June 8, 2025

Hello, PW Swim Team Families! We have a lot of information for you this week!

Great job to all of our swimmers and volunteers that participated in Time Trials yesterday! Your swimmer's results can be found under your account on the Team Website and the meet results in a PDF format can be found under the Meet Result tab of our homepage on the right side. Great job on not complaining about the rain yesterday! And, THANK YOU to all of our volunteers! We couldn't have done it without you!

General Reminders

• Please encourage your swimmer to stay in the team area so the coaches can easily find them for their events and send them to the clerk of course. We also ask that parents do not go into the team area and stay there- it interferes with team bonding that happens when adults are on the other side of the pool watching.
• Please RSVP for the pancake breakfast on June 18th.
• Please do not take photos or videos from behind the start end of your swimmer's lane as it gets in the way of timers and officials. This is a USA Swimming rule not to take photos of other swimmers from behind and is a swimmer safety concern.
• Job sign-ups for the B meets on June 11 and June 18th are now open. The A meet job sign-up is now open for the meet on June 14th too.
• Don't forget to declare for meets: sign up for B meets and declare availability for A meets.

Week 1 Information:

B Meet – AWAY - Wednesday, June 11 - at Country Glen

• Sign up NOW! Sign-ups CLOSE Monday, June 9 at 5 p.m. Please declare your swimmer’s attendance (attending/not attending) and sign up for their events. (You can declare and sign up for ALL meets for the entire season NOW). Sign up for any events your swimmer would like to swim and Jonny will adjust the line up as necessary.
• Sign up to Volunteer! Sign up to volunteer by 5pm on Monday.
• Meet Theme: Angels or Demons?? Choose one and dress up!
• Arrive by: 5:00pm
• Warm-ups: 5:20pm
• Officials and Timers Meetings: 5:30 pm
• Meet Start: 6:00 pm
• Hospitality will be available at the break for volunteers.
• Ellen and Rachel will send more details tomorrow or Tuesday about Wednesday's meet!

Team Meeting and Social – Friday, June 13

• Team Meeting - Join your teammates and coaches for our weekly Friday Team Meeting! Coaches Jonny, Audrey, Meghan, and Stephen will be announcing Swimmers of the Week, Time Droppers of the Week and Spirit Award Winners!
• Team Social - Bracelets- We will be making PW red and black bracelets!

A Meet - Home- Saturday, June 14 at PW

Please declare your swimmer’s availability (Available/Not available). Doing this helps Coach Jonny create the lineup with swimmers that we know are available. You can declare your swimmer’s availability for the entire season now if you know your schedule. If you have not declared your availability, it will default to be unavailable when the coaches are creating the line-ups.

• Athlete sign-ups CLOSE Thursday, June 11 at 9:00AM.
• Top 3 PW swimmers in each of the stroke events and Top 6 PW swimmers in the freestyle events in each age group are chosen by Coach Jonny to swim in the A meet.
• The tentative A Meet Lineup will be emailed on Thursday evening. Remember to check the lineup even if your swimmer is not the top 3 or top 6 in freestyle as the top swimmers may not be available to swim Saturday so your swimmer may be placed in the lineup.
• Please sign up to volunteer if your swimmer makes the A meet. If you volunteered and your swimmer is not swimming in the A meet, please cancel your volunteer job as soon as you know.

Team and Meet Pictures

• Our fabulous team photographer, Michael Neches, has the team picture from Friday and Time Trials available! The password is Demons

• Taking pictures and going through them after to determine which to post on the site takes a tremendous amount of time and work, please thank Michael next time you see him with his lens! 

• Consider joining our Potomac Woods Swim Team Facebook Group, links are updated by Michael when he is done going through pictures from each meet.

• I've attached the Big/Little sheet so if you missed last Friday, you can see who you are paired with. If your child isn't sure who their little is, please have them ask a coach to point them out!
• Remind your "big kid" to check in on their little brother or sister, especially at the B meet on Wednesday!
• Encourage them to cheer for their little buddies and chat in the team area with them
• If your big kid is not going to be at a meet or social, encourage them to ask another big kid to cheer and check in on their little brother or sister

Cheers

• Thank you to our assistant coaches for typing out the cheers for the meets! Feel free to practice at home.

News

• If you need to refer back to any of these informational type of emails, they can easily be found in the "NEWS" section on our homepage.

Thank you!

Jenni Templeman