Congratulations to all our swimmers who swam at the Novice gala at Crown Pools at the weekend. A few of the older ones had swam the evening before in the League at Newmarket and many were swimming at a swimming meet for the first time, you all swam so well, we are proud of you all. Everyone came home with personal best ribbons! Your next opportunity to swim will be either the Sprint into Summer or the Club Championships depending on your squad and age. Big thanks goes to Andy...

Well done to all the swimmers who swam at out No Frills Meet. Many clubs visiting us for the first time, it was great to see lots of new faces. It was amazing to see so many personal best times smashed! You can find the full results here Complete No Frills Results or on the Meet Mobile App All the times were submitted to Swim England immediately when the meet ended. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Check out our beautifully decorated Christmas tree at St Peter & Mary's Church, Stowmarket. The donkeys were coloured in by some of our youngest swimmers. Thank you to Bobbie and Leesa for organising this. If you would like to see our tree and 300 other Christmas trees, pop along to St Peter & Mary's Church Tuesday – Saturday 9am – 3pm

Stowmarket Swimming Club has received a generous donation from Cedars Park Community Centre from fundraising at their Christmas Fair. presented by Janine Griffiths to Jess Long, who runs the Stowmarket Swimming Club SEN Group, with Bobbie Wilson, President and Sylvia Harrison, Head Coach. This donation goes to the clubs SEN group which is run by a dedicated group of volunteers, helping to provide high quality to swimming lessons to all. We would like to thank Janine and all those at Cedars Park Community Centre who helped to raise these funds.

Congratulations to all our Masters swimmers who swam at the National Masters Championships at Sheffield last weekend, many personal bests achieved. Huge congratulations to Wiggy for his 2 bronze medals in the 200 Back and 200 Fly!

Jake Battle was selected to compete at the National County Team Championships, at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. Stowmarket SC wants to say a massive congratulations to our own Jake Battle, the youngest in the team, who swam two individual events. Swimming PBs in both the 100m Butterfly and 100m Breaststroke. Excellent job Jake. Full results are available at www.swimming.org/sport/national-county-team-championships-2023-division-one/ Watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m23RSmx7UU Highlights 22:30 - Suffolk makes their entrance 59:00 - Open/Male 12/13 100 Breast 3:31:30 - Open/Male 12/13 100 Fly

Well done to all the Masters who took part in the East Region Masters championships held in Newmarket. Full results here

Congratulations to the 117 swimmers who swam in the 2023 Club Championships and took part in total of 902 swims that is not including all the relay and skins races. The swimmers were amazing and everyone is so proud of the them. A huge thanks goes to the officials, volunteers and coaches for making it all possible. See you all on the 10th November for the presentation evening, for presentation of the certificates, medals and trophies and a fun family disco! Results of licenced events Family and Pairs races results...

Qualifying times for the County Championships held in January & February 2024 have just been published, along with the order of events. For those unfamiliar with the event, the County championships are held each year at Crown pools in Ipswich and the 800m &1500m at Norwich UEA. Qualifying times for this event are set so that just the top swimmers in each age group/event are able to compete. Achieving a qualifying time is an achievement in itself. Times for the 2024 event need to have been swam this year, with...

Stowmarket were the winners of the county league final held at Crown Pools and they took the overall boys winner shield for the second year. To view all the results: https://www.suffolkswimming.org.uk/leagues.html