Final informationhas now been released in preparation for the event this coming weekend in London. All information can be found on the Swimming Competition page of the website, including a link to merchandise for the event if you wish to purchase it. All the live action for this weekend’s Festival of Swimming in London can be found on our YouTube channel:
Session Seven
Session Eight
Session Nine
Session Ten
Session Eleven
Session Twelve
Final information has now been released in preparation for the event this coming weekend in Norwich. All information can be found on the Swimming Competition page of the website, including a link to merchandise for the event if you wish to purchase it. All the live action for day one of this weekend’s Festival of Swimming at Norwich can be found on our YouTube channel.
Let all your friends and family know.
Session One
Session Two
Session Three
Session Four
Session Five
Session Six
As part of the Tokyo 2020 campaign to drive more people into our pools, Swim England wish to work with clubs around the country to ensure there are taster days available for swimmers with a disability that wish to try the sport off the back of the Paralympics.
They have an allocated pot of funding to assist 3 clubs in the East Region to deliver a taster session for swimmers with a disability. The funding is designed to help fund pool hire/ coaches costs/ promotional material and will be around £150 per club. This taster session can be part of an existing session, or a bespoke session. If you wish to be part of the campaign, but do not require the funding, please do let us know.
More information, and the application form, can be found on our Disability Development webpage.
Final information has now been released in preperation for the event this weekend. All information can be found on the Swimming Competition page of the website, including a link to merchandise for the event if you wish to purchase anything.
These Awards will recognise East Region members, celebrating the incredible spirit of our aquatic community especially evident during the challenging period of the pandemic. The Awards will showcase individuals and groups across a number of categories based around two streams: Inspirational Awards and Innovation Awards.
Individuals can be nominated for their role as either a volunteer, athlete, club coach or club teacher – all of which form the backbone of each aquatic sport. Groups and clubs can also be nominated for the Innovation awards.
Nominations are now open and will close 15th August 2021.
This year, the Regional Recognition Awards form part of the National Awards Programme 2021, whereby the regional winners will be selected from the national nominations received. To find out more about the categories, and to submit a nomination, please visit the Awards webpage.
The Region is taking players 2007- 2010 born into the Academy which is the start of the water polo talent pathway. The first Academy date is 24th July at Riverside Ice and Leisure. Players who meet set criteria at the Regional Academy may be selected to attend the National Academy. At the National Academy, players have the opportunity to be selected for England teams.
Players must book in advance. More information can be found on the Water Polo Dvelopment webpage.
Future Champions Meet – 24th-25th July 2021 – Basildon Sporting Village
Entries for the Future Champions Meet (for 10/11 at Basildon Sporting Village on the 24th-25th July close on Friday 9th July 2021 at midday. To enter this event, please follow this link:
https://www.swimmingresults.org/events/eastregionbm21/
Festival of Swimming – Additional Racing Opportunities
Swim England East Region has conducted its review of entries following the closure of the Stage 1 Entry Process.
With close to 4,000 entries, events at the London Aquatics Centre are now full. The Region has identified, however, an opportunity for additional athletes to swim at Norwich, and is therefore introducing four development 100m events in Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Freestyle. Please see the updated schedule on the Swimming Competitions page.
The events are open to swimmers aged 12 and over at 31 December 2021 who meet the consideration time (unchanged) and have not entered the same event in Stage 1 of the entry process. Swimmers can use times from 01.01.2019 to the entry closing date. The time must be on rankings at the point of entry and may be from Levels 1,2,3,4 or X. If too many athletes with the consideration time enter the events, the slowest swimmers will be rejected first.
Closing Date for entries is 10th July 2021 at noon. To enter – please follow this link:
https://www.swimmingresults.org/events/eastregionfs21x/
Para swimmers who wish to enter these 100m events and meet the para consideration times, again unchanged, should email swimentries@eastswimming.loxfyq1r35-lxd6r712q49g.p.temp-site.link for details of how to do so.
Athletes may not enter the development events if they are already entered for the same event at the London Aquatics Centre. Swimmers may however enter the development events if they are swimming other events at the London Aquatics Centre. Please fully read the conditions for the development events before entering to ensure you understand the implications of trying to enter the same 100m event at both locations.
Please do not ask to transfer a 100m swim from the LAC to Norwich as it will be refused.
Luton Diving Club’s Amy Rollinson came away with a bronze medal at the Diving European Junior Championships in Croatia last week. It was the first time Amy had competed at this competition, and won the bronze in the Girl’s A 1m final after qualifying in eighth position for the final.
Her final score of 395.30 greatly improved on her mark of 359.85 from the preliminaries and saw her beating out Germany’s Jette Muller.
Amy also finished 5th on 3m. Well done to Amy and her coach Stephen Hewat on this great success.
We are hopeful that it will be possible to return to competition in the new season, and have therefore booked Newmarket Leisure Centre for an East Region Masters Competition on Sunday 10th October. Clearly this will be dependent on whatever COVID restrictions apply at that time, but if everyone can get the date on their calendars we will publish an update towards the end of July.
A reminder that the deadline for Stage 1 entries for the Swim England East Region Festival of Swimming is Friday 2nd July at midday.
With close to 2,500 individual swim entries already received, those with Stage 1 consideration times who are minded to enter are strongly advised to do so before this deadline. There is no guarantee of entry beyond this date.
A review of entries will be carried out over the 3rd/4th July. Any decision about a Stage 2 entry process will be communicated in the following week.
We are delighted to be hosting our second Virtual Diving Workshop. This time we have GB Diver Ben Cutmore attending for a Q&A session along with Reiss Beckford and Amy Bryant hosting masterclasses. Registration closes Thursday 1st July
The Region has now conducted its review of the Future Champions Meet.
In light of the Government decision to delay the relaxation of social distancing measures to 19th July, the decision has been taken to move the meet by one week to 24th/25th July. The venue will remain Basildon Sporting Village. We are most grateful for the support of Everyone Active and Swim England Essex in assisting in making these revised arrangements so quickly.
In view of the change of date, the closing date for entries to the event has been extended to midday on Friday 9th July.
Entries will soon open, via an online system which will be published on the Swim England East Region website shortly. Entries will be by individuals and/or their parents/carers, rather than by a club official.
Much work has gone in to rearranging this event and the Region is entirely committed to it taking place. Given the recent instability presented by COVID-19, particularly the Delta variant, it is somewhat superfluous to state that the Region, its clubs and parents/carers all have a role in managing swimmer expectations, as any further delay could lead to a more protracted delay to the staging of this meet.
We dearly hope, however, to welcome you all to the meet at Basildon in July.
Updated documentation, including the revised documentation, can be found here.
