40th Annual Firecracker Meet Recap It was a dark and stormy afternoon in Missoula…well, at least Saturday was! The team experienced all sorts of weather, from hot & scorching to wet & dreary. However, in a hard-fought battle with the defending champs Bozeman Barracudas, as well as 40 other teams from across the western United States, Wave edged out Bozeman to win the Firecracker Classic for the first time. After the first day, Wave was 150+ points behind the Bozeman… but then we staged a wild comeback. The second day...

IST June Open Meet Recap Wave arrived with a large contingent of swimmers ready and willing to swim lightning fast in the sweltering heat of Snohomish Aquatic Center on June 25-26. Came. Saw. Conquered! The star of the meet for Wave was Kyle Fontelera, who achieved a AAAA time in his 50 Fly in his final meet as a 12-year-old. Congratulations, Kyle!! High School Group This weekend we had swimmers split into two sessions. Those that were in the second session- thank you for your patience between the mugginess and...

WAVE WINS 40th ANNUAL FIRECRACKER CLASSIC!! We had a wild weekend full of fast swimming, great racing, and insane storms. The swimmers who attended the Firecracker Classic this past weekend all put forth their best efforts at the meet with several swimmers making finals, achieving best times, and qualifing for championship meets next month. We even had one swimmer qualify for Senior Zones for the first time in the final race of the whole weekend! 41 teams from several states participated, including Montana, Arizona, California, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and...

SSCD Dolphin Splash Meet Recap Our Sport Team was able to race on short notice at Kamiak High School May 21 and those who attended churned many fantastic swims! Our top swimmer was Adi Beibit, who broke a team record for the second weekend in a row, this time in the 8&Under Boys 100 Fly! Here are the highlights for each group. Purple Group We had a solid meet for Purple group who attended the SSCD meet. Shout outs go to Kunaal Kadam and Roshni Padmanabhan for getting new B...

May Flowers Meet Recap Well, that was fun! Watching all our young swimmers walking into KCAC, some of them for the first time ever, and seeing their eyes get huge at the length of a 50-meter pool, then to hear them say after their races how much they enjoyed swimming long course for the first time. We saw loads of excellent swims and possibly a record number of best times, since most swimmers had either never swum long course before or hadn’t swum that distance in a long time. Our...

IMX/IMR Meet Recap What a wild weekend! Our swimmers faced a big challenge swimming all four strokes + an IM and they stepped up big time! Many swam events they had never swum, or had not swum in a very long time, and they performed like rock stars! Special congratulations to our #1 Swimmers (based on average points per event): Kyle Fontelera (Select Team) and Adi Beibit (Sport Team)!! For those who are unfamiliar with the IMX (IM Extreme) or IMR (IM Ready) formats, the goal is to swim five...

Lake Washington Masters - a proud part of the Wave Aquatics organization - once again won PNA Champs this past weekend at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way! It was the first PNA (Masters' equivalent of PNS) Champs meet since 2019 due to Covid and LWM picked right back up where they left off, winning the title for the 7th straight time. LWM had 16 different swimmers win one or more event, including Dave Whitbeck, dad of Wave swimmers Audra and Natalie, who won the 500 Free for...

Spring Fling Recap Wave sent nearly 70 swimmers to the Spring Fling meet, which included all the top teams in PNS and capped off the Short Course season for our Age Group swimmers. The 10&Unders were especially competitive since this was essentially their State Champs meet. Wave had yet another awesome performance, including 11 wins! The meet was capped by Lola Reynolds’ four 1st places (including a sweep of the Free races) and Alex Lobdell’s 50 Free where he not only earned his first AAA time but broke the 10&Under...

Senior Sectionals Senior Epic had a phenomenal Senior Sectionals meet in Phoenix! We had eight swimmers this year with everyone achieving at least both one best time and one tan line at the meet! We swam eight relays (Girls and Boys: 200 Medley, 200 Free, 400 Free and 400 Medley Relays) and among amazing relay swims, many swimmers got best times leading off. Highlights from our week: 1 Futures cut 1 Summer Sectionals cut 2 SwimStrong Dryland Elite Camp cuts 9 individual finals + 1 relay swimming at finals 98...

Washington State Champs Recap What an exciting three days of racing to cap off the short course season for our 11-18-year-olds! Once more, Wave swimmers put up some fantastic times with several swimmers scoring. The team finished 8th out of 31 teams from across the state. Purple Sport Alex Shibalov was the only swimmer from the Sport team to qualify for the State Champs and what a meet he had, with two official best times, including a 17-second drop in the 100 Back and only two breaths in his 50...