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A strong start for Potomac Valley swimmers in San Antonio
Through four days of swimming in San Antonio, swimmers from the nation’s capital have won two titles, finished as runner-up in an event and reached a handful more cut times for next summer’s U.S....
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81 Olympic trials cut times have been posted by Potomac Valley swimmers so far
Andrew Seliskar leads all U.S. men’s swimmers with 10 Olympic trials cuts achieved since the qualifying period opened July 30, 2014. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports) [Official list has been updated since...
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8 Potomac Valley swimmers headed to Ireland with NCSA all-star team
James Murphy swims during a preliminary heat at the 2015 NCSA Junior Nationals in Orlando, Florida. (Bryan Flaherty/For The Washington Post) A fast week of swimming at the NCSA Junior Nationals earlier...
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30 Potomac Valley swimmers qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials
Katie Ledecky swims to a new world record in the women's 400-meter freestyle final at last summer's U.S. Nationals. With just less than 500 days until the 2016 Rio Olympics, speculation over next next...
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NCAP caps a gilded junior nationals with five more golds
Matthew Hirschberger swept the mid-distance and distance freestyle events in Orlando this week with big time drops across the board. But the 16-year-old has even bigger goals in his sights. (Bryan...
View ArticleNCAP’s boys break another set of national age group relay records in prelims
ORLANDO — After a blistering start to this year’s NCSA Junior Nationals, the competition pool cooled in the subsequent days, with swimmers struggling with the transition from short-course yards...
View ArticleAndrew Seliskar makes it nine golds entering final day of NCSAs
ORLANDO — Two young swimmers congregated at the far end of the Olympic-sized pool Friday night in anticipation of the final heat of the boys’ 200-meter breaststroke at the YMCA Aquatic and Family...
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18 photos from NCSA Junior Nationals Day 4 prelims
Potomac Valley swimmers complete at the NCSA Junior National Championships in Orlando. Tweleve area swimmers advanced, including top-ranked qualifiers Nation’s Capital’s John Shebat (boys’ 100-yard...
View ArticleAndrew Seliskar doubles up in Orlando
ORLANDO — As the swimmers neared the wall for the finish of the final race of Thursday night’s session at the Orlando YMCA Aquatic and Family Center, the announcer’s voice boomed over the public...
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For NCAP’s senior duo, practice makes podium
Carsten Vissering swimming to a victory in the boys' 100-meter breaststroke, his first and Nation's Capital's eighth. (Bryan Flaherty/For The Washington Post) ORLANDO — If you step into the Tysons...
View ArticleMatthew Hirschberger sets a second national age group record at juniors
ORLANDO — As Nation’s Capital’s Matthew Hirschberger flipped at the halfway point during a preliminary heat of the boys’ 500-yard freestyle Wednesday morning, he trailed the national age group record...
View Article10 big-time performances from PVS Junior Olympics
Potomac Valley hosted its 2015 Junior Olympics Championships this past weekend, March 12-15, at the University of Maryland’s Eppley Recreation Center in College Park. Here are some of the biggest...
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Andrew Seliskar caps final night of senior champs with eyes on future
Andrew Seliskar set his fifth pool record of the weekend Sunday, tearing down his own mark in the 200 individual medley by more than three seconds. (Bryan Flaherty/For The Washington Post) In the final...
View ArticleRace footage: Katie Ledecky, Jack Conger win on first day of Austin Pro Swim...
On the first night of finals at the 2015 USA Swimming’s Pro Swim Series event in Austin, Katie Ledecky put together a double that once again stirred the speculative pot over what events the four-time...
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2015 Austin Pro Swim Series: Day 2 prelims live updates
(Clive Rose/Getty Images) Links • Friday, Jan. 16 — prelims 10 a.m.; finals 7 p.m. Eastern • AM heat sheets and stimated preliminary timeline • Live streaming • Real time results Order of events ‘A’...
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2015 Austin Pro Swim Series: Day 1 prelims live updates
(Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press) Links • Thursday, Jan. 15 — prelims 10 a.m.; finals 7 p.m. Eastern • Estimated preliminary timeline • Live streaming • Real time results 100 freestyle Katie Ledecky...
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Five storylines and links to follow the 2015 Austin Pro Swim Series
The 2015 Austin Pro Swim Series, formerly Austin Grand Prix, kicks off his weekend with plenty to draw local swim fans to their monitors, Thursday-Saturday night. A cast of high school standouts,...
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RFTW 2014 Awards: Katie Ledecky, Andrew Seliskar named athletes of the year
Female athlete of the year: Katie Ledecky Katie Ledecky receives her award for Athlete of the Year at the 2014 USA Swimming Golden Goggles in New York. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) What more can we...
View ArticleRFTW 2014 Awards: Junior athletes of the year
Male junior athlete of the year: Brett Feyerick, NCAP Of the 36 combined Potomac Valley short-course yards resident records for the boys’ 10-and-under and 11-12 age groups, 19 of them were broken in...
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2014 RFTW Awards: Races of the year
Female race of the year Katie Ledecky points to the crowd after setting her second world record in two days at the Pan Pacific Championships in Gold Coast, Australia. (Rick Rycroft/Associated Press)...
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