Sunday March 3rd practice for Achieve and High School swimmers will be at the Juanita High School pool from 4:00-6:00pm instead of at Redmond due to a schedule conflict. We are sorry for any confusion this may cause!   Wave Coaching Staff

Weekend Reminders   Saturday March 2 Swim-A-Thon! All Excel and High School swimmers are in 6:00-8:00am at Juanita All Explore, Challenge and Achieve swimmers are in 8:00-10:00am at Juanita Perform and HP groups are on their normal schedule at Redmond   ·         8:00am Pirate Costume Contest ·         Margaret Hoelzer (2008 Olympic Gold Medalist and World Record Holder, 200 Back) will be on deck from 7:30-10am to sign autographs, take pictures, etc. She will do a more formal autograph session from 9:15-10:00am ·         Raffle prizes, food and drink...

Weekend Reminders   Friday Normal Practice Schedule   February AGI Swimmers (400 IM and 500 Free) ·         Arrival time for warm-up is 3:45pm     Saturday Practice Explore 1 & 2 and Challenge 1 & 2 groups; normal practice schedule All Achieve 1 & 2 and Excel 1 & 2 swimmers NOT swimming in the meet practice 7:30-9:00am at Juanita   February AGI Swimmers ·         11-14 year old swimmers; arrival time for warm-up is 7:45am ·         10 and Under/15 and Older swimmers; arrival time for warm-up is...

Wave Swimmer’s Put on a Show at the High School State Championship Meet The 2012-2013 boys high school season came to a close last weekend with the Boys High School State Championship Meets (2A, 3A and 4A). Wave had swimmers at all three meets posting best times and making an impact on the meet. Grant Neil had an amazing meet winning the 50 free in 21.13 and finishing second in the 100 fly in 50.39. Both swims were All American Consideration times. Seth Birrell, Mateusz Merchel, Maxwell Peterson, and Nick...

Swim-A-Thon Group Prize Winner This week’s group prize winner was the Excel 2 group whose group average right now is $328 per swimmer. Wow!!! As a result, they win the fun practice prize. Here are the other important upcoming Swim-A-Thon dates:   Monday, February 25: Deadline to donate prizes/receive service hour credit   Saturday, March 2: Swim-A-Thon event takes place including a pirate costume contest, and 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist and World Record Holder Margaret Hoelzer will be in attendance to meet and greet, take pictures, sign autographs, etc.  ...

Holiday Weekend Reminders (February 16-18)   Saturday Coaches Savannah, Robby and Erin are gone to a clinic for the day No Explore practice All other groups’ normal schedule   Sunday Normal Practice Schedule (Achieve and High School groups)   Monday Normal Practice Schedule (all groups)

No practice for all groups, Monday February 11 due to a staff in-service. We will return to our normal practice schedule beginning Tuesday, February 12.

February 9-10 Weekend Reminder   Saturday, February 9   There is a high school diving meet 8am- Noon Here is our adjusted practice schedule at Juanita:   Excel 1 & 2 6:00-8:00am Achieve 1 & 2 6:30-8:00am Challenge 1 & 2 7:00-8:00am   There are no changes to the practice schedule at Redmond; Perform and Explore groups will practice as normal.   Coffee with the Coach; 9:30am- Noon at Victor’s Celtic Coffee Co. Please note that credit/debit cards are not accepted at this establishment; cash or check only Event Page...

It took some time to figure, but the final tally on group page set up percentage by Monday, February 4 came out as follows:   1.      Excel 2- 66.7% 2.      Redmond Challenge 1- 42.1% 3.      Redmond Explore 1 and Juanita Challenge 2- 37.5% 4.      Juanita Explore 1- 30.8% 5.      Juanita Achieve 1- 30% 6.      Redmond Challenge 2- 27.8% 7.      Excel 1, Perform and Redmond Achieve 1- 25% 8.      Redmond Achieve 2- 23.5% 9.      Juanita Achieve 2- 21.4% 10.   Juanita Challenge 1-...

Hi WAVE Parents,   A great way to support the Swim-A-Thon and fulfill your volunteer obligation is to donate and/or procure prizes for the Swim-A-Thon.   Prizes are needed for everything from best costume to the largest number of sponsors.  Make the Swim-A-Thon a fun-raiser that the kids will look forward to by asking a business you frequent to donate a prize for the Swim-A-Thon.        Procurement forms that will serve as a tax receipt for the donor and a record of donations procured for volunteer points can be...