Kaitlin Pawlowicz has posted two top-10 finishes and has three events remaining at this week's U.S. Junior Nationals.
All-Met Girls’ Swimmer of the Year Kaitlin Pawlowicz, a rising senior at Oakton High, continued her fast-paced week on Tuesday night, finishing ninth in the 400 IM at the USA Swimming Junior National Championships in Irvine, Calif.
Pawlowicz’s time of 4:49.52 was a personal best by six seconds – her second personal best in as many nights – as she finished first in the consolation final.
On Monday night, Pawlowicz finished second in the 200 butterfly in 2:11.45, four seconds faster than she had ever done before.
“I was really excited about that,” Pawlowicz said. “I’m really happy with how I’m swimming. Hopefully that continues the rest of the meet.”
Indeed, Pawlowicz has little time to rest. On Wednesday, she will swim in the 400 freestyle. The 200 free is Thursday. And the 200 IM is Friday.
“It definitely wears on your body,” she said. “You have to stay mentally strong.”
Pawlowicz also is looking forward to Friday’s announcement of the U.S. roster for the Junior Pan Pacific Championships that will be held Aug. 26-30 in Hawaii.
“I’m crossing my fingers,” she said.
On the boys’ side on Tuesday night, Charlie Putnam of Machine Aquatics took ninth in the 200 backstroke (2:05.51).
Among other local girls at the Junior Nationals on Monday night, Alison Haulsee placed sixth in the 200 butterfly (2:13.61) and 16th in the 800 freestyle (8:54.75). Rebecca Rainer was eighth in the 200 breaststroke (2:35.22). Haulsee and Rainer both swim for Nova of Virginia.
The best local boys’ result was James Crabb of Curl Burke, who was 21st in the 200 butterfly (2:04.25).
At last week’s U.S. Nationals, former O’Connell standout Kate Ziegler was second in the 800 freestyle (8:28.14) and fifth in the 400 freestyle (4:08.84). Rachel Naurath of Nova of Virginia was seventh in the women’s 200 butterfly (2:11.80). In men’s events, Matthew McLean of Snow Swimming was seventh in the 200 freestyle (1:48.20) and eighth in the 400 freestyle (3:53.23) and 2008 All-Met Boys’ Swimmer of the Year Eric Friedland from Walter Johnson, now a rising junior at the University of Texas, was ninth in the 100 breaststoke (2:11.80).
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There are other PVS swimmers at Jr. Nationals this week, several of whom also competed last week at Nationals. Charlie Putnam came in 10th last night in the 200 Back. Eva Greene was 1st alternate in 200 Back. There were a number of RMSC swimmers at Nationals last week, several of whom made finals. It would be nice to have a more complete picture.
More complete??? If it ain’t CUBU, it ain’t here. Last week was Senior Nationals, Pan Pac Trials. Swimmers from MAKO, PM, CUBU, RMSC, SNOW and MACHINE all competed….. and please don’t tell us again about small staff can’t be everywhere…. all the results were posted live on line every day.. takes five minutes to do a write up….. what is the hold that Rick Curl has on the Post??
It really is a shame that RTW’s focus has gotten so limited and narrow. Does this girls swims deserve recognition? Absolutly! but their are many other terrific swims out there too.
16 year old Sarah Haese who broke the PVS record with her 100 breast at Nationals. What about Kate Ziegler who after having a rough year came back in with a top 10 in the WORLD time. Same with Matt Mcclean whose finishes earned him a top 25 World ranking.
And Rachel Naurath,undoubtedly the most accomplished age group swimmer in the area, who had she chosen to swim at juniors instead of senior nationals would dominate. Her 200 fly time in prelims was a 2:09.6. Great time for a 17 year old and also a top 25 in the World time.. A little perspective would be nice and a little recognition for the areas world class athletes..
I mean how is it that certain swimmers on certain teams get the amount of publicity they do when its pretty obvious their are many others out there whose performance deserves recognition.
I would love to hear more about Kate Ziegler but I guess she will have to either have to start wearing blue and white or get a pr person to keep her name in the paper.
You make some really good points and I’m sorry that we haven’t written about as many swimmers as we should have this summer, but I wanted to address the Kate Ziegler issue. Three different reporters have tried to get in touch with Kate this summer and all three have had no success. We are hoping to try one more time and hopefully Amy Shipley will have a story about the two Kates (Hoff and Ziegler) next week.
And “boom goes the dynamite”! I agree wtih swim mom and equal and understand Mitch your lack of resources. It is obvious you cant please everyone and when I suggested in another thread to look at the college swimmers, you only interviewed kids who were freshman and it was a limited story. I didnt complain that you were narrow in the approach. Its tough, and I am sure your resources are limited but last week there was nothing on Nationals and that is disappointing.
I agree with the parents. It sure looks as if the Post’s reporters have not been objective in reporting about swimmers in this area. From what I’ve read so far this past year, RFTW has posted way too many articles on swimmers from CUBU and certain ones from RMSC (only for Olney and Rockville sites). “Equal” is 100% correct when she writes that “certain swimmers on certain teams get the amount of publicity they do when it’s pretty obvious there are many others out there whose performance deserves recognition”.
Please believe me when I tell you there is no bias. Also let me tell you that every once in a while Richard Rosenthal sends me an e-mail summarizing the accomplishments of the CUBU swimmers. I always pass that e-mail along to the reporter currently working on Reach for the week. It would be tremendous if other clubs would do the same. Please tell us about great accomplishments in the area by sending that information to info@reachforthewall.com. I promise they will get passed along to the reporters. I wish we had a reporter devoted to this full time to scour the results and pick out every local and write about those who are underrepresented, but unfortunately we don’t. I’m sorry about that.
i think it is fine what coverage we do or do not have. i mean, think about it, two years ago, the swimming community had no coverage at all. just be grateful that we have at least some coverage now. and no, i am not a cubu or rmsc swimmer, i actually swim for potomac marlins. and swimmom, i’ve seen previous comments of yours, and if you’re not happy with RFTW articles, why even bother checking?
Mitch, thanks for everything that you and your staff have done for the local swimming scene. It is great that the Post has devoted anything to this coverage, but RFTW has gone above and beyond my expectations. Please know that the few critical posts do not speak for the gratitude that the majority of the swimming community feels for your staff.
why are we ( the swimming community) continually asked to send the Washington Post leads for their stories?? The info from Senior Nationals was at the US swimming web site, every day, live and there was “LIVE” video of every freaking heat!! While a lot of peplpe say that it’s “great” this web site exists, why can’t we get even, unbiased coverage of all swimming activities?? How hard is it for the interns to pull the info off the internet?? Mitch can take the time to apologize twice today, why not take the time to post the results from Juniors from today?? or update us on Eastern Zones beingheld in Rockville? If the Washington Post is going to have the web site, why not devote a little effort into maintaining it? Give me access to the site and I can post current, pertinent info for the swimming community… it’s all out there on the web, find it, write it, post it!!
I’ve been honest with the community from the start this season. We have one part-time reporter working on this site per week (and myself, who can only spent about 5-10% of my day on this particular part of my job). We’ve asked for your help and in many cases gotten it but we can’t cover the wide area that is the Post’s coverage area without your help.
If you choose not to help us, that’s fine and ultimately that could result in this site folding. I hope that’s not the case. But I’m not misleading you when I say that we simply do not have the staff to meet the expectations some of you have set for us. This was introduced to the community as an experimental web site combining some small amount of Post resources with local swimming data and the ability for the community to cover itself through our wiki pages.
We love that a community has formed around this site and we do our best to serve that community, but please don’t mistake us for the the definitive source for every bit of this area’s local swimming information (at last count there were over 30,000 swimmers in our database). We can’t deliver that product to you. And we can’t even come close without your assistance.
How many “hits” does this page get compared to goff’s soccer page? or Steinberg? or Hokies journal? Or the UVA page? Each of those sites has a dedicated reporter. Is the swim community interest sufficient to justify more than 5% of your time and a part time intern? the Washington DC swim community is the 5th largest swim community in US swimming. How loud do we need to yell to get the WP to pay attention to us? There are 7,00 0swimmers in PVS, over 100,00 in NVSL, how many in MCSL? PG, Colonial Leagie, ODSL…there are more swim families in the WP area than any other sport for kids… how about the POST waking up and giving us our due?
Calm down guys. If you do not like the articles, just do not waste your time here. No body forces you to read. Stop complaining. Curl-Burke and RMSC are just two swimming clubs with different Philosophy. Their goals regarding when a swimmer should be in his/her peak are different. Are we suppose to have some positive comments to the hard worker of the writers? Now days, the behaviors of parents are getting much worse. It made the local swimming a less joyable sport; even for the MCSL. Parents are fighting with each other verbally because of a lost or whatever. Board members are making some very bias and not fair decisions. We are making bad examples to the kids. Sad!!!!!
swim coach –
Newspapers are losing subscribers left and right – losing advertisers – in a time of this country’s worst ever economies, the Washington Post came up with a website – RFTW – devoted entirely to SWIMMING. The reporters, as Mitch stated – do not have time to devote 100% to this site – they have many other responsibilities and areas to cover. I personally know someone who works at the Post in advertising and gave them several pages of resources to contact to advertise on this site – NO ONE DID. This is the only metropolitan newspaper in the COUNTRY which offers daily coverage through this website of swimming – of all levels. If you want more recognition for your team and all the PVS teams – spend a few hours each day combing the psych sheets and the results and send the info to the Post. Is it too much to ask a team representative to send information as Mitch indicated that RIchard Rosenthal does on occassion? NO! Help them to make it a better site – they are not swimming people, but have done a TERRIFIC job and I applaud their efforts. Keep up the GREAT work! Thank you Mitch and everyone at the Post who has any input into this site! I am and always will be a fan.
I think everyone should also calm down and try to appreciate what RFTW has given us. It is far more than there ever was in the past about swimming locally. I have been told that the number of clicks this site gets is not nearly what WP thought it would be when it was started a couple of years ago. In order for the site to get more attention from the WP, those of us that do read it regularly need to promote it to others in the swimming community. WP does track the clicks and it is up to us to get them up if we want the site to stay around for years to come. The more clicks, the more advertisers they can get, the better coverage we will get, the happier we will all be in the long run.
A few people seem to only be happy with complaining about everything written on this site. Maybe its time to take Mitch’s advice and submit something you would like to see covered not as a comment in this section but rather as an email directly to Mitch with some resources they can use or numbers to people who could help with a story.
Let’s all help to make this site stay around for a while!
Put links on your team and club websites and newsletters to RFTW to help boost readership.
Providing input, results, ideas, etc. is great, but how about taking a stab at writing an entire article? That’s what I did when Mitch told me they couldn’t cover the Eastern Zone meet last spring and encouraged me to write one. He made some minor edits and published it right away, even using the picture I provided.
Many in our community created nice team pages for our summer teams, generating some great user content and interest.
We all want this publication to be successful — let’s mobilize and make it so!
since when did Richmond swimmers become ‘local girls’? does the Post cover Richmond high school sports too?
Kaitlin Pawlowicz has dedicated herself to working hard being the best she can be!!! She is dedicated and works hard all the time. Most should realize she didn’t get a free pass to go to Nationals. She earned it and she is an awesome gal that is always positive!!! You go Girl!
Anybody spending time on this web site must enjoy something about the articles even the whiners!!
I guess the dynamite did go boom – youtube “And Boom goes the Dynamite” people – rather funny…
Back to the issue at hand – I know several local senior national swimmers who could care less if they are mentioned on here. They are mentioned here because of proud parents, or activist coaches with a PR arm, or friends who want to relish their accomplishments. When these up and coming swimmers realize how tough the competition is nationally, it doesn’t matter, because less than 1/10 of 1% will ever have a shot at being in a final for a national meet / WCT / OT. There are rare gems like Kate Zeigler, Tom Dolan, Ed Moses or Mike Barrowman, but that is rare. So when all these parents / friends / coaches hype up certain swimmers, does it really matter
Mom with 2 swimmers- what are the differing philosophies that cubu and rmsc have regarding when swimmers should peak? Seriously doubt those goals differ.