Hello, hello!

Happy Father’s Day to all of our PW Dads! We hope you have a wonderful day of celebrations. Potomac Woods visited Garrett Park yesterday morning for the first A Meet of the season.  Final Score – Potomac Woods 380, Garrett Park 412. Congratulations to all of our swimmers that participated! Results can be found on the home page of our Team Website.

Daleview/PW Luncheon

Mark your calendars for 11:15ish to join our team and Daleview for a lunch! We will be grilling and hosting the Daleview Feet after the meet on June 22nd. (Remember, Jonny's wife, Emily, is the coach of Daleview!) All are welcome, regardless if you swim in the meet! You can RSVP on the team calendar.

Pool Float

This is the week to buy the normally off-limit pool floats! Our theme for Wednesday and Friday is pool party and swimmers will be allowed to bring their floats in the pool instead of warming-up! If you have an air pump to help those who don't have their floats pumped up, please bring that on both days!  

Week 2 Information:

Practices change to our summer schedule tomorrow! If you are able to attend morning practices, it is highly recommended. The pool is quieter, practice is less crowded and we have a lot more space to spread out. We ask that our afternoon practices are left for those swimmers who attend camps and cannot practice in the mornings! To see our practice schedule, click here.

B Meet – HOME versus River Falls this Wednesday, June 19 at Potomac Woods! Sign-ups CLOSE Monday, June 19 at 5 p.m. Please declare your swimmer’s attendance (attending/not attending) and sign up for the events they would like to swim. Jonny will make final decisions based on what he is seeing practice. Wednesday meets are open to all swimmers—if you want your swimmer to swim, you must indicate they are attending and select their events for this meet in Swimtopia.

• Sign up to Volunteer! Volunteer jobs close on Monday at 5pm as well.
• Meet Theme: Pool Party!
• Arrive by: 4:45 pm
• Pool Party (Instead of our typical warm-up): 5:00 pm
• Officials and Timers Meetings: 5:30 pm
• PreTeam Race: 5:45 pm
• Meet Start: 6:00 pm
• Snack Bar: The PW snack bar will be open and selling hot dogs, burgers, pizza, buttered noodles along with other snacks and beverages.
• Hospitality will be available at the break for volunteers.

Team Picture, Meeting and Social - Friday, June 21, 2024

• Team Photo – Friday, June 21 at 6:00 p.m.
  • Michael Neches will be taking the Team Photo this Friday. Little Demons, PreTeam and Swim Team members should wear their white team t-shirt and bring their biggest smile!
• Team Meeting- 6:30 (or directly after the picture)
  • Join your teammates and coaches for our weekly Friday Team Meeting! Our Coaches will announce Swimmers of the Week, Time Droppers of the Week and Spirit Award Winners!
  • New this year! Every swimmer who drops time will have their name put on the Demon Dropper poster and be entered to win a drawing at the end of the season. (If you drop in 3 events in a week, you get 3 entries into the drawing!) Check out the Demon Dropper poster on the bulletin board!
• Team Social - PW Bracelets (after the team meeting)
  • Join your teammates and coaches for a calm evening of making red, black and white team themed bracelets.

A Meet - HOME this Saturday, June 22 versus Daleview

• Please declare your swimmer’s availability (Available/Not available). Doing this helps Coach Jonny create the lineup with swimmers that we know are available. PLEASE declare their availability, even if you don't think there is a chance they will swim.  Sometimes we have to go far down our list of available swimmers so there's always a chance!
• Sign-ups CLOSE Thursday, June 20 at 10am.
• Meet Lineup will be emailed on Thursday.
• Please sign up to volunteer if your swimmer makes the A meet.

Week 1 Award Winners

• Swimmers of the Week
  • Charlie Robichaud
  • Ana Rueda-Ramirez
• Spirit of the Week
  • Zoe Cole
  • Ethan Gitlin
• Time Droppers of the Week
  • Emmeli Patton
  • Chris Rascher
  • Josiah Cook
  • Emma Willis

Congratulations to the following swimmers for getting All-Star times in yesterday’s meet:

• Andie Young (100 IM, 50 Free, 50 Back & 50 Fly)
• Logan Steel (25 Free, 25 Breast)
• Hugh Cohen (50 Free, 25 Fly)
• Alexa Drunsic (25 Back)
• Samara Jayawardhane (50 Free, 25 Breast, 25 Fly)
• Tyler Schaffer (25 Fly)

Go, PW! Swim Fast!!

Jenni Templeman