Newham & UEL Swimming Club

Talent Lane

This programme is to help young swimmers bridge the gap between swimming lessons and club/competitive swimming. Swimmers are invited to join TL with the vision of them joining our competitive squads once they have completed TL.

TL provides swimmers with more in-depth and stroke focused sessions that will make going into the first competitive squad smoother. All swimmers in TL must still do their swimming lessons as well as attending their 1 TL session per week as this ensures development is fast and we can move swimmers into the club quickly. We aim to have swimmers spend 6 months or less in TL. 

Prospective Talent Lane members should have reached the following criteria before requesting a trial:

-Minimum of Stage 7 (Everyone Active) or Bronze (GLL/Better) in Learn to Swim-

-Minimum of 6 years old-

-Be able to swim a minimum of 25 metres frontcrawl, backstroke and breaststroke-

Once in Talent Lane, members will be expected to attend once a week, whilst also completing their swimming lessons. The aim for Talent Lane members is to move into our competitive pathway and become a competitve swimmer.

If you like to organise a trial for your child, please contact the Talent lane Coordinator, Rhianna-Lee, on the following email. Please also include your childs name, age and swimming stage in the email.

Rhianna-Lee : [email protected]