Black Group The Black Group had almost 70 athletes in total at the meet, and a number of them were experiencing their first swim meet. The coaches were very proud of how the athletes handled the meet and were able to get up and race. To the best of our knowledge, no one missed a race. Special thanks to our volunteers and Coach Lysie who worked together to get the kids in place for their events. Just as important, almost all the athletes had their events written out on their...

Black and Purple Intrasquad Meet! What an exciting start to the 2022-23 Short Course Season! First came the very fun Saturday morning practices for Black Team at Redmond and for Purple Team at Juanita with a boatload of fantastic, creative posters! A huge shout out to our Senior Team, who stepped up big time to teach stroke and turn techniques to the younger kids, and another shout out to Steven Blackman and Coach Chad for all their organizational efforts for this annual event! Many thanks to all our officials and...

Futures Championships and Western Age Group Zones Wave had four swimmers participate at the highest levels in the past week, with three at Futures and one at Western Zones. Congrats to all four swimmers for their stunning week in College Station and Elk Grove. You have worked really hard throughout the season and the results were very exciting!! Futures Recap Last week, Wave sent three swimmers to USA Swimming’s Futures Championships in College Station, Texas. Before we get to the many exciting swims over the week, I want to share...

PNS Age Group Champs Seventy Wave swimmers showed up in Federal Way ready to rock and roll this past weekend, along with another 700 swimmers from across Western Washington, and we stormed our way to a 9th place team finish. A special shout out goes to all our officials and volunteer timers who worked through a very long, humid four-day weekend! Some of the highlights include Adi Beibit shattering the 8&U 200 IM team record by 8 seconds, Claire Gao earning her first two AAAA times and winning three silver...

PNS Senior Champs WAVE swimmers came strong to PNS Senior Champs and crushed the weekend at KCAC! With many Champs Meets during the month of July, our team was split in different meets and thirteen swimmers represented our team at PNS Champs. Among our achievements we had one new Summer Sectionals Cut and three Zones Cuts (all first-time qualifiers) during the weekend! Enjoy some outstanding swims: Kaitlyn Blackmon chose the PNS Senior Champs to be her taper meet despite having cuts to swim at Sectionals. Her standout swim was the...

July Jamboree Meet Recap What a wild and crazy weekend down in Tacoma as many of our athletes finished their season with some outstanding swims! For many, it was their first chance to swim relays in a long time, or ever! Many many thanks to all the parents and swimmers who volunteered as officials and timers. A special shout out to Kaler Duryee, who ran all the staging for the 10&Under sessions! The host team could not have run the meet without Wave’s outstanding sportsmanship! Purple Most of Purple group...

Wave sent seven swimmers into the desert to face blistering California heat as well as about 1500 swimmers from the rest of the western United States. Our swimmers faced their challenges head on and came out the other side victorious. Everyone who competed left the meet with at least one best time, most of them with multiple. It was an incredibly fun week seeing our swimmers step up and race their absolute hardest. There were ups and downs but the smiles at the end more than made up for the...

Age Group Seattle Open What a weekend as we returned to Colman Pool for the first time since 2019! For most of the athletes, it was their first meet ever at Colman, and for many, it was their first time ever swimming long course! At least we had a great setting at Lincoln Park next to the Puget Sound, and decent weather for most of the meet (if a bit cold and windy on Friday morning!). It was great fun to enjoy seeing the Olympics to the west and watch...

101st Senior Seattle Open The days were long, the temperatures were high, the pool was Colman, the swimming was fast at the oldest meet in the state. Wave athletes shone each day with many outstanding swims! High School We had some amazing swims from the athletes that participated! This was the first long course meet for some of you and I am proud of how well you did! And we had relays! Looking forward to seeing what’s in store for the last meet this month! In yards, of course! Daniel...

WAVE kicked off our Champs Season with a fantastic week at the Speedo Summer Sectionals where everyone swam pretty well!! Seven Senior Epic athletes swam in Mt. Hood, Oregon, and it was very exciting to see them performing at a higher level meet, going best times and qualifying for finals. Our achievements in numbers were: 59 Points Scored 18 Personal Best Times 3 Finals 2 Team Records (Boys 15-16) 1 Futures Cut (first time qualifier) Enjoy some highlights from our swimmers: Andrea Wu: 50, 100 & 200 Free, 100 &...