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Luke Stocker

Congratulations to all Seattle Metropolitan swimmers on becoming Age Group Regional Champions. Over the course of 4-days, Seattle swimmers battled approximately 126 teams from 5 states for the coveted Age Group Regional Championship title.  SMAC walked away victorious, winning the meet with a combined 1085.5 points (447.5 points ahead of 2nd place).  In addition to winning the combined team title, they also walked away with first place finishes on the women’s & men’s division. Congratulations to the following SMAC Age Group Regional Event Champions: Lauren McCain         ...

Tommy Cunningham

Sr Sectionals 2019 recap Seattle Metropolitan Aquatic Club finished in a strong 3rd place for Combined, Women’s, and Men’s Scoring. It’s a great start for SMAC’s first Sr Sectional meet as a team. Only the beginning of great things to come. Point Scorers: Warren Briggs 1000 free 6th 9:20.71 200 fly 16th 1:51.32 200 free 21st 1:40.88 500 free 10th 4:32.71 1650 free 8th 15:40.37 Maisy Barbosa 200 fly 21st 2:06.22 400 im 15th 4:25.31 100 back 16th 56.23 200 back 16th 2:02.84 Valerie Barreto 200 fly 20th 2:04.04 100...

Tommy Cunningham

Another successful SMAC meet! Our fourth team hosted meet this season! We put on this one-day meet in effort to give our athletes one more opportunity to qualify for Senior Sectionals and Regionals, and the swimmers did just that! 17 new AGR cuts achieved in a quick 90 minute meet! Congrats to all the swimmers! We are looking forward to Championship Season.   Here are a few highlights:   Kyle Cobden 100 breast Lane Gooding 50 free Cole Liffman 100 back Cat Andrews 100 back Helena Dahk 100 back London Ferry 50 Fly Jake Hanley 50 Free Jeanette Zhao 50 Back, 100...

Tommy Cunningham

Great weekend down at Roger’s High School for 2019 PN February Divisionals. Thank you to all the parents, officials, volunteers, coaches, and, swimmers for the countless hours that are required for a successful meet. 28 new Age Group Regional time standards were achieved! Some were first’s and some exceeded Regionals and achieved Western Age Group Zone cuts. Way to go SMAC! Here were the individual highlights: Paul Gelinas- 400 IM, 200 Fly, 200 BK, 50 FR Jaden Ma – 100 & 200 BR Hailey Weiler - 100 fly, 200 Bk...

Tommy Cunningham

WIAA State Top 16 finishers: 2a: Warren Briggs: 200 Free 1:41.90 2nd, 500 Free 4:36.52 1st, 200 Free Relay 3rd, 400 Free Relay 7th Jarod Schahrer: 200 Medley Relay 4th, 100 Back 53.00 4th, 400 Free Relay 5th Alex Nguyen: 200 Medley Relay 5th, 200 IM 2:08.99 16th Amon Rittenberg: 200 Medley Relay 5th, 200 IM 2:04.15 6th, 100 Fly 53.62 4th, 200 Free Relay 3rd 3a: Yatin Kukreja: 200 Free 1:49.89 14th, 500 Free 4:48.58 9th, 200 Free Relay 12th, 400 Free Relay 11th Alex Edwards: 200 Medley Relay...

Tommy Cunningham

WIAA Boy's State is Friday, February 15th and Saturday, February 16th. 2a starts Friday at 9:45am and starts Saturday at 9:15am. 3a starts Friday at 2:00pm and starts Saturday at 2:10pm. 4a starts Friday at 6:30pm and starts Saturday at 7:00pm. Athletes competeing at State: 2a: Warren Briggs, Jarod Schahrer, Alex Nguyen, Amon Rittenberg 3a: Yatin Kukreja, Alex Edwards, Nathan Hayes, Zach Leary-Bignan, Max Cross, Justin Wang, Jaden Zhang, Max Mahony-Schaffer, Jack McGrath, Vin Fetty, Anders Pearson, Alec Gooding, Conner Zhang, Remy Freeman, Ethan Ling, Cole Andrews, Samuel Sproule, Logan...

Tommy Cunningham

TYR Pro Series Nathan Hayes, Tyler Lu, and Vlad Elizarov travelled to Knoxville, Tennessee representing Seattle Metropolitan Aquatic Club for the TYR Pro Series Swim Meet. This meet featured multiple gold medalists, world record holders, and world champions. Our athletes held their own making multiple finals in multiple events. Meets like this are great opportunities for athletes to experience competing against world class athletes and to learn what preparation is needed for the body to be ready on race day when they're not in the comfort of their home and when...

Luke Stocker

Congratulations to Seattle Metropolitan Aquatic Club on being awarded Silver Medal status for USA Swimming's Club Excellence program! We are ranked among the top 100 clubs in the country! Now in its 18th year, the Club Excellence program identifies clubs that execute strong, well-rounded programs to produce elite 18-and-under athletes. The top-20 clubs earn gold level ranking and those rated 21-100 are designated as silver honorees. The next 100 clubs are recognized at the bronze level. Each team’s ranking score is based on the FINA Points Table, a power point...

Luke Stocker

2019 Pacific Northwest Swimming All-Star team. SMAC swimmers and staff represented our LSC this weekend down in City of Commence, California: Moira Williams, Ella Jablonski, Lily Siripipat, Cat Andrews, Makenzie Mayfield, Megan Lei, Jonah Medvinsky, Justin Wang, and, Coach Sean Tento.

Luke Stocker

Congratulations to all Seattle Metropolitan swimmers on a 2nd place combined finish and a 1st place Men’s finish at Washington State Senior Championships! Over the course of four days, 134 SMAC swimmers competed at KCAC with some of the best swimmers in the state of Washington. Seattle Metropolitan Women scored 843 points to finish the meet in second place, while the Men scored 795.5 points to win the Men’s division. As a combined team, SMAC finished runner up with 1,638.5 points. Congratulations to Tyler Lu for winning the Men’s High...