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John Avelis

Posted late for completeness and recordkeeping purposes. Records broken: Meadowbrook Makos 1 Mixed 8 & Under 100 Medley Relay 1:20.25 L Grand, I Rossi, W Schotter, N Wall Piedmont Tsunamis 19 Girls 15-18 50 Freestyle 25.63 Camille Spink Piedmont Tsunamis 67 Girls 15-18 200 Freestyle Relay 1.50.40 M Richardson, S Hayden, E Hannam, C Spink Piedmont Tsunamis 9 Girls 15-18 200 Medley Relay 2:00.90 C Spink, E Hannam, M. Curry, M. Richardson Weekly Summary Top 40 individual Swims Top 15 relays

John Avelis

The PWSL dual meet season is over, and all that's left is Divisionals! It looks like we'll have some great competition at our season culminating meets. Apologies for the late upload of week 6, but Divisional prep took precedence. One record was broken in week 6: Event 1 Mixed 8 & Under 100 Medley Relay 1:20.55 Meadowbrook Makos L Grand, I Rossi, W Schotter, N Wall Live results are available at pwswim.org for all the meets that have the ability to update. Top Times will be disabled for divisional weekend....

John Avelis

PWSL week 5 saw 3420 swimmers put up 8852 splashes, with 7 of 12 meets decided by less than 500 points. Teams have one more dual meet to fine tune before the season culminating divisional meets July 29. Two league records were broken in week 5: Piedmont Tsunamis 27 Girls 15-18 100 Individual Medley 1:02.43 Camille Spink Piedmont Tsunamis 37 Girls 15-18 50 Backstroke 27.94 Camille Spink Important notes: - All teams should return their unused dual meet ribbons to Sudley as soon as possible after their last dual meet,...

John Avelis

It was a weekend of close meets, with three intra-divisional meets decided by 375 points or less, and four more meets decided by less than 250. Everyone loves swimming a close, competitive meet and it looks like we have some great ones coming up and down the board at divisionals. Because of a cancellation, only 11 dual meets were swam this weekend, and there are no plans to make up the canceled meet. Per the bylaws, all swimmers entered in the canceled meet will receive credit for one meet attended...

John Avelis

We're halfway through the 2023 dual meet season, and week 3 saw two league records fall in an intradivision meet in Blue division: Girls 13-14 50 Backstroke 28.90 Piedmont Tsunamis Alyssa Sagle Girls 9-10 100 Medley 1:10.31 Dominion Valley Sharks P Elam, H Sosinski, S Yelverton, K Alex In other close meets, Brookside upset Victory Lakes while swimming up a division, and Kingsbrooke came up just short of upsetting Wellington. On the "Computer Support" tab of the Computer reps can find the midseason Team Manager database, an excel spreadsheet top...

John Avelis

Despite a miserable early summer week that canceled practices for many teams, 3287 swimmers came out to PWSL meets for week 2. Four meets were within a 250 point margin, with three near upsets. The fourth was the big upset of the week, Meadowbrook swimming up two divisions to beat Wellington. No league records were set in week 2. Live results are available at pwswim.org for all the meets that have the ability to update. You might find it down on Saturday afternoons/evenings while I clean up the meet databases...

John Avelis

(Resend to correct typos) It was a beautiful morning to be at the pool in Prince William County for the opening of the 2023 PWSL summer swim season. Although week 1 doesn't see the league quite back to where we were in 2019, we've grown again from last season - and some anecdotes have me thinking that our teams are bigger than these week 1 numbers suggest: 2019 Week 1: 3570 swimmers, 9158 splashes, 4024 improvements from seed times 2021 Week 1: 3038 swimmers, 7550 splashes, 2697 improvements from seed...

My apologies for uploading the Divisional and end of season files so late; I was hit hard by COVID the Monday after Divisionals and had a hard time getting out of bed the following week. I wouldn't say I'm "normal" yet, but I'm getting there. Complete results for the divisional meets are available at www.pwswim.org. There's going to be a complete re-write of the site "behind the scenes" this off-season. You can also download a full results PDF here. All meet results this season are being sent to reachforthewall.org and...

All the dual meets are complete and preparations for this Saturday's PWSL divisional meets are well underway. If you haven't heard from your divisional meet hosts, please reach out to them immediately; divisional hosts with any questions about meet setup can reach out to John for help anytime. Note: One week 6 meet did not take place because no venue was available to the teams in an appropriate timeframe. After consulting with league officials, the two teams swam separately at their own pools, but not in a "virtual meet" format....

PWSL week 5 is in the books - looking over the summary sheet, we had just under 3600 swimmers in the water this weekend; that's the most this season and back to our numbers from the end of 2018, closing in on pre-pandemic 2019 numbers. Hopefully a good sign for growth in coming seasons. No league records were set this week; the same records file has been carried over to week 6 and is available to download inside the Computer support tab on the site. A reminder for computer reps...