Hi SVYA! I thought it might be helpful if I included an ordered list of upcoming events/notable dates for our team up to the new year! USA meet in Bellingham for those of you signed up on 11/12 and 11/13 (meet timeline/schedule coming out in the next couple of days) Thanksgiving break will be on 11/24 and 11/25 following the school districts in the area Deadline for the 2022 PN 14&U Champs meet is on 11/23 - swimmers must have swam qualifying times from 9/1/21 until now. The meet takes...

Hi all, I hope everyone had a great start to their November month! As we head deeper into Fall we are starting to ramp up practices and start to look ahead to the championship meets coming up in January and February. We have some important information to share: Dryland practice for Tidal Wave will be moving to AFTER practice now! They will be upstairs in the same studio B for about 30 minutes after swim practice ends. Hopefully this alleviates the need to rush from school:) Dryland practice for Tsunami...

Good morning SVYA! Just a reminder that today is our Halloween practice / Trunk-or-Treat! Here is some important information: All groups will be in the pool at 5:00-6:00 (they will get out a few minutes early to have time to change), and the Trunk-or-Treat happens right after (6:00-6:30) There will be dryland for Tidal Wave that day, we will be passing out yoga mats that the swimmers should bring with them:) Feel free to bring costumes for the Trunk-or-Treat! Family members are welcome to come and get candy as well...

Good afternoon, Hope everyone's week has been going well so far! Just wanted to give a brief update with some more information about our upcoming events. I will be sending out another email with a timeline (and heat sheet) for everyone going to the Federal Way meet! If there is anyone not swimming that would like to go to that Halloween event in the previous news update, just let me know. I will be sending out another news update with information regarding the Trunk-or-Treat by tomorrow! In short, we plan...

Hi! For those of us going to the meet on October 29/30th, (or if you are in the area) there is an event called Harvest Fest at Norpoint by Metro Parks Tacoma that has plenty of Halloween activities nearby that could be fun for our crew to go together. Here is the link to the event: https://www.metroparkstacoma.org/event/harvest-fest-at-norpoint/ Totally optional, so let me know if you might be interested and maybe we can organize something. Credit goes to Mary Taylor for the idea and finding events nearby, thank you! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I...

Hi all, Hope you had a great weekend! There were so many great swims at our meet and lots of good learning experiences for our newer swimmers:) Thank you to all of you who volunteered and supported our teams, events like these are not possible without you! I'm sorry I couldn't be away from the computer system and directly coaching, we had a deck entry from Whatcom Y that re-seeded several events and I needed to make sure all swimmers got their times recorded correctly. Big thank you to Coach...

Good afternoon! Just a couple of announcements/reminders: We have our meet with Whatcom Y tomorrow (Saturday, October 15th), with warm-ups starting at 12:30. Please be there 10 minutes early! We greatly appreciate any timers/officials or any volunteers to help out:) Dryland workouts will be starting up next week for Tidal Wave swimmers only! As we expand our program, I will be announcing more details for the other practice groups. For now, Tidal Wave swimmers will have dryland 30 minutes before their normal Monday/Wednesday practice schedule (later on in the season...

Good evening SVYA, I hope that everyone had a good weekend and Monday! Just a final couple of reminders: We have our Mock Meet on Wednesday October 12th at 5:00-6:30 for the whole team! All Tsunami, Tidal Wave, and Riptide swimmers will have their practices moved to that time. Our home meet is this Saturday, October 15th! Warm-ups will start at 12:30pm. Thank you for those of you who have already declared intent to swim. I will be sending our entries off to Whatcom at 12:01am :) Our Trunk-or-Treat event...

Hi all! Just wanted to post the link to the Facebook, since I forgot to yesterday: www.facebook.com/groups/951252291940174/ The Trunk-or-Treat event itself will be on the 31st from about 6:00-6:30 (practice in the pool for swimmers from 5:00-6:00). Family is welcome! There is no requirement, but the more trunks we have, the better the event for our team! Feel free to be as creative or as simple as you want with the trunk of your vehicle. Our YMCA will also be hosting a Halloween special on the 22nd! While this isn't...

Good morning! Just another quick update: I want to hold practice at 5:00pm-6:30pm on Wednesday 10/12 for everyone to give us plenty of time running a brief mock meet. This will be more robust than the last one, since we will also be trying out the timing system + touch pads. If you are able to help by being a timer or help me run the time system, that would be greatly appreciated:) Also, we have our Facebook group back up and running. Please join if you would like to...