Hello, Demon Families!!

Yesterday, we traveled to Olney Mill for our fourth A meet of this season, it was a hot, humid meet: Final Score – Potomac Woods 310  Olney Mill 482. 

Results have been posted on the home page of our Team Website and times are in SwimTopia as well.

Week 5 Information:

MCSL Coaches Long Course Meet - Tuesday, July 9 at 6:00pm

• Come out to the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center to cheer on Samara Jayawardhane and Hugh Cohen as they represent Potomac Woods!

B Meet – HOME versus Country Glen this Wednesday, July 10!

• Sign-ups CLOSE Monday, July 8 at 6 p.m.
• Please declare your swimmer’s attendance (attending/not attending) and sign up for their events.
• Sign up to volunteer; there are still spots open for Wednesday!
• Meet Theme: Royalty
• Arrive: 4:45pm
• Warm-ups: 5:00pm
• Officials and Timers Meetings: 5:30pm
• PreTeam Kickboard Race: 5:45pm
• Meet Start: 6:00 pm
• Snack Bar: The PW snack bar will be selling hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, and pizza, and as well as the usual snack bar snacks and beverages.
• Hospitality: will be available for volunteers at the break.

Team Meeting and Social - Friday, July 12, 2024

• Team Meeting - 6:00pm
  • 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!
  • We will be drawing our Demon Dropper winner!!!
• Team Social - Senior Posters and Shaving Cream Wars
  • We will be decorating posters for our senior meet for Peggy Lannan and Ellie Rascher!
  • There will be shaving cream wars in the grassy area- please be sure to have your swimmers bring shoes that can get wet/dirty. Swimmers need to bring a minimum of 2 cans of shaving cream per swimmer and MUST wear goggles. Swimmers also MUST be hosed off before they get back into the pool. They will not be allowed to go into the pool if there is still shaving cream on them. If they do not want to be hosed off with cold water, they should not participate.
  • There are volunteer positions opening at 10am today to help with this event.

A Meet - HOME this Saturday, July 13 at 9:00am

• Sign-ups CLOSE Thursday, July 11 at 10am. Please declare your swimmer’s availability (Available/Not available). Doing this helps Coach Jonny create the lineup with swimmers that we know are available.
• Meet Lineup will be emailed on Thursday.
• Please sign up to volunteer if your swimmer makes the A meet, even if you are beyond your point minimum.

Senior BBQ Lunch

• On Saturday, July 13th, we will be hosting our Senior meet at Potomac Woods after the A meet against Rockshire. We will be celebrating our senior swimmers- Peggy Lannan and Ellie Rascher.
• Please RSVP for our senior lunch by Thursday, July 11th at 9am so we know how much food to buy. We will be selling hamburger/cheeseburger/veggie burger/hot dog, chips and water for $5. There will also be cake served in honor of our graduating seniors.
• We are also in need of a few volunteers to help grill and pass out food. Volunteer jobs will open up today at 10:00am for this event as well. We encourage all of our swimmers to come out and support our seniors, regardless if they are swimming in the A meet.

Swim Banquet

• Save the date for July 21 for our end of season Banquet. More details will be shared tomorrow but you can RSVP now for it, here.
• Volunteer jobs for the banquet will open Monday at Noon.

• PW will be participating in the Sarah Auer mini meet in Poolesville for swimmers 10 and under on July 14th. This is a purely optional meet as it's a fundraiser for a friend and colleague of Jonny's. Please see Jonny's email from last night regarding this meet. You can RSVP for this on the team calendar.  
• There are multiple events for this meet.  Jonny is in charge of the meet's automation and he will put swimmers is the events he thinks they can swim. 

Congratulations to our Week 4 award winners and those who earned all-star times in yesterday's meet!

All Star Times on July 6, 2024

Andie Young (100 IM, 50 Free, 50 Back, 25 Fly)

Nolan Templeman (25 Free)

Alexa Drusnic (25 Free, 25 Back, 25 Fly)

Hugh Cohen (50 Free, 25 Fly)

Samara Jayawardhane (50 Free, 25 Breast, 25 Fly)

Logan Steele (25 Breast)

Caroline Yeh (25 Breast)

Week 4 Award Winners:

Swimmers of the Week: Levi Schneider & Abby Watson

Spirit Winners: Will Wood & Tyler Schaffer

Time Droppers: Beni Sadi, Eric Myers, Emma Willis & Mackenzie Schaefer

Thank you!

Jenni Templeman