PVS Swimmers earn Scholastic All American
By Reach for the Wall Staff Lead graphic courtesy of USA Swimming Congratulations goes out to these PVS athletes who
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PVS News and Notes
By Reach for the Wall Staff (links and procedures provided courtesy of Potomac Valley Swimming) In a normal season, the
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Montgomery County Council will approve PVS plan!
By Reach for the Wall Staff 8/24/2020: In the county council meeting which started at 9:30am this morning, a discussion
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Advocate for Competitive Swimming: #openswimlanesMOCO #competitiveswimming #4perlane
We have been in contact with many coaches, parents, and swimmers from teams that are based in Montgomery County and as a collective, need to continue to lobby our case to the council (and Dr. Gayles) to sway their opinion on safely opening the lap lanes to 4 swimmers while under the supervision of professional swim coaches.
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USA Swimming provides Grants to PVS Clubs
By Reach for the Wall Staff 8/11/2020: USA Swimming and the USA Swimming Foundation provided a press release today to
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Swimming in Uncertainty: One Parent’s Musings
By Michelle Brafman When my husband heard that the Montgomery County Public Schools planned to cancel the upcoming swim season,
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Swimming in the DMV: Update 7/27, write your Representatives!!!
By Reach for the Wall Staff With the recent announcements by Montgomery County Public Schools, Prince George’s , Washington DC
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How To Create A Healthy Meal Plan To Complement Swim Training
By R. Miller; Exclusively written for reachforthewall.org A swimmer’s diet can be very tricky. After all, they require massive amounts
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RMSC returns to practice after 14 weeks
By Reach for the Wall Staff Monday, June 22 marks the first day swimmers from the Rockville Montgomery Swim Club
Read more2020 PVS Graduates, where are they going?
By Reach for the Wall Staff PVS churns out some wicked fast swimmers and really bright kids. We’ve put together
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Fitter and Faster Announce High Performance camps across the DMV!
Content provided by Fitter and Faster Fitter and Faster is coming to DC all summer at two locations for High
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Swimming in the DMV update 5/29
By Reach for the Wall Staff After a frustrating couple of days in Montgomery County MD, we’ve mustered the energy
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By Reach for the Wall Staff We had hoped to be writing about how many pools in the area were
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Swimming in the DMV update 5/22
By Reach for the Wall Staff As the announcements pile up we are stunned and disappointed at the realization that
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 10
By Reach for the Wall Staff Today’s workout comes from USA Swimming National Team member and Breaststroker, Nic Fink. Nic
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 10
By Reach for the Wall Staff #TechniqueTuesday Today, Russell Mark, from USA Swimming is providing a 30 minute session to
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Swimming in the DMV- update 5/18
By Reach for the Wall Staff A few more days pass and we learn of additional closures of summer leagues
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By Reach for the Wall Staff #WorkoutWednesday Today’s workout is from Katie Hoff & her CG Sports Network IM Fit
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By Reach for the Wall Staff #TechniqueTuesday Looks like the longer we go with the home workouts, the more hashtags
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Fitter and Faster: Free Webcast Schedule through May 17!
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The state of swimming- what’s next?
By Reach for the Wall Staff What a tumultuous week we’ve had in the swimming world! Over the course of
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Fitter and Faster Schedule through May 8!
Content provided by Fitter and Faster All of Fitter and Faster’s Upcoming Live Broadcasts: https://fitterandfaster.com/live Replays of past free broadcasts:
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#Save our Sports- Sign the Petition!
By Reach for the Wall Staff The past few days we’ve seen an increase ‘call to action’ by several organizations
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 6
By Reach for the Wall Staff For those of you who haven’t been exposed to Cody Miller and his VLog,
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 6
By Reach for the Wall Staff CNN recently caught up with Caeleb Dressel to check in on what he’s doing
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 6
By Reach for the Wall Staff In normal times, the sixth week of a training cycle usually means you get
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 5
By Reach for the Wall Staff Today we’re providing an ICYMI or ‘Throwback’ post. The two videos below are from
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 5
By Reach for the Wall Staff Today’s workout is brought to you by CG Sports Network. We’ve done two of
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Fitter and Faster Schedule through April 18!
Content provided by Fitter and Faster Learning from Failure – Mental Skills Training: Monday, April 13: 4pm EST For Swimmers
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USA Swimming announces dates for Trials
By Reach for the Wall Staff Friday, April 10, 2020– In a release posted today by USA Swimming and reported
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 4
By Reach for the Wall Staff Two days in a row in the DMV where we see bright sunshine? Take
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 4
By Reach for the Wall Staff #WorkoutWednesday is here!!! We haven’t seen the weekly post from USA Swimming yet, so
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The ‘daily dryland’: Ideas to stay active while at home-week 3
By Reach for the Wall Staff Today’s suggested dryland workout comes from USA Swimming & their #workoutWednesday series. These were
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Live Olympian Webinars sponsored by: CG Sports Management
By Reach for the Wall Staff Starting today March 22, CG Sports Management is offering a series of live webinars
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USA Swimming Advocates to postpone Olympics for 1-year
By Reach for the Wall Staff In an email just received, USA swimming has advocated on behalf of their membership
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USA Swimming Cancels all Swim meets for 30 Days
By Reach for the Wall Staff In a report published by SwimSwam, they have received confirmation from USA Swimming that
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Safe Sport Update
By Reach for the Wall Staff Update on Safe Sport Recognition within PVS: As of February, the list of clubs
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USA Swimming Club Excellence 2020
By Reach for the Wall staff USA Swimming, the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming, announced that Nation’s
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Fitter and Faster unveils their schedule for the DMV!
Content provided by Fitter and Faster As we approach the holiday training season, we would like to invite you all
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PVS Team seeking coaches
Content provided by Hydro-Sonic Tiburones Hydro-Sonic Tiburones are seeking qualified, experienced and motivated coaches for all ages and abilities. The
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ISL Week 2: DC Trident captures 3rd!
By Rich House; All photos and videos courtesy of ISL and DC Trident The ISL went to Naples over the
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PVS swimmers and coaches represent on USA Swimming National rosters
By Reach for the Wall staff Early in September, USA Swimming announce the rosters for the 2019-2020 National teams. The
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PVS Coaches in list of nominees for 2019 ASCA Age Group Coach of the Year!
By: Reach for the Wall Staff, photo and some content republished with permission from Fitter and Faster Since 2014, in
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PVS swimmers hit the road for National Meets
By Reach for the Wall Staff This week, PVS swimmers head out across the country to compete in meets against
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All Star Aquatics goes to the OTC!
By: Rich House All Star Aquatics (ASA), led by head coach Bob Walker, is a medium-sized club here in Potomac
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NCAA D1 recruiting rule change in effect May 1
By Reach for the Wall Staff At the annual NCAA Division 1 Council meeting committee meeting held in Indianapolis April
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2019 Eastern Zone Sectional (South Region)
By Reach for the Wall Staff In a prior post titled, ‘What are Zones and Sectionals’ , we covered the structure
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2019 NCSA Age Group Champs
By Reach for the Wall Staff The YMCA pool in Orlando, Florida has been busy over the last two weeks. First,
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Safe Sport Recognition-MSSC
By: Reach for the Wall Staff Back in January, we published a post, announcing The FISH had met the standards
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Black History Month: A Retrospective on the Black History Swim Meet
DC Dept. of Recreation and Parks will host the 33rd annual Black History Swim Meet (BHSM) at the Takoma Park Pool in N.W. DC. We had a chance to talk with the Lewis brothers and received a wealth of information about the origins of the meet and the foundation set in the DMV for black athletes to succeed in swimming.
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