Photo gallery: Community youth hit the pool in summer league
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Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
On hold for two years due to Covid, the long-running Wenatchee Valley Summer Swim League includes youth teams from Leavenworth, Cashmere, Ephrata, Quincy, Waterville, the Wenatchee Racquet & Athletic Club and East Wenatchee Aquatic Center. The weekly competitions at these pools end with a championship on July 30 in Wenatchee. In Thursday's meet, about 40 swimmers participated from Wenatchee, 30 from Waterville, and 100 from Cashmere.
World photo/Don Seabrook Swimmers compete in the 25 yard backstroke during Thursday's Wenatchee Valley Summer Swim League at the Wenatchee city pool July 7, 2022. On hold for two years due to Covid, the long-running program includes youth teams from Leavenworth, Cashmere, Ephrata, Quincy, Waterville, the Wenatchee Racquet & Athletic Club and East Wenatchee Aquatic Center. The weekly competitions at these pools end with a championship on July 30 in Wenatchee. In Thursday's meet, about 40 swimmers participated from Wenatchee, 30 from Waterville, and 100 from Cashmere.Â
World photo/Don Seabrook Winning his first event he entered, Liam Bagley, Cashmere, gets a hug from his mother Christie after completing the 50 yard backstroke.
World photo/Don Seabrook Tabitha Petro, 9, Cashmere, has a warning to her swimming competitors written on her back.
World photo/Don Seabrook A Cashmere coach, Kim Krumvieda-Buchan, leads some of her younger members to their side of the Wenatchee City Pool for a relay event in the Wenatchee Valley Summer Swim League meet Thursday, July 7, 2022.
World photo/Don Seabrook Tabitha Petro, 9, Cashmere, comes up for air in the breaststroke during the Wenatchee Valley Summer Swim League meet Thursday, July 7, 2022.
World photo/Don Seabrook Swimmers from Cashmere wait near the Wenatchee City Pool for a relay event in the Wenatchee Valley Summer Swim League meet Thursday, July 7, 2022.
World photo/Don Seabrook Swimmers from Cashmere wait near the Wenatchee City Pool for their relay events in the Wenatchee Valley Summer Swim League meet Thursday, July 7, 2022.
World photo/Don Seabrook Swimmers start the backstroke in the Wenatchee City Pool during the Wenatchee Valley Summer Swim League meet Thursday, July 7, 2022.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
I was born in Wenatchee, went to Eastmont High School, graduated from the University of Washington with a communications degree in journalism. I have a wife and three children.
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