News

Erica Wheatley

A huge thank you to all the swimmers and families on our team who helped the EPSC Winter Classic Home Meet a success! I forgot to post the flyers for the meet shirt, but you can still order your swimmer (and you!) a shirt tonight! EPSC Winter Classic 2025 – Cre8tee LLC Meet results can be found a few different places. These are uploaded within 24 hours of the meet, though usually that evening: attached as a PDF on team website or up under Meets & Events Page under that...

Erica Wheatley

Hello Team - Last minute reminder that we have.... team pictures tonight! We need everyone to be there!! Besides that it is fun to get individual pictures, or for kids to have a team picture as a memory of their friends, we need to show our awesome group for sponsorship and public relations purposes. We want the picture to reflect the awesomeness that our team is. ARRIVE: 6 pm for individuals (or small/family groups), 6:30 for full team picture WEAR: Your team competition suit! Alternatively, any dark color suit. You...

Erica Wheatley

Dear EPSC Families, See below for Fun Friday and other team activity announcements, a reminder of our Winter Fundraising Challenge, and a sneak peak into our Spring/Summer programming. Fun Fridays & Team Activities We're excited to announce that Fun Fridays are back! Remember, all T/Th and homeschool group swimmers are invited to head over and join us. **Tomorrow, Friday, January 17th**, join us for a BYOP (buy your own pizza) gathering at King's Pizza in Shepherdstown. Simply head over after your practice group and enjoy time with friends. We'll let...

Erica Wheatley

Good morning Pelican families! Everyone ready to get back into the swing of school schedules? We are looking forward to an exciting last few months of the season - working hard to clean up our strokes, increase our endurance, and solidify our racing skills. A few announcements in this email include practice this week, a team fundraiser challenge, and spring and summer programming. Practice this Week We WILL have practice this Friday at the regularly scheduled group times. It was not originally on the calendar because we had it open...

Erica Wheatley

Hello families, We have had a couple host teams reach out to us today and we will need you to make some quick decisions on upcoming meets. Host teams need us to send in our entries asap. Please opt-in for all remaining meets by Wednesday, January 8th. Please also leave a note indicating what days you are available for the meet. EPSC Winter Classic, Shepherdstown, WV, Jan 26 (All 14 and under swimmers, and Open 1650) Emperor Penguin Meet, Laurel, MD Feb 2 (All 9 and over swimmers) President's Day...

Erica Wheatley

EPSC Pelican Post January 3, 2025 Happy 2025! We are looking forward to a great year. Please read through the entirety of this newsletter to stay up to date on upcoming meets, volunteer opportunities, team pictures and activities, and spring and summer programming. Newsletters/emails are always posted under “News” on the team website so you can find past information. Make sure you are signed up to swim at the next few meets - especially our Home Meet, the EPSC Winter Classic on January 26th. See you Monday/Tuesday (weather dependant!) Coach...

Erica Wheatley

Hello Swim Families - What a great meet we had this weekend in Warrenton with some fast swimmers from around Virginia and the DC area. We saw at least FIVE first places from our team, a lot of swimmers in the 13+ finals heats, about 3.5 million PRs (roughly estimating) .... and earned way too many squeaky rubber duckies by finishing first in our heats! VSTP Meet Results: The results are uploaded to our system and the pdf is posted on the Meets and Events page under the VSTP Icebreaker...

Erica Wheatley

Hello Swim Families, We hope you had a great few days off and enjoyed being with family. This week is our last meet of 2024, and it's going to be a fune one! We think all participants are going to see success and there are also a number of relays in each age group, which is a first for our team! We are excited for all those swimming this weekend and also all their teammates who have been practicing with them this season - pushing each other to swim harder...

Erica Wheatley

Hello Team - My goal is to have these Pelican Posts sent out weekly on Saturday or Sunday mornings. They will also be posted on the News page of the team website, epscswim.com, so you can look back for any information. Please read through the attached Pelican Post, and I will also try to include in the body of the email some of the most important updates or announcements. Thank you! Coach Erica SPIRIT NIGHT AT KING'S PIZZA - This Tuesday! Help EPSC earn money with a Spirit Night, and...

Erica Wheatley

Hello EPSC Swim Families - I hope you are having a fun and crazy Halloween week! We had a great meet this past weekend and are proud of our swimmers. We can tell they have been working hard at practice. Please review this email and the attached files for meet results, schedule reminders, activity announcements, and billing notes. To find this information again and past emails that have been sent out, check out the News page on our team website. Meet Results - these are uploaded to your swimmer's account...