Away galas events info web-page [here],
Hosted Open galas events info web-page [here]
Open Water season – Training & racing plans published [here]
10th June Entries close for Henley Mile open water race
11th June Entries close for the 7Oaks “Schools Out” gala
15th & 29th June LC training at LAC: 10-12am
16th June OW training 12-4pm (and 7th July)
St Andrews Diving, Formby Rd, Halling, ME2 1HP
19th June Officials J1 Course at Hartsdown 6-8pm
(Modules 2 & 3: Wed 3rd July & Wed 16th Oct)
29th June Kent OW Champs
29th June Entries close for SER Open Water Champs
6th July John White Open – ACCEPTED ENTRIES [link]
Session 1 Warm-up 12 noon, start 1pm
Session 2 Warm-up 3pm, start 4pm, finish 6pm
20th July Beach BBQ 2:30pm Botany Bay – Bookings here: [link]
5-18th Aug inclusive Club Summer break
The Club is very proud to announce that Maisie Macartney has been selected to represent GB at the World Open Water Championships on Sunday 14th July in Gwangju, South Korea. This trip will also include a week-long preparatory camp in Japan which she flys out for on the 3rd July.
This is Maisie’s first Senior team selection and is based on her increasingly impressive swims for the GB Junior team over the previous three years.
Read more on the British Swimming web-site here: [link]
CONGRATULATIONS to our 19 swimmers that have qualified for the Summer National Championships this summer!
WELL DONE to our SE Region Age Group Squad who competed over two weekends at K2 Crawley during May. We had 17 swimmers in 102 races and they made 23 finals! Our medallists were: Archie Hawkins 4x Gold (1500, 800, 400 & 200Free), 3x Silver (100Fr, 200IM & 400IM), 1x Bronze (200Fly); Olivia Parpworth 4x Gold (1500, 800, 400 Free & 400IM), 1x Silver (200Fly) and 2x Bronze (100Fr & 100Fly); and Amber Piper 1x Bronze (400IM) – the very last race of the competition!
Well done also to: Marley, Harry, Ivy, Liam, Gregor, Nedas, Olexa, Saskia, Jasmine-P, Ollie, William, Evie, Lola & Alana. Full event results [link]
Massive CONGRATULATIONS to Maisie Macartney for an amazing 7th place finish at the European Open Water Championships 10km senior race in Brive, France. Maisie was up against 94 of Europe’s very best open water swimmers, including Olympic and World medallists! She was the fastest GB swimmer and faster junior overall.
Thank you to everyone that Swam, coached, volunteered and supported our Thanet Primary Schools gala.
Event results are available here [link] Overall points table is here [link]
Well done to Upton School for their overall points win this year!
Well done to Athena Crompton for a new ‘Yr 5/6’ record in the 25Fly (15.00!)
Well done to the Palm Bay ‘affiliates’ team for their new school record (57.45!)
