Pacific Northwest Swimming · Time Standards

Chasing the Cuts

Liam's and Elise's best times against the PNS Champs, Age Group Invitational, NWAG Regionals, Western Zones and USA Swimming Motivational standards.

Data as of Oct 15, 2026 Best times: MySwimIOStandards: PNS · NWAG · Western Zone · USA Swimming

Standards library

Every standards table from the workbook — all 22 sets, exactly as published, including the source flags and notes.

    How to read this

    Age bands. Liam swims in the Boys 11–12 band. At NWAG Regionals — a single-age-group meet — he races as a 12-year-old, so the Boys 12 columns are his targets and the Boys 11 columns are reference. Elise swims in the Girls 13–14 band. Western Zone Age Group Champs is a 14 & under meet, so her summer targets are PNS LC Champs and Senior Sectionals, with Girls 15–16 Motivational standards included for that phase.

    Gaps. A gap is the swimmer's best time minus the standard, in seconds: “+2.5” means 2.5 seconds still to drop; “✓ −1.2” means already under the standard. A “—” means no standard is published for that event and course.

    Not yet published. PNS 2027 LC Champs standards and the NWAG 2027 standards had not been released as of Oct 15, 2026 — the NWAG tables here use the March 19–22, 2026 edition (values identical to 2024).

    Source flags. A handful of NWAG Girls 14 cells carry asterisks in the workbook for a known PDF-extraction issue, and the PNS SC Champs values were reconstructed from a scrambled PDF text layer (internally cross-checked). Spot-verify flagged values against the official PDFs before meet entries. One Sectionals cell is flagged: Summer men's 100 FL SCM is read as 58.61 (the source renders it “58:61”).

    Sources

    • PNS Time Standards index — pns.org/page/fast-times/time-standards
    • PNS 2026 SC 14&U Champs standards (PDF) — pns.org
    • PNS 2026–2027 Age Group Invitational standards (PDF) — pns.org
    • NW Age Group Regional times, Mar 19–22 2026 edition (PDF) — irp.cdn-website.com
    • Western Zone Age Group Champs 2025–2028 standards (PDF) — pns.org
    • USA Swimming 2024–2028 Motivational Standards, dated 10/7/2024 (PDF) — pns.org
    • 2027 Western Region Speedo Sectional standards, Spring & Summer (PDF) — pns.org
    • Best times — MySwimIO, the swimmer search site (search by name for best times), viewed Oct 15, 2026 — myswimio.com