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Breaking News Featured Article MCSL Summer Swimming 

MCSL – The Nuts and Bolts

Jun 17, 2022Jun 24, 2022 Reach For The Wall 5 Comments

Summer swim season is in full swing.  Practices started two weeks ago, and some teams have already had their first

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Breaking News 

5 Tips When Touring Colleges With Your Swimmer

Mar 27, 2017Mar 27, 2017 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

By Michelle Lombana, College Swimming Guide (https://collegeswimmingguide.com/) Between my three sons, I have been on a total of 27 college

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Breaking News High School Swimming Parent Resources 

Maryland Region Meet Information

Feb 15, 2017 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

By Reach for the Wall staff. Despite some amazing swimming at Metros, Maryland swim fans have more championship meets left

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Breaking News High School Swimming Parent Resources 

2017 Metros Qualifying Times

Jan 27, 2017Jan 27, 2017 Reach For The Wall 2 Comments

By Reach for the Wall staff. In a previous article, we talked about High School Championships Meets and asked if anyone

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Breaking News College Swimming High School Swimming Parent Resources 

Five Things to Consider about Swimming in College

Jan 23, 2017Jan 24, 2017 Reach For The Wall 2 Comments

By Michelle Lombana, College Swimming Guide. Do you want to swim in college? Does your child want to swim in

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Coaches Corner Parent Resources Potomac Valley Swimming 

Motivational Times

Jan 19, 2017Jan 19, 2017 Reach For The Wall 1 Comment

By Reach for the Wall staff. Have you ever noticed there are some letters (e.g., BB, A, AAA) below swimmers’

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Nutrition Parent Resources 

10 Stay-In-The-Bag Snacks For A Healthy Athletes Diet

Jan 16, 2017 Reach For The Wall 3 Comments

By P2Life Performance Nutrition. Snacks are an important part of an athlete’s training and a healthy athletes diet. Since not every

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Coaches Corner National News Parent Resources Potomac Valley Swimming 

IM Xtreme Games

Jan 5, 2017Jan 6, 2017 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

By Reach for the Wall staff. Several years ago, USA Swimming developed a series of swim meets across the U.S.

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Breaking News 

High School Championship Meets

Jan 2, 2017Jan 10, 2017 Reach For The Wall 2 Comments

By Reach for the Wall staff. High school swimming is quirky in that even some grizzled veterans of summer swimming

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Breaking News Coaches Corner Featured Article High School Swimming Parent Resources 

MCPS High School Swimming & Diving 101

Dec 6, 2016Dec 8, 2016 Reach For The Wall 5 Comments

By Reach for the Wall staff. This article is the first in a series of posts covering basic information about

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Breaking News 

History of Montgomery County Public School Swim and Dive Program

Nov 29, 2016Nov 30, 2016 Reach For The Wall 1 Comment

By Reach for the Wall staff. As we move into the High School Swimming season, Reach For The Wall thought

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Breaking News 

5 Things My Swim Coach Told Me That Apply in Real Life

Nov 17, 2016Nov 17, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

By Olivier Poirier-Leroy. The sport of swimming will teach you a lot over the course of your life. From how

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Breaking News 

The Improvement You Want Isn’t in the Pool

Oct 11, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

Want to boost your performance in the pool? Here’s how to do it without swimming a single extra meter or

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Breaking News 

9 Ways to Be an Utterly Amazing Swim Parent

Sep 24, 2016Sep 24, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

The swim parent lifestyle is a soggy, herculean and often thankless one. There are all of the early morning swim

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Breaking News 

MCSL 2017 Calendar

Sep 22, 2016Sep 22, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

For those of you in MCSL who want to get a jump on updating your personal or swim team’s calendar

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Breaking News 

MCSL Rule Change Proposals

Sep 20, 2016 Reach For The Wall 13 Comments

Two rule changes have been proposed for the 2017 MCSL season.  The first proposed rule change was submitted by an MCSL

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Breaking News National News Potomac Valley Swimming 

U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Swimming Announce Disciplinary Measures for 4 Athletes

Sep 9, 2016Dec 23, 2016 Reach For The Wall 5 Comments

Reposted from USA Swimming The United States Olympic Committee and USA Swimming today jointly announced disciplinary measures for four members

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Breaking News 

Virtual Meet Championship – How PVS teams stack up

Sep 8, 2016Sep 8, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

Have you ever wondered how your team stacks up against others in the country?  USA Swimming has a virtual club

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Breaking News 

USA Swimming Scholastic All America 2015-2016

Sep 7, 2016Dec 14, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

Congratulations goes out to the Potomac Valley Swimming (PVS) athletes who were recently named by USA Swimming to the 2015-2016 Scholastic

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Breaking News 

PVS Schedule 2016-2017

Aug 31, 2016Aug 31, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

PVS Schedule 2016-2017 September 2016 Date Meet Host Location 25 PAC Freestyle Meet PAC Fairland October 2016 Date Meet Host

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Breaking News National News Olympic Trials 

Olympic Observations by Bruce.  Part 2

Aug 11, 2016Aug 14, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

Bruce Gemmell, one of the Coaches of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro and head coach at NCAP’s Georgetown

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Breaking News 

The Futures in review…

Aug 11, 2016Dec 8, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

The 2016 Futures meets were held August 4-7 at four sites around the country:  Austin, TX Palo Alto, CA, Atlanta,

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Summer Swimming 

PWSL – Divisionals

Aug 9, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

SOUTHBRIDGE SEALS THREE-PEAT AS DIVISION CHAMPIONS The Southbridge Seals won their third consecutive Prince William Swim League Purple Division title and

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Breaking News 

Olympic Observations from Bruce Gemmell

Aug 6, 2016Aug 7, 2016 Reach For The Wall 2 Comments

Bruce Gemmell, one of the Coaches of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro and head coach at NCAP’s Georgetown

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Breaking News 

Op-Ed: MCSL Championship Meet

Aug 5, 2016Aug 5, 2016 Reach For The Wall 12 Comments

[Editor’s Note:  Kevin, a reader of Reach For The Wall, asked Reach for the Wall to publish the following article

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Breaking News 

Swimmer Spotlight – Michael

Aug 4, 2016Aug 4, 2016 Reach For The Wall 2 Comments

Guest Contributor:  Jaycee Yegher This is our second article highlighting a swimmer who inspires.  Check out MaiMai’s story. Michael was

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Breaking News 

MCSL 2016 – Over and out…

Aug 1, 2016Aug 2, 2016 Reach For The Wall 5 Comments

Sunday wrapped up the final day of the 2016 MCSL season. In the individual all-star events, the star of the show

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Summer Swimming 

Colonial Swim League Divisionals

Jul 31, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

Divisionals Sat, 7-30-2016 Despite the challenge of multiple weather delays, the league was able to complete all four meets today.

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Breaking News 

Colonial Swim League Week 5

Jul 26, 2016 Reach For The Wall 1 Comment

More league records to announce…     On Wednesday at Chinquapin, Wahoo swimmersEmil LaSida and Ronan Lauinger both went under

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Potomac Valley Swimming Summer Swimming 

NVSL Relays

Jul 26, 2016 Reach For The Wall 1 Comment

Nine All-Star Relay Teams Swim Faster Than NVSL Records Fri, 7-22-2016 | Paul Parry Near-perfect weather at Greenbriar Pool on

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Summer Swimming 

MCSL Divisionals Shake Down

Jul 26, 2016Dec 3, 2016 Reach For The Wall 3 Comments

It was a record breaking day in the MCSL and a scorching hot day in the DMV.  With most of the

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Breaking News 

MCSL Preliminary Rankings 2017

Jul 24, 2016Jul 25, 2016 Reach For The Wall 29 Comments

All the cards have been played and the Preliminary 2017 MCSL Division Assignments are now in.  Lots of moving and

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Breaking News Potomac Valley Swimming Summer Swimming 

PWSL Week 5

Jul 19, 2016Jul 21, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

SOUTHBRIDGE FINISHES FIRST 41 TIMES, FALLS TO FROGS The Southbridge Seals welcomed the Dale City Frogs in a Week 5

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Breaking News 

DMV Swimmers Named to NISCA All America List

Jul 19, 2016Jul 20, 2016 Reach For The Wall 5 Comments

The National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) has released its high school All-America lists for the 2015-2016 season.  NISCA is

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Breaking News 

Colonial Swim League reporting in…

Jul 19, 2016Jul 19, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

 We love your contributions and that you keep us on our toes.  It was brought to our attention that we

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Coaches Corner 

MCSL Week 5 Wrap Up

Jul 18, 2016Jul 19, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

As week five has completed, we are officially done with MCSL dual meets.  Week five was a hard week for

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Breaking News 

Why do you pay so much?

Jul 18, 2016Aug 30, 2016 Reach For The Wall 1 Comment

As fall sports registration begins and the kids are returning to the pool, this is a timely reminder… One of

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Breaking News 

Herndon Olympics

Jul 15, 2016Jul 15, 2016 Reach For The Wall 1 Comment

By: Mitchell Pleasure, Head Coach of the Hunters Creek Stingrays Every year in the middle of July, Herndon’s large summer

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Breaking News 

A Dolphin Tale

Jul 14, 2016Jul 14, 2016 Reach For The Wall 27 Comments

We recently published an article highlighting MaiMai, a swimmer who inspires us.   We want to take a moment now to

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Coaches Corner Summer Swimming 

PWSL – Week 4

Jul 13, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

Congrats to PWSL for another amazing record breaking week! DV Sharks vs. Victory Lakes Wow—Week 4 was a scorcher! The DV

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Coaches Corner Potomac Valley Swimming 

Meet Highlights: 2016 MCSL Coaches Invitational Long Course Meet

Jul 13, 2016Jul 18, 2016 Reach For The Wall 9 Comments

The Montgomery County Swim League (MCSL) held its 42nd annual Coaches Invitational Long Course Meet at the Rockville Swim and

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Breaking News 

NVSL Week 3 Highlights Include Five League Records

Jul 11, 2016Jul 11, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

7-9-2016 | Paul Parry NVSL 2016 continues to be a wicked-fast season as a fivesome of league records went down

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Nutrition Parent Resources 

Top Tips for Fueling a Teenage Swimmer

Jul 9, 2016Jul 9, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

  Chris Rosenbloom, PhD, RDN, CSSD USA Swimming Many parents ask how they can help their teen swimmer optimize training when

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Parent Resources Summer Swimming 

PWSL Week 3

Jul 6, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

Congrats on a great season thus far and yet again, some amazing updates! Dominion Valley Sharks vs. Old Bridge Breakers

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Breaking News 

Week 3 MCSL Top Tens — Get ready for Coaches Long Course

Jul 5, 2016Jul 8, 2016 Reach For The Wall 15 Comments

By Reach for the Wall staff.   [Editor’s Note.  The official ranking list and psych sheets for Coaches Long Course

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Breaking News 

Who runs the show at summer meets?

Jul 4, 2016Jul 10, 2016 Reach For The Wall 2 Comments

Summer Swim, PVS meets and High School meets require many volunteers at meets.  This article will highlight who is generally responsible for

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Summer Swimming 

The Feet Five – Week Four

Jun 30, 2016Jun 30, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

By: Stina Oakes 7:15: Caravan meets at the home pool We pull up to join the line of cars and

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Breaking News Potomac Valley Swimming Summer Swimming 

PWSL – Week 2 updates

Jun 28, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

PWSL had another great week of swimming and once again has blown us away with their amazing updates.  We would

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Breaking News 

Get the Most out of Summer Swim Team (for Parents)

Jun 25, 2016Jun 25, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

By Jenni Halem / Contributor. We recently posted Five Tips To Get The Most Out Of Summer Swimming, a must

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Parent Resources Potomac Valley Swimming Summer Swimming 

When is My Child Ready to Start Swim Lessons?

Jun 23, 2016Jun 23, 2016 Reach For The Wall 0 Comment

By Lizzy Bullock / Contributor. (Editor note). We are committed to making Reach For The Wall the go to source

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