Coeur d'Alene Area Swim Team - 2025 Western Zone Open Water Championship

2025 WESTERN ZONE OPEN WATER CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2025 Western Zone Open Water Championships are coming to beautiful Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, hosted by the Coeur d'Alene Area Swim Team and Inland Empire Swimming on Lake Coeur d'Alene.

Date: Saturday, August 23, 2025

Event Location: Coeur d'Alene City Park and Independence Point, on Lake Coeur d'Alene

Technical Meeting: Meeting ReCap

2025 Western Zone Open Water Championships

The 2025 Western Zone Open Water Championship will be held Saturday, August 23, 2025.

Host: Coeur d'Alene Area Swim Team

Location: Lake Coeur d'Alene, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Contact: Race Director Brian Schmidt

7.28.25 Updated Meet Sheet v7

7.28.25 Update

Reminder Entries due August 11th!!

Good day all Western Zone Open Water enthusiasts,

We are inside a month until the 2025 Western Zone Open Water Championship so make sure you lock in your plans to swim up here in beautiful Lake Coeur d'Alene, in Coeur d'Alene, ID.

Entries are due Monday, August 11th, so start finalizing and get them sent in. We have had to make a late change in the Administrative Official position, to Sandy Graham, so please consult the new version of the meet sheet just posted for her contact information. If you have already submitted your entries to Mike Mellock they are coordinating to make sure they get transferred over to Sandy.

Pay close attention to the Western Zone Website through race day for updates on the event, things like the required Technical Meeting on the evening of August 20th. It will be an online meeting so be on the lookout for it.

Hope to see you all here!

Brian Schmidt
Meet Director, 2025 Western Zone Open Water Championship

7.3.25 update:

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. We're excited to hold this year's race here in North Idaho on beautiful Lake Coeur d'Alene and are happy to announce that entry is open!!

The Meet Sheet, the Entry File and an Instruction sheet to go with the entry file are attached. Please read the instruction sheet prior to entry - with multiple pool qualifying times for each race, this will tell you which events to enter your athlete in. We will combine them later to create the 1.25, 2.5 and 5K races.

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2025 WZOWC TM Entry File Instructions

A few noteworthy items:

The entry deadline will be Monday, August 11th
Alex Herr (alexmherr@gmail.com) and Jeff Walkley (jwalkley@gmail.com) will be our co-Meet Referees. Please contact either of them directly for officiating questions or check out the attached Meet Sheet, under officials for the QR code to take you to the Official Application Form.
The 13 & Older 5K race will serve as a qualifier for the 2026 Open Water Junior National races.
At this time, we are not limited in the number of athletes we can have in each race. If the decision is made that we need to limit numbers, we will attempt to split races into heats accordingly.

Finally, if you have not already booked your hotel, please check out the Hotel Block section of the attached Meet Sheet, for all the up to date hotel block information related to the event. Some of the booking deadlines are pretty aggressive so book early.

We are looking forward to hosting you all next month. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Brian Schmidt

2025 Western Zone Open Water Championship, Meet Director

MeetDirectorCAST@gmail.com

509-818-4201

6.19.25 update: Good day Western Zone Leaders, Coaches and Open Water Enthusiasts!

Attached you will find a Race Information Packet that contains information about race day, qualifying time standards, a course map and hotel block information. This packet of information is current as of today, but updates will come out frequently.

Event entry is not yet available but we anticipate the entry file being available by Friday, June 27th - follow-up communication will be sent out at that time, but we wanted to get this information out about the race so you all can begin your planning to attend this great event.

A few noteworthy items:

The entry deadline will be Monday, August 11th
Alex Herr (alexmherr@gmail.com) and Jeff Walkley (jwalkley@gmail.com) will be our co-Meet Referees. Please contact either of them directly for officiating questions or check out the attached Meet Sheet, under officials for the QR code to take you to the Official Application Form.
The 13 & Older 5K race will serve as a qualifier for the 2025 Open Water Junior National races.
At this time, we are not limited in the number of athletes we can have in each race. If the decision is made that we need to limit numbers, we will attempt to split races into heats accordingly.