A team of young seagulls competed down at Dorchester for the West Dorset County qualifier this past weekend with many swimmers within team having not done a open meet before. This was a perfect opportunity for the swimmers to gain experience racing and official times. Overall, the team were amazing with their racing over the weekend and as always plenty of lessons learnt from the weekend on how to get quicker and race better. Over the whole weekend we had a total number of 86 swims between the 13 swimmers...

This past weekend Seagulls had a team of 15 swimmers compete at the highly competitive TYR super series at Millfield school in Somerset. This meet had swimmers from a variety of different clubs ranging all around the country which included a number of International swimmers and national champions. Despite being early on in the season and only 7 weeks into the training cycle seagulls swimmers manage to race hard under the tough competition and come out with an impressive 65% Personal best rate which included: 1 x Gold Medal 6...

Seagulls this past weekend flew down to Dorchester for the first round of the national arena league. There were plenty of excited swimmers either who hadn’t race this competition since 2019 and many first-time members of the team. Due to following Welsh government guidelines as we compete in a league in west region the whole team were to abide by some covid guidance of wearing masks and only having 1 swimmer behind the block at a time. Also, to a few changes with the racing schedule of mixed relays we...

Seagulls were back to racing this past weekend for the Swim Bournemouth return to competition lvl 3 meet at littledown centre. It was such an amazing experience to see so many swimmers racing and cheering each other along. A great team spirit and to have the crowds cheering again even better. We have missed that atmosphere. Seagulls smashed their first meet back achieving an 78% PB rate from 218 swims and achieving: 42 x GOLD 24 x SILVER 28 x BRONZE Also 12 x Short course age group records from...

A massive congratulations to Seagull’s parent and club volunteer co – Ordinator Mish Frampton who just completed her first Iron man in Finland. She managed to complete the gruelling race which consists of 3.9K swim, 112-mile Cycle and a full marathon in 12 hours 49 minutes. An amazing achievement and massive well done from all of us at Seagulls this race takes months and months of long training hours and unbelievable amount of mental strength to finish.

Well done to Seagulls Youth performance swimmer Aiden Dure- Smith who competed in the Salty dog triathlon in Bournemouth last weekend. He managed to finish 2nd in his age group (16-19 yrs) and 9th overall out of a field of 96. Great work Aiden

Seagulls this past weekend competed at Millfield for the South West regional Festival of Swimming which had Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire counties competing at this event. The other South West regional counties, Devon and Cornwall, competed at the Plymouth Life centre in Plymouth. Results will be combined to give overall results in the region and also put towards an overall national ranking leaderboard. Seagulls had an impressive 22 qualifers for this competition based on times gained from the Lvl X events that we have been holding over the past...

Big well done to Seagulls brothers Lewis and Alex McLaughlin who swam at the Henley swim festival this past weekend. Both boys competing in their first open water event swam the half mile course in the river Thames. Alex claimed the bronze medal in the 9-13 yrs age group and Lewis finished in 4th also in the 9-13yrs age group. Great work lads hope this ignites the love for some more open water swimming #LETSGOSEAGULLS

Seagulls Swimming club had 2 Elite triathletes compete at the first round of the British Super Series - Southern Aquathlon at Bowood House For YOUTH B and Juniors 18/19 ALEX PALOTAI- AVELLA Alex had 3 races over the first round of the Super Series: . Race 1: 800 swim 1km run placing 3rd in her age and 2nd out of the swim overall. Race 2 :500 swim 2k run 6th out of the swim and overall finishing 12th Race 3 -300 swim 6k run 2nd on the swim and coming...

PLEASE READ BELOW FOR UPDATE ON THE NATIONAL ARENA SWIMMING LEAGUE 2021 THIS IS THE HIGHEST CLUB LEVEL COMPETITION WHICH INVOLVES ALL THE BEST CLUBS IN THE COUNTRY SEAGULLS WILL SELECT THE FASTEST SWIMMERS IN EACH AGE GROUP TO RACE IN DIVISION 1 OF THE SOUTH WEST REGION LEAGUE PLEASE SAVE THE DATES AS SWIMMERS SELECTED WILL BE EXPECTED TO ATTEND