The 2nd and final session of the Surrey County Championship for 2024 at the Surrey Sports Park was completed over the weekend 3rd/4th of February. Woking SC was aiming to hold onto second place which we achieved and even consolidated our position by moving further ahead of teams behind us. This highlights the solid depth that Woking Swimming Club has at present. This is a great build block to lead into the South-East Regional Championships. Swimmers, who place in the Top 8, score points for the club with both male...

Over the weekend Woking Swimming Club took part in the Surrey County Championship for 2024 at the Surrey Sports Park. Every year we aim to be as competitive as possible and after the first weekend we are currently sitting in second place on the points table. This highlighted a great team effort over the weekend where a large number of swimmers performed well and continued the competitive ethos of the club. Swimmers who place in the Top 8 score points for the club with Men are currently 3rd and Women...

This last competition before the Christmas break saw 3 Woking swimmers qualify for the Short Course Winter National Championships up in Sheffield. Tegan Gale (15) qualified for 4 events spread out over the 4 days of the championship. Starting with the 50 fly. She started off with a decent swim being right on her PB (28.75). Tegan’s competition continued the next day with the 100 free. A strong underwater and acceleration in her stroke managed to gain her a PB finishing as the 3rd fastest 15 year old (57.60). Tegan...

Round 3 of the National Arena League, Premier division for the South league was held at the Winchester Sport & LC on Saturday 9th December. This was the final round of the league and Woking Swimming Club was in the middle tier competing against teams ranked 7 to 12. This position means whilst we couldn't win the league we also couldn't get relegated so the objective was to finish as high as possible. After busing it out there Woking was victorious, taking out the win by 25 points clear of...

The first major meet of the season saw swimmers compete at the Winchester leisure centre for the Regional Short Course winter championships. The short course season, running from September to December, is a great way to hone skills and test the development of your progress against some tough competition early on in the season. Many swimmers across the region will be training hard through these competitions with the big aim of qualifying for the short course Winter Nationals later next month. Lucy Wheeler (13) was up first for Woking in...

Woking SC competed in the 2nd Round of the National Arena League, Premier division for the South league at The Spectrum, Guildford on Saturday the 11th of November. Another great test for our swimmers against a club that has won the league many times. Woking started strongly, leading after the first set of relays which are currently some of our stronger events. We had a slight drop in our performance which saw us slide to 4th after the strong start, which we then kept and consolidated our position. We had...

A squad of 24 Woking Masters swimmers descended on Sheffield’s Ponds Forge for the 2023 Swim England Masters National Championships, claiming 3 European records, 12 British records and a haul of 44 medals on their way to finishing as the fifth-ranked club. Patrick Allen and Simon Scully kicked off the weekend's racing in the 1500m freestyle, with Allen finishing in the top five of his age group and Scully claiming Woking’s first medal (Bronze) of the meet. The duo were quickly followed into the pool by Julie Howe, who dominated...

Woking SC competed in the first round of the National Arena League out at Braywick Leisure Centre on Saturday the 14th of October. Competing in the Premier division in the South league, it is always a real test of our swimmers' ability, bringing the strongest clubs in the country together to compete with a potential chance to swim at the final in Cardiff later next year. Woking started the night with a bang sitting in 2nd after 10 events with some great swims in the relays winning 2 and gaining...

The Surrey Age Group Championship - Relay Gala was held on 10/09/2023 all the way down at K2 in Crawley. It was a bit of an unusual meet being held so early in the season, a warm up being held on the athletics track outside and the swimmers seating area being the grandstand out in the sun. However the swimmers did amazingly well to overcome these challenges and enjoyed the big advantage to relay events, racing with their friends. The day was made much easier for the coaches by the...

Woking had four swimmers attending the National Summer Meet at the beginning of August, held at Ponds Forge Swimming Centre in Sheffield. Our swimmers representing the club were Fredrick van der Leest (17), Rita Luzan (16), Lucy Wheeler (13) and Alex Platt (13). For all of them it was their first English National Competition individually (Rita having competed in the relays at British Summer Champs the year before; and Fredrick having competed at Dutch Nationals). A fantastic achievement and experience for them all. Day 1 Heats Lucy was our only...