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Stowmarket Swimming Club has received a generous donation from Cedars Park Community Centre from fundraising at their Christmas Fair. presented by Janine Griffiths to Jess Long, who runs the Stowmarket Swimming Club SEN Group, with Bobbie Wilson, President and Sylvia Harrison, Head Coach. This donation goes to the clubs SEN group which is run by a dedicated group of volunteers, helping to provide high quality to swimming lessons to all. We would like to thank Janine and all those at Cedars Park Community Centre who helped to raise these funds.
Congratulations to all our Masters swimmers who swam at the National Masters Championships at Sheffield last weekend, many personal bests achieved. Huge congratulations to Wiggy for his 2 bronze medals in the 200 Back and 200 Fly!
Jake Battle was selected to compete at the National County Team Championships, at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. Stowmarket SC wants to say a massive congratulations to our own Jake Battle, the youngest in the team, who swam two individual events. Swimming PBs in both the 100m Butterfly and 100m Breaststroke. Excellent job Jake. Full results are available at www.swimming.org/sport/national-county-team-championships-2023-division-one/ Watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m23RSmx7UU Highlights 22:30 - Suffolk makes their entrance 59:00 - Open/Male 12/13 100 Breast 3:31:30 - Open/Male 12/13 100 Fly
Well done to all the Masters who took part in the East Region Masters championships held in Newmarket. Full results here
Congratulations to the 117 swimmers who swam in the 2023 Club Championships and took part in total of 902 swims that is not including all the relay and skins races. The swimmers were amazing and everyone is so proud of the them. A huge thanks goes to the officials, volunteers and coaches for making it all possible. See you all on the 10th November for the presentation evening, for presentation of the certificates, medals and trophies and a fun family disco! Results of licenced events Family and Pairs races results...
Qualifying times for the County Championships held in January & February 2024 have just been published, along with the order of events. For those unfamiliar with the event, the County championships are held each year at Crown pools in Ipswich and the 800m &1500m at Norwich UEA. Qualifying times for this event are set so that just the top swimmers in each age group/event are able to compete. Achieving a qualifying time is an achievement in itself. Times for the 2024 event need to have been swam this year, with...
Stowmarket were the winners of the county league final held at Crown Pools and they took the overall boys winner shield for the second year. To view all the results: https://www.suffolkswimming.org.uk/leagues.html
Whilst the youngsters were swimming in the pool at Norwich on Sunday three of Stowmarket's Golden Oldies were swimming in the Swim England East Region Open Water Swimming Championships at Whitlingham Adventure, Norfolk. Kim and Peter were doing the 2k whilst I did the 5k. Result on 2k Kim Lynch 1 st Suffolk and East Region 60 years plus in 38min 22 Peter Lynch 1 st Suffolk and East Region 60 years plus in 39min 26 Result on the 5k Andy Wright 1 st Suffolk and 2 nd East Region...
Well done to all the swimmers who took part in the Sprint into Summer event. We saw lots of amazing swims and lots of PB's. Thank you to all the volunteers. There is a huge amount of work which takes place to make an event like Sprint into Summer a success, we wouldn't be able to do it without your help. Thank you Sprint into Summer Full Results
