Hello, hello!

Happy Father’s Day to all of our PW Dads! We hope you have a wonderful day of celebrations. We hosted Carderock Springs yesterday in one of the longest A meets in recent memory and took home our first win of the season! Final Score – Potomac Woods 439, Carderock Springs 349. Congratulations to all of our swimmers that participated! Results can be found on the home page of our Team Website.

Pictures

Don't forget to check out our pictures from the fabulous Michael Neches!  The password for the galleries is: Demons

Pool Floats

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 this week! If you are able to attend morning practices, it is highly, 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. If you are already out of school or not planning on attending Monday and/or Tuesday, please sign up for morning practices here.

Pancake Breakfast

Russell Schaffer has graciously offered to cook pancakes for our Little Demons, Preteamers and Swim team members on Wednesday morning right after morning practices. Please RSVP for anyone who is planning on eating pancakes by Tuesday at 5pm.

Volunteer jobs for next Saturday AND the B Meet on June 18th will both open at 9:00 this morning. As a reminder, jobs will open Sunday at 9AM for the upcoming Saturday and following Wednesday meet. Special jobs for socials, team lunches, etc. will be posted Sundays as well.

• June 15: sign up for 6/21 and 6/25 meets
• June 22: sign up for 6/28, 6/29 (relay carnival) and 7/2 meets
• July 6: sign up for 7/5 and 7/9 meets
  • and so forth...

B Meet – HOME versus River Falls this Wednesday, June 18 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
• Kickboard Race: 5:50 pm
• Meet Start: 6:00 pm
• Snack Bar: The PW snack bar will be open and selling various dinner items along with other snacks and beverages. (More specifics will come in Ellen's email with B meet specifics later this week)
• Hospitality will be available at the break for volunteers.

Team Meeting and Social - Friday, June 20, 2025

• Team Meeting- 6:00
  • 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!
• Team Social - Scavenger Hunt (after the team meeting)
  • Join your teammates and coaches for a fun scavenger hunt around the pool!

A Meet - AWAY this Saturday, June 21 versus Potomac Glen

• 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 19 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
  • Teagan Rickett
  • Thomas O'Brien
• Spirit of the Week
  • Kiran Bennett
  • Zachary Neches
• Time Droppers of the Week
  • Lulu Aldana
  • Cole McGarvey

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

• Andie Young (100 IM, 50 Free, 50 Back, 50 Fly)
• Samara Jayawardhane (100 IM)
• Lily Heitzmann (100 IM)
• Charlie Sutton (25 Free, 25 Back, 25 Fly)
• Alexa Drunsic (25 Free, 25 Breast, 25 Fly)
• Abraham Watts (100 Free)
• Nate Leong (25 Back, 25 Breast)
• Ella Templeman (50 Fly)

Go, PW! Swim Fast!!

Jenni Templeman