REN96 SPRINTS MEET

Local swimming club REN96’s 2023/24 season started with a splash as 260 swimmers from 5 clubs competed over 2 days at Linwood’s On-x swimming pool.

REN96 - Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire’s largest swimming club – welcomed swimmers, coaches, officials and spectators from Bellshill Sharks ASC, Oban Otters Amateur Swimming Club, West Dunbartonshire Amateur Swimming Club and Kilmarnock Amateur Swimming Club for 2 days of hard fought, but fun, competition at the recent REN96 Sprints meet.

The event was watched by over 300 spectators and officials and ran very smoothly, giving everybody involved a great weekend of swimming. 75 REN96 swimmers set personal best times, with 57 winning medals. The photographs show all of the REN96 swimmers who competed over the weekend along with REN96 medal winners.

REN96’s new Head Coach Ross McCafferty was delighted with the club’s performance, saying

"Fantastic REN96 sprint meet! Great to see so many of our junior swimmers racing hard with lots of PBs and medals. For many of our swimmers this was their first swim meet, and I hope that they all came away with valuable race experience and most of all had fun competing. "

Competition and assistant performance coach Alan Dickson was just as pleased, commenting that “Every level of REN96 was represented and if the performances at this weekend are anything to go by we are in for another brilliant season. There were plenty of medals collected but even more impressive was the number of personal best times. All in all the meet has been a great springboard for the rest of the season.”

Running a busy event like this takes a lot of organising, help and support. REN96 would like to thank all volunteers and officials who made this great event possible.

Allan Kelly for REN96