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Well done to those who competed at last week's King of the Pool event. It was a great experience for the swimmers who all tried very hard. One of our main aims is to educate swimmers in competing legally without disqualification so to have so few disqualifications is a great achievement and shows how the hard work is paying off. I would also like to give a massive thank you to all the parents who volunteered to give their time to help run the evening. We could not run these...

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New Members Trials Night Date: Tuesday 20th June 2023 Venue: Teaching Pool at Pool in the Park, Woking Leisure Centre Age range: Children born between January 2014 and December 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 from any swimmers that...

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The Masters Long Course Championship 2023 saw another spectacular weekend of racing for Woking Swimming Club, returning from Swansea with four British records, 24 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 3 bronze medals. Michelle Ware dominated her age category, securing new British records, along with six gold medals, in the 50 metre backstroke, the 50 metre freestyle, the 50 metre butterfly and the 100 metre freestyle. Ware said: “I was really pleased with my swims and quite surprised to break the records so early in the season! “I’m looking forward...

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The second weekend on the Annual Surrey County championships started with Woking in close second with other clubs right behind us. We were determined to work hard to maintain our position. Session 1 The swimming started with an incredible performance from the U12 girls with Ellie Macleod (1.17.29), Francesca Johnson (1.18.58) and Eva Selden (1.22.06) placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd to reach the final. 100 fly was flooded with Woking talent with 10 swimmers competing in the event. Though this wasn’t enough for our girls as 9 of them did...

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Woking Swimming Club will be running swim clincs during February half term. Please see the attached document for further details and T&C's.

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Woking Masters ended 2022 on a high, with multiple members of the team showing their talent in the pool in the final British Swimming Masters Decathlon Competition results. The British Swimming Masters Decathlon Competition is an annual competition in which master’s swimmers (those in the 25+ age category) accumulate points for up to 10 swims out of the different swimming events (17 long course and 18 short course) available. Swimmers must compete in a minimum of one event in each of the 4 strokes, an IM and a distance freestyle...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...