A staggering 153 medals : 53 GOLD – 57 SILVER – 43 GOLD and 4 new Club Records – that is our overall tally at NUEL Early County Qualifier meet held last weekend 10/11th October at London Aquatic Centre , Stratford .
What an excellent performance from our swimmers competing at the first Open Meet of the season – lot’s of PBs , new Regional and County times achieved , racing skills practiced ahead of many more competitions to come .

New Club Records :
Nat H ( 12 years age group ) – 100 fly in a time of 1.10.65 and 50 fly in 30.19
Lonny VP ( 11 years ) – 400 IM – 5.48.14
Mason Mcl D ( 12 years ) – 50 free – 28.13

Over 50 swimmers won medals with many taking home four or more :
Lonny VP ( 11 years age group ) – 12 : 11 – 0 – 1
Mason Mcl D ( 12 years ) – 10 : 2 – 6 – 2
Poppy G ( 10 years ) – 7 : 3 – 3 – 1
Evan S ( 15 years ) – 7 : 3 – 3 – 1
Nat H ( 12 years ) – 6 : 3 – 2 – 1
Josh O’D ( 14 years ) – 6 : 6 – 0 – 0
Benjamin G ( 14 years ) – 6 : 2 – 2 – 2
Iggy K – P ( 15 years ) – 6 : 1 – 2 – 3
Alex F ( 16 years ) – 5 : 4 – 1 – 0
Rahul B ( 16 years ) – 5 : 2 – 1 – 2
George H ( 17&over ) – 5 : 1 – 4 – 0
Sebastian C F ( 11 years ) – 5 : 0 – 3 – 2
Bastiano A ( 17&over ) – 5 : 1 – 2 – 2
Emma G ( 16 years ) – 4 : 2 – 2 – 0
Orin L – M ( 11 years ) – 4 : 1 – 3 – 0
Michael Z ( 13 years ) – 4 : 0 – 2 – 2
Ned H ( 15 years ) – 4 : 0 – 2 – 2
Keira H ( 12 years ) – 4 : 0 – 1 – 3
Joseph A ( 17&over ) – 4 : 0 – 1 – 3

Well done to our swimmers !!!
Also a huge thank you to our Coaches and volunteers – officials as well as Team Managers – for giving up their free weekend to ensure the meet was smoothly run and swimmers well looked after at al times .

Following WSC Championships ( with just one Long Distance event – a 1500m freestyle – to go ) our swimmers set eight new Club Records , and they are as follows :

Mason Mclennon – Defoe ( 12 years age group ) – 100 IM – in a new time of 1.13.37
Nat Hawkins ( 12 years ) – 50 fly – 31.64
Astrid Facius ( 17&over ) – 100 IM – 1.09.23 and 50 back – 29.95
Oliver Cunningham ( 17&over ) – 100 IM – 1.01.29 and 50 back – 27.10
Luke Curle ( 16 years ) – 800 free – 9.10.02
Max Sochovsky ( 17&over ) – 800 free – 8.24.16

Well done ! What a promising start to the new season !

A huge thank you to all our incredible volunteers at the Club Championships !

To our officials , timekeepers , marshals , team managers , drinks and snacks providers , and everyone who helped behind the scenes we couldn’t run Club Champs without you .

Thank you for giving up your time and making the competition so special for our swimmers !

Saving the best for last was exactly what our swimmers did on the last day of racing for WSC at Swim England National Summer Meet !
Oliver C ( 18 & over age group ) won Gold medal in 100 backstroke in a new Club Record outstanding time of 57.23 and Samuel L ( 13 & 14 age group ) won Silver in the same event at his first Nationals.
Huge congratulations !!!

Saving the best for last was exactly what our swimmers did on the last day of racing for WSC at Swim England National Summer Meet !
Oliver C ( 18 & over age group ) won Gold medal in 100 backstroke in a new Club Record outstanding time of 57.23 and Samuel L ( 13 & 14 age group ) won Silver in the same event at his first Nationals.
Huge congratulations !!!

Well done to three WSC swimmers – Josh O’D , Iggy K – P and Samuel L for making finals at the Swim England Summer Meet :
Josh O ‘ D ( 15 years age group ) – 5th in the 1500 freestyle and 7th in 200 breaststroke – racing both events on the same day !
Iggy K – P ( 15 years age group ) – 5th in 400 freestyle
Sam L ( 14 years age group ) – 9th in 100 butterfly
For Josh and Sam this has been a great debut at their first Nationals !