Thanet Swim Club

Thanet Swim Club is pleased to announce that it will be staging the Junior Development Gala again in 2013 on the 9th February.

It is only open to those swimmers who did not achieve an individual Kent Qualifying Time. It also includes a Skins event and a club Squadron Relay with cash prizes for the former and a club trophy for the latter.

Plus we always make sure the coaches and officials are looked after during the interval!!

Lasy year was very popular event.

For full details and conditions click here

At the Thanet Sports Award held at the Winter Gardens and presented by Academy DJ Johnny Lewis, Thanet Swim Club once again scooped up a number of awards.

Aaron Clements collected Sportsman of the Year with Ben Pond highly commended. Thanet Swim Club also picked up top honours for Team of Year and only just missed out on Club of Year to Thanet Athletics Club.

In the last 4 years, Thanet Swim Club has now won Club of the year twice and been highly commended twice.

The gold medal 4x 200m Freestyle Team of Harry Bradford, Ben Evans, Jamie O’Connor and Alexander Wilmshurst were highly commended in Young Team of the Year but with the Upton Junior Swimming Team picking up top prize. However, the Upton Junior Swimming Team included all Thanet Swimmers – Jack Baker, Alex Boyd, Alfie Bradford and Joshua Jones.

Also recognised on the night was Chelsea Jarman in the Unsung Hero category.

This event has grown considerably over the last couple of years and Jade Jones, Olympic Gold Medallist from London 2012, was also present to participate in an question and answer session.

Well done, to all our winners

This event was held in Solihull on the 17th November under the jurisdiction of Pentathlon gb. As a consequence consisted of a shoot, swim and run – 3/5ths of a moden pentathlon.

Beth Williams and Ben Pond competed with Beth finishing 2nd in her age group and Ben finishing 3rd in his age group having finished 1st and 2nd in the swim and run respectively.

Full results can be found here