Metro Splash & Dash Last weekend, Wave sent 70+ swimmers to Tacoma for a challenging meet! Our 11&Overs swam Prelims and Finals with only a short rest between sessions while our 10&Unders swam a Pentathlon. The 10&Under Boys had a particular challenge, as they swam all five events in less than an hour! Not to mention multiple deCongratulations to everyone who survived the location change, meet delays, and limited rest! Purple Group We had great swims over the past weekend at the meet! Even through some delays of the meet,...

Part 2 of our November Invitational meet recap features all of the new US Swimming Motivational Times! This is a L O N G list so sit back and enjoy!! New Motivational Times AAA Freddie Larsen: 200 back Julia Larsen: 100 back Jaiden Sreenivasan: 200 fly, 200 IM AA Kyler Brumfield: 200 free Hailey Crawford: 100 free Lena Duryee: 100 & 400 IM, 50 free Kyle Fontelera: 100 IM Taryn Han: 50 & 100 free, 100 back Jenna Kimborowicz: 100 back, 200 IM Freddie Larsen: 100 & 200 free Julia...

Wave finished the fall regular season with our own invitational last weekend. Nearly the entire team (318 Wave swimmers) swam in more than 2000 races (including finals) over three days, with many swimmers picking up new PNS Champs cuts or US Swimming motivational times, not to mention a trio of new team records as well as a Futures cut by Freddy Larson. Many thanks go out to our meet director, Alan Cardwell, and the head of our boosters organization, Steven Blackmon, without whom this meet would not have been so...

NOTE: We mistakenly left out of last week's report our swimmers from the High School workout group, which had two girls compete for their high school teams at postseason competitions. Both girls who swam proved to be valuable members of their teams going lifetime bests in races and helping out on relays. KingCo Sarah Yi competed in two individual events achieving a best time in the 100 free and swimming just off her best time in the 50 free. She also helped her 400 freestyle relay to a 12th place...

October WAVE 2nd Intrasquad Meet Recap The Select Team took advantage of another chance to race at JAC this past Saturday in some longer events. The swimming was fun and fast, but better than that was the compliments the coaching staff received from the meet ref on behalf of the swimmers for doing a great job staying socially distant and wearing masks. Thank you to all the volunteers that make these meets possible! The coaching staff is already looking forward to the next round of meets New USA Swimming Motivational...

October WAVE Intrasquad Meet Recap Over 200 WAVE Swimmers competed in our intrasquad meet this weekend from all 8 groups. Congratulations to everyone and welcome back to competition! Thank you to all the volunteers that made this a fun and safe event for our athletes! New USA Swimming Motivational Times Barun Acharya BB Time 50 Breast, B Time 50 Free Gahl Ami ad B Time 50 Breast Gwen Angus B Time 50 Free Anouk Balog BB Time 100 Breast, A Time 50 Free, BB Time 100 Back Indio Balog BB...

2019 November AGI Meet Recap Great meet over the weekend! From a team perspective, Wave won the meet by over 400 points. Anyone placing first through eighth place either as part of a relay or individually contributed to the team score. !!! Team Record Alert !!! Cameron Piepkorn blazed to a new Team Record in the 11-12 Boys 200 Breaststroke at 2:27.17! Thank you to all of the efforts of our parent volunteers, officials, and coaching staff who helped to make swims like that, and many others possible. There are...

2019 November Mini Meet Recap Great swimming over the weekend at our first Mini Meet of the year. We had just over 100 athletes there at the meet on Saturday. A big Thank You to: ->Our officials! ->Our parent volunteers! ->Our coaching staff! ->Families who couldn’t make the meet but let the coaches know ahead of time! This meet ran about as good as I’ve seen! It takes a ton of help to run even these short meets, so thank you for making it happen! Relays We started off the...

Girls HS Swimming District Meet This past weekend (November 8-9) was the WA State Seattle-King County District Meet at the Mary Wayte Pool. We had a solid number of kids from both the Senior Group and the Senior Epic Group make it to this meet and all the kids swam well. This is the last meet before the HS State Meet. Check out the recap for each swimmer below. Senior: From Inglemoor Jewel Hau led the 200 Medely Relay to swim her fastest 50 Back ever making a new PNS...

HS KingCo Recap Last weekend kicked off the Girls HS Swimming Champs Season with the King County Meet (KingCo). We had a number of athletes participate in the meet. Below is a quick recap of our swimmers why swam. Next up is Districts with a last chance to qualify for State. Good Luck Girls and Congrats to those that wrapped up a great HS Swim Season. Senior Group Swimmers: Inglemoor HS Jewel Hau dropped almost 2 seconds in the 100 Fly to qualify for finals and placed 23rd in the...