending Water Aerobics until Thursday 11/12. Our lifeguard staff that was on duty at the time will...

Hello WEST Families, The end of October is right around the corner and I for one am excited for the spooky Halloween season! We hope everyone is able to have fun safely and socially distantly this year, and it’s never been a better time than to cozy up with a good movie on the couch on these chilly evenings. Here is what is happening around WEST this week: Halloween Distance Meet: Saturday, October 31st An email has been sent out to our Senior, Accelerate & Challenge families for the swimmers...

Hello WEST Families, Great job to all of our club team swimmers that competed at our first successfully sanctioned meet this season! We were ecstatic to see our parent volunteers on deck, as well as our friendly officials again :) A huge thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers that were able to help make the meet run safely and smoothly! We hope that this will be the first of many ‘meets’ held at WEST - our coaches are still fine tuning some of our procedures to ensure safety...

WEST Weekly Hope everyone was able to hold onto their hats yesterday! The effects of the wind could be seen in the parking lot and WEST even briefly lost power for a few minutes. Read on for this week's important information: Team: ‘Meet’ at WEST this weekend. Please check event details to find your swimmer’s session. As a reminder, only parent volunteers will be allowed in the facility to control our capacity numbers. With any further questions regarding the meet, please contact your group coach. The meet does NOT impact...

The Governor's office just released an update to their recent changes allowing competitive swim teams to have a maximum of 4 swimmers per lane. This is a major reassurance that we have been operating safely and can now continue to do so. We will not be making any further changes to the schedule at this time. Thank you for your patience and continued support. Coach Nick

Dear West Swim Team Families, Governor Inslee recently updated his reopening guidelines for Aquatic Centers, defining the maximum number of swimmers per lane for swim teams to 2 swimmers. Additionally, there are updated the formulas for calculating maximum facility capacity. Our maximum capacity has been reduced from 42 to 37 patrons, excluding staff. All our programs have been running well under this limit, so no changes are necessary to the number of people in the facility at one time. Regarding swim team practice, we are going to have to adjust...