First responders in swift water boats and a U.S. Park Police helicopter are scouring the Potomac River for a man who went missing while swimming in the Great Falls Park area yesterday (Sunday).
Montgomery County’s police and fire departments received a call around 6:15 p.m. for a swimmer in distress near the Billy Goat Trail in the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historic Park in Potomac, Maryland.
Reston’s own water park is suiting up for a new season, just in time to provide relief from a blast of summer heat.
The Water Mine Family Swimmin’ Hole will reopen for 2026 at 11 a.m. this Saturday, May 23 at Lake Fairfax Park (1400 Lake Fairfax Drive), giving local families an aquatic escape for Memorial Day weekend.
Torey Ortmayer, who has led the summer Tuckahoe Tigers swimming team since 2000, is starting a new year-round swimming organization named Hydra Aquatics.
The club will be located at the Tuckahoe Recreation Club pool in McLean, and is slated to open this fall.
The seeding meeting that will determine the setups of the 17 divisions for the 2025 Northern Virginia Swimming League summer season has been scheduled for Sunday, March 2 at Key Middle School in Springfield.
Representative from each of the league’s 102 teams will be present to discuss and arrange the divisions. There are six teams in each division.
How about winning five straight NCAA Division I championships?
That’s what Madison High School graduate and University of Virginia graduate student Anna Keating is chasing during this winter’s swimming and diving college season.
