Pacific Northwest Swimming · Time Standards

Chasing the Cuts

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

Data as of Oct 17, 2026 Best times: MySwimIOStandards: PNS · NWAG · Western Zone · USA Swimming

Standards library

Every standards table behind the swimmer pages — all 31 sets, exactly as published, including the source flags and notes.

    How to read this

    Age bands. Liam and Charlie swim in the Boys 11–12 band, Elise in the Girls 13–14 band and Oliver in the Boys 13–14 band. At NWAG Regionals — a single-age-group meet — swimmers race at their single age: Liam races as a 12-year-old, so the Boys 12 columns are his targets and the Boys 11 columns are reference, while Charlie races as an 11-year-old. Elise and Oliver race there as 14-year-olds; Oliver's tab also shows the NWAG Boys 15–18 band as the next step up. Western Zone Age Group Champs is a 14 & under meet, so the 13–14 swimmers' summer targets are PNS LC Champs and Senior Sectionals, with Girls 15–16 Motivational standards included on Elise's tab 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 for a known PDF-extraction issue, and several NWAG Boys 14 / Boys 15–18 LCM cells are flagged because the pairs appear transposed in the source (they are shown in monotone order). 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 and ages — MySwimIO, the swimmer search site (search by name for best times), viewed Oct 15–17, 2026 — myswimio.com