Ensuring our region is a place where clubs, athletes and volunteers can flourish
Peter Roycroft like many people, started his involvement with swimming when his daughters joined their local swimming club in Amersham. From that time onward, he has been on an all-too-familiar journey, first being persuaded to pick up a stopwatch at club champs and then moving along the officials journey to eventually becoming a referee in 2020. He became a member
A young team represented the South East at the Under 18 Inter-regional Tournament in Northampton on 12/13 October. This was a very young squad with only two boys at the top of the age group and as a result 10 members of the team will be eligible to play again next year. The competition was
A South East ladies team went undefeated in Division Two to take home the crown U18 Girls’ Inter Regional Championships They started out with victories against the North East Steelers (12-9), Scotland (14-6) and the East Midlands (15-3). That left them in a final match shootout with the London Sharks for the title with both
The region will again be sending a swimming team to the Luxembourg Euro Meet 2025. This camp is not just for the swimmers but an exceptional development opportunity for coaches and team managers in the South East. We are now inviting applications for an assistant head coach, a development coach and a male team manager.
Masters swimming at the regional Short Course Championships on Saturday 28th September at K2 set new standards across the board. Five British Records were set: Dan Cotton Spencer 200m Individual Medley Nicola Charlesworth Basingstoke 200m Individual Medley Kirsty Johnson Bracknell 100m Backstroke James Wardle Kenilworth 400m Individual Medley Georgina Heyn Woking 200m Freestyle In addition 77
The regional swimming coaches’ forum are now recruiting new members into the group. The group terms of reference have been updated to reflect the developments within the sport; Coaches Forum TOR September 2024 To apply please complete the application form by Wednesday 6th November. Any questions can be directed to [email protected]
The region will again be sending a swimming team to the Luxembourg Euro Meet 2025. Selections will be made from the regional short course championships taking place on the 2nd and 3rd November 2024 in Winchester. The full selection criteria can be found here; Luxembourg 2025 Selection criteria We will shortly be recruiting staff to
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
