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Tommy Cunningham

Husky Invitational New Cuts: Tyler Lu- 100 back Olympic Trial Cut Remy Freeman- 100 breast Winter Jrs Cut Vlad Gilszmer- 100 back, 200 back Futures Cut Dylan Ling- 200 breast Futures Cut Cat Andrews- 50 free, 100 free Zones Cut Mia Foster- 200 free Zones Cut Ian Scott- 100 free, 200 free PNS Champs Cut Justin Wang- 100 free PNS Champs Cut Alisa Rangel- 100 fly PNS Champs Cut Jake Hanley- 50 free PNS Champs Cut Sarah Jacobson- 50 free PNS Champs Cut Top 32: Ella Haskins: 50 free 16th...

Tommy Cunningham

SMAC athletes did a great job representing the club and their schools over the weekend at Girl’s High School State! Our athletes carried themselves well at the meet swimming fast and having fun! Balancing club and high school swim is a challenge and we’re happy to see them wrap up the season with some great swims. We’re excited to get them back to practice and keep improving everyday! SMAC State Athletes: Kate Leary: 100 fly- STATE CHAMP! New Winter Jr Cut 100 bk- 2nd Elke Ambach: 200 fr- 5th 100...

LeAnne McClaskey

QMeet & UPAC Distance Meet Recap With Championship season approaching, SMAC athletes took an opportunity for some fast swimming over the weekend at the Q Meet and UPAC’s distance meet. As a team, SMAC swimmers picked up 53 new PNS Champs cuts, 9 new Age Group Regional cuts, 46 new Gold times, and 69 athletes swam 100% lifetime best times in all their events. Keep up the great work, SMAC! New PNS Cuts Daniel Koo – 100/200 BK Evan Angeline – 200 BK Kyle Cobden – 400 IM, 200 Fly...

Derek Young

Tickets for USA Swimming Winter Junior Nationals are on sale now. Passes for all sessions are $60 for adults, $45 for youth and seniors, and $25 for high school students. Passes for individual sessions are $25 for adults, $15 for youth and seniors, and $5 for high school students. This is an opportunity to watch your SMAC teammates race against the fastest 18 and under competition in the country. Come support your team and your teammates. Full ticket information can be found here.

Derek Young

On Monday September 9, 2019 USA Swimming announced the names of the swimmers who have been selected for the 2018-2019 Scholastic All-American Team. To qualify an athlete must have completed 9th to 12th grade, maintained a 3.5 GPA, and met a 2018 Winter Junior National time standard. Seven swimmers from SMAC were selected for the 2018-2019 Scholastic All American Team. The number of times selected is noted by the number inside the parenthesis. Warren Briggs (2) Jaime Chen (2) Alexander Edwards (1) Vladislav Elizarov (3) Taylor Kabacy (2) Sandy Li...

Tommy Cunningham

New Cuts/New Records LCM 2019 New Gold Medal Cut: Nathan Hayes: 200 bk New Olympic Trial Cuts: Nathan Hayes: 200 bk Yulia Groysman: 400 fr New Winter National Cuts: Hannah Weissman: 50 free, 100 bk Taylor Kabacy: 200 fr, 400 fr Yulia Groysman: 200 fr Tyler Lu: 100 breast New Summer Jr Cuts: Hannah Weissman: 50 fr, 100 bk Taylor Kabacy: 200 fr, 400 fr, 800 fr Tyler Lu: 50 fr, 100 fr Chris Harig: 100 br Kevin Kyi: 100 bk New Winter Jr Cuts: Hannah Weissman: 100 fr Taylor...

Tommy Cunningham

Jr National Recap We took 8 Jr National qualifiers(Vlad Elizarov, Yulia Groysman, Chris Harig, Nathan Hayes, Taylor Kabacy, Kevin Kyi, Tyler Lu, and Hannah Weissman) to the meet at Stanford which was more athletes than we had last year including 3 athletes that had never been to the meet before. This meet we more than doubled our score from last year. Everyone that went to the meet last year placed higher than they did the year before. We placed 21st at the meet. Great job to the athletes for improving...

Tommy Cunningham

PNS Sr Champs Top 16 Point Scorers Sr Champs involved lots of best times, new cuts, and a team getting behind each other. It was awesome to see an athlete go for their cut and then get it. What made it great was seeing their teammates rally behind them and celebrate it with them once they achieved it. The team competed well to earn a second place finish scoring more points as a team than we did last year. Great job believing that we can achieve more and taking more...

Derek Young

Want to HAVE FUN and BE AWESOME? The Seattle Metropolitan Aquatic Club (SMAC) is holding open house events for interested athletes and their families. SMAC is a multi-site, year-round, competitive swim program dedicated to “providing an inclusive community dedicated to exemplary performance.” SMAC offers training groups for all ages and ability levels. SMAC is holding open house events at the following locations: View Ridge (5815 NE 77th St, Seattle, WA 98115) July 18, 2019 5:30 – 7:00 pm July 21, 2019 10:30 am – 12:00 pm July 31, 2019 5:30...

Derek Young

Alex Edwards, 16, was recognized by USA Swimming as a Scholastic All-American for the 2018-2019 year! https://www.mi-reporter.com/sports/edwards-earns-usa-swimming-all-american-honors/ USA Swimming's Scholastic All-American program recognizes athletes who excell in the classroom as well as the pool. To qualify, an athlete must have at least a 3.5 GPA and swim a n individual pool time equivilant to a 2018 Winter Juniors qualifying time. Congratulations, Alex. Keep up all your hard work!