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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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