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Basildon takes inaugural National Arena League Junior Swimming League Trophy

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The 2021 National Arena Junior Swimming League final took place on Sunday, September 19th, with the team of Basildon & Phoenix taking the top prize in terms of team points.

Amassing a total of 171 points, the team from Essex earned the inaugural crown, as this is the first edition of the junior edition of England’s long-running Senior Arena Swimming League. Basildon was able to hold off Guildford who settled for runners-up with 158 points while Newcastle rounded out the top 3 squads with 152 points.

Final results

  1. Basildon 171 points
  2. Guildford 158
  3. Newcastle 152
  4. Camden Swiss Cottage 147
  5. Chelsea & Westminster 121
  6. Woking 114
  7. Plymouth Leander 113
  8. RTW Monson 98

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Regional Awards presented at ACM

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Thank you to all those that turned out at the Swim England East Region ACM on 15thSeptember representing their clubs or counties for the occasion. The event saw the new President, Chris Vinter take the reins for the year, and Ian Macleod voted in as Diving Manager. However, another highlight of the event, was the annual Regional Recognition Awards. These highlighted a small sample of the great work going on in the region, and was a great opportunity to celebrate the talent and services of our members. The winners were as follows:

Jeff Cook Salver – Derek Beaumont (Beaumont Diving)

Services to Aquatics – Jill Walker (Lowestoft & Oulton Broad SC)

Coach of the year – Ben Negus (City of Peterborough SC)

Teacher of the Year – Wade Piercy (Canvey Island SC)

Volunteer of the year – Deborah Swann (Lowestoft and Oulton Broad SC)

Young Volunteer of the Year – Eleanor Short (Hoddesdon SC)

Silver Pin Award. In recognition of the hard work our volunteers contribute to the sport in our region.

Charles Dainton (Berkhamsted SC)

Michael Haines (City of Cambridge SC)

Andy Hunter (St Ives SC)

Tom Baster (Management Board)

Andrew Morton (Management Board)

Jill Walker (Lowestoft and Oulton Broad SC)

Jacqui Kendall (Open water committee)

Paul Kendall (Open water committee)

Adam Lelean (Diss Otters SC)

Ian Macleod (Southend Diving)

Stewart Murray (West Norfolk SC)

Roger Page (Dacorum Diving)

Stephen Christian (Deben SC)

Caroline Cofield (Felixstowe SC)

Sean Jarvis (Thurrock SC)

Water Polo Grand Prix 2018

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The East Region Water Polo Grand Prix competition is back for 2018!  The Grand Prix is a developmental tournament to ensure that all players training in the Region have access to competitive water polo and to develop coaches and officials.

The age groups will be 2004 born and younger and 2006 born and younger.  Both age groups will play a round robin prelim tournament followed by finals a month later. 

More information.

Deadline for entries and payments for each team is 30th September 2018

Regional Para Swimming Training Dates

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Two more Regional Para-Swimming Training Days are now available for booking. 

  •  23rd September in Newmarket
  • 4th November in Basildon.

A land training CPD for coaches is being included in the Newmarket session from 12-1pm.

Training days are open to those who have a classification and those who are on the waiting list for classification.

Further details and information can be found by downloading a booking form. Athletes can book for either or both sessions.

All completed booking forms should be sent to [email protected] by the deadlines stated on the form.

East Region Para swimmers in GB Squad at Europeans

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East Region Para swimmers headed off to Dublin as part of the GB Para squad for the 2018 European Para Championships, producing some great results throughout the competition.

The first day saw Louise Fiddes (Hatfield SC) claim Gold in the S14 Breaststroke, a great achievement for her Senior International debut in Team GB.

Grace Harvey, also making her debut at this event, won Bronze in the S6 100M Backstroke. Grace now trains at the Manchester Performance Centre, after beginning her career with Hoddesdon SC.

Jordan Catchpole (City of Norwich SC) also made his mark by producing outstanding swims at the Championships claiming Silver in both the S14 100m Backstroke and S14 200m Freestyle.

Jessica- Jane Applegate (City of Norwich SC) smashed her own World Record for the S14 100m Butterfly with a time of 1:04:13 and a collection  of other medals. These included  Silver for the S14 200m Freestyle, the S14 100m Backstroke and the S14 200IM.

Congratulations to all the swimmers involved, and thank you to the volunteers that helped deliver the event!

Lane coaching opportunities at Regional Development Camps

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Applications are now open for lane coaching and observation opportunities at the Regional Development Camps 2018.

These will run on Sunday the 23rd September (Stanground, Peterborough), 14th October (Basildon Sporting Village) and 18thNovember (Ipswich High School). Please complete the booking form and return to [email protected]

If you have any queries regarding the Regional Development Programme, please contact the Regional Swimming Talent Officer, Kevin Pickard.

Swimmers from East selected for European Junior Open Water Champs

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Swim England East Region would like to offer its best wishes to the four swimmers who are shortly to compete at the European Junior Open Water Championships in Malta.  The four East Region swimmers representing Team GB are Nathan Hughes (Hatfield), Max Jelfs (Hatfield), Jamie Scholes (Peterborough) and Lewis Binning (Basildon).

Nathan is a seasoned international with both European Junior and World Junior Championships already under his belt.  Max is competing in his second year of EJOW following his selection last year also.  Jamie has three international selections for England locked in already and finally Lewis has an England selection already completed this year.

All four boys have worked extremely hard to get where they are, with many moving through a number of clubs on their development pathway to maximise their performances.  We would offer additional congratulations to Team Luton, Biggleswade and Central Beds Swim Squads (Nathan), Maxwell and Hemel Hempstead (Max), Romford (Lewis) and Peterborough’s development programmes (Jamie).  All the aforementioned have supported these athletes and it’s been the building blocks and learning experiences these swimmers have picked up across many years that has allowed them to maximise their potential to reach their current status with Team GB in Malta.

We will post results as soon as we get them.  Good luck to all of Team GB and congratulations again to all the clubs involved.

Hertfordshire win 2018 Swim England East Region Inter County Competition

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Congratulations to Swim England Hertfordshire for winning the 2018 Swim England East Region Inter County Competition.

The strength of Hertfordshire’s sprint freestyle relay teams ensured they prevailed in a thrilling climax to the competition, which was only decided in the final race. Nine points separated the top three teams. 

There were many excellent individual and relay performances from all teams. Final results are as follows:

  1. Herts 257
  2. Cambs 250
  3. Essex 248
  4. Suffolk 179
  5. Norfolk 155
  6. Bedfordshire 131

Swim England East Region would like to thank Cambridgeshire ASA for hosting the competition. No team has managed to successfully defend the title since 2012. Who will win in 2019?