Wave 11&O Short Course Finale Meet Recap Last weekend, we finished off the 2023-24 Short Course Season with fabulous performances from nearly every group as our older swimmers dominated the meet, with many of them coming back for Finals on Saturday and Sunday, and many swimmers trying longer races for the first time. Our last--and very huge--shout out of the season goes to Coach Aili, as she led Purple Group for the final time. Best wishes and congratulations as Juanita’s new pool manager, Coach Aili! Age Group 2 AG2 sent...

Northwest Age Group Regional Championships Meet Recap Two weekends ago, Wave sent 74 athletes from nearly every workout group to the King County Aquatic Center for the biggest Age Group meet of the year. It was the first time since 2019 that the meet was held with full participation from our entire region, which includes seven states (Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming). There were nearly 1200 swimmers and 80 teams competing! Wave fought hard and swam fast to score in the Top 10. In the end, we...

Wave 10&U Championship Meet Recap Two weekends ago, Wave hosted its first-ever championship meet for 10&Unders. The meet (along with the 11&O meet this coming weekend) replaced the Spring Showdown meet that was dropped from the PNS schedule. The 8&U got the chance to race a pentathlon (all four strokes + a 100 IM) while the 9-10 year olds got to swim in a true Prelim/Finals meet with A, B, and C heats in the evening session. Enjoy some highlights from our team: Black Group Lots of improvements showed at...

NW Speedo Senior Sectionals Meet Recap Wave was represented by 20 athletes at the Northwest Speedo Spring Sectionals at Federal Way last week. We had 16 swimmers participating in individual events and another four swimmers joining the team for relays. This year—due to the Olympic Trials—the meet was held in long course meters, which we hadn’t swum since last summer. Among 43 teams racing, we had a phenomenal meet with amazing swims and many new cuts and best times achieved. It was exciting to watch our team swimming fast and...

BBST Seize the Day Invitational Meet Recap Nearly all of Wave trekked up to Snohomish Aquatic Center for the last meet of the Short Course season before championships begin. It was a fun weekend, and the Snohomish Pool is always a great place for meets, and we saw many of our swimmers earn first-ever cuts for Age Group Regionals. Many of our 11 & Over swimmers qualified for finals, with some swimming all 13 possible races in only 2½ days! For many in Select, this was their second prelim/final meet...

February Age Group Invitational Meet Recap Wave sent a large contingent down to Federal Way for the first-ever combined Age Group Invitational meet at the King County Aquatic Center in the last weekend of February. Swimmers from nearly every group qualified, cranking up the energy and churning out one great performance after another during the three-day meet, which included prelims and finals for the 11&Overs. One of the challenges of the meet was timing, as warmups for finals began before the 12&Unders had finished their events! Despite that, Wave swimmers...

Boys High School Championships Recap Wave had 32 boys representing their High School teams in the three postseason meets: KingCo, Districts, and State. It was exciting to see them performing well for their school while still training hard for Wave. We had many fantastic swims during the season including six new HS Team Records (five individual and one relay), two new Meet Records (KingCo and Districts), three new Spring Sectionals cuts, and several best times achieved during the season! We had several boys qualify for and make finals at the...

SSCD Winter Open Our Select Team made the short trek to Kamiak High School in Mukilteo to race a lot of off events, new events, and try for some new cuts. All the groups have put in some good training so far this season and they are excited to keep pushing themselves to continue to improve. Way to go, swimmers! Senior 1 We had 23 swimmers compete at the meet. I was very pleased with the performances of our swimmers across the board. We used the meet as a training...

Wave January Invitationals Our Sport Team started 2024 with Wave’s series of three invitational meets. We witnessed astounding performances from every practice group, including multiple new US Motivational cuts and several swimmers qualifying for the AGI meet next month! Way to go, swimmers! Purple We had an outstanding meet, with loads of best times and few disqualifications. Way to go Purple! 10-14 Meet Highlights Ethan Chan had a great meet winning his heat in all his races! He dropped more than 7 seconds in his 100 Back using a strong...

Washington Open Meet Recap Our Senior 1 and Senior Epic groups sent nearly 40 swimmers to Federal Way for the first meet of 2024, the 47th Annual Washington Open, one of the oldest short course meets in the state. The meet featured over 900 swimmers from Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and Montana and we are very proud of how well our athletes performed so early in the winter season! Senior 1 The Senior 1 group had 20 swimmers compete at the Washington Open. Our group used this mostly as a training...