How to Contact PDST:

Team Email: PDSwimTeam@gmail.com

Specific Email to Team Coaches: CoachesAtPDSwimTeam@gmail.com

Meet entry email: PDSwimTeamMeetEntry@gmail.com

Team Telephone: 425-449-2173

Mailing Address: Pacific Dragons Swim Team, PO Box 2983,  Issaquah, WA 98027

Introduction to Pacific Dragons Swim Team (PDST)

In ancient Chinese history, the dragon is a symbol of luck, virtue, peace, and longevity. Dragons are confident, idealistic, passionate, brave, and generous. A dragon will do everything to make his or her dreams come true. Translating the dragon’s characteristics into competitive swimming, PDST strives to teach important life skills through the experience of swimming, helping our swimmers achieve their dreams. Determination, perseverance, persistence, positive thinking, and teamwork are some of the attributes our swimmers will take with them into all aspects of their lives. PDST strives to provide a training environment to allow our swimmers to reach their maximum potential and to possess the admirable characteristics of a dragon.

Pacific Dragons Swim Team (PDST) is a year round competitive USA Swimming team that participates in Pacific Northwest Swimming (PNS), the local USA swimming organization representing nearly 5,000 athletes in western Washington. PNS offers competition for all ability levels, age 5 and over.

PDST offers high quality professional coaching and advanced technical instructions for our swimmers of all ages and abilities. The goal of our team is to provide every team member an opportunity to improve swimming skills and achieve success at his or her highest level of ability either as a novice or as an international competitor in swimming. The team has well-qualified coaches offering years of coaching experience with swimmers from young age groups to professional level training. The team also boasts managerial experience that will provide a seamless, well-organized operation. With the strong support from our parents, PDST will create an outstanding training environment to allow our swimmers to achieve their best potential.

We will rely on team email as our primary team communication method. In an emergency situation, such as unplanned canceled practice due to pool condition, or inclement weather condition etc, an emergency phone tree will be activated and a uniform phone message will go out to the “primary phone number” listed in the swimmer’s registration form in addition to the team email you will receive. Meet information or meet entry submission will be done by email as well. More information will be sent out once our season starts.

Each practice group will select a parent representative who will be in close communication with coaches to resolve any ongoing issues of that group and to improve team’s support to every swimmer on the team. Coaches plan to meet with the parents and the swimmers of the respective practice group at a set base to be determined by the head coach and communicated in a separate email each season to the parents) to communicate and also answer parent’s questions.

If a parent or swimmer needs to talk to a coach or head coach, please request an appointment by sending an email to: coachesatpdswimteam@gmail.com. In the email, please be sure to list a purpose for the meeting so we can prepare to address it adequately.

If you have an urgent matter, you can reach us by calling the team phone at: 425-449-2173 and we will respond to you as soon as we can.

Please do not talk to coach before, during, and after practice without pre-arrangement or an appointment as coaches will need to focus on coaching and perform other team related matters with their respective working schedule. Team related news, events, and other information are also posted on the website. Please check team website frequently at: http://www.pdswimteam.org

If you need to write to us, our team’s mailing address is: PO Box 2983 Issaquah, WA 98027