The qualifying times, race schedule and general conditions for the Swim England East Region Long Course Championships have now been added to the competitions page of the website. The entry system will open approximately one month prior to the entry closing date. Any queries should be directed to [email protected]
The Swim England Swimming Leadership Group have issued the following statement:- “World Aquatics (FINA) is currently reviewing its technical rules in all disciplines. In respect of swimming, the revised rules, covering the 2023-25 period, were published on 3 January 2023. The British Swimming Swimming Officials Group will shortly circulate details of the new rules, create
Congratulations to Claire Cannon from City of Cambridge and Luke Turley, Bath University originally from Hatfield SC on being selected for the Swim England Performance Squad for the 2022-23 season. Laura Stephens, Loughborough PC originally from Colchester SC and Basildon & Phoenix SC has also been selected to join the British Swimming’s World Class Programme
Gerry Metcalf is heading to Lima, Peru shortly to officiate as a Starter at the FINA World Junior Championships from 30th August to 4th September. This comes shortly after her Starter role at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham a few weeks ago where many of you will have spotted her as the Starter in the
East Region swimmers and divers were amongst those celebrating a medal win at some of the recent international competitions taking place. At the European Junior Championships 2022, held in Romania during July, Erin Little of Chelmsford SC (formally Maldon Sharks SC) won a silver medal in the 4 x 100m Mixed Medley event as well
As the Commonwealth Games aquatic events have come to an end at the Sandwell Aquatic Centre, the region would like to congratulate all swimmers and divers that took part. The country made second in the swimming medal table, totalling 32 medals. Six of these medals were won by swimmers from East Region clubs, or began
Following the success of the trail period of virtual delivery of JL2 and JL2S courses during the spring and summer this year, counties within the region have agreed to continue to offer a structured plan of virtual online training for all judge level 2/2S trainees, with planned dates throughout the year within the region. Training
Congratulations to all athletes that have been selected to represent Team England at this summer’s Commonwealth Games. Amongst the 48 swimmers competing, Grace Harvey (Hoddesdon SC), Jessica- Jane Applegate (City of Norwich SC) , Louise Fiddes (Hatfield SC) and Jordan Catchpole (Team Waveney SC) have all been selected to be para swimmers within the squad.
The Swimming Competition webpage has now been updated with the General Conditions for the Long Course Championships 2022, and the General Conditions for the Regional Development Competition 2022. Please read through before entering either event.
Entries for the forthcoming Swim England East Region Long Course Championships and Development Competition will open shortly. In the meantime, the consideration times for the development competition have been released and can be found on the last page of the Information Document. Athletes may not enter the Development Competition if they have the championship consideration
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Swim England facilitated the return to swimming competition by temporarily reducing the total number of technical officials required at each licence level. At the same time, the level of qualification required to perform certain officiating roles at some licence levels was also temporarily relaxed. This period of relaxed requirements will expire
Applications are invited from Swim England East Region members who are British Swimming Technical Officials (minimum qualification licensed Judge Level 1) and Poolside Volunteers who would like to assist at the SE East Region Long Course Championships being held in Norwich and Luton. The competition dates are: – Regional Long Course Championships (Inc. Development Events)
