SWIM WALES OPEN WATER MEET 2021

19th June - Llandegfedd Lake, Pontypool, Wales

Well, its been a long time coming, but how amazing is it to see a couple of our members back out there competing in their first competitive swims of the 2020-21 season. 


Tess Tinsley and Lola Wheeler both attended the Swim Wales Open Water Meet this weekend which also incorporated the British Junior Team selection trials.


Both girls swam the 5km course at LLandegffed Lake, with Tess competing in the 15yr old category and Lola in the 14yr old.  Swimmers competed from across the nation and both girls faced some tough competition, but this did not phase them.  Just racing in open water competitions is challenge enough to anyone however both girls finished the race with great times, Tess having a good solid swim and completing the 5km in 1 hour 19 minutes.  Lola suffered with a nosebleed part way round the course, but didn't let this stop her and soldiered on to finish in a fantastic 6th place in the 14yr old age group and a time of 1 hour 13 minutes.  Only one person from each age group is picked to represent GB at these trials, so although neither girl has been selected it has been a great start to getting back into their competitive swimming, huge well done to both.

2020 SELECTION FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

CONGRATULATIONS to Serenity Bowen on being selected to attend the Regional Development Camp 2020.

 

A total of 36 swimmers aged 12 years at 31st December 2020 have been selected based on on their Regional ranking on swims from 1st September 2019 to 1st March 2020.

Due to the current circumstances, this year will only consist of a one day virtual camp led by coaches from across the Midlands.

Well done Serenity, great achievement for 2020.

2020 SELECTIONS FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

CONGRATULATIONS to both Lola Wheeler and  Oliver Greaves on being selected to attend the Swim England Swimming National Development Programme for 2020!

The National Development Programme is the third step on the Swim England Extended Talent Pathway – but the first on the national framework.

The 13 and 14-year-olds picked will be expected to join a day of online workshops on either 3 or 4 October covering ‘Loving Race Day’, sleep recovery and injury prevention.

A dry land conditioning session will also emphasise mobility and stability to enhance the anti-rotational / rotational strokes and streamlining.

All the swimmers were chosen using the new adjusted selection guidelines that have been introduced for the 2020-21 season because of the coronavirus pandemic.


Due to the pandemic, there will be no pool camps in 2020 and dry land activity will be carried out online.

It is hoped that pool activity may resume in 2021, depending on timing and the ability to host safely.

SHROPSHIRE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS PRESENTATION EVENING 2020
February 29th - Shrewsbury Town Football Club

Great night had by all at the Shropshire County Championship Presentation evening held at the Shrewsbury Town Football Club.
Just a few pictures of some of the award winners who attended the evening.  Well done to all involved. 
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SHROPSHIRE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2020
Jan/Feb 2020 - Wolverhampton Central Baths 
This years County Championships was spread over five full days of swimming on consecutive weekends,  making it a tough long three weekends for swimmers, parents, volunteers and coaches alike.  
 
Wrekin had 45 members from the Senior, Junior and Development squads competing at this years events.  With finals for all 50m and 100m events the competition gave some exciting races across all age groups. 
This has probably been the best overall perfomance from Wrekin College swimmers for a long time.  Not only did we win many medals with some fantastic swimming the performance from the whole team was exceptional, gaining many Personal Best times and Regional qualifying times. 

A special mention to Hugo Roberts and Cole Nicholas competing at their first County Championships.  
Cole had an exceptional first champs taking Gold in the 12yr old 50m, 100m and 200m Breaststroke and gaining his first ever WMQT in the 100m Breast.

Congratulations also to some of our younger team members gaining their first ever West Midlands Qualifying times, 
Beth Barrett - 100m Free, Sammy Foskett - 800m Free, and Caleb & Joshua Zhou both with their 100m Fly. 

Full resultshere

Overall Summary

GOLD - 109
SILVER - 95
BRONZE - 92

WEST MIDLAND QUALIFYING TIMES - 175

PERSONAL BEST TIMES - 508
TOP BOY RESULTS

13yr age group
1st - Oliver Greaves
3rd - Adam Heller

14yr age group
1st - Leon Steer
2nd - Dan Melintescu
3rd - Rob Melintescu

15yr age group
1st - Ben Scobie
2nd - Elwyn Davies 
TOP GIRL RESULTS
12yr age group
1st - Serenity Bowen
3rd - Beth Barrett

13yr age group
1st - Lola Wheeler
2nd - Amiee Corkhill
3rd - Eva Sambhi

14yr age group
2nd - Christie Morrow
3rd - Joeleen Charlery

15yr age group
2nd - Jess Backhouse
3rd - Isabelle Jones

16yr&over age group
1st - Eve Leleux
2nd - Anya Preece
3rd - Zara Leleux
Celebrate your success!!!   Shropshire ASA - Presentation Evening 28th Feb 7pm @ Shrewsbury FC.

'Virtual' Tickets will be subsidised by Shropshire ASA at £10 per head. 

All Top 3 Boy/Girl winners will receive a free ticket to this event where they will be presented with their trophies.
NATIONAL WINTER SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019
5th - 8th December - Ponds Forge, Sheffield
,This event is the biggest swimming meet of the winter months, with Britain's top senior swimmers often involved. 

We had two swimmers competing at this National event -     Will Slawson and Anya Preece.

Will qualified for four events at this meet, he had some mixed results but still managed to gain some seasonal best times. 

Anya had some great swims in the two events that she qualified for.  In the 800m FC she swam a massive nine second Personal Best time of  8:49.48 finishing 6th in the 18&under age group and then did another PB time of 2:17.96 the following day in the 200m Fly.
 
Full results here 
WOLVERHAMPTON WINTER OPEN MEET 2019
30th Nov  & 1st Dec - Central Baths, Wolverhampton
This winter open meet at Wolverhampton was the last chance for all our younger swimmers to achieve or improve their Shropshire County entry times.  After a full weekend of racing, Wrekin swimmers came away with many new Personal Best times and medals.

The team had some great results and this was reflected in the amount of swimmers not just improving their County QT's but also gaining West Midland qualifying times. 
 A massive total of forty five QTs were achieved from nine different swimmers. 
To add to the fantastic weekend we also had three swimmers winning the overall top swimmer in their age group.
 Lola Wheeler - Top Girl - 12yrs age group
Serenity Bowen - Top Girl - 11yrs age group
Caleb Zhou - Top Boy - 10yrs age group 
MIDLAND SHORT  COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019
2nd & 3rd November 2019 - Harvey Haddon, Nottingham

The Midland Short Course Championships is a combination of West and East Midlands swimmers competing together with only a Junior (15&under) and senior (16&over) qualifying time. Wrekin had seven qualifiers who attended this meet and as usual they all performed at their best to do Wrekin proud. 
This was Jess Backhouse's first ever Midland SC experience, qualifying for the Junior category in the 100m IM she had a good swim gaining a new personal best time.

For all our other swimmers we had many short course PB's and A and B finalists. 
Bronze seemed to be our colour for the weekend with some of our swimmers finishing 3rd-Will Slawson 400IM and 200Fly, Harriet Smith 800FC and Zara Leleux 200Fly. 
Also making the A finals was Anya Preece who finished 4th in the 200Fly gaining a new SC PB.  
We also had many swimmers qualifying for the B finals, Eve Leleux was 2nd in the 100FC B final swimming her first ever sub 59sec time of 58.23. Ella Thatcher-Plant competed in all the distance events swimming very close to her PB's.
Great weekend of swimming from all, well done team. 
SWIM ENGLAND NATIONAL COUNTY TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019
6th October 2019 - Ponds Forge, Sheffield
Congratulations to Lola Wheeler, Leon Steer and Will Timmins on their selection to represent Team Shropshire at this National event.

The competition is split into two divisions, Shropshire were promoted to the First Division for the first time in 44 years in 2018 so the team have a lot to swim for in 2019.  There are individual swims across three different age groups as well as IM and Free relays.  The day is an action packed fun filled experience for all involved and we wish our squad members and Team Shropshire the very best of luck this weekend. 

Read all about it here

For Live results click here
CHASE OPEN MEET - Wolverhampton
28/29th September 2019

This was the clubs first competition of the new 19-20 swimming season.  After the summer break and only being back into training for one month the intentions of this meet was to get some early race practice in.  It was a long weekend for Coach Dave Clarke and the team with lots of events and racing undertaken from everyone. 

Our younger members of the squad gained many new Personal Best times and with everyone else bringing in good times to start the season off it seems most members are working hard in training and keeping their hours up. 

To add to a good start, we also had several overall age group winners and the team came home with the Top Visiting Club award.  Well done to all who participated. 
TOP AGE GROUP WINNERS


Beth Barrett - Girls 10yrs age group
Lexi Rogers - Girls 11yrs age group
Eve Leleux - Girls 16&ov age group

Joshua Zhou - Boys 10yrs age group
Oliver Greaves - Boys 12yrs age group