October Invitational Meet Recaps The Sport Team started off the 2023-24 short course season with a series of one-day meets at Juanita over two weekends. We saw a boatload of huge drops and new motivational times as well of many first-time swims. Way to go, Sport! Black Group First, a big thank you to families for arriving on time and arriving prepared, as well as following along with our seating arraignment. The seating worked well as far as making it far easier to find swimmers and get them downstairs to...

SSCD Autumn Invitational Meet Recap The Select Team had an incredible first meet of the 2023-24 short course season at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo on Sept 30-Oct 1. We saw tons of huge drops even though all the groups eased into the new season, as well as loads of new cuts for PNS Champs, AGIs, and new motivational times. Way to go, Select! Age Group 1 Age Group 1 crushed the first meet of the year. I was so impressed with how the whole group did at the meet....

Bellingham Bay Summer Splash Meet Recap Our final meet of 2022-23 was a rousing success for Wave swimmers. We trekked up to Mt Vernon on August 5-6 to race at the Skagit Valley YMCA and turned out amazing swim after amazing swim! Below are highlights from each group: High School & Senior 1 The High School and Senior 1 groups had some phenomenal swims. So many bests! Great work! Ron Saveliev is our biggest loser this meet!! Way to go! Ori Ami Ad: -0.01 in 100 Breast, -0.39 in 100...

Summer Long Course Championship Recaps We decided to combine all three summer champs meets into one email. These meets include PNS Senior Champs (13&Older), PNS Age Group Champs (12&Under), and Futures. Congratulations to all our swimmers on a fantastics Long Course season! PNS Senior Champs Senior Epic Senior Epic had 18 athletes racing at PNS Champs this summer. Some of our swimmers competed at the THSC Classic in Mt. Hood, Oregon the week before Champs and were racing their second Champs Meet. We also had three swimmers who were still...

Tualatin Hills Summer Classic Meet Recap Our Senior Team sent a large contingent down to Gresham, Oregon in mid-July to race at the beautiful Mt. Hood Community College Pool. This was a very fast meet with tough qualifying times! Two Olympic trials cuts were achieved, and our swimmers absolutely rose to the challenge of swimming against such stiff competition! A huge shout out to Daniel Xia, who earned two team records, his first AAAA time, and a Summer Sectionals cut! Senior 1 Senior 1 had some lights out swims from...

Senior Seattle Open Wave sent a large contingent of swimming warriors to compete at the Senior Seattle Open July 6-8. It was a tale of cold mornings and hot afternoons. Despite the fluctuating temperatures, everyone stepped up and raced incredibly well. The swimmers all did an awesome job really putting everything they had into their races and executing the race strategies we have been talking about. A big shout out to Jaiden Sreenivasan for breaking the 15-16 boys team record for the 200 Breast, as well as qualifying for Futures!...

Wave had yet another amazing meet featuring several new champs cuts, loads of best times and new US Swimming motivational times, and lots of first-time legal swims as we dominated Snohomish Pool and the Issaquah June Open! A big shout out to Jaiden Sreenivasan, who broke the team 15-16 Boys 200 Back record, swimming a 1:53.18! In addition, Deniz Cankaya swam the second fastest 10&U Boys 200 Back in Wave history! Here are the meet highlights: Senior Epic Senior Epic was represented by six swimmers at the IST June Open....

Missoula Firecracker Classic Meet Recap For the second year in a row, Wave won this big meet, which featured 18 teams from four states. This time, however, we won big by running away from the competition on Day 3, beating the 2nd place team by more than 380 points (2848 to 2465.5)! Way to go Wave!! Huge shout outs to Noah Sattari, who broke the 15-16 Boys Team Record in the 50 Fly; to Daniel Xia, who picked up his first-ever Sectionals cut in the 200 Breast; and to Sophia...

May Flowers Meet Write Up Our first long course meet of the year was down at KCAC in Federal Way. Every group in Wave was well represented as we adjusted our bodies to 50-meter lengths instead of 25 yards! We saw an amazing number of excellent early season swims. Highlights included Alex Wang becoming the first swimmer ever in Black Group to earn a BB Cap and Ellen Feng earning her first AAAA cap in her final meet as a 10&Under. Adrian Juco qualified for Sectionals. Cora Ledrick, Dylan Vu,...

IMX/IMR Meet Report What a great way to start of the Spring/Summer Long Course season with the challenging IMX/IMR meet. Swimmers had to compete in all four strokes + at least one IM swim and all groups had several outstanding swims! IMX (IM Extreme) and IMR (IM Ready) are recognized US Swimming challenge meets. Many of these events are ones swimmers had not done in a long time, resulting in many swimmers dropping HUGE amounts of time, including some who dropped 1:00+!!! Scoring is based on the US Swimming Power...