Humble David Robinson said he was greatly honoured to be named the recipient of the Swim England Alfred H Turner Award – but believed there were more worthy winners. “I do not think I do any more than hundreds and hundreds of other people,” said the surprised 74-year-old. “It seems unbelievable that it’s for me.”
As we are sure you are aware, on Wednesday 27th May Swim England issued a statement cancelling all national events scheduled to take place in latter part of 2020. In respect of swimming, this included the Swim England National Winter Championships, traditionally the culmination of the domestic short course swimming season. Last week, FINA also
Following the announcement by Swim England that all national events are cancelled until the end of the year, Swim England East Region has taken the decision to cancel the following competitions: Masters Championships, planned for 27th September 2020 Disability Championships, planned for 11th October 2020 Short Course Swimming Championships, planned for 6th, 7th and 8th
Swim England has today announced that all national competitions have been cancelled for the remainder of 2020. The region’s management team will now review and provide an update for region competition in due course.
Swim England have temporarily stopped issuing licences for meets due to the ongoing Covid19 pandemic. A statement has been published to this effect
Swim England have launched a toolkit for clubs during these unprecedented times.
Guidance from Swim England regarding land work undertaken at home can be found here. It is important club coaches take note of this. Swim England’s Talent Team will be posting up regular videos on their Youtube page which can be found here. This will include some land based exercises.
A note from our National Talent Officer, Mike Parker regarding the brilliant new resources that are now online and the plans for the coming weeks: Hi Team Please see the links to the introduction to the support package Swim England are planning on providing going forward and the 1st workshop. All will be posted
Message from the National Talent Team: Dear Coaches and Committee Members, In light of the current situation that our country finds itself in, specifically with the recent closure of leisure facilities and club programmes, the Club Development team are working extremely hard to produce an FAQ document to support our clubs in this
All refunds for the 1500m Long Course event have been made via Paypal. All refunds for the main Long Course events, including para entries have been made.
On Wednesday 4th March, 95 coaches descended on the Fielder Centre in Hatfield for a day of learning, sharing and developing. With more than 75% of the regional championships qualifying clubs in attendance, it was a great showing and a wonderful opportunity for our coaches to develop. To see so many club coaches both full
Half term was a very busy week for our development team with three swimming camps all taking place in the same week! We had two camps on the Monday and Tuesday in Peterborough for a group of athletes who just missed qualifying for the summer national championships in the 18-19 season. The Performance Foundations Camps
