The Paris 2024 Paralympics saw further success for swimmers who started their swimming journey in the East Region. Ellie Challis won gold in the S3 50m Backstroke and came 4th in S3 100m Freestyle. This follows a successful European Championship in Portugal earlier this year where Ellie returned with gold in the 50m backstroke and
The Para-Swimming Competitions page has been updated with the Accepted Entries which can also be found here. No further changes can be made to the Accepted Entries. A Programme has also been added to the page. The Para-Swimming Competitions page can be found here.
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
The next online presentation will be on Friday 11 October 2024 @ 7:00pm by Zoom, the presenters are David Metcalf and Tony Ward (WPS ITO’s). The CPD is an introduction to officiating at events that include swimmers with a disability, aimed at swimming technical officials, Judge Level 1 or above. This CPD will give an
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
The Region requires a professional to produce minutes from our various meetings. This is a temporary requirement for the next six months to cover maternity leave. There is normally 1 or 2 meetings per week that would be recorded and sent to you to produce the minutes on our standard template, a turnaround of 5
The Region is looking for a new volunteer to head up our Region. As Regional Chair you would join the current team as a company director and trustee of the company, Swim England East Region. You would chair the Board meetings scheduled throughout the year as required and help develop the strategy for the Region,
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
Entries are open for the SEER Para-Swimming Meet being held on Sunday 22nd September 2024 at Newmarket Leisure Centre. The closing date for entries is 21st August 2024. There are two entry forms, one for those who will be Classified at the Meet and one for other competitors. The Classification form has been designed to
This year’s Championships will be held on 29th September at Newmarket Leisure Centre. For the first time, this will include Para awards, plus a Top Team award and Top Individual Open/Male and Female awards for East Region Club’s and East Region swimmers only. The Entry Pack can be found here: https://eastswimming.org/masters/masters-competitions/ The closing date for
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 swimming@eastswimming.org
The programme and the live results link for Sunday’s Open Water Championships 2024 can be found on the Open Water Competitions webpage
