Huge congratulations to Max Sochovsky , Edward Henwood ( both 15 years age group ) and Oliver Cunningham ( 18 years age group ) for putting up some outstanding performances at Swim England National Winter Championships held at Ponds Forge , Sheffield 5 – 8 December .

Our swimmers set four new Club Records and they are as follows :

Edward Henwood – in 100 and 200 butterfly events in times of 57.67 and 2.10.12 respectively
Oliver Cunningham – in 100 and 200 backstroke events in times of 57.83 and 2.04.40 respectively .

Fantastic work and great foundation for the rest of the season !

Well done to all swimmers from various training squads who competed just before Christmas break at Bromley SC Christmas Gold meet held at the K2 Leisure Centre , Crawley on Sat 7th and Sun 8th December .
Our swimmers won a total of 108 medals : 30 GOLD – 36 SILVER – 42 BRONZE – what a tally !

There were some very fast swims , new PB’s and County qualifying times achieved .
Special recognition goes to London Violet Payler ( 9 years age group ) and Evan Sochovsky ( 13 years age group ) who between them won 20 medals – 11 including 5 Gold – 4 Silver – 2 Bronze and 9 including 3 Gold – 3 Silver – 3 Bronze respectively .

What an ending to the first training cycle – congratulations everyone !

Five new Club Records – Guildford Level 2 Winter Meet
Posted by Kamilla Kozlowska on 02/12/2024

There were some superb swims at the Guildford Level 2 Winter Meet held over the weekend Sat 23 / Sun 24 November at Surrey Sports Park , Guildford .
This high level meet was also the last chance qualifier for the SE National Winter Meet taking place in Ponds Forge , Sheffield 5-8 December .
Our swimmers set five new Club Records :
Astrid Facius ( 15 years age group ) : 50 freestyle in a time of 27.75
50 and 100 backstroke in times of 29.02 and 1.03.18 respectively
Edward Henwood ( 15 years ) : 50 freestyle in a time of 25.43
Max Sochovsky ( 15 years ) : 200 backstroke in a time of 2.11.33 – the latter also being a National QT for the SE National Winter Meet .
and won six medals :
Astrid Facius ( 15 ) – gold in a 50 and silver in 100 backstroke events
Edward Henwood ( 15 ) – 2 silver in 50 and 100 butterfly events
Oliver Cunningham ( 17&over ) – silver in 200 backstroke
Max Sochovsky ( 15 ) – bronze in 200 backstroke
All four swimmers are heading out to Sheffield this week to represent WSC at the National Winter Meet .
Congratulations and the best of luck !!!

Well done to all our swimmers who competed last weekend – Sat 16 / Sun 17 at The Royals Autumn Open Meet held at the Elmbridge Xcel Leisure Centre.
There were many PB’s , some outstanding performances and a staggering number of medals won – 107 in total : 28 Gold – 32 Silver – 47 Bronze.
Special mention goes to London Violet Payler who won 12 medals : 8 Gold and 4 silver in the girls 9 years old age group.
Multiple medallists were ( winning five or more medals ) :
Orin Lee – Megwai ( 9 years ) – 7 : 3 Gold – 3 Silver – 1 Bronze
Annelin Tolle ( 9 years ) – 6 : 2 Gold – 3 Silver – 1 Bronze
Evan Sochovsky ( 13 years ) – 6 : 5 Gold – 1 Silver
Louis Murray ( 14 years ) – 6 : 1 Gold – 2 Silver – 3 Bronze
Timothy Gussago ( 10 years ) – 5 : 2 Gold – 3 Silver
Hugo Hogarth ( 13 years ) – 5 : 2 Gold – 1 Silver – 2 Bronze
Mia Tay ( 9 years ) – 5 : 2 Silver – 3 Bronze
Bruno Zbierski ( 14 years ) – 5 : 1 Silver – 4 Bronze
Huge congratulations to everyone – great swimming !

NUEL meet – great results at the first open meet of the season
Posted by Kamilla Kozlowska on 22/10/2024

Our swimmers got off to a great start to the new season at NUEL meet held at London Aquatic Centre at the weekend of 12 – 13 October .

Seven new Club Records were set :
Edward Henwood ( 15 years age group ) – in 50 freestyle and 200 butterfly events in times of 25.83 and 2.11.30 respectively
Oliver Cunningham ( 17 & over ) – in 400 freestyle and 200 backstroke events in times of 4.10.82 and 2.06.67 respectively
Max Sochovsky ( 15 years ) – in 200 backstroke in a time of 2.14.85
Samuel Liau ( 12 years ) – in 50 freestyle in a time of 28.64
George Harvey ( 15 years ) – in 50 backstroke in a time of 29.17

We won 58 medals in total : 20 Gold – 17 Silver – 21 Bronze and our multiple medallists were :
Max Sochovsky – 6 : 3 Gold – 3 Silver
Edward Henwood – 5 : 3 Gold – 2 Silver
Olivia Hill – 5 : 2 Gold – 1 Silver – 2 Bronze
Evan Sochovsky – 4 : 2 Gold – 1 Silver – 1 Bronze
Orin Lee – Megwai – 4 : 1 Gold – 3 Silver
Oliver Cunningham – 4 : 1 Gold – 1 Silver – 2 Bronze
George Harvey – 4 : 1 Gold – 3 Bronze
Alex Filyov – 3 : 2 Gold – 1 Silver
Luke Curle – 3 : 2 Gold – 1 Bronze
Bastiano Atti – 2 : 1 Gold – 1 Bronze
Can Tetik – 2 : 1 Silver – 1 Bronze
Emma Gordon – 2 : 1 Silver – 1 Bronze
Ellie Perrott – 2 : 1 Silver – 1 Bronze
Pietro Marzeglia – 2 : 1 Silver – 1 Bronze
Hugo Hogarth – 2 : 2 Bronze
Samantha Simpson – Foster : 2 Bronze

Well done everyone , let’s keep up the fantastic work !
The season has only just started !
Samuel Liau – 3 : 2 Gold – 1 Bronze

Huge congratulations to our JP2 and SP squads swimmers who competed last weekend 2 – 3 November at the SE London Winter Championships held at London Aquatic Centre .
Seven new Club Records have been set and they are as follows :
Oliver Cunningham ( 17&over age group ) – in all Backstroke events in times of 27.18 – 50m ( Silver medal ) , 58.14 – 100m and 2.05.19 ( Silver medal ) – 200m as well as in the 400 freestyle in a time of 4.09.99
Edward Henwood ( 15 years ) – in 50 freestyle and 50 backstroke events in times of 25.46 and 28.20 respectively
Max Sochovsky ( 15 years ) – in 200 backstroke in a time of 2.13.95 .
Oliver’s times are also Qualifying Times for the Swim England National Winter Championships – the biggest English swimming meets of the winter months which often welcomes a number of Great Britain’s top senior and junior swimmers .
Last year more than 3,600 swimmers entered the competition with Ponds Forge , Sheffield , hosting four days of exciting racing .
Oliver will be joined at the Winter Championships by Edward Henwood who qualified for the 100 and 200 butterfly events so far.
With one more qualifying competition to go there is still opportunity for swimmers to qualify and / or add more events .
Special mention goes to Evan Sochovsky who competed in the 50 backstroke event in the Junior age group ( 16 years and under ) despite only being 13.
Well done everyone !!!