Entries have opened for the two May weekends of the Long Course Swimming Championships. Weekend 2 completes the events for swimmers who are 15 and older as well as Para swimmers. Both weekends contain all the events for swimmers aged 11 to 14. Details of the events being swum during each weekend can be found
Entries for the first weekend will close at midnight on 24th March, just a few days away. This year that is a strict deadline as we do not have the time to offer a review period. There is an exception to this, if a swimmer achieves a qualifying time (not an improved qualifying time) at
Interested in Becoming an Open Water Technical Official? 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
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
With only 7 days until the Co-Creation of the Future of Coaching workshop is being held in the East Region there is still time to book your place. Swim England is consulting with coaches, participants, parents and clubs on a new strategy to be published later this year. The Co-Creation of the Future of Coaching
As there are only a few days between the close of entries and the swimming of the first event we are not able to publish a timetable based on actual entries early enough for those attending to be able to plan for the weekend. The provisional timetable below is based on the assumption that entries
Final information has now been released for this coming weekend – Weekend One of our Long Course Championships. Further information for Weekend Two and Three will be released next week.
Entries have opened for the first weekend of the Long Course Swimming Championships. Details of the events being swum in the first weekend can be found in the Race Schedule here. The conditions and qualification times (unchanged from those published on 2nd January) for the meet are on the Swimming Competitions page which can be
The Accepted Entries for Weekend 1 have been added to the Swimming Competitions page and can also be found here. There is no review period. The start times of the second, third and finals sessions may be slightly later than shown in the provisional timetable. The times will be confirmed in the information pack published
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
Swim England have announced a new online application process to apply to become a swimming Judge Level 2 (stroke judge). This replaces the previous process of completing an application form and sending it to the Regional officials’ coordinator. Judge Level 2 is the next step in the swimming technical official qualification, building upon the skills
The next online presentation will be on Thursday 10 April 2025 @ 7:00pm on Zoom, the presenters are David Metcalf and Tony Ward (WPS ITO’s). The CPD is an introduction to officiating at events that include swimmers with a disability, aimed at swimming technical officials, Judge Level 1 or above. This CPD will give an
