This course is ideal for players, coaches and parents to learn and understand the rules and give back to the sport by officiating at local league games, regional and national tournaments and university BUCs matches. Registration closes 31st October
Date: Saturday 2nd November 2024
Venue: Riverside Leisure Centre, Victoria Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1FG
Time: 9.40am – 12.30pm Please bring your own snacks and drinks. There is a café on site.
Cost: £15
We are pleased to confirm that all poolside passes for coaches, team managers and chaperones will remain free of charge for the 2024 short course championships.
In recent years, we have not offered food and tea/coffee refreshments to coaches and team personnel. This is largely because coaches have preferred to make their own arrangements. We have received a limited number of requests to offer refreshments to these colleagues. Unfortunately we cannot do this free of charge, as the cost is relatively high and the championships now run on a break-even basis. We will, however, offer it at cost price. Payment will be via invoice to the club.
A tea/coffee pass will cost £10 per person for the weekend.
A food pass will cost £25 per person for the weekend (and will include tea/coffee – there is no need to purchase both passes). Food will comprise sandwiches, cake, crisps – there is no hot option.
Passes are transferrable – i.e if two coaches do a day each, they can transfer their pass.
If your club would like to purchase one of these options, please complete the form by Monday 28th October. We will collate the requests and then invoice the club in the week leading up to the championships.
All poolside passes must still be obtained via the online system, queries about poolside passes should be directed to [email protected]
Awarded to the individual, team or club who has made a significant contribution to the sport within Swim England East Region, we are delighted to announce that Ian Rollinson is the 2024 winner of the Jeff Cook Salver.
| The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has launched a new Supporting Safer Sports campaign, providing resources to those working and volunteering in sports. They are running a series of free workshops on different aspects of DBS which may be of interest and of use to club welfare officers or other club officers who have responsibility for DBS checks. To book please click the link for the workshop you would like to attend.
Please note these workshops are not run by Swim England and are not mandatory to attend, your attendance will not be noted on your SE membership. |
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Angharad Evans rubber stamped her ticket for an Olympic Games debut in Paris after a brilliant season of preparation in 2024 that included her breaking the Women’s 100m Breaststroke British record.
Based at the University of Stirling but having started her swimming career at West Suffolk SC, Angharad had threatened the best-ever British mark over 100m in the lead-up to April’s Aquatics GB Swimming Championships – and while she narrowly missed out on it at that meet, she duly reset that record a month later, clocking a 1:05.54 in the same London Aquatics Centre pool at the AP Race International.
At the Olympics in Paris she progressed easily through to the final and finished a creditable 6th against some of the biggest names in women’s breaststroke swimming, just a couple of 100’s off her British Record. Angharad was also a member of the 4x100m Medley Relay team who finished 5th in the final!
Laura Stephens has become an established butterfly specialist on Aquatics GB teams over the past half decade, claiming World Championship gold in 2024 for 200m Fly ahead of her second Olympic Games appearance.
The Loughborough Performance Centre athlete who started her swimming career at Harwich, Dovercourt & Parkstone SC and then moved to Colchester SC showed good control as the leading pack in her semi-final went clear, holding her race pace well to sit fifth for the majority of the race and clock a time that put her in contention ahead of the second semi-final – dropping three seconds from her morning heat and qualifying her for the final where she finished 8th.
18 different clubs from across the UK took to the podium in an exciting weekend at the Swim England Diving National Skills Finals 2024. This year’s event was hosted by the Swim England East Region with the Southend Leisure and Tennis Centre the home of this year’s competition. A number of divers and clubs shone throughout the weekend, including the home club Southend – who won their joint highest ever medal count at the competition with six. That saw them tie with their total from last year which began with the club’s double podium in the Group E Female competition.
Southend were also on the podium in the Group E Open competition with Parker Halsey earning them silver. He scored 291.45 points to finish narrowly behind Corby Steel Diving Club’s Leonard Soltoianu more...
The race schedule, qualifying standards and entry pack for the Short Course Championships have been added to the swimming competitions page.
We look forward to welcoming the region’s clubs and their supporters to Luton; the championships will take place over the weekend of 1st-3rd November 2024.
Queries can be directed to [email protected]
This certificate develops the specialist skills needed to work as an open water coach and effectively and independently plan, prepare, deliver, monitor and evaluate a series of open water training sessions. Blended learning is a more flexible approach where you complete the theory elements of the course online through eLearning and webinar sessions, this will also include the theoretical assessment. You will then attend the practical session at a lake.
8th and 29th August 6-9pm Zoom
7th and 8th September 9-5pm Stanborough Park, AL8 6DF
If you are a Swim England member, a discount maybe be available as a Member Offer – please contact your club.
Congratulations to Amy Rollinson with her partner Desharne Bent-Ashmeil on winning gold in the Women’s 3m Synchro to land another diving title for Great Britain. Consistency was the key in the women’s 3m synchro event. Bent-Ashmeil and Rollinson not only put together a solid programme with three 3.0DD dives but they also performed them without bigger mistakes. Great Britain took the title with 269.10pts ahead of Sweden who earned 258.75.
Rollinson who started her diving career at Luton Diving Club explained the reason behind their success, saying: “We’ve kind of come together a couple of years ago and found out that our techniques matched well.
“Here there was the first time we had a proper practice together as we both were focusing on our individual events but we also found that if we do that we can do the synchro better.”
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On 31st May 2024, Swim England East Region took its first ever Artistic Swimming Squad to the Artistic Swimming Regional Games (this was a first for the region too!). Seven of the eight Swim England regions were competing at Hengrove Leisure Centre, Hengrove Park, Bristol.
After holding three training sessions, a squad of 14 was selected to compete at the Games, formerly the Beacon Games. The event has three core components, that being Figures, a competitive relay and a land based video of four members. The event is held in Bristol which is the hub of Artistic Swimming in the UK. Team GB train here and the swimmers were able to see the GB squads, duets and soloists, and had a sneak peak of the routines heading to European Championships in Belgrade later this month.
The competition was extremely tough, which we expected, however everyone really enjoyed the experience, making new friends, and enjoying different styles of coaching. We had some very encouraging results, with one swimmer finishing in 3rd place for her age group. Swimmers came from Aqualina (Stevenage) Artistic Swimming Club, Chelmsford City Swimming Club, Norwich Synchronized Swimming Club and Potters Bar Artistic Swimming Club. Feedback from the squad and coaches, Kerri Clewlow, Jayne Jarvis and Emily Gower, is such that the region would hope that this becomes a regular feature on the Artistic Swimming calendar.
The East Region would like to welcome James Salmon as our new Regional Manager.
James will be supporting the operation of the region by way of leading and guiding the development and governance within the region and will be working closely with all aquatic disciplines and supporting our family of volunteers.
Having started his aquatics journey as a parent, James has recently qualified as a Referee and volunteers within his own club on a regular basis.
