This year the region invites nominations for the Jeff Cook Salver award from our clubs, counties, regional committees and leadership groups. Nominations close at midnight Sunday 13th July 2025.
The Jeff Cook Salver was presented to the Region at its inception in 2005.
The intention is that the salver is awarded to a person, team or club that has made a significant contribution to the sport within the region.
If you would like to make a nomination please complete this Form
The Received Entries have been published on the Open Water Competitions page and can also be found here.
Swimmers and their representatives have until midnight on 27 June to check the Received Entries and notify the entries administrator by email to [email protected] of any errors after which a final accepted entries list will be published and no further corrections allowed.
Only 48 hours to get your nominations in.
The Swim England National Awards will return to the Great Hall at the University of Birmingham on Saturday 29 November 2025.
This year’s awards will honour contributions of the past year across a variety of categories, spanning clubs, coaches, teachers and volunteers, inclusion, health and more.
Nominations are open until Sunday 6 July 2025 and will incorporate a range of awards which will be regionally and nationally shortlisted. This year’s categories have been divided into three sections and are as follows:
Nominations are open to the public and can be submitted via the nomination form. The full criteria for each award can be viewed HERE.
As part of National Volunteers’ Week Swim England East Region would like to say a big thank you to all our volunteers that give up their time to help our clubs, counties and the region. Check out our social media channels to see our clubs also saying thank you!
Entries are open for the SEER Para-Swimming Meet being held on Sunday 21st September 2025 at Newmarket Leisure Centre.
The closing date for entries is 20th August 2025.
There are two entry forms, one for those who will be Classified at the Meet and one for other competitors.
The Classification form has been designed to ensure those being classified enter the required events.
Please ensure you use the appropriate form.
The forms and full Meet details can be found here.
The East Region holds 10 Water Polo Regional training sessions per year. The dates have been set for this year and players born 2008 – 2013 are welcome to attend these sessions. Below are the dates for 2025 and when registration will open.
Please go to the Water Polo Development page to register. Coaches and Team Managers can also register via the same page.
The Regional Academy Training sessions for 2025 dates are:
Swim England East Region wishes to announce the appointment of Stewart Murray as its new Chairman, marking an exciting new chapter for the organization.
With a wealth of aquatic experience spanning many years, Stewart has a passion for the sport and has seen him involved in various roles from club, county, regional and national levels. Stewart’s first involvement in aquatics was 26 years ago, when his children were swimming and he was asked to train as an official, since then he has been a club Chairman, County and Regional President and most recently a regional board member. Many of you will recognize Stewart from poolside, as he is a World aquatics referee but still spends many hours helping at all levels of competitions.
One of Stewart’s first priorities is to finalize and implement the new East Region strategy, focusing on the priorities that have been identified during this process.
The Region would like to thank Ian Mackenzie for his dedicated service as interim Chairman. His steady leadership during a difficult period has been instrumental in maintaining stability and momentum. His contributions have laid a strong foundation for Stewart’s tenure, and we are grateful for his commitment, expertise and continued support.
Ann Byrne, of Norwich Swan Swimming Club, has become the East Region President following our Annual General Meeting. We welcome Ann into the role and look forward to seeing her at regional and national events throughout the year.
Ann’s passion for swimming began when she was 11 with Aylesbury and District Swimming Club who trained at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. She represented her club and County at breaststroke and along with other club members assisted at the early wheelchair games; her first experience of disability swimming. On moving to Suffolk in 2003, her youngest daughter joined Beccles Town Swimming Club (Kingfishers) in 2006 now Team Waveney where she was the Welfare Officer and began her officials’ training. Ann was appointed Suffolk Disability Liaison Officer 2018 and on retirement in 2020, she joined Norwich Swan and is now their secretary.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Dean Walker for his time as Regional President, and for all his support and enthusiasm he has provided our athletes and volunteers at the many events he has attended during his time in post.
We hope that all coaches, athletes, technical officials and volunteers enjoyed the first two weekends of the regional long course championships at Norwich.
The third and final weekend is at Luton this coming weekend and we are looking for additional non-technical volunteers (race marshalls etc.) to help out. If you are available and interested in volunteering no previous experience is needed, volunteers can sign up via the link here Swim-Meet
Many thanks in advance in anticipation of your support.
If you are interested in becoming an Open Water technical Official Swim England have released a link to register your interest.
The sessions are delivered online and take around 3 hours to complete. Dated and times will be decided when a certain level of interest has been reached.
The East Region hosts an annual Open Water Development Day for swimmers aged 12 – 14 years.
We now have spaces available for athletes to attend the East Region Open Water Development Day. The athlete does not need to have experience of Open Water swimming for them to attend but experience of swimming long distance would be preferred.
On the day the athletes will be swimming a minimum distance of 2km.
To register to visit the Open Water Development page.
Many thanks to all Technical Officials who have signed up to help at Weekend 1 of the Regional Long Course Championships.
We are still in need of technical officials for all sessions at Norwich 28th – 30th March, in particularly on the Friday.
Can you please help by circulating this is all of your technical officials.
The link to sign-up can be found here:
