Tag: pool
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Preserving a Pool, Building Champions
Public pools can be the heart of a community, especially in a city surrounded by water like Mercer Island. Pools are where kids learn the skills to swim safely, where high schoolers build lifelong bonds, and in this case, where Olympic gold medalists are made. The Mary Wayte Pool, named for the 1984 Olympic 200-meter freestyle champion who grew up swimming…
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Boo! Halloween swim and haunted tunnel is brewing…
The air is crisp, the leaves are falling and that means the next unofficial holiday on the books is Halloween. It’s a day of tricks, treats and spooktacular traditions that kids look forward to all year and adults use as the perfect excuse to channel their inner Lady Gaga or 1980’s Teen Wolf. This year, Halloween…
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Haunted Pool 2011
The folks at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center are not messing around. The place will be filled with more fake (or are they?) spiders, webs, skulls and severed limbs than you can shake a…well severed limb at. So come join in the fun on the 28th of this month. Here’s what you can look…
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Come check out WKCAC’s fresh new face
After a month-long closure, the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center (WKCAC) has re-opened! Built in 1990 for the Goodwill Games, WKCAC was closed during the month of August for maintenance. All three pools were drained, cleaned, and repaired. Other work included expanding the dressing rooms and giving the place the ol’ once over with a…
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State high school girls’ swimming & diving championship comes to WKCAC
This weekend, our Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center is hosting the 2009 Washington State High School Girls Swimming and Diving Championships (2A, 3A, and 4A). The competition begins Thursday, Nov 12 and runs through Saturday, Nov 14. Ticket information is available online from the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA). Several King County high schools will…