Following recent competitions – Romford Long Distance , WSC Club Championships and the Royals Autumn Meet – our swimmers set ten new Club Records and they are :

Florence Hancock ( 7&under age group ) – 50 breaststroke in a time of 1.01.62
Elspeth Baumann ( 9 years ) – 200 breaststroke 3.30.83
London Violet Payler ( 10 years ) – 100 breaststroke 1.35.16 and 100 butterfly 1.25.82
Mason Mclennon – Defoe ( 11 years ) – 100 freestyle 1.10.60
Joshua O’Donnell ( 13 years ) – 800 freestyle 9.12.63 and 400 IM 5.00.80
Agnes Williams – Read ( 14 years ) – 1500 freestyle 20.04.10
Giles Cunningham ( 17&over ) – 50 butterfly 26.57 and 50 freestyle 24.23
Huge congratulations to all swimmers !!!
More updates to follow after Guildford Winter Meet .

Proudly received !!!

Well done to all swimmers who competed last weekend at the SE London Winter Championships held at London Aquatic Centre , Stratford .
The Winter Championships qualifying and competing format is very different to majority of other Championships as swimmers are racing only in two age groups : Junior – 16 years and under and Senior – 17 years and over .
WSC was represented by 10 swimmers ranging from 13 to 17 years of age so huge congratulations to our youngest swimmers – Josh , Samuel , Evan and Agnes for having made the team .
We won two medals – both Silver :
George Harvey ( 17) in 400 IM event and Edward Henwood ( 16 ) in 100 IM event in the new Club Record time of 1.01.32 .
Other new Club Records are as follows :
Edward Henwood ( 16 years ) in 50 butterfly and 50 freestyle events in times of 26.31 and 25.05 respectively .
Joshua O’Donnell ( 13 years ) in 200 backstroke event in a time of 2.21.74.

There were four more Club Records set at different swim meets last month :
Joshua O’Donnell ( 13 years ) in 1500 freestyle event in a new time of 17:38.41
Max Sochovsky ( 16 years ) in 100 , 200 , and 400 freestyle events in times of 54.13 , 1:56.00 , and 4:09.76 respectively .
WELL DONE ALL !!!
Let’s keep up the hard work !

What a fantastic start to the season we have had !!!
Our swimmers competed in the first competition of the season – NUEL SC meet held at London Aquatic Centre over last weekend – Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 October .
There were some fantastic performances , tons of PBs, over a hundred medals and six new Club Records -all but one set by Edward Henwood ( 16 years ) in the following events :
50 backstroke in a time of 28.49
50 freestyle – 25.12
100 backstroke – 1.00.77
100 IM – 1.02.67
100 freestyle – 54.75
Elspeth Baumann ( 9 years ) added to the Club Records tally in 100 breaststroke event in a time of 1.39.87
We have won 107 medals overall : 39 GOLD – 35 SILVER – 33 BRONZE
Special mention must go to four swimmers who just between them ” collected ” 40 medals :
Josh O’Donnell ( 13 years age group ) -12 : 6 GOLD – 3 SILVER – 3 BRONZE
London Violet Payler ( 10 years ) – 11 : 3 – 2 – 6
Orin Lee – Megwan ( 10 years ) – 8 all GOLD !!!
Evan Sochovsky ( 14 years ) – 9 : 3 – 2 – 4
Other multiple medallists ( winning 4 or more medals ) were :
Alex Filyov ( 15 years ) – 8 : 3 – 4 -1
Emma Gordon ( 15 years ) – 7 : 3 – 3 – 1
Edward Henwood ( 16 years ) – 7 : 4 – 3 – 0
Bruno Zbierski ( 15 years ) – 6 : 1 – 2 – 3
Lena Jovanovic ( 13 years ) – 5 : 2 – 1 – 2
George Harvey ( 16 years ) – 4 : 1 – 3 – 0
Sam Liau ( 13 years ) – 4 : 1 – 2 -1
Bastiano Atti ( 16 years ) – 4 : 0 – 1 – 3
Huge congratulations to ALL swimmers !!!
And a massive thank you to our Team Managers and officials for dedicating their time to help running the meet smoothly and efficiently .
We could not do this without you !

Huge congratulations to Max Sochovsky for winning bronze medal in 16 year old boys 200 freestyle in a new Club Record time of 1.57.94 on the last day of Swim England National Summer Meet !!!
Well done to all our National qualifiers: Astrid , Edward , Max , Oliver , Alex and Rahul .
What a fantastic season we have had !

Huge congratulations to Max Sochovsky – a winner of a gold medal and a new English Champion in the boys 16 years old 400 freestyle in a new Club Record time of 4:11.25 !!!
Well done Max !