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  • Metros, Maryland States and Regions, Mo. Co. and Anne Arundel Counties, VSIS, Virginia AAA and A-AA states, Northern and Northwest Regions and districts, and Divisionals, WMPSSDL's
    and National Catholics

    Results are now available in box score form with links to all of the swimmers who participated in the following meets (these times are also filtered among the area's top times):

    Metro Championships, as well as the Maryland 3A/4A and 1A/2A/3A state championships; Maryland regions, including: 4A/3A North, 4A/3A South, 4A/3A Central, 3A/2A/1A South, 3A/2A/1A Central

    The VSIS championships, the Virginia AAA, and A-AA state championships, Northern Region, Northwest Region, Concorde District, Liberty District, National District and Patriot District championships.

    Also the Montgomery County County Championships and Division I , Division II , Division III and Division IV meets.

    Farther back, we have the WMPSSDL boys and girls championships, Anne Arundel County Championships, and the National Catholic High School Championships.

    All of these results except for the AAA state championships (because it was competed in a meter pool) are filtered among the area's top times and on those teams' respective pages.

    Team pages track divisionals

    Churchill has a complete update from its boys' win and girls' second-place finish in the Mo. Co. Division I championships; As does Gaithersburg from it's 2nd-place girls and 3rd-place boys in Division III; Whitman has posted links to SEVEN videos from divisionals; Rockville has an account of their boys' third-place finish and girls' fourth-place showing from Division III; and Blake has a complete write-up from their Division II exploits.
    
    
    For those of you interested in uploading video to your team page, here's the link for how to do so. And, as always, send any story ideas you might have to info@reachforthewall.com.

    Where to find them

    Meet results and top times are now available!! See the area’s top times here and the meet results that have been submitted so far here. To find your school click here. To see a sample meet result click here. And to see a sample individual results page click here. If you don't see your meet results, there are now two ways for team representatives (coaches, athletes, parents, league administrators, fans) from around the area to send them to us.
    It requires team manager or meet manager, but it's a very simple process. Read more about it HERE.
    
    
    The school pages will not only display your schedules and results, but will allow registered users to write about their team and post photos and videos. We'll display the best of those posts on the right here on our homepage.
    
    
    Good luck this season and thanks for your help!

    Summer Season Recap

    Thank you for making our first summer season such a fun one. Our hope for the 2010 season is to add NVSL, CSL, RSTA, CCSDA and the DCCL. If there are other leagues you know about that would be interested in our coverage please contact us at info@reachforthewall.com.
    To re-live the 2009 summer season, take a look at our summer archive.
    
    

    Best Team Pages

    Another thank you to all the teams that created some tremendous team pages, including: Bannockburn, Country Glen, Hallowell, Oxon Hill, Regency Estates, Sudley, and Wildwood Manor.
    
    

    Archived Results

    Check out your team results for the MCSL, PMSL and PWSL and CNSL. They are also on the Meet Results page, sorted among the individual swimmer pages and in Top Times.
    
    

    Season Stats

    See how your season broke down by gender, age and stroke. Go to your team's page and click on the "Season Statistics" link at the bottom of your results and schedule on the right-hand side.  Swimmers can also compare their season's best times with others from across the region. They are listed for each event just below the top 100 times from the last week of the season.

    Features

    What music do you want to hear before you dive off the blocks? Tell us AND let us listen on Sound Waves. Here's how. Readers are also able to easily post videos on their team pages in addition to being able to post slideshows. We'd love to see what's been going on at pools this summer!

    Archives

    Amy Shipley was in Rome for World Championships. Check out her updates at our News From Worlds page.

    Missed any of our other live coverage? Check out our PVS Long Course Age-Group Championships coverage and results, our U.S. Nationals archive and list of local swimmers' results, and our PVS LC Championships archive.

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