A Teesside swim club are in the running to win £ 1million. Middlesbrough Amateur Swim Club, based at the Neptune Center, Ormesby Road, has been selected as a regional finalist to win a share of the Persimmon Homes Building Futures fund, which aims to support under-18s across the UK. ButRead More →
Ellesmere College Principal Brendan Wignall expressed “surprise” at the end The Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) – a watchdog for independent schools – has asked Ellesmere College to follow up on its findings regarding students participating in Ellesmere Titans Swimming Club. He called for “immediate action” to address the issues. ThisRead More →
A long-standing club that has taught generations of young Redditch kids how to swim has come to an end. The Bridge Swimming Club recently taught its last swimmer after 45 years of teaching children essential swimming skills. The shutdown comes as the club has struggled to recruit new volunteers followingRead More →
A West Lothian swim club has launched a specialist program for people with disabilities – and hopes it will encourage other sports in the county and beyond to do the same. Swim-IT Head Coach Fiona Donald said the coincidence with the Paralympic Games is the perfect time to raise awarenessRead More →
90 years ago, on August 2, 1931, world famous long distance swimmer Miss Mercedes Gleitz attempted to swim from the Aran Islands to Salthill. She did indeed manage to swim from Inis Meán to Spiddal in 18 hours 43 minutes, a distance of 18 miles as the crow flies, butRead More →
Could a swim club help generate some form of “college activism”? This is the question explored by David Raymond Jones, professor in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Northumbria, in a new article published in the British Journal of Educational Research. In 2009, he writes, heRead More →
The Olympics still shine the spotlight on many sports that are generally not considered mainstream. This includes synchronized swimming, although internationally the sport is now called artistic swimming. Maine only has one synchronized swimming club, and they are only a few years old. Maine Synchro in Portland was established inRead More →
A SWIMMING club in Maidenhead has seen dozens of parents asking their children to start lessons since Tom Dean became a two-time Olympic gold champion. Members of the Maidenhead Marlins Swimming Club committee told the Windsor Observer how Tom Dean inspired many people, young and old, to take up swimmingRead More →
SWIMMING clubs are enjoying a return to the pool and a West Fife team is causing a stir with a new head coach. InCAS (Inverkeithing Competitive Amateur Swimmers) received acclaim when pools were able to reopen for individual exercises and group activities for under-18s in April, paving the way forRead More →
Former Sawtell Swimming Club member Maddy Gough (right) is on her way to Tokyo. MADDY Gough made her Olympic dream come true with former member of Sawtell Swimming Club qualifying for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. The 22-year-old booked her ticket to Tokyo and a place on the Australian swim teamRead More →