News

Nick Chevalier

We are very excited about the upcoming season at WEST! There are many changes happening this year as we look to restructure our team and expand our coaching staff. The biggest change will be adding “Embark Group” to the program. This will take the place of Pre-Comp 2 and we will only be running one level of Pre-Comp going forward. With this change, we aim to get younger kids involved on the competitive team and better prepare them for higher levels of success to come. Margaret will continue to coach...

Tim Senholtz

Hello All, I wanted to clarify some things that were vague / incorrect: Summer Team Champs is Saturday! Click here for meet Info Click here to view your swimmers meet entries: (note, you must sign in. If you declined this meet, you are not registered) Fees for the meet were already paid for with registration. All summer team swimmers will receive a completion certificates which will be handed out at the end of this week on Friday, so no need to attend the open tryout on Monday! If a swimmer...

Tim Senholtz

Hello WEST Families, We are beginning to wind down this season and we are incredibly proud of all of our team swimmers that competed at Futures, PNS LC Champs, and Sectionals. We look forward to the amazing swims our WESTies will be doing this week at Zones & Junior Nationals. We placed 3rd overall at Senior Long Course Champs behind some very large teams, our highest place yet and a major testament to the “little team that could’. Keep up the hard work to our WEST swimmers competing at Zones...

Tim Senholtz

Hello WEST Families, I wanted to touch base with everyone to follow up / clarify any confusing information regarding the next few weeks through Championship season. To reiterate Coach Nick’s email, following each swimmer’s final championship meet, they will take a break for the rest of summer to enjoy vacations and other activities out of the water. This break is meant to refresh our swimmers mentally and physically before jumping back into academics and athletics in the fall. Last Days of Practices Summer Divisionals swimmers: TODAY! ***End of Season party...

Tim Senholtz

Hello WEST Families, Congrats to all of our swimmers that competed at the 100th Annual Seattle Age Group Open as well as the swimmers that competed at Summer Sectionals in Mt. Hood! We had some awesome times, but buckle in your seatbelts because we have more to come this weekend! Here is the breakdown for practice changes:      AG Groupers: (and those that this apply to) Jul 26 - 28: MET SC Summer Divisionals @Mt Tacoma HS & University of Puget Sound Pool Practice Changes for Friday & Saturday...

Tim Senholtz

WEST Weekly Hello All! Congrats to all our amazing swimmers that competed last weekend at Senior Seattle Open at Colman Pool! Good luck to all our swimmers heading to Sectionals and Age Group Open this week! Read on for this week’s news: Schedule Changes for 7/16 - 7/20: ***SrElite Changes for rest of summer - Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for the remainder of the season starting on 7/16, we will practice 8-10am on Tues and Thurs and 9:30-12 on Fridays.  Saturday 7/20 - Senior Elite will practice at WEST from...

Tim Senholtz

Hello WESTies, Wow summer is flying by and we are already getting our kiddos ready for their championship meets for the summer. Keep up the hard work at practices everyone, and read on for these important news items that definitely won’t help you in the occurrence of a bear attack: Practice Changes: Wednesday, 7/10 Summer Team Meet @WEST, 6:45pm. NO SUMMER TEAM PRACTICES NO LAP SWIM 7:30 – 9:30pm All other groups: NORMAL Thursday, 7/11 SrE & Sr – NO PRACTICE, SR Seattle Open All other practices: NORMAL Friday, 7/12...

Tim Senholtz

Hello WEST Families, Congrats to all of our swimmers that competed at June Jubilee! A HUGE thank you to all of our wonderful parent volunteers that stepped up at June Jubilee this weekend. Once again, its is crucial to our team that we have parents that are involved and support their child’s swimming in any way that they can on deck. This was perfect practice for WEST to get comfortable with running larger meets at KCAC, as we will be hosting 2020’s Northwest Age Group Regional meet next season.   Please...

Tim Senholtz

Good Afternoon WESTies, Welcome to summer at WEST! Please triple check summer schedule - flyers can be found in the office as well as under our News section on our website. Programs such as Swimfit & PreComp have ended and Lessons have switched over to their summer schedule. Please read on for our exciting news this week!  Schedule Changes: Friday 6/28: Normal Summer Schedule for all practice groups. Saturday 6/29: NO PRACTICES for Senior Elite, Senior, Accelerate, Challenge, Disco, Explore. - June Jubilee @King County Aquatics Center.   June Jubilee -...

Tim Senholtz

Good Afternoon WEST Families, Summer has is here even though the weather doesn’t quite feel like it. Just a friendly reminder that  our summer pool schedule starts Monday, June 24th! For complete scheduling, please see our flyer in the front office as well as the team practice schedule and complete programing schedule that can be found under News. Please read for all our important news items: Schedule for Weekend of 6/21 – 6/22: Friday Senior & Senior Elite: Normal 3:15 – 6:30pm at WEST Accelerate & Challenge: 7:00 – 9:00pm...