Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for coming out to the Lake this morning, I will be posting the video and pictures very shortly:) For now, I posted what I got on the team's Facebook group, so go here if you'd like to check it out: [link]. We will also have a section for pictures and videos up on our website soon too! Best, Joseph Shelly

Hi SVY! Reminder that the polar bear plunge is tomorrow! All swimmers and family are welcome to participate:) Be at Lake Samish park by 11:45am for a 12:00 dunk! Bring warm drinks and snacks to share if you can, I'll try to bring a couple of thermos full of hot coco and some plastic cups. And you would think in my previous newsletter that I would include the return of swim practice as an important date... Our swim practices will start up again on Tuesday, January 3rd for Tidal Wave/Tsunami,...

Good morning SVY, Last evening I got the results back from the meet in Stanwood and wanted to share what I found as I looked through them: We had a total of 34 Personal Best (PB) times swam that day, and every swimmer got at least 1 new best time. Way to go team!! Noah Dobbs joins the Regional Qualifiers with his 100 breast performance, congratulations! There were 8 new Y-Regional qualifying times swam by our team Biggest time drop goes to Margaret Nichols, shaving 13.48 off her 100 back...

Hi SVYA, Hope you all had a great weekend! As we head into our last week before winter break, I wanted to share a quick breakdown of this week. Wednesday December 14th is our Winter Break party! We will have a sock exchange and tie dye station for everyone interested from 6:00 to 6:30. You will need to provide your own socks and goodies to participate in the sock exchange, and bring a cotton t-shirt for the tie-dye stations. Both of these activities are optional, and the rest of the...

Good morning, Just finished talks with Snohomish and I am happy to confirm that we will be having a meet on December 17th! Warm ups at 12:30pm and competition starting at 1:00pm. $10 entry per swimmer, they can enter up to 3 individual events and 2 relays! Registration deadline is this Tuesday, December 13th at 9:00pm. Sorry for such a short period to decide, but this meet and the announcements were just made today, to give our swimmers another chance at Y-State and Y-Regional qualifications:) EDIT: This will be at...

Good morning SVYA, Just a quick update on a couple of things gaining traction behind the scenes: We may have another YMCA meet opportunity with Stanwood coming up on the 17th of December! This would count towards Regionals and towards Y-State qualifications. There will be a meet with Friday Harbor on January 7th! The meet page is up on our events/calendar tab, so please indicate whether or not you can go. This is a fun and quick meet with a nice ferry ride out to Friday Harbor. The facility is...

Hi all! Sorry for the delay in getting the results, but I wanted to go through everything and get some stats to summarize our team's outstanding performance last weekend! Overall, we had 48 personal bests including new times for legal first swims (not including relays or relay splits)! I will be emailing the results out to those of you who attended the meet. I am hoping that this inspires those who have yet to attend one to go:) Thank you all to our volunteers, timers, officials, hospitality, and those that...

Hi all! I heard from our membership department that some families aren't fully set up with their swimmer's accounts. Please make sure that you are on your kid's Y membership account, we need to be able to check people in and make sure everyone is accounted for because of safety and legal requirements. This does not mean that you will have an additional fee, and it will not change membership plans (it just ties parents and swimmers together so everyone can be properly identified to enter the building). You must...

I hope everyone is doing well so far and that everyone had a great break! Here are a couple of deadlines and events to keep an eye on: Parent Meeting tomorrow (Wednesday 11/30) at 6:00pm in the conference room near the front desk. (Same spot as before)! I will provide a Zoom link in a separate announcement/newsletter email. This will go over the fun events coming up and serve as a time to organize them and provide more information. For those of you signed up: home meet with Whatcom this...

Hi all! Sorry for the spam, just wanted to get some important information out as soon as I can: Brief Parent Meeting at 6:00pm-7:00pm on November 30th going over the specifics of Swim-Up-The-Skagit event - this will be in a kind of Q&A format in the conference room. I will provide a Zoom link for those that prefer/can't make it in person. Based on the results of the poll and feedback/suggestions that I have received from different people, I want to check in with families as to what date works...