James Murphy posts personal best in swim-off
Sometimes to go your very best you just need a little motivation. That’s what it took for Machine Aquatics’ James Murphy on the second day of competition at junior nationals on Thursday night in...
View ArticleAll the links you need to follow this year’s U.S nationals
Katie Ledecky, right, and Missy Franklin, left, above holding up gold medals from last year's world championships, headline a star-studded field of Olympians at this year's U.S. Nationals in Irvine,...
View ArticleA third Maryland swimmer commits to Harvard: Brennan Novak goes Crimson
The best pitchmen in college swimming may not be located in Berkeley, Austin or Ann Arbor. At least not those with their hearts set on tapping the nation’s talent pool in the D.C. area. That...
View Article11 fast performances that didn’t happen at the Tom Dolan Invitational
Eli Fouts swimming the 200 individual medley at the National Age Group Challenge meet in November. Fouts won six individual events at the RMSC Holiday Invitational at Germantown Indoor. (Bryan...
View Article10 big-time performances from PVS Junior Olympics
Potomac Valley hosted its 2015 Junior Olympics Championships this past weekend, March 12-15, at the University of Maryland’s Eppley Recreation Center in College Park. Here are some of the biggest...
View Article30 Potomac Valley swimmers qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials
Katie Ledecky swims to a new world record in the women's 400-meter freestyle final at last summer's U.S. Nationals. With just less than 500 days until the 2016 Rio Olympics, speculation over next next...
View ArticleICYMI: Sectionals yields two more Olympic Trials qualifiers; PVS wins Eastern...
Michelle Owens, Madelyn Donohoe add names to Trials list Madelyn Donohoe during a race at the Potomac Valley senior championships last month. (Bryan Flaherty/For The Washington Post) Last weekend’s...
View ArticleBrennan Novak nabs trials cut; Katie Mack impresses
(Bryan Flaherty/For The Washington Post) With over a year to go until the U.S. Olympic trials, Last Chance Meet seems an odd name in a sport that measures itself in four-year intervals. But not...
View Article81 Olympic trials cut times have been posted by Potomac Valley swimmers so far
Andrew Seliskar leads all U.S. men’s swimmers with 10 Olympic trials cuts achieved since the qualifying period opened July 30, 2014. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports) [Official list has been updated since...
View ArticleRMSC girls take down pair of 9-10 national age group relay records
The National Age Group Team Challenge has seen plenty of records in its relatively short history. The 14-and-under meet that scores itself on USA Swimming’s power-points system has seen the likes of...
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