November AGI & Distance Meet Recaps Wave swimmers showed up big at Kamiak High School for the November Age Group Invitational, our last meet before December championships! This was our first big qualifying meet of the season and every workout group was well represented. A huge shout out to Addy Clarke, who earned her first-ever AAAA time in the 50 Free! The Friday night before AGI, we had a distance meet for Select members who were trying to get Champs cuts in the 500 or 1650 Free. A big shout...

MMSC November Invitational Wave’s AG1, AG2 and Senior Prep swimmers journeyed up to Marysville for the first meet with relays to test US Swimming’s new motivational relay times and wow did our relay teams impress, including two AAAA times! A big shout out also to Ellen Feng, who earned her first 11-12 AAAA time in the 50 Fly (28.01)! Age Group 1 The AG1 Athletes had a dominant meet at the Mighty Marlins Meet. The group had several kids pick up either their first Champs Cut of the season or...

Sport Team & Seniors Test Out New Meet Format For the 2024-25 Short Course Swim Season, USA Swimming created a Pilot Program called Block Party Swim Meets. Wave Aquatics was selected to be a member of the program. This is an exciting way to make hosting meets for novice athletes easier and promote more competitions for athletes. We are excited to be able to host these meets and experiment throughout the year with different formats and different structures for the athletes. This first attempt probably felt familiar to typical meets...

We are excited to announce that Wave swimmer Daniel Xia has been selected as a 2023-2024 USA Swimming Scholastic All-American. USA Swimming recognizes swimmers who have achieved at least one Winter Junior Nationals qualifying time as well as maintaining a minimun GPA of 3.5 for the 2023-2024 academic year. Daniel swims in the Senior Epic group and works very hard both in the pool and in the classroom. We are very happy to have one of our swimmers achieve this amazing recognition. Way to go Daniel. Wave on 3!!!

Wave Rocktober Open Meet Recap Wave’s Sport Team kicked off the new season with a great weekend of swimming while the Select Team joined in, swimming just one day. Everyone walked away feeling good about their hard work and effort in practice. Our 8&Unders especially swam fabulous, with everyone performing a Pentathlon and racing five events in just one day!!! A shout out to Addy Clarke, who was a perfect 3/3 in new AAA times! A big shout out to Braxton Davis and Joseph Foster, who both went 6/6 in...

SSCD Autumn Open Meet Recap The Select Team kicked off the new season with a great weekend of swimming. We had time drops all weekend long and the athletes left the meet with new best times, new cuts, and a good feeling for where they are starting the season. The groups are off to a great start and we will keep the grind going to hit some new milestones this year!!! Wave was led by Irene Qu, who earned four new AAA times! Senior 1 Senior 1 had 31 swimmers...

Western Senior Zone Championships Meet Recap Western Zone Senior Championships was Wave’s final meet of the 2023-24 season, and we finished the year with yet another strong performance. Wave had an awesome week at Senior Zones! The senior group came strong and ready to swim fast and that’s what they did In Fresno. We had lots of best times, many exciting races, new cuts achieved, swimmers coming back for finals and tons of fun! The group did a fantastic job cheering on their teammates, supporting each other and being accountable...

PNS Age Group Championships Meet Recap Wave had one of our best performances at PNS Age Group Champs in the past 30 years, scoring 4th place (out of about 40 teams) and just 5 points from 3rd. We were led by Adi Beibit, who broke/tied two team records, won three events, and was the High Point winner for the 10&Under Boys. Huge shout outs to Ethan Lin, who broke the team record for the 13-14 Boys 50m Free and won two races, to Anton Mazepa, who broke a team record,...

Summer Junior Nationals Meet Recap Wave was represented by one swimmer, Jaiden Sreenivasan, at the Summer Junior Nationals in Irvine, California from July 23-27. Before diving into his results, Coach Tatiana will explain how the USA Swimming National Meets are built to follow a progressive tier of cuts. The goal of having different tiers of National Meets is to help swimmers stay motivated to move up to the next level while still offering a very competitive environment for young swimmers. The National Meets are divided in the following meets: Futures...

PNS Senior Championships Meet Recap The Wave Senior Team (High School, Senior 1, and Senior Epic) kicked off the Championship Meet season with an absolute bang. Wave swimmers did an amazing job of stepping up and putting everything they had into their races. All the groups have trained very hard this season, and it was incredible to see it pay off in such a big way. For their efforts, our swimmers walked away from the meet with new Team Records, new Senior Zones cuts, Senior Sectionals cuts, Winter Juniors cuts,...