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The Methow Valley Killer Whales swim team opened its 2017 competitive season with a strong showing in its home pool on Saturday (July 24), claiming 27 first-place finishes among the 60 boys’ and girls’ events.
The meet, called the Methow Pentathlon because each swimmer …
The Methow Valley Killer Whales swim team launches its 2017 season on Saturday (June 24) with a home meet, hosting the other three teams in its league: Brewster, Okanogan and Omak.
Competition begins at 9 a.m. at the Wagner Memorial Pool in Twisp.
The Methow Valley Killer Whales swim team’s long string of victories in the county championship meet came to an end last Saturday (Aug. 30) as the Brewster Bearacudas managed just four more points than the Whales to take first place in the Omak pool.
In a four-team meet with 112 events, the margin of victory was equivalent to losing by about half-a-stroke in a close race.
The Methow Valley Killer Whales swim team suffered a rare defeat when it hosted the Okanogan Bullfrogs on July 19. The Killer Whales girls’ team prevailed by 156-151, but the Methow Valley boys lost to Okanogan, 155-119. The total team scores were Okanogan 306, Methow Valley 275. The Killer Whales took 38 first-place finishes, 27 […]
The Methow Valley Killer Whales were back in the water for two meets last week, including a win over the Brewster Bearacudas in head-to-head competition. With an expanded complement of swimmers, the Killer Whales edged Brewster on June 30, 298-276. The Methow Valley team brought 38 competitors, about twice as many as swam in the […]
A smaller-than-usual contingent of Killer Whales — the Methow Valley Swim Team — competed last weekend at the Okanogan Pentathlon swim meet. Because the Wagner Memorial Pool in Twisp is being repaired and has yet to open this season, swim team members have had to find other ways to practice. About 20 Killer Whales entered the five events at […]
Resurfacing Twisp’s public swimming pool will be completed this summer, despite the fact that the town doesn’t currently have funding in hand for the entire project.
The Twisp Town Council last week approved moving ahead to finish all of the work needed to resurface the Wagner Memorial Pool in order to repair leaking that has been a persistent …
As renovations of Twisp’s public swimming pool got underway last month, new problems with the pool have come to light and the town is facing a dilemma about the best way to move forward.
Not surprisingly, the biggest issue facing the town is lack of adequate funding to do the needed work on the Wagner Memorial Pool.
The Methow Valley Killer Whales swim team claimed another Okanogan County Summer Swim League championship on Saturday (Aug. 1), easily outdistancing three other teams at Wagner Memorial Pool in Twisp, and finishing the season undefeated. Scoring from more than 120 events put the Killer Whales on top with 1,156 points. The Okanogan Bullfrogs were second […]
From the first dive to the final touch, the Methow Valley Killer Whales swim team dominated the Brewster Invitational on Saturday (July 25), easily out-stroking teams from Omak, Brewster and Okanogan. After nearly 100 events were concluded, the Killer Whales had racked up 1,004.5 overall team points to 366.5 by the Okanogan Bullfrogs, 337 by […]
