Over the weekend Woking Swimming Club took part in the Surrey County Championship for 2023 at the Surrey Sports Park. Every year we aim to be as competitive as possible and after the first weekend we are currently sitting in second place on the points table. This highlighted a great team effort over the weekend where a large number of swimmers performed well and continued the competitive ethos of the club. Day 1 Session number 1 Started with the Girls 200m Freestyle and in the 10-11yrs age group Abby Whitaker...

Good luck to the 40 Woking Swimmers participating in over 230 races over the coming weekends at the Surrey Age Group Championships 2023. This year it's closer to home at the Surrey Research Park, and spans both the Saturday and Sunday on the weekends of 21/22nd Jan and 4/5th Feb . For some younger swimmers it could be their first time at the 'Surrey's', but for all swimmers they will be chasing PB's and looking foward to the year ahead with goals of Regionals and Nationals. Reports of the weekends...

We would like to congratulate Alex Counsell on becoming a Swim England Level 3 Head Coach after completing his course work last season. Alex joined Woking Swimming Club a few months after I did 9 years ago as a level 1 coach, working between teaching and coaching swimmers in many levels. He has been increasing his knowledge and expertise as a coach ever since with experience at higher levels of competition. As a colleague I have always admired Alex’s honesty, loyalty and reliability but more so he has been a...

Well done to all the swimmers who were at the King of the Pool training session on Sunday the 4th December. These sessions are a great way for younger aspiring swimmers to test their skills and identify areas of strength and weakness so they can improve. It always helps swimmers build their confidence the more of these session they participate in so hope to you all at the next one. KOTP WInners Bronz Dev 50Freestyle 50Breastroke 50Backstroke 50Butterfly James Toghill 42.60 1.01.49 51.18 Austin Wormlington 52.18 Senior Academy 50Freestyle 50Breastroke...

South East Winter Short Course Championships 2022 The first major meet of the season saw our top senior swimmers travelling to Winchester to compete in South East Winter Short Couse (SC) Championships. This early in the season it is tough to swim at your best but is an outstanding opportunity to test yourself early on against the best in the South East. Eight athletes representing Woking qualified for the event. It was a good start to the Woking campaign with Sophie King (16) gaining a Bronze medal to finish with...

On Saturday the 3rd of December Woking Swimming Club had the KRSC-Epsom & Woking 800 & 1500m. The event was held at the Guildford Spectrum where we had 27 swimmers compete in the event. There was great effort all around and some very good swims. These are important events for swimmer development so well done to all that took part. Woking won 12 of the events on offer as well as having 5 swimmers qualified for the 1500m and 2 swimmers qualified for the 800m Surrey County Championship. Winners: 800FS...

New Members' Trials Night - Tuesday 29th November Date: Tuesday 29th November 2022 Venue: Teaching Pool at Pool in the Park, Woking Leisure Centre Age range: Children born between April 2013 and March 2017 (view options for other ages) Our upcoming Trials Night is for children who are interested in competitive swimming and is used to offer places in our swim squads for the Spring Term - register here. Click here for more details and to find out how to reserve a time slot We would also love to hear...

Woking Masters swimmers were out in force at the Swim England Masters National Championships at Ponds Forge International Pool this weekend, 28th – 30th October. A fabulous weekend of racing by all of the squad that resulted in many medals and PBs : 14 Gold, 9 Silver and 2 Bronze medals along with 6 British Records and 4 European records A year on from the creation of the squad, Woking masters continues to dominate in the pool with the recent Swim England Masters Nationals Championship demonstrating the strength of the...

This season our very own Michael Gar has postponed his University studies to move to Italy to prepare and race in the Grand Prix Triathlon series. He will be doing this to help his aspiration of qualifying for the European and World Championships. He will be returning to Woking Swimming Club on occasion to continue his training and racing. We wish him all the best towards success as he is a very talented young triathlete and very driven.

Woking Swimming Club has continued its strong reputation for placing young Swimmers on the Surrey county swimming development camps they have run each season. These terms are selected based on the previous seasons results. The first of these camps will be run on the 27th of November 2022 at ACS Chobham. This season we congratulate the following swimmers: Girls Ellie Macleod Eva Selden Francesca Johnson Erin Henderson Boys Joshua Hutchinson Our coach Seb Leather will also be a coach on the camps.