Ensuring our region is a place where clubs, athletes and volunteers can flourish
Swim England are introducing some new opportunities to enable teachers and coaches who are also actively involved in Swim England affiliated clubs, to access the coach or senior coach certificate without having to complete the assistant coach or coach certificate first. New opportunities: The new opportunities being offered are: Teacher-to-coach recognition Overseas coach-to-coach recognition Overseas
Swim England South East Region (SER) girls U16 squad travelled to Liverpool in July for the annual Inter-Regional Championships hoping to repeat last year’s success. This group of girls has largely been playing together since 2019 when they took on, and beat, London in an under-12s match at the K2 in Crawley during the Covid-hit
Following the success of our regional artistic swimmers, the swimming competition did not disappoint! The region was represented by both team staff, Kevin Brooks, Head Coach (Wycombe) and Nathan Jegou, coach (Tigers Jersey) and swimmers Max Morgan (Reeds SC), Filip Novacki (Tigers, Jersey) and Lucy Fox (Wycombe). Also in the squad were Izabella Okaro and
Ranjuo Tomblin from Rushmoor Artistic SC has won Great Britain’s first European gold in artistic swimming for 39 years as the nation claimed a record medal haul at the European Championships in Serbia. As well as his free solo win he also competed in the Male Technical Solo where he won silver on day two
With the Olympics and Paralympics just around the corner, we’re encouraging clubs to organise free taster sessions for July and August through our Inspired to Try programme. If you are a club who would like more advice on setting up these sessions, please visit: Inspired to Try Club campaign toolkit 2024 If you are inspired
Swim England have opened nominations for the Swim England National Awards 2024 are now open. The awards recognise members and organisations from across the aquatics community who are rewarded for their commitment and passion to our sports. Awards are available across a variety of categories ranging from clubs, coaches and volunteers all the way to
A Swim England Friend is an individual who is readily available to provide independent advice to help SE members, or their parent or other representative in the case of junior members, faced with problems. The Swim England Friends are volunteers who to work across the SE Regions. They offer support in the SE Regulations / Constitution and
Regional Distance Programme 2024 This year we will be running a distances swimming programme incorporating an open water skills camp and a pool distance training day. Athletes will be notified of their selection by Thursday 28th March. The selection policy can be found below. RDDP Selection Guidance South East Day 1 – Sunday 9th June
On Tuesday 5 March, Swim England published the full findings of the independent listening research commissioned as part of their safeguarding, welfare and culture plan, Heart of Aquatics. Read Swim England’s statement and access the report here.
We are celebrating the launch of our 2024 qualifiers commemorative kit. Swimpath, our new clothing partners, have come up with four colour choices for hoodies, 2 choices for T shirts and 2 choices for swim hats. All are available for pre-order for collection at all of the venues for the 2024 Championships. Swimpath will be
The five team members from Portsmouth Victoria took gold in the 12U team artistic swimming championships held at K2 on 18th February. The team, made up of Maddy Swandell, Sophia Gosden, Jessica Lenn, Ilectra Masmanidi and Lily Madgwick won the event with a score of 130.5381, 35 points ahead of Aquaoaks who took silver. In
24 regional swimmers traveled to Luxembourg this weekend to represent the South East in the Euro Meet 2024. The level of competition was again high with athletes such as Sarah Sojstrom, Chad Le Clos and David Popovici in attendance. Our team consisted of a mix of both young and experienced athletes. Over the weekend 19
