The Hampshire County Swim Championships 2023, was a magnificent opportunity for the City of Southampton Swim Club to showcase all of our talented swimmers. Impressively 66 swimmers succeeded in achieving qualification times for this event; with 55 swimmers going forward to represent their club once the numbers of participants per event were announced by Hampshire County ASA. Across three weekends of competition through January and February the Club saw 184 swims, competing in all strokes and distances. There was an 85% PB rate, equating to 156 new times on rankings....

The New Year begins as always with the Masters South East Regional Long Course Championships at the ever-familiar K2 Centre, Crawley - a venue that's certainly been getting its revenue from the forever aging racing swimmer! Always a challenge to pick the training up so close after the festive period, but some added incentive with British National Masters this year having some steep qualifying times and the COVID-19 pandemic no longer being much of an excuse. That said, opportunities to register a 50m pool time for Masters are extremely limited...

An Olympic effort and near-decade long first for the South East Regional Masters as 2022 saw all Seven of the County Regions field exceptionally strong teams for the annual Inter-County Masters Championships...including the ever-elusive Middlesex ASA, sadly absent for a number of years but now back with a vengence. Hosted by Kent ASA, quite the coup achieved to win the venue of the London Aquatics Centre for the Sunday afternoon...its prestige undoubtledly stirring all regions into rangling their very best Masters swimmers aged 18yrs right up to over 75yrs. The...

What a great start to the 2022/23 season for the City of Southampton Swimming Club - winners of Round 3 with 229 points and winners overall of the Rother League West Division. Congratulations and well done to all the swimmers that took part in the Rother League on Saturday night. It was a great fun gala to meet the swimmers. For me the team spirit was fantastic from start to finish. A lot of great swims so early on in the season makes the future look bright. We now need...

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A big welcome to our new Head Coach Matt Heathcock!! Matt, originally from Southampton, is no stranger to City of Southampton Swimming Club, having grown up on and around the poolside where his father Dave was the Head Coach for many years. Once a City of Southampton swimmer himself, Matt is experienced in all levels of competitive swimming having been coaching for 23 years, with 20 being full time. Matt has coached swimmers to win medals at County, Regional, National and International level. Over the past 20 years he has...

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SPACES AVAILABLE | Lessons are held on Wednesday & Friday evenings plus Saturday mornings during term time, at Regents Park Community College, SOUTHAMPTON We offer childrens' swimming lessons for beginners/non-swimmers; for children who wish to increase their confidence in water; and for those who wish to improve their stroke technique. All swimming lessons are taught by Swim England qualified teachers, under the Swim England Learn to Swim Programme. Class sizes are small so that each swimmer receives close attention and to encourage pupils' rapid swimming development. Our aim is to:...

A big shout out to Allie and Matthew who will be travelling up to Sheffield to compete at the British Summer Championships 2022!! Matthew will be first up on Sunday in the 200m Butterfly, with Allie competing on Tuesday in the 50 and again on Thursday in the 100m Butterfly. Good luck both of you, have fun and enjoy the experience!! A further shout out to Emily who will also be travelling to Ponds Forge in August for the Swim England National Summer Meet. Emily will be swimming the 200m...

Report from Coach Ellie: It was my absolute pleasure to have the opportunity to coach the City of Southampton Swimming Team consisting of 36 swimmers from over the different squads at the Development meet held at Winchester pool on 26th June, 2nd & 3rd July. Not forgetting to mention with the help of Team Managers Kelly and Tash and new to the team Coach Brooke who were all fabulous – Thank you! For some of our swimmers this was their first competition and as I told them, as a swimmer...