DC Trident!
By: Reach For The Wall Staff, DC Trident logo courtesy of ISL The International Swim League (ISL), is a new
Read more
2019 MCSL Preview Divisions H through A
By: Ally Navarrete and Annabel Redisch Earlier in the week we posted the preview for Divisions O-I, and today we
Read more2019 MCSL Preview: Divisions O through I
By Ally Navarrete and Annabel Redisch Reach for the Wall is fortunate to have Ally and Annabel as contributors this
Read more
Safe Sport: MAAPP
By: Reach for the Wall Staff On April 29, USA Swimming and Safe Sport released their ‘Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention
Read more
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
Read more
Why I Didn’t Quit
By Contributor: Ally Navarrete Why I didn’t quit my sport when it got tough—and why you shouldn’t either Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/health/kids-youth-sports-parents/index.html,
Read more
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
Read more
USA Swimming News
By Reach for the Wall staff Safe Sport Recognition update: The Fairfax Foxes have met the criteria! This was announced
Read more
RMSC extends their streak at NCSA Age Group Champs
By Reach for the Wall staff Rockville Montgomery Swim Club (RMSC) was crowned the combined team champion (3,031.5 points), the
Read more
NCSA Junior National- NCAP Prevails
By Reach for the Wall Staff PVS swimmers finished strong at the 2019 National Club Swimming Association (NCSA) Junior National Championships
Read more
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
Read more
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,
Read more
2019 NCSA Spring Championships
By: Reach for the Wall Staff Ten teams from Potomac Valley head to Orlando, Florida for the 2019 National Club Swimming Association
Read more
Safe Sport Recognition-MSSC
By: Reach for the Wall Staff Back in January, we published a post, announcing The FISH had met the standards
Read more
RFTW ‘Who Swam it Fastest’ and All-DMV 2018-19
By: Reach for the Wall staff The high school season has ended and we’ve compiled the results- over 30 championship
Read more
Championship Weekend in Review- MPSSAA States
By Reach for the Wall Staff MPSSAA 4A3A: The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association held their state-wide championship meets
Read more
Virginia Championship Weekend-VHSL States and VISAA
By: Reach for the Wall Staff VHSL: As with the VHSL region meets, the top swimmers and relays at the
Read more
MPSSAA Region meet Results and State Meet Info
By: Reach for the Wall Staff This past weekend, the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association held the regional championship
Read more
Prep and Gonzaga compete at Easterns
By: Reach for the Wall Staff Georgetown Prep and Gonzaga swimming and diving teams competed last weekend at the annual
Read more
Top 10 Results as of 2/15/19: The Boys
By: Reach for the Wall Staff We’ve witnessed several weeks of championship swimming and think there’s critical mass to take
Read more
Top 10 Results as of 2/15/19: The Girls
By: Reach for the Wall Staff We’ve witnessed several weeks of championship swimming and think there’s critical mass to take
Read more
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.
Read more
Metros-wrap up
By: Reach for the Wall Staff It took us a few hours to really digest what we saw Saturday night
Read more
Metros- prelims update
2/9 Prelims: Boys Team title: At the end of Prelims, the boys team race is between two teams- the defending
Read more
VHSL Region 6 Championship
By: Reach for the Wall Staff There’s not much more that can be written about the individual and relay swims
Read more
MCPS Times Report 1/26
By: Reach for the Wall Staff The last weekend of dual meets for MCPS included ‘out of conference’ showdowns, as
Read more
Weekend Roundup-Championship Meets
By: Reach for the Wall Staff The weekend was very busy for every age group, high school and club team
Read more
MCPS Top Times: 1/19
Coming off the week where Monday’s routine was interrupted with the remnants of the snowstorm and this being a three-day
Read more
Alex’s Biggest Race
By: Reach for the Wall staff; Content and media provided by Julia Hoppock We recently received an email from a
Read more
PVS Recognizes Athletes
By: Reach for the Wall Staff; Data and recognition criteria provided by PVS Potomac Valley Swimming (PVS) fosters recognition programs
Read more
RMSC Celebrates 50 years!
Content and pictures provided by RMSC The Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club (RMSC) hosted a 50th Anniversary Event on December 28, 2018
Read more
Weekend roundup 1/12- VHSL and MCPS
The VHSL schools have one more week of dual meets this coming week before they get into their District Championship
Read more
MCPS Top times report week of 1/5
The swimmers certainly didn’t show any letdown from the 2-week layoff as they roared back into competition over the weekend.
Read more
Safe Sport Recognition- The FISH
By: Reach for the Wall Staff and The FISH In our November post titled: “USA Swimming Safe Sport developments“, we
Read more
Montgomery County- splashing into 2019!
The Montgomery County schools last competed December 15, with a number of close meets and fast times. Now that classes
Read more
WMPSSDL/WCAC/Independents(ISL)- at a glance
The private schools in the area started their seasons the second week of November and continued up to Christmas week
Read more
USA Swimming Club Excellence- 2019
By Reach for the Wall staff. Note: USA Swimming made an error when they first published the list, erroneously calculating
Read more
VHSL- at a glance
By: Reach for the Wall Staff The VHSL season began the weekend of November 30 and will continue for some
Read more
American and Polish swimming models compared
Editor’s Note (Rich House): The ensuing article was published by Dawid Tatarczyk on his website November 29, and was recently
Read more
Montgomery County High Schools- at a glance
By: Reach for the Wall Staff and Guest Contributor Jason Blanken The first weekend of meets for the Montgomery County
Read more
PVS Swimmers excel at USA Winter Nationals
By: Reach for the Wall Staff The weekend of November 30 through December 1, swimmers from 7 clubs and two
Read more
High School Season 2018-19
The 2018-19 season is underway with teams from the ISL/WMPSSDL/WCAC leagues 2 weeks into their season. Montgomery County starts competition
Read more
USA Swimming Safe Sport developments
By: Reach for the Wall Staff Unfortunately, the topic of athlete abuse has dominated the headlines in our area (as
Read more
SwimLabs Opens new Location Saturday, Nov 3!
Unique Swim School Opens First Maryland Facility, Saturday November 3
We offer private and semi private lessons throughout the day, adult learn to swim classes and we are the Official Swim Training center for Ironman!
Age Group Motivational Times
By: Reach for the Wall Staff We recently posted the time standards for the National level meets– those meets that
Read more
2017-18 PVS Scholar Athlete Application
By: Reach for the Wall Staff This past week, PVS sent out a mailing to remind high school athletes to
Read more
2018-19 National Meet Standards
By: Reach fo the Wall Staff At Reach For The Wall, we are looking for ways to make swimming more
Read more
Busy weekend at United States Aquatic Sports Convention!
By: Reach for the Wall staff This past weekend, USA Swimming held its annual convention in Jacksonville, Florida where elections
Read more
PVS Swimmers earn Scholastic All American
By: Reach for the Wall staff Congratulations goes out to these PVS athletes who were named by USA Swimming to
Read more
Barriers Facing Women Coaches
By: Dr. Nicole LaVoi To keep the discussion going, continue to raise awareness and educate those who care about swimming
Read more