Watford Swimming Club

WSC County Qualifier Report

Watford swimmers came away from the January WSC County Qualifying Gala with medals, a record 138 Personal Best times, and County and Regional Qualifying times having been achieved.  The event, which was generously sponsored by The Prince of Bengal Restaurant based in Cassiobury, attracted swimmers from some twenty clubs. With swimmers travelling from as far as Milton Keynes, this has become a highly competitive event.

Congratulations to Fiona Holmes and Bethany Craig, both just 9 years of age, and Marcus Kemp and Matthew Redjeb, both 10, who took full advantage of the opportunity to qualify for events at their first County Championships to be held in March.

Well done to Lucy Park achieved 8 P.B.’s on the day and her first Regional Qualifying time with a race-winning swim for 200m breaststroke and to Rachel Vangucci, who also produced 8 P.B.’s including a hat trick of breaststroke County times. With nine County qualifying times after competing at this event, Rachel now moves to Watford Swimming Club’s National Squad from Regional A.

Also in tremendous form were Archie Meaker, Pragalath Neethirajan, Chris Redjeb, Max Ashworth, and Harry Edwards. Other notable swims came from Eloise Linehan with 6 P.B.’s on the day, Leanne Carey and Ceri Heard who all added to this year’s County times, with Ceri producing an 11 second P.B. on her 400m Freestyle race to finish 15 seconds inside the County time. Finally, an amazing day for Jan Feil Salcedo who managed a massive 9 P.B.’s on the day!

January 2012 Open Meet

Congratulations to our the Swimmers that participated in this weekend's January County Qualifier Meet, we had some fantastic swims with lots of PB's and those all important County and Regional Times!! 

Watford Swimming Club would like to thank everyone that assisted in making this meet a huge success; the timekeepers, judges, referees, starters, announcers and all club poolside organisers, the coaches, swimmers and of course the parents!  Well done to you all and a very BIG THANK YOU!!

We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to The Prince Of Bengal, for their kind gesture in sponsoring the medals for this weekend a total of 634 awards overall!

To view all the results, please click here.

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Herts Major League Rd 1

Watford Swimming Club started 2012 in winning form after a much deserved Christmas rest for all swimmers.   Congratulations to both A and B teams who competed on Saturday 7th January in Round 1 of the Herts Major League.  The Watford A team, runner up in the 2011 competition, competing at Borehamwood produced a startling 27 first placed swims out of 49 events to finish 1st  on the night.  The B team, at Potters Bar, also did well with 7 first placed and 17 second placed swims, but were just edged into 2nd place overall by a strong Berkhamsted team.

This is always a tough first gala with some swimmers having trained only once or twice since the Christmas break before competing. Despite this there were lots of personal best times achieved on the night. For the A team, Jack Spence started a run of PB’s with a race winning 54.06 secs in the Open 100m Freestyle. Max Ashworth (13) smashed his personal best in the 100m Breaststroke and produced two race winning swims in both the U14 and U16 age group categories.  Oliver Taverner (10), was first in both of his individual events in the U12’s with a PB for his 50m Backstroke with first placings also from Ashley Holness-Wright and Daniel Bellamy. Katie Armitage,Yasmin Brand, Meg Hutchnson, Georgia Meaker,  and Niamh Burns were also placed first in their individual events.  On the B team there were 17 PB’s recorded, with impressive individual swims from Hannah Jibson, Amy Chung and Aaron Collins.

For some of the younger swimmers this was their first  Major League Gala and all competed extremely well on the night. Notable swims came from Fiona Holmes, Katie Fitch, and Bethany Craig, who at just 9 years of age were competing in the U12 category. Well Done to all swimmers who took part.  Round 2 will be held on 28th January. 

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British Championships 2012

Next year the BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS will be held at the 2012 Aquatics Centre's new Olympic Pool.

The British Gas Championships takes place in March and for those of you who didn’t get tickets to the Olympics might like to go and watch the top British Swimmers in action as they bid for 2012 places.

For information and to sign up for Tickets, go to the British Swimming website http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/swimming/british-gas-swimming-championships-2011/ to register your interest.