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It is not often that almost the whole swim team records at least one personal best time (PB) at a meet, but that is what happened with REN96 recently, when 28 out of the 29 REN96 swimmers competing at the South Ayrshire swim team’s ‘Sue McClure’ event achieved at least one PB. The whole team looked on top form throughout the day and their results shone through as they won 5 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 7 bronze medals. Just as impressive was that the team amassed 12 ‘Too...
REN96 made a strong start to the 2024/25 season by hosting the 'Pentaqua' meet at the On-x pool. Check out the October edition of the Gryffe Advertiser for all the details. Allan Kelly for REN96
What a fantastic weekend of competitive, exciting and fun swimming for REN96 at Irvine’s Portal swimming pool, with personal bests, medals and first competitive swims galore! Meeting old rivals and friends from north and south Ayrshire, Kilmarnock, Stranraer, Bellshill, West Dumbartonshire, Bishopbriggs, Rutherglen, Glasgow and Renfrew spurred on REN96’s swimmers to perform superbly. Saturday was the turn of 25 of REN96’s 12-years-and-over swimmers in a range of events from the 50m freestyle to the 400m individual medley and 400m freestyle. At this early time in the season REN96’s swimmers are...
REN96’s 2024/25 season started with a big splash when the club hosted its ‘Pentaqua’ meet at Linwood’s On-x swimming pool. In this unusual event format every swimmer who entered had to swim all 5 events, which included 100m individual medley, 50m butterfly, 50m backstroke and 50m freestyle (for the youngest swimmers in the 7-8 year old group it was 25m butterfly, breast and freestyle) and it’s a great sign of the depth of talent at REN96 that they were able to field an impressive 69 swimmers for this great event....
Check out the latest edition of the Gryffe Advertiser for further details. Allan Kelly for REN96
Fresh from winning the Clyde Coast Mini-League the weekend before, REN96’s end of season, 2-day Development meet on home territory at the On-x in Linwood was always going to be busy and exciting - and it didn’t disappoint. It was a great opportunity for the swimmers to end their season on a high or to tune up their skills for the upcoming National Meets. On Saturday afternoon and evening, REN96 - Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire’s largest swimming club - had 52 swimmers competing against several teams from across Scotland and...
REN96 swimmers are celebrating after their fantastic victory in the final of the 2024 Clyde Coast Mini-League, one of the highlights in the Scottish swimming calendar. Undefeated after 3 heats over the past few months, the pressure was on the young REN96 team to deliver on the promise shown by their wins in the heats - they didn’t disappoint. Battling it out in Ayr against tough competition from Cumbernauld, City of Glasgow, Larkhall, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire, REN96 took a convincing lead from early on. Showing the depth and...
