Last Gasp of Summer 2019

It was a crazy week of weather; thunder, lighting, rain. Saturday morning was cloudy, a little chilly but NO rain. Swimmers told us the water was warm.

Some fun facts about Last Gasp of Summer 2019

• This was the 8th year for USA swimmers and the 9th year for USMS
• USMS broke 7 records this year; 3 Men and 4 Women
  • Zena Courtney has the 1 Mile Wetsuit, 1 Mile No Wetsuit, 2 Mile Wetsuit and 2 Mile Wetsuit in the 55 - 59 and now she has quietly moved on to take over the 60 - 64 age group. This year breaking the 1 Mile NO Wetsuit with a time of 26:07.4.
  • Judy Williams has her second record in the 70 - 74 age group. This year breaking the 1 Mile Wetsuit with a time of 36:08.0.
  No new records for USA this year.
  Congratulations to all our record breakers and age group winners! Results and awards are available on the Results Page.
• This is the 6th year PNA held the BlueSeventy Wetsuit Drawing. Swimmers earned entries, into the raffle, by swimming and or all of the 5 open water events; Fat Salmon, Swim Defiance, Whidbey Island Adventure Swim, Aly Fell and Last Gasp of Summer. There were over 675 raffle tickets. 4 men and 1 women swam all 5 events. The winner this year was A Urry who won with a ticket from her Fat Salmon swim! Congratulations A Urry.

Blue Wave Aquatics and Fife Area Swim Team would like send out a HUGE thank you to all of the Officials and Volunteers on shore, all the lifeguards, kayakers and Officials in the water.

Jolyn was present today ~ did you get a chance to see all the great deals they had? Thank you for attending Last Gasp of Summer!

Back this year to our Volunteers were the Zone 3 Fire Explorers! What an amazing group of people! We had 101 swimmers coming out of the water and they made sure each and every one of them made it out of the water safely and were okay when they got out of the water. Thank you for volunteering at Last Gasp of Summer ~ we truly appreciate all your help.

Zone 3 Explorers train young men and women to become Firefighters of the future. If you are interested in a career in Firefighting please look them up - Zone 3 Fire Explorers.

We would also like to thank BUDU Racing for running the race with their awesome staff and timing equipment! And last but not least our Sponsors - Northwest Tri and Bike has been our title sponsor for several years! Poverty Bay Coffee Co has been there from the beginning. New this year we have Mama Stortinis Restaurant and Bar, The Poodle Dog Restaurant in Fife, Finis and Goodbye Chlorine. Thank you to all of our sponsors!