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Woking Swimming Club and the Coaching Staff would like to congratulate the below swimmers for achieving a national standard for season 2021/22 inside the National Window. The British Summer Championship will be held at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, from 22nd-28th of July and the English Summer Championship at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, from 5th-9th of August. British National Summer Championship (Top 24 in Great Britain) Ben Howell - 17yrs 50m Butterfly Joshua Thompson - 18yrs 100m Breaststroke Hendrik van der Leest - 18yrs 50m, 100m, 200m Freestyle; 100m, 200m Backstroke; 100m, 200m...

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Regionals entered its final stage this weekend with the 2nd weekend of the South East Age Group Championships 2022 for the 14 and under age group. Again, it was K2 hosting the competition with an action packed weekend for Woking SC. Day 1 The day started with the boys 800 free, Ryan Turner (12) set the tone with a strong swim holding off tough competition. Neck and neck with his closest competitor for almost 10 mins to show a gutsy finish for a 10.47 sec PB and a Silver Medal...

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Date: Tuesday 28th June 2022 Venue: Teaching Pool at Woking Pool in the Park Age range: Children born between January 2013 and December 2016 (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 Autumn Term - register here. Click here for more details and to find out how to reserve a time slot We would also love to hear from any swimmers that already have previous club experience and...

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Weekend two of the South East Regional Championships which was for swimmers in the Youth category (15 years and over) at the High Wycombe Leisure Centre. Woking Swimming Club had 13 swimmers in attendance and all turned up ready to go with a strong effort throughout the weekend. For half of the swimmers it was their first regional level meet and a great learning experience for them all. Many of them were aiming to post fast times to get into the national rankings for the Summer British and English Championships,...

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Crawley’s K2 hosted the first weekend of the Regional championships 2022. The Age Group championships consisted of the best swimmers in the South East in the 14 and under age groups. Woking had an impressive 20 swimmers qualifying. Day 1 Woking kicked off the championships with the 200 IM. Although a year younger than most of her competition, Ellie Macleod (11) started off with a solid swim only 0.40 off her PB with a respectable 2.57.88. Following in the heat straight after, Lucy Wheeler (12) posted another solid time of...

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Woking Swimming Club will have 20 Swimmers competing at K1 Crawley over the weekends covering 23rd-24th of April and 7th-8th May for the Age Group Championships. At High Wycombe for the Youth Championship, covering the 29th of April to the 2nd of May, we will have another 10 swimmers represent the club. This give us a total of 30 swimmers at the South East Regional Championships, with at least 8 first timers. We wish the swimmers all the best and remind all that this is one of the last chances...

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Woking Swimming Club Alumna, Anna Maine (21), talks about her early days as a swimmer at Woking, her balance of other sports and rise to represent England at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia. Q: Anna, You were a member of WSC since the age of 6? What are your earliest memories of swimming at the club? My earliest memory was swimming in the 12.5m pool with Chris, building up my technique from the age of 8. Q: You slowly gained swimming success first at Diddys, Club Champs,...

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Woking Swimming Club Alumna, Alice Reeves-Turner (22), shares her journey from WSC swimmer to Sport Journalist interviewing Adam Peaty! Read Alice's full Bio on our Alumni page here: LINK Alice, how did you get into journalism and sports media? In my second year of university, I began to look at ways in which I could combine my love of sports with my English degree. I got in contact with Swim England, British Swimming and Swimming World Magazine, and began to do volunteer work for all three; this involved writing a...