REN96 swimmers’ hard work since August has clearly paid off as the club’s squad swimmers excelled at the first weekend of the West District Short Course Championship at Glasgow’s Tollcross pool. Saturday 21st October saw 20 of REN96’s younger swimmers head to Tollcross to compete in 73 events, achieving 47 Personal Best (PB) times. If that wasn’t impressive enough they won a total of 18 medals, including 9 Gold, 7 Silver and 2 Bronze. Lead Coach Alan Dickson said “It’s great to see all the early season effort being translated...

Back nearer home, 12 REN96 swimmers were also in action having been selected at the end of a successful 2022/23 season for Scottish Swimming’s Junior, Senior and Youth Academies, which are part of its prestigious National and Regional Development programmes. Three of REN96’s 12 years-and-under swimmers - Charlotte Craig, Ella Craig and Jack Kivlehan - took part in the Junior Academy training day at Cumbernauld Tryst Sports Centre, while six of the club’s 13 & 14 year olds - Cara White, Murray Johnston, Cole McCluskey, Ryan Crabbe, Evie Chan and...

It was a busy weekend for local swimming club REN96, with 14 swimmers, coach Euan, Team managers, helpers and parents travelling all the way to Dumfries for an early morning start on Sunday 17th at the annual ‘Dumfries Dip and Dash’. Dumfries Amateur Swimming Club were excellent hosts at their home pool - the local DG1 leisure complex - and it was a very successful meet for REN96, with the team setting 25 personal best times and taking 20 medals back home. REN96 were up against tough competition from Dumfries’s...

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...