Good day Western Zone Leaders, Coaches and Open Water Enthusiasts! On behalf of the Coeur d'Alene Area Swim Team, the city of Coeur d'Alene, Inland Empire Swimming and the Western Zone, we are thrilled to formally invite you to the 2025 Western Zone Open Water Championships, scheduled for August 23. We're excited to hold this year's race here in North Idaho on beautiful Lake Coeur d'Alene. Attached you will find a Race Information Packet that contains information about race day, qualifying time standards, a course map and hotel block information....

The USA Swimming Summit will be September 24-27 in Denver. The Western Zone will have our annual HOD Meeting at the Summit on Saturday the 25th at 10:30AM. The Meeting will be held live and via ZOOM. The WZ BOD anticipates a shorter meeting this year as we do not have as many pertinent/pending issues. An Agenda will be forwarded at a later date. We do need to have elections for 2 positions and are accepting nominations. 1 - Western Zone Non- Coach Director: Sally Taggert (SI now CO) has...