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Level X Series 2 will take place between 3rd and 9th June. Entries are now being accepted for all 16 events up to 400 IM for all our Age Group squad swimmers. Special sessions for Piranhas and Development only on 3rd and 5th June. Log on to the members only Events page and sign up for all the events you wish to enter. Deadline is 10 pm on Sunday 23rd May. We need volunteers to help run these sessions. Please sign up on Job Manager by 30th May. A further...
Racing returns to the Quays!! A massive well done to our 9-12 year olds who participated in Round One of The National arena Junior Swimming League! Over 150 clubs across the UK & Ireland raced this week ,each competed on a virtual bases. A big thank you also goes out to our volunteers, in organising and running this event. We have now submitted our results and look forward to the next two rounds, which will give more swimmers the opportunity to take part in this fun event.
Our Crowdfunder target has been reached, securing our match funding from Sport England!! Thank you to all our supporters!! As we still have time remaining, we have rolled onto a 's-t-r-e-t-c-h target' so an extra opportunity to continue & grab those rewards if you can!!
We are delighted to hear from Active Nation that the pool will be ready for the first step of our return to swimming training at the Quays in the week commencing 12th April. This will be for under 18 squad swimmers with older swimmers returning in May. We are also pleased to have heard from Regents Park School and Otters Learn to Swim will be returning from 26th April. More details (training times etc) will be emailed shortly. When we do covid protocols will continue to apply All the information...
We are thrilled to announce our Crowdfunder project is now live!! Please check out our page and rewards, then together we can make our Covid-19 appeal a great success!! https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/city-of-southampton-swimming-club-covid-19-appeal
With the new national lockdown being announced from Monday 4th, we will sadly not be training at the Quays for the time being. More information will be emailed directly to all members and posted on Team Feed and Facebook. If you are not receiving the emails, please contact [email protected]. We fully support Swim England's efforts to reopen pools as soon as it is safe again. In the meantime, stay safe and look after each other.
With the announcement of the impending Lockdown, from Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th, all squad swimmers had a chance to take part in the Level X Time Trials. Just over five hundred individual events were swum across all strokes and distances from 50m to 200m with more than 70% converting to Personal Bests. Head Coach, David Terry commented "Well done to all swimmers. Level X was a whole club team effort. It is really pleasing to see that those who put their hearts and minds into the new training regime...
Emails have gone out to squads inviting all swimmers to enter. Series 1 will run from 1st November to 31 December 2020. Series 2 is proposed to run from 4 January to 9 March 2021. We are excited to be taking part in Level X Racing. Level X Racing is not a gala, but a time-trial activity. It has been designed to be a fun opportunity for swimmers to practise their racing skills within their normal training session times. The concept enables swim times, registered during a club training session,...
It was a welcome return to City of Southampton Masters last week, with 18 squad members making the first session on Tuesday night (8pm) and a further 12 on the newly introduced Friday night (8pm) slot. Many thanks to those that put themselves forward as Masters COVID-19 Liaison Officers and the Committee for getting us up and running again. Also to The Quays Leisure Centre, which has been working very hard to allocate precious pool time. Having plenty of new enquiries too so if aged 24 years and over and...
