News
Good afternoon Tritons, Tomorrow will be our annual Trunk-or-Treat event and Halloween practice! Here is what is written on the event page: All practice groups will be together on Oct 30th, all swimmers are welcome to be in the water from 4:30pm-6:00pm. Halloween themed competition will begin at 5:00pm. Please have your swimmer there before 5:00pm to be placed on a team! Trunk or Treat begins at 6:00pm in the lot behind the pool. For those of you new to the Trunk-or-Treat, it is basically a mobile trick-or-treat station! Anyone...
Good afternoon Tritons, I got a big update newsletter today with a bunch of important information, so I'll try my best to make it readable and not hard to look at! Meet Results - IST Open Let's start with the meet this last weekend. First of all, I would like to extend a big thank you to Coach Luke who volunteered to be there to help out for the entire 20+ hours of swimming! The Tritons had another great showing, with 24 swimmers we had 62 new personal best swims...
Good afternoon Tritons, Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Last Saturday we had 27 swimmers make a splash at the Stanwood YMCA, and we showed up big time. Overall, we saw 72 personal best swims and 29 top 6 finishes! Ribbons will made sent to us soon, and I will award them to the swimmers as soon as I receive them. If you aren't there when I pass them out, I will place them in the swimmer mailbox. Congratulations to those that swam new YREG qualifying times based on...
Good afternoon Tritons, Quick update for you all regarding upcoming meets/events: I have uploaded the event files for the BBST meet on November 2-3 Entry deadline for this swim meet is on October 10th, please see the event page for more info I will be uploading the meet files for the home meet in the next couple of days, just finishing up a couple of things! Entry deadline for our home meet will be on November 7th; the meet is on November 17th This will be our usual Sunday morning...
Good afternoon Tritons! I have a quick update for you all with some important dates/deadlines to share. These are pretty quick turnaround, so please read carefully: There is a swim meet at the Stanwood YMCA on October 5th Registration deadline is September 19th at 11:59pm This is a great environment for new swimmers to get a first swim meet in! Here is a link to the event page We are also planning to attend a swim meet at Snohomish Aquatic Center on October 19-20 Registration deadline is September 17th at...
Hi all! We have a need for officials, and our Regional coordinator, Earl, wanted all coaches to reach out to their teams. Please let me know if you are interested in helping our swim community by becoming an official! Our region is in need and any help is greatly appreciated! Here is the letter from Earl: " Introduction. Thank you for your interest in becoming a YMCA Swim Official. Along with the coaches, lifeguards, and timers, officials serve an important role in running swim meets. The following is a description...
Good afternoon all, USA Swimming has updated their registration links just recently, and so I have sent out an invite to everyone. When you follow the link from the email, please make sure you are creating a parent account and then adding your swimmer afterwards! I find it easier to create an account or log into your account at https://www.usaswimming.org/ first, and then clicking on the registration links that were provided. (If you are a swimmer at/over the age of 18 and you are creating an account for yourself -...
Happy September Tritons, We are officially back this week (after Labor day) - For those of you joining us for the first time, welcome to the team! And for our returning swimmers, welcome back! Receiving this newsletter is confirmation that your account is active and the website is working. I have several pieces of information to share as we embark on a new swim year: Membership/billing: I was made aware of TeamUnify missing the mark on a couple of billing lines, but it should all be fixed now. If you...
Hi all, Hope everyone had a good weekend! We are officially on our Summer Break - and I wanted to make sure to post this final update/newsletter of the swim year. First off, THANK YOU to all the volunteers and helpers I had during the meet! It was greatly appreciated, and definitely needed to be able to pull off another great swimming opportunity for our team. It was daunting knowing that I would not have my usual crew to hold down the fort, but we pulled it off and kept...
Good morning Tritons! This newsletter is going to be a big one, but I will try to be as concise and informative as possible. Fall Season As we head into our next season, there will be a few changes to the structure of practices. Some of these changes were already being planned, especially to fix the overlap and akwardness of transition between practice sessions, but they happen to also accommodate our current situation. Structural changes: Riptide B: Riptide A and B will be combined into one united Riptide. Tsunami: will...
