NVSL Swim News & Information

• Information for Individual All Star Meet

  Wed, 7-23-2025 | NVSL Executive Board

  We are now just days away from closing out the 2025 NVSL swim season with the Individual All Star Meet hosted by Pinecrest Swim and Tennis Club. What a season it has been! Here are some reminders for the meet with information and attachments linked below.

  PINECREST INFORMATION

  The Pinecrest folder for Individual All Stars on the NVSL website (CLICK HERE TO ACCESS) contains lots of helpful information to prepare you, your coaches and your families for the meet. We will continue to accept scratches; please email your division coordinator and nvsltechnology@gmail.com. We recently added the PC CONCESSIONS MENU for Saturday -- please check it out and support our hosts by purchasing a breakfast burrito, cheeseburger, drink, snack or treat!

  POOL FAMILIARIZATION FRIDAY

  Pool Familiarization will take place at Pinecrest on Friday from 7:00 to 11:00am. Please come by, take a look, and pick up your team order. It's very helpful to get these team orders picked up prior to the meet on Saturday, thank you in advance for sending someone from your team. 

  There will be swimming allowed in the pool at Pinecrest for Pool Familiarization. Swimmers will have the opportunity to swim some laps, become familiar with the walls and take some starts. Please note that Pinecrest features a shallow depth at the start. In order to swim on Friday, swimmers will need to arrive as a team and a coach will have to check in with an NVSL representative. Teams will be given one 15 to 20 minute time slot to access the pool. There are no reserved time slots; please check in upon arrival. This is not to be used a team practice.

  TEAM AREAS

  Team areas may NOT be set up in the Pinecrest field EARLIER THAN 7 AM Saturday morning. Tents and set up crews can be dropped off at the designated “Swimmer Drop-off Area” on Pinecrest Road adjacent to the PC Pool property.  Due to the limited space in the Team Area, we ask all teams to bring one 10 ft x 10 ft tent per 8 swimmers. For teams with 2 or less swimmers, they can use the “Single Swimmer Area.” All team areas will be assigned in advance and you will be escorted by a marshal to your assigned area upon arrival on Saturday.

  PARKING AND SWIMMER DROP OFF

  Parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood and Fox Mill Elementary School. Please review the parking map on the NVSL website, which is found by clicking here: PARKING AND SWIMMER DROP OFF MAP. Be respectful of Pinecrest's neighbors; obey all parking signs and do not block driveways. Do NOT park in the Truist Bank or Heritage Fellowship church parking lots across Fox Mill Road. Vehicles will be towed at the owners' expense.

  There will be one-way traffic on Pinecrest Rd from Viking Dr / Magna Carta Rd. Plan to drop off your swimmer in front of the pool and field on Pinecrest Rd and return to the neighborhood by making a right on Fox Mill Rd then a right on John Milton Dr. Please NO U-TURNS.
  
  SWIMMERS
  
  Swimmers will use the MAIN GATE entrance to enter the pool for warm ups. Please see the POOL LAYOUT MAP. It is highly recommended that swimmers wear shoes or sandals to Clerk of Course -- the pavement where they will be waiting will get very hot as well as the surface of the tennis courts where awards will be presented. They can leave their shoes in baskets prior to their swims and they will be waiting for them at the end of the race. 

  SINGLE EVENT VIEWING

  Viewing for this meet is single-event only; once your swimmer completes their race, you will exit the pool area to allow other families the same opportunity. Marshals will assist with single event viewing and we appreciate your cooperation with their instructions. There is very limited standing room only viewing on the side of the pool. Chairs are not allowed inside the pool fence.

  Thank you for your help in making this a smooth meet.

  VOLUNTEERS

  Thank you to the many teams across the league who have offered volunteers and supplies for the meet; thank you for your contributions. Volunteers will receive a separate communication on Thursday with additional details. Please note reserved parking is limited and it is not possible to give parking passes to all meet volunteers. 

  LIVESTREAM

  We will livestream the meet via the Machine Aquatics' YouTube page: CLICK HERE TO ACCESS. This is a great option for extended and out-of-town family members and anyone else who wants to cheer on your swimmers. 

  AWARDS, PICTURES AND RESULTS

  Immediately following their events, swimmers will receive their awards and have a group photo taken. Results will be posted on the pool grounds and to Meet Mobile. Following the meet, the results will be posted to the NVSL website.

  ---HOST APPRECIATION---

  We are so grateful to the Pinecrest Swim and Tennis Club board, members, Piranhas swim team, and community for once again hosting the 2025 Individual All Star Meet. It's a challenge to reimagine your deck and property for the hundreds of swimmers, coaches, family members and team tents that will fill the grounds on Saturday. We ask that all meet attendees be gracious and respectful guests for our hosts and volunteers.

  Thank you to Rich, Billy, and Bryan and the PC All Star committee for your planning and hard work to make this meet a fun and successful conclusion to the 2025 season for the entire League.

  Chris Campbell and Amy Downey

• Outstanding Sportsmanship by the 2025 Sportsmanship Award Winners

  Tue, 7-22-2025 | NVSL Executive Board and Seeding Committee
  The Sportsmanship Award is given to the team in each division that best embodies the principles of good sportsmanship as outlined in the NVSL Standards of Conduct. This is a special award because it is determined by votes from the team reps, coaches and 13 and over swimmers. 
  
  Congratulations to our 2025 Sportsmanship Award winners! They are:
  

  Division 1    Overlee	Division 2    Crosspointe	Division 3    Little Hunting Park
  Division 4    Orange Hunt	Division 5    Springboard	Division 6   Virginia Run
  Division 7    Waynewood	Division 8    Cottontail	Division 9    Arlington Forest
  Division 10  Truro	Division 11  Country Club Hills	Division 12  Poplar Tree
  Division 13  Burke Station	Division 14  Somerset Olde Creek	Division 15  Newington Forest
  Division 16  Village West	Division 17  Broyhill Crest

  The Divisional meets provided a venue to crown our new Division champs and recognize sportsmanship award winners. But it also provided another opportunity for fans to watch more electric racing, including a few swims that broke team records that had been set decades ago. A 50-year-old 11-12 boys 100 IM record was broken by Villa Aquatic swimmer Ori Fishman. Another decades-old team record, originally set in 1975, was broken by Rolling Hills’ 9-10 boy swimmer, Winston Morgan, in 50 breast. And yet another old record by another Rolling Hills’ 9-10 boy, Keegan Donnelly broke a 1983 record in the 9-10 boys 50 back. Congratulations to these swimmers for these exciting swims.

  Congratulations to all Division Champions, to all Divisional Relay Champions, and to all NVSL swimmers who gave the fans another memorable summer for the record books!
  
  And for those playing, the answer to our trivia question ....
  In 2013, Division 12 reported a five way tie with Rutherford, Walden Glen, Hiddenbrook, Laurel Hill, and Camelot.

• Congratulations to the 2025 NVSL Division Winners!

  Mon, 7-21-2025 | NVSL Executive Board and Seeding Committee
   

  The culmination of the 2025 NVSL season did not disappoint as many division titles were decided in the fifth week with very exciting meets. In particular, Division 13 had their share of nail-biter meets where all three meets in the 5^th dual meet were decided by an aggregate of 12 points, and the division winner (Riverside Gardens) was also decided. Congratulations to all division winners with special mention to Division 11 where Daventry and Commonwealth tied for the title and Division 16 where Brandywine and Herndon also tied for the title.

  Other thrilling outcomes included the following teams who had not taken home the division championship trophy in over a decade: congratulations to Greenbriar in D10 (last trophy was 2002), Long Branch in D17 (last trophy was 2013), Hayfield Farm in D14 (last trophy was 2008), Riverside Gardens in D13 (last trophy was 2014), and Sleepy Hollow Bath & Racquet (last trophy was 2014).

  Congratulations to our 2025 Division Champions! They are:
  

  Division 1    Tuckahoe	Division 2    Oakton	Division 3    Fair Oaks
  Division 4    Vienna Aquatic	Division 5    Sleepy Hollow Rec	Division 6   Fox Hunt
  Division 7    Sleepy Hollow Bath	Division 8    Dominion Hills	Division 9    Dowden Terrace
  Division 10  Greenbriar	Division 11  Daventry and                   Commonwealth	Division 12  Stratford
  Division 13  Riverside Gardens	Division 14  Hayfield Farm	Division 15  Pleasant Valley
  Division 16  Brandywine and                   Herndon	Division 17  Long Branch

  Thank you to our Divisional Championship Meet hosts -- thank you Chesterbrook, Crosspointe, Hunt Valley, Vienna Woods, Cardinal Hill, Poplar Heights, Sleepy Hollow Bath, Cottontail, Kings Ridge, Mansion House, Mosby Woods, Sideburn Run, Burke Station, Hayfield Farm, Fox Mill Estates, Annandale, and Broyhill Crest.
  
  

  And just for fun – a trivia question for NVSL historian fans:

  Does anyone remember the last time we had a five-way tie to decide a division championship – yes, a five way tie?????

• NVSL Records Broken at Divisionals

  Sun, 7-20-2025 | NVSL Records

  Vienna Woods (D4) and Cardinal Hill (D5) hosted record-breaking swims at Divisionals yesterday and two girls' backstroke records were lowered!   
  
  Congratulations to Kennedy Masten of Hamlet for breaking her own League record in the 13-14 Girls 50M Backstroke at Vienna Woods! She swam a time of 29.25, which breaks her old record of 29.37 set on July 12, 2025.
  
  Congratulations to Erin Kass of Vienna Aquatic for setting a new League record in the 13-14 Girls 50M Backstroke at Vienna Woods! She swam a time of 29.22, breaking Kennedy Masten's record of 29.37 and besting her 29.25 swim. 
  
  And finally, congratulations to Sadie Buckley of Fairfax for setting a new League record in the 15-18 Girls 50M Backstroke at Cardinal Hill! She swam a time of 27.62, breaking the record of 28.21 set by Janet Hu of Mosby Woods in 2012.

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