Nov 18, 2009 Nearly 60 PAC swimmers converged on the Multnomah Athletic Club this past weekend coming out with hundreds of best times and three team records! Sylvia Leeb- Haigh led the way with two records in the... Nov 16, 2009 ! Portland Aquatic Club 2009 Swim-A-Thon Donations Received Updated 11/15/09- 10:00am Swimmer(s) Pool Direct mail Donations Received Pledge PKT Donations Received Total Received Jessica Bottelberg...  Nov 16, 2009 Bottelberghe stands tall at state swimming; Cannon surprises Saturday, November 14 | 11:06 p.m. BY PAUL VALENCIA COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER FEDERAL WAY ? Getting stronger and faster over the past three...  Nov 13, 2009 PAC?s own Kara Stranski signed her national letter of intent to attend the University of Kansas on a swimming scholarship yesterday! Go Jayhawks and way to go Kara!  Nov 11, 2009 Aquatic Therapy for River swimmer From the Columbian: Tuesday, November 10 | 11:27 p.m. BY PAUL VALENCIA COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER The bell rang and junior Jessica Bottelberghe dragged herself down the...  Nov 9, 2009 PAC swimmers competed well and swam even better at the 2009 Fall-In at Matt Dishman Community Center this past weekend. PAC easily won the meet with 4,325 points followed by Tualatin Hills Swim Club ...  Nov 9, 2009 Portland Aquatic Club 2009 Swim-A-Thon Donations Received Updated 11/09/09- 8:00am Swimmer(s) Pool Direct mail Donations Received Pledge PKT Donations Received Total Received Jessica Bottelberghe ... Nov 3, 2009 Fall-IN is our meet hosted at Dishman Pool this weekend and we have close to 100% participation! This is an ABC meet for all PAC swimmers! There will be no practice Friday night at Columbia, SWCC, o... Oct 29, 2009 Here are the dates of our pictures: Monday 11/2 @ 4:30pm SW Community Center Pool with Coach Laurie Monday 11/2 @ 4:30 pm Columbia Pool with Coach Tom Wednesday 11/4 @ 4:00pm Dishman Community C...  Oct 19, 2009 PAC made a strong statement at the first meet of the year this last weekend scoring 4561 points (Bend was second with 3295 and Hood River was third with 1974.5) at the Hood River Harvest of Gold Invit... Oct 19, 2009 THIS IS IT! Last FINAL push for getting those Heat Sheet Ads in. Portland Aquatic Club Families need to know that part of your PAC fundraising commitment can come from selling Heat Sheet Ads. For ev... Oct 16, 2009 Attention all PAC swim families, our annual Swim-A-Thon will start with a Letter Writing "Kick-Off". Start collecting greeting card addresses of your family relatives, your friends, your neighbors, a... Oct 13, 2009 This weekend is our annual early season ABC meet in Hood River! Click here for the meet information and here for a printable version of the meet entries. Please note you may pick your events... Oct 13, 2009 Ok everyone, time to dig out those shining smiles? It?s TEAM PICTURE TIME! This year we will be snapping pictures and kicking off our Swim-A-Thon pledge drive all on the same morning. Trust me, i...  Oct 7, 2009 FREE TO NEW PAC SWIMMERS! Only $15 Each For Everyone Else! YOCUTH SIZES ADULT SIZES JUST LIKE A MEET: Click on attend this event, select your name, select yes sign me up, then in the notes section ple...  Oct 7, 2009 ORDER YOURS NOW! Only $15 Each YOUTH SIZES ADULT SIZES JUST LIKE A MEET: Click on attend this event or here to view shirts, select your name, select yes sign me up, then in the notes section pleas...  Oct 1, 2009 Congratulations to PAC's own Jessica Bottelberghe for her selection to the Scholastic All- American Team. She was one of 22 Oregon Swimming 10th- 12th grade athletes with at least a 3.5 GPA and a Jun...  Oct 1, 2009 MONOGRAMED TEAM PAC BLUE CAPS! . Deadline: 1 November, 2009 You will be able to order new team PAC Caps in ?Blue? and have your name on them. The deadline to do this is 1 November, 2009. It will... Sep 22, 2009 Heat Sheet Business Card Ads Dear family dentist, insurance agent, favorite restaurant, business owner or special friend, will you please support PAC by advertising your services to all the swim teams... Sep 13, 2009 If you missed our tryouts on Saturday, September 12 (what a great turnout), please feel free to set up a tryout for the best team in Portland. Swimmers as young as 5 are encouraged to tryout! Feel fr... Sep 11, 2009 Sixteen PAC swimmers are listed on the first draft of the OSI Top 5 list for the 2008-09 season including #1 rankings for Alexander Hatzikos in the 8 and Under 50 Back and Felicia Anderson in the 10 a... Sep 9, 2009 2009 SWIM-A-THON INFORMATION Swim-A-Thon is a fundraiser in which participants earn money for their team by swimming lengths of the pool. Swimmers have a two-hour period to swim a maximum of 200 lengt...  Sep 8, 2009 NEW TEAM SWEATS FOR 2009/10 & 2010/11 SEASONS We are now taking orders for our new team sweats which is part of the Speedo sponsorship program. The new sweats a... Aug 14, 2009 Jessica Bottelberghe lowered her own 15 and Over girls 200 Fly record at the Speedo/ USA Swimming Junior Nationals this week in Federal Way, WA with a 2:20.45!  Aug 4, 2009 Felicia Anderson, Monica Bottelberghe, Alan Hermanns, and Robert Macy will join 56 other athletes from Oregon at the 2009 Western Zone Swimming Championships, August 4-8. They will compete at the Vete...  Aug 4, 2009 PAC finished the 2009 OSI 11 and Over State Championship in 5th place behind THSC, Bend, LOSC, and MHA! We scored 597.5 points narrowly missing fourth by .5 and we finished the meet as the number on... Jul 25, 2009 PAC?s Senior swimmers swam very well at the 2009 LCM Western Region Swimming Championships this weekend at Mt. Hood Aquatic Center. On Tuesday evening Kyle Law lowered PAC?s 15 and Over 800 Free reco...  Jul 22, 2009 PAC finished off the Summer Blast Series with eight team records and numerous best times, State times and Senior Sectional times! Jessica Bottelberghe and the girls led the way with five records. Je...  Jul 14, 2009 By Coach Tom: Once again, PAC has proven that they are among the best teams in the state of Oregon. Points are not kept for this meet, but it is quite obvious we are in the top five of clubs who comp... Jun 28, 2009 The PAC Seniors swam extremely well at the 2009 Sun Country Invitational in Bend this weekend. As a team PAC finished third behind the host team Bend and Corvallis Aquatic Team. In the Men?s scoring...  Jun 25, 2009 PAC sent a large group to the second Summer Blast of 2009 at Mt. Hood Aqautic Center on Saturday with outstanding results. PAC swimmers broke four records, made numerous new state times and nearly 20... Jun 16, 2009 PAC had an extremely strong showing this past weekend at the MAC B/C Invitational with 100's of best times and numerous new 'A' times. The list of swimmers with 100% or two or more best times is too ...  Jun 16, 2009 PAC swimmers continued their assualt on our record books by breaking nine PAC records this past weekend at the Howard Jones Memorial Open at Mt. Hood Aquatic Center. Our swimmers braved the wind, rai... Jun 8, 2009 This weekend is the MAC B/C Invitational. Here are links to the meet entries, meet information and updated warm-ups and timelines. Good Luck! Click here for meet information. Please note the ...  May 26, 2009 It?s time for my PAC fund raising plant sale. Last year was a big success so I decided to do it again this year with even more varieties of plants. I?ve almost doubled the number of selections fro...  May 21, 2009 PAC Swimmers broke six records at the 20th annual Sextathlon at David Douglas last weekend with the 8 and Unders (Sylvia, Alexander, Aymara) leading the way with five of the records and Tess Fleming b...  May 15, 2009 PAC took nearly 50 swimmers to Summer Blast #1 at Mt. Hood Aquatic Center and we had nearly 100 best times! It was a beautiful night at the outdoor long course facility in Gresham and our swimmers we...  May 14, 2009 PAC Swimmers and Parents, Thank you for kindness and sympathy since my mother's passing last Friday. It has been a difficult time but with the support from PAC, Oregon Swimming and USA Swimming, it h...  May 5, 2009 Jessica Bottelberghe broke PAC?s 15 and over women?s 200 Back record with a 2:35.29 while Kyle Law broke PAC?s 15 and over men?s 800 Free record with a 9:10.07 this past weekend at the Bellevue Clu...  May 5, 2009 Over 70 PAC swimmers participated in the 2009 Thunderbolt Spring Open in Beaverton this past weekend with Felicia Anderson leading the way by breaking an eleven year old PAC record (yes her age) in ... Apr 28, 2009 Thanks to Maverick Aquatics for hosting a great dual meet two weeks ago in Gresham! PAC had nearly 30 swimmers participate with over 50 best times achieved. We just received the results today due to...  Apr 27, 2009 PAC took over the Lincoln City meet this year with nearly 90 swimmers and over 3,000 points scored on our way to an easy victory! Our nearest competitors were Bend with 1500 followed by Nike with 700...  Apr 10, 2009 For the first time in PAC?s history we have reached Bronze medal status with USA Swimming (only seven Oregon teams are on the list- two Silver and five Bronze)! I plan to see PAC reach Silver Medal s...  Apr 7, 2009 PAC Swimmers and Parents show your PAC pride with our new Sweatshirts and T- Shirts . These shirts were designed with the help of Coach Jack with Ellen?s PAC logo. If you would like to order one ju...  Apr 6, 2009 Sylvia Leeb- Haigh led 60+ PAC swimmers with three best times and two PAC records in the 8 and Under Girls 100 Fly and 100 Breast at the Woodburn Tulip Festival Swim meet! Sylvia lowered the 100 Fly ...  Apr 3, 2009 Welcome to the 2008-2009 Annual PAC Awards Ceremony ! Who: We will be recognizing both our outstanding swimmers as well as our fantastic coaches. I hope to see our entire team there! What: Th...  Mar 31, 2009 PAC nearly reached its goal of placing in the top 15 this weekend at Age Group Sectionals in Federal Way, WA finishing 16th with 61.5 points! At the meet we had 55 best times and six team records wit...  Mar 22, 2009 Jessica Bottelberghe lowered her own PAC record in the 200 IM with a 2:06.15 on her way to first alternate in the event. She came back later to go 24.55 in the 50 Free while Kara Stranski went 24.10....  Mar 20, 2009 Today in Orlando: Jessica Bottelberghe went 1:00.12 in the 100 back and 57.38 in the fly (almost a full second drop). Kara Stranski went 56.35 in the fly (almost a 2 second drop and just missed fin...  Mar 19, 2009 Kara Stranski qualified 17th in the Women?s 50 Breast today at the NCSA Junior Nationals with a 29.61. She finished 23rd with a 34.10, a new PAC record (finals are long course which makes it really t...  Mar 18, 2009 Ivette Dailey-Deaton lowered her personal best time in the 200 Fly by 3 seconds on her way to a new PAC record with a 2:08.03 at the NCSA Junior Nationals in Orlando, Florida today!  Mar 17, 2009 PAC took six swimmers to the 2009 NW Section Senior Champs at KCAC in Federal Way, WA last week with Ivette Dailey-Deaton and Dana Emerson breaking PAC records along the way. Ivette broke Jessica Bot... Mar 10, 2009 Kara Stranski and Jessica Bottelberghe continuted their attack on the PAC record book with new records this weekend at the 2009 OSI Senior State meet. Jessica lowered her own 200 IM record by 3 secon...  Mar 10, 2009 Alex Hatzikos and Ethan Hanson led PAC to another outstanding swim meet at Parkrose High School breaking two PAC records. Alex broke the 8 and Under Boys 200 Free record with at 3.01.70 (Photo thanks... Mar 1, 2009 All Swimmers attending Age Group Sectionals will train at Dishman from 4:00- 5:30 pm starting on Monday, March 23 until Wednesday, March 25 (we should be done by 5:15 on Wednesday). On Thursday. Marc... Mar 1, 2009 PAC?s 11-14 Swimmers had an outstanding weekend in Corvallis, OR finishing 9th at the 2009 SCY OSI 11-14 Championships. While achieving nearly 100% best times (70+ best times) PAC also broke seven te...  Feb 26, 2009 The PAC 10 and Under Champ swimmers were amazing! Time after time the kids swam better than their seed time and came up BIG! Medals were won by the handful and ribbons will stream from the rafters! ...  Feb 22, 2009 Kara Stranski, a junior from St. Mary?s, led the way for PAC Swimmers competing on Saturday at the Oregon State 6A High School Championships at Mt. Hood. Kara won the 6A 50 Free with a new PAC record... Feb 16, 2009 Kara Stranski broke her own PAC record with a 51.61 on her way to winning the 100 Free at the Mt. Hood District Swimming Championships this past weekend. Kara just missed her team record in the 50 Fr... Feb 15, 2009 Zach Walker led the way for PAC swimmers at the PIL District Meet this weekend at Dishman winning both the 100 Fly and 100 Back. Also winning events were Ivette Dailey-Deaton (200 IM, 2nd 100 Fly), R... Feb 14, 2009 PAC Swimmers competed Saturday morning in a Last Chance meet at Dishman with VSC. PAC had nearly 30 best times in our short but sweet event at Dishman. Thank you parents for working so hard to pull ... Feb 9, 2009 PAC?s own Kyle Law won the 500 Free representing Moutain View High School this past weekend in Vancouver, WA. Kyle will compete in the 500 at the Washington State Boys High School Swimming Championsh...  Feb 2, 2009 40+ PAC 10 and Under Swimmers achieved over 70 best times yesterday during the Snowflake Invitational at Dishman pool. Thank you swimmers, parents, officials, and Dishman?s staff for putting on such ...  Jan 26, 2009 Felicia Anderson continued her record setting ways this weekend in Vancouver, WA with two new 9-10 girls records in the 50 back (31.87) and the 100 Back (1.09.40) while Jessica Bottelberghe added anot...  Jan 15, 2009 Congratulations to PAC?s own Monica Bottelberghe and Daniel Fleury who were named to the Oregon Swimming All-Star Team. The Oregon Swimming All Star Team competed in the Pacific Coast All Star Meet... Jan 12, 2009 Felicia Anderson led PAC to a seventh place finish at the CAT A/B Open this past weekend in Corvallis, Oregon. Felicia had six best times and broke four PAC records at the meet. She broke the 9-10 ...  Jan 5, 2009 Twenty PAC Senior Swimmers went up to Federal Way, WA for a Long Course Senior Meet this past weekend. The seniors just finished holiday training and were very tired for this meet. In addition to co...  Dec 29, 2008 SWIM ? A ? THON 2008 Portland Aquatic Club & USA Swimming Packets Due 01/15/09 All: Given the adverse weather last week, we decided to extend the deadline to turn in your packets until January ...  Dec 26, 2008 Athlete of the Year: Girls Swimming The Columbian, 12.25.08 Jessica Bottelberghe Columbia River High School Jessica Bottelberghe competed for her school, and more specifically, her chemistry clas...  Dec 12, 2008 PAC?s own Jessica Bottelberghe was named Swimmer of the year by the coaches of the class 3A Greater St. Helens League! The Columbian Here is a picture of Jessica, her principal, Christina Iremonger,...  Dec 9, 2008 Felicia Anderson continued her assault on the PAC record books at the Forest Grove Christmas Invitational this past weekend. Felicia broke the PAC 9-10 girls 100 Back record with at 1:11.53 . PAC ...  Dec 5, 2008 Kara Stranski broke another PAC record today in Atlanta, GA at USA Swimming?s SCY National Championships with a 52.03 in the 100 Free! That is Kara and her friend Kayla (From PRSC). In addition to ...  Dec 4, 2008 Kara Stranski competed in her first two events at the USA Swimming Nationals in Atlanta, GA today. In the 50 Free Kara smashed her own team record with a 23.93, placing 90th (she was seeded 118th). ... Nov 20, 2008 PAC?s own Jessica Botteberghe placed second in the Washington State Girls High School Swimming 3A Champs this past weekend in the 100 and 200 Free. Jessica set new PAC records in the 100 Free (52.60)...  Nov 19, 2008 Hey, Kids?Order your 2009 PAC Team T-Shirts Now! Light Blue Cotton Shirts with Red, White & Blue Design on the Front Youth Sizes: XS, S, M, L, XL ADULT SIZES: S, M, L, XL, 2X, 3X FREE TO N...  Nov 10, 2008 Way to go PAC swimmers and Parents for a well run meet and great swims in the pool. We had nearly 600 best times, one team record- Kyle Law?s 13-14 1000 Free was a new team record and a Senior Sectio...  Oct 23, 2008 Ok everyone, time to dig out those shining smiles? It?s TEAM PICTURE TIME! We are going to do things a bit different from previous years, so bear with me. Instead of schlepping cross town during ...  Oct 20, 2008 Nearly 80 PAC swimmers spent the weekend in beautiful Hood River, Oregon this past weekend swimming their hearts out. For most this was the first meet of the year and for some it was their first meet...  Oct 19, 2008 Congratulations to Kara Stranski for being named to the USA Swimming Scholastic All-America Team. She was one of 17 Oregon Swimmers to make the team! Please read the press release below: USA Swimm...  Sep 28, 2008 Here is a look at all of PAC?s Champions for the 2008 Season! Portland Aquatic Club Champions 2008 NAG (National Age Group)#1 USA Kevin Wallin ? #1 United States time, ...  Sep 19, 2008 Kevin Wallin was ranked #1 in USA Swimming?s Times database for the 2007-08 season in the 13 year old boys 100 yard breaststroke and Alan Hermanns was ranked #12 in the 12 year old boys 50 meter butte...  Sep 17, 2008 PAC placed 14 swimmers and had 72 swims on the OSI Top 5 listings for 2007-08. This is the largest group ever for PAC! We had seven number one swims, at least one swimmer in every age group, a swimm... Aug 22, 2008 PAC Swimmers broke 10 records at the Western Zone Championships in Gresham and the Speedo USA Swimming Junior National Championships in Minneapolis over the first 9 days of August! Female 11-12 Mon... Aug 22, 2008 Have you ever dreamed of being an Olympian? Did you watch the Olympics this year? Do you want to train like an Olmpian, race like one and learn how to be one? Now is the time to join a year round U... Aug 14, 2008 PAC ended the summer on a high note with the following swimmers achieving 100% best times at the Last Summer Blast: Bob Bates, Alex Chinn, Allison Cohen, Ann Coughlin, Nate Everett, Natina Gilbert, K... Aug 13, 2008 Young Portland swimmers nurture Olympic dreams Two Junior Olympic champions set higher goals as they cheer on Beijing star Michael Phelps Wednesday, August 13, 2008 TARA BALLENGER The Oregonian Staff ... Aug 9, 2008 Kevin Wallin was on Oregon Swimming?s 13-14 Boys First Place relay at the Western Zone Championships yesterday. Kevin split a 31.24 on the breast leg of the relay as the relay went onto a Zone record...  Aug 8, 2008 Kara Stranski broke her own 15 and over 100 Fly record with a 1:05.60 at USA Swimming?s Junior Nationals yesterday. Today she swims the 50 Free! Aug 8, 2008 Jessica Bottelberghe placed third in the 15-16 girls 200 Free with a 2:10.58 (a new PAC record) and Alan Hermanns placed third in the 11-12 boys 50 Fly with a new PAC record of 29.34! Aug 7, 2008 Alan Hermanns placed second in the 11-12 Boys 100 Breast yesterday at the Western Zone Championships with a new PAC record of 1:17.76! Aug 5, 2008 Kyle Law started off the 2008 Western Zone Meet in Gresham wih a big splash in the 1500 Free! He broke his own 13-14 Boys 1500 Free record with a 17:17.04 while placing third in his first event! If ...  Aug 5, 2008 Kara Stranski broke PAC?s Senior Girls 100 Free record with a 1:00.49 at the Speedo Junior National Championships in Minneapolis, MN today. Kara will swim the 50 Free and 100 Fly later this week. Jul 28, 2008 15 PAC records were broken this past weekend at the 2008 OSI 11 and Over State Championships in Eugene! Along with the records PAC placed 9th as a team, our swimmers had over 50 best times and wo... Jul 28, 2008 Congratulations to Jessica Bottelberghe, Monica Bottelberghe, Henry Fellows, Alan Hermanns, Kyle Law, and Kevin Wallin for being selected to the 2008 Oregon Zone Team! They will begin competition on ...  Jul 22, 2008 PAC had nine swimmers at the Speedo Western Region Long Course Championships this past weekend at Mt. Hood Aquatic Center. Ivette Dailey-Deaton led the way with a NSCA Junior National cut in the 20...  Jul 14, 2008 PAC?s trip to Albany for the 2008 Long Course 10 and Under Championships was a huge success! PAC came away with six individual titles, ten PAC records and 27 best times for our 12 swimmers. Felicia...  Jul 14, 2008 After nearly a three hour delay, the July 12th Summer Blast finally started with a bang. For all of us it was the first time we had been to a swim meet that was delayed by another swim meet (Masters ...  Jul 7, 2008 Nearly 40 PAC swimmers participated in meets in Portland and Bend this weekend with PAC swimmers breaking eight team records, adding four new 10 and under cuts and one Junior National cut! In additio...  Jun 30, 2008 All PAC 10 and Under Champs participants please come to Dishman on July 9th at 4 pm! -practice at dishman for all/only 10 and under champs swimmers. -from practice we will walk to Sparky?s Pizza -swim...  Jun 30, 2008 PAC swimmers, parents and coaches braved the heat on Saturday, June 28th for the second Summer Blast Meet at Mt. Hood! PAC swimmers came away with lots of new ?A? times, a new Zone cut, 98 best times...  Jun 27, 2008 PAC coaches will be conducting stroke, starts and turns clinics this summer for all summer league swimmers (no USA swimmers)! Last year nearly 100 swimmers participated in our 10 clinics. This year ...  Jun 26, 2008 PAC swimmers with ?A? times will be invited to special practices at Mt. Hood this year! Also, we will have an all team 11 and Over practice at Creston on July 19th! All 10 and Unders with at least on...  Jun 23, 2008 PAC Swimmers broke 19 PAC LCM records this past weekend at the Howard Jones Memorial Open! Felicia Anderson (9-10 Girls): 50 Free (31.97) Monica Bottelberghe (11-12 Girls): 50 Free (30.24), 100 Free... Jun 18, 2008 Here is an upate on when and where you should be this weekend: Warm-ups: 12 and Unders please arrive at 6:45 AM each day (Fri- Sun) 13 and Overs swim in the afternoon and should arrive at (Tom and Je... Jun 16, 2008 Sydney Toops broke the 8 and Under Girls 100 Back record with a 1.39.86 at the MAC B/C Meet this past weekend and PAC swimmers recorded 140 best times over the weekend. Click here for PAC results a...  Jun 11, 2008 Finn Terry?s Memorial Service will he held on Friday at da Vinci Arts Middle School, 2508 NE Everett St at 2 pm. Click here to read an article on his life. Jun 9, 2008 Boy?s death highlights peril of fast, cold rivers Water safety - Finn Terry, 11 (swam for Tom at Columbia Pool), is pitched into the Clackamas on a Scout canoe trip From the Oregonian, Monday, June 09... Jun 1, 2008 Enrike Marquez and Ethan Hanson started off the Summer Blast Series with a bang, setting two new PAC 9-10 Boys records! Ethan broke the 9-10 boys 50 Back record (39.04) and Enrike broke the 9-10 boy...  May 27, 2008 Dear Parents: As you approach the summer competition season, take some time to reflect on your role as a swim parent and how you handle things with your swimmer. Click on the link below for a Parent Q...  Apr 22, 2008 PAC coaches will be conducting stroke, starts and turns clinics this summer for all summer league swimmers (no USA swimmers)! Last year nearly 100 swimmers participated in our 10 clinics. This year ...  Apr 14, 2008 Proclamation In recognition of nearly one and one half decades of service, membership, fellowship and friendship, the Portland Aquatic Club recognizes Scott, Mandy, Chels... |
