End of season 2023-24

The end of season always finishes with British Championships and Home Nations Nationals.

First off was Eve Leleux competing at the British Championships in the 400m Free.  Taking place at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, Eve had a good paced swim, finishing in a credible 21st place in the 18 & over age group.

Next up was Dylan Thompson competing at Open Water National Age Group Championships in the 5000m event, finishing an impressive 14th place in the competitive age group of 14/15years as a 14year old.

Final competition of the season is the Home Nations Nationals, we had Lola Wheeler and Beth Barrett qualifying for the Swim England National Summer Meet also taking place at Ponds Forge, Sheffield.

Lola qualified for the 1500m Freestyle event, she had a great, well paced swim, doing a seasonal best time, finishing in the top 10 of the 17yr age group in 9th place.

Beth Barrett qualified for 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m Free events.  First up was 200m Free, achieving a small PB in the heat she qualified for the evenings final, where she achieved a huge 2sec PB and came storming down the last 25m to take joint silver.

Day 2 saw Beth competing in the 50m Free, with another PB in the heat and through to the evening's final, she achieved another PB, taking 5th place and only 0.2seconds off a bronze medal.  Next up was the 400m Free, having a good swim but slightly off her PB she finished 14th.  Final day was the 100m Free, breaking the minute for the first time in the heat with a 59.48 qualifying in 3rd spot for the final.  Despite turning 5th at the 50m mark, Beth stormed down the last 50m, breaking the 59sec barrier and taking gold in 58.74.

An amazing achievement by all for even qualifying for these events, time for a well earned break and some rest and recovery for all.  See you in September

Wolverhampton Summer Sprint Meet 2024

13/14th July - Central Baths, Wolverhampton

Full results can be found here

Next up are the 2024 British Championships - competing at this prestigious event we have Eve Leleux in 400m Free.  Followed by the Open Water National Age Group Championships - here we have Dylan Thompson competing in the 5000m. 

And to finish the 2024 season we have the SE National Summer Meet  - where we have Lola Wheeler and Beth Barrett competing in various events. 

Then a well earned rest for all over August ready to start it all again in September for the 24-25 season.

Wolverhampton Spring Open Meet 2024

16th/17th March - Central Baths, Wolverhampton

Well done to everyone who competed at Wolverhampton Spring Open Meet.  This event was Wrekin's first competition since the County Championships, the aim - to see who could improve their personal best times and a chance to gain further Regional qualifying times.  The team did not disappoint, plenty of PB's, medals and great swimming from all. Charlie, Sam and Adam achieved more West Midland qualifying times and we had Alessio Lucas, who is only 11 years old, gaining his first ever Regional time in the 11/12yrs 200m Breaststroke.

We had several new young members of the team competing at their first ever competition, so huge well done to Raedan, Rayfe, Beattie, Rose, Arlo and Zak, all swam really well gaining lots of PB's and medals between them.

Special congratulations to Charlie and Fran for achieving Top Boy/Girl in their age groups.

Full results here

SHROPSHIRE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024

20th/21st/27th/28th January & 3rd February - Wolverhampton Central Baths

Three back to back weekends of racing for the squad at this year's County Champs, and what great performances we had from the team, you all did yourselves and the Club proud.  Winning plenty of medals, Personal Bests and West Midland Qualifying times.

Wrekin had 13 swimmers finishing in the top three overall age groups.

Our younger swimmers qualifying for their first ever County Champs were   Callum Gledhill, Zak Jones, Eliza Rozenberszki and Beattie Rumford-Warr all four swam well, gained new Personal Bests and made finals.

Eliza also went on to gain medals in most her events and took 2nd overall trophy in the girls 10/11yr age group, fantastic achievement in her first County Champs.

Huge thank you to all our parents and volunteers who gave up their time to either officiate or be part of the volunteer crew, without you these events would not run.

SUMMARY OF RESULTS

79

GOLD

55

SILVER

50

BRONZE

74

WEST MIDLAND QUALIFYING TIMES

301

PERSONAL BEST TIMES

Full results here

OVERALL AGE GROUP WINNERS  GIRLS

10/11yrs

 Eliza Rozenberszki - 2nd

12 yrs

Esmay Jones - 1st

Maisy Kirby - 3rd

16yrs

Beth Barrett - 1st

17&over

Lola Wheeler - 2nd

Francesca Davies - 3rd

OVERALL AGE GROUP WINNERS

BOYS

10/11yrs

Alessio Lucas - 1st

12yrs

Adam Rahati - 1st

13yrs

Oliver Regan - 3rd

14yrs

Sam Good - 1st

Charlie Scollard-Kerr - 2nd

16yrs

Jarrod Care - 3rd

17&over

Joe Ritson - 1st

Wolverhampton SC Winter Open Meet 2023

25/26th November - Wolverhampton Central Baths

A full weekend of swimming for the team in attendance at Wolverhampton SC meet.  This was the last competition for everyone before the Christmas break.  And a chance to gain more race practice and those much needed County qualifying times before next year's County Champs kick off.

The swimmers did the club proud gaining plenty of medals and personal best times. Along with five of the team coming away with Top overall swimmer for their age group.



SWIM ENGLAND WEST MIDLANDS WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023

4th/5th November - Sandwell Aquatics Centre

This years regional short course competition was held at the new commonwealth games venue - Sandwell Aquatics Centre.

Wrekin had several swimmers qualify for the event who all had a great weekend of racing, gained some early season personal best times and some top eight finishers.

Kicking off the two day event was Beth Barrett in the 400Free, Beth gained her first PB of the season in the event and also went on to gain a five second PB in the 200Free later in the day, qualifying for the afternoon final of the 15&under category and came in 4th place, just missing out on a medal by 0.2 seconds.

Joe Ritson wasn't on top form Saturday for his 1500Free event but still finished 4th in the 16&over event. However, Sunday was a different story, finding his form on the day saw Joe finishing 4th in the 800Free with a new personal best time of 08:38.46. He also went on to qualify for the finals that day in 200Back and 200Free, gaining further PB's in both events taking a very respectable 6th place in the 200Free and the podium bronze place in the 200Back.

Lola Wheeler had a good swim on Saturday in the 1500Free earning herself the bronze medal in the 16&over category.  Sunday saw her back again for the 800Free event where she finished 6th in the 16&over category gaining a new PB.

Evelyn Price qualified for this competition for the first time, having some great swims in the 15&under category and came away with some new personal best times.

Mason Carter qualified for the gruelling 200Fly, swimming a new personal best in the heats, he qualified for the final in the 16&over category. Equalling his PB Mason finished in 7th place overall.

Francesca Davies qualified for a few events at this competition, she just keeps on surprising us with great performances in all her events and coming away with some new personal best times too.

Tiegan Dunne qualified for both the 100 & 200Breast events, swimming really well in both races she gained two new personal best times in these events.

Full results here

SWIM ENGLAND NATIONAL COUNTY TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023

8th October 2023

Ponds Forge - Sheffield

Congratulations to the following swimmers who were selected to be part of Shropshire County Team:

Evelyn Price

Sam Good

Charlie Scollard-Kerr

Francesca Davies

Beth Barrett

Full results can be found here

WORCESTER AUTUMN OPEN MEET 2023

30th September - 1st October 2023

Perdiswell Leisure Centre, Worcester

This was the club's first competition of the 2023-24 season.  After a good summer break for all, this event gave our senior squad swimmers a chance to get some early race practice in and for the younger swimmers a base line for times for the new season and a chance to race again.  It was a long weekend for all those competing, with the programme including all usual stroke/distances plus 400m events and a skins event.

Although this early meet is just an event for race practice for all, the team achieved many Personal Best times over the course of the weekend, this is due to all the hard work and hours these swimmers have put into training since the summer break.

Special mention to Esmay Jones who took the overall Top Female trophy with 118 points and winning herself a £50 prize, and   Maisy Kirby who finished third overall in the female category with 85 points, missing out on second place by just one point.  Well done girls!

And a huge well done to all, as Wrekin Swimming Club took the Top Club trophy winning with 852 points, over 100 points in front of second place!

Overall, the team had a great meet, with lots of PB's, race experience and most of all fun. Well done team Wrekin!

Results for the weekend can be found here