Announcements

2013 Orca Swim Team Membership:

Click here to join or renew your Orca membership for 2013. You must be an Orca Swim Team member and USMS member to buy passes and swim with us.

Spring Swim Passes:

The New Quarter begins April 1, 2013. Click here to buy your pass now. If you do not have a pass, you won't be able to swim. Sorry.

Swim passes are no longer available to purchase on deck at the pool. To buy a swim pass, buy one online at the Orca Store.

Please remember to bring your pass with you on the pool deck. If you don't have your pass or forget to bring it with you onto the deck you will not be allowed to swim.

Treat your punch pass like cash. Orca Swim Team will not refund or reissue lost punch passes.

Orca Swim Team Newsletters

Board Elections

We have many new members on the Swim Team Board this year. Brian Williams and Steven Potokar are this year’s veteran members supporting the team as Directors. Kevin Brooks and Kelly Darrah have stepped forward to serve as your Co-Captains. Chip Waterbury is serving as the Treasurer and Meg Meinerz will be our secretary. Congratulations to everyone!

NEW Practice Schedule:

  • Sunday - 2:00pm
  • Monday - 7:00pm
  • Wednesday - 7:00pm
  • Friday - 7:00pm

IGLA 2013 Opening Party
Seattle Aquarium

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  • Opening Party – Seattle Aquarium
  • Time: 7:00 – 10:00 PM
  • Location: 1483 Alaskan Way, Pier 59, Seattle, WA 98101
  • http://www.seattleaquarium.org
  • Live Otter Cams: http://www.seattleaquarium.org/otter-cams

Party with the stars! Sea stars (and otters), that is. The Seattle Aquarium and Orca Swim Team are proud to host the official opening party for IGLA 2013!

Join your hosts and fellow IGLA participants for a magical evening located on Pier 59 at the edge of Puget Sound’s Elliott Bay, guests will be able to enjoy some of the most extraordinary spaces in Seattle.

You will be able to enjoy the sunset over Puget Sound, and the Olympic Mountains on the back patio bar, explore the undersea world of the aquarium and be entertained in the Puget Sound Great Hall with the luminous Window on Washington Waters, complete with hundreds of fish – your personal interactive party decorations! Light appetizers and cash bars will be available for you.

 

Buy Tickets:

Opening Party $40.00











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May 17th, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed

Friday May 17, 2013

This week we will be having our Friday night dinner at MOD Pizza (519 Broadway East).  Please join us after practice for some food and fun!

Ed Ferguson has offered to host our May potluck on Saturday, May 18, at 6:30pm at his house. Thank you Ed!

Water Polo- If anyone is interested in playing water polo at IGLA 2013 please contact Leo, Kevin Zhai, or Kevin Brooks.

Need new Swim Gear?  To help support the team and get what you need, please follow the link from our IGLA webpage (http://www.igla2013.com) to SwimOutlet.  A percentage of your purchase after following that link will go to the Orcas to help pay for IGLA 2013 YAY!

Dive team- We’d just like to remind everyone that the Orca divers are still practicing at the Queen Anne pool every Monday and Wednesday from 6:45-8 p.m. The cost is $12. Start practicing your dives now for IGLA this summer!

May 17th, 2013 | Category: Weekly Update | Comments are closed