Fellow TWIMmer Learns from the Greats!

Nick Thoman (2012 Olympic Silver medalist in the 100 back) and Megan Romano (2013 World Championships silver medalist in the 100 free) held a backstroke clinic in Kirkland recently, and our own Tom Fritschen was there!  Nick is one of the best underwater kickers on the planet, and his 2009 short course meter backstroke World Record……

Stellar Performances this weekend

The Chairman of the Board will be providing a full summary in the coming day or two, but fun times were had by all this past weekend at the Gil Young Memorial LCM Championship Meet in beautiful, but smoky, Gresham, OR.  After Friday, the air quality went considerably downhill due to wildfires in the east, but……

Day One of the Gil Young Memorial Meet is Done

Three TWIMmers (Elizabeth Kassen, Thomas Walker, and Carl Haynie) bravely tackled two grueling events during day one’s competition at the Mt. Hood Community College Pool, yesterday.  Tom swam his signature 400m IM race in grand fashion while Betsey and Carl took on the 1500m free, coming away with some best times. Now, onward to today’s competition where we’ll be joined by……

Medals Galore at Summer Nationals

Congratulations, again, to Tom Fritschen and Zena Courtney at the 2015 Summer Nationals in Geneva, OH last weekend!  We recently secured a couple of photos showing off their hardware…

Tom and Zena at USMS Summer Nats!

Action starts tomorrow for Tom Fritschen and Zena Courtney! Live Stream: http://www.usms.org/comp/lcnats15/live.php Real-time Results: http://www.usms.org/comp/lcnats15/realtime/ Estimated Timeline: http://www.usms.org/comp/lcnats15/timeline.pdf Times under Fri, Sat, and Sun are in our Pacific Time Zone and are estimates of when the event starts: Zena: Position Friday Saturday Sunday Event Seed Time #10 – 50 Freestyle 30.56 3 9:45 AM #12 – 200 Backstroke……

TWIM Website

Mega Kudos to our CTO Carl B. Haynie for creating this world class website for TWIM! This awesome site reflects the quality at the core of TWIM- Thanks Carl! TW COB

TWIM Dominates Down South

Top 2 photos by Steve Bloom, staff photographer at The Olympian Can someone shout Hallelujah? Led by our Fabulous Head Coach Heather TWIM turned in yet another commanding performance at the Washington State Senior Games in Olympia on Sunday, aka The Old Peoples’ Meet. “It was an amazing meet and everyone did a great job! Such……