Olympic and Paralympics Hero's Return Poole Swimming Club is super proud to offer a massive well done to our Olympic and Para-Olympic Hero's. Jacob Peters returns home earning 22nd in the 100m Butterfly. Jacob started with Poole Swimming Club as an 8-year-old, who was spotted in a schools swimming gala. He worked his way up through the squads in the club to the very top of the sport. The experience gained being part of the most successful British Swimming Team, has left him super motivated in the charge to Paris...

FESTIVAL HEADLINERS ARE YOU READY!!! Poole Swimming Club will be well represented at the Southwest Festival of Swimming this weekend. The competition in the Southwest is split across two venues at Plymouth and Millfield School. With Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire based swimmers competing at Millfield. Then Cornwall and Devon based swimmers competing at Plymouth. Final standings will be sewn together from each venue, in each age group, following the meet to work out rankings across the Southwest. Head Coach Barry Alldrick commented: “The coaching team is so excited to...

NATIONAL ARENA JUNIOR LEAGUE 2021: ROUND 2 Round 2 of the National Arena Junior League took place on 19th June. Following on from our success in Round 1, we raced two teams: Poole Roar and Poole Pride. We also swam a reserve team: Poole Cubs, so that as many swimmers as possible were able to race. The easing of Covid restrictions meant that we were able to swim all age groups together in one gala by arranging each team around the pool and in the viewing areas. As a result,...

Incredible News We would like to offer a huge well deserved congratulations and are super proud to announce that we have another swimmer competing in the Tokyo Olympics. Leo McCrea aged 17 has qualified for Switzerland for the Para Olympics held in Tokyo from 24 August to 5th September 2021. Leo started his journey with Poole Swimming Club and was nurtured by coaches Kate, Maralyn and the late Jean Holland, shaping his skills with coach Becky Dowling, before joining Bournemouth Collegiate School and for sixth from attending Mount Kelly School....

Dear All Please the news below about the National Arena League. for new members this is the biggest inter club competition the club is part of. Those in competitive squads please save the dates:

British Triathlon Super Series Poole SC’s Elite Triathletes, Ryan S and brothers Liam and Ryan O were flying the club's flag this weekend, in the Borwood Aquathon, which forms part of performance races and assessments that contribute towards Junior and Youth National Rankings. Ryan S and Liam O were in action in the Junior section and Ryan in the Youth section (a year younger than the top age group). The day would consist of three races to challenge the ability of competitors with different distances in each of the swim...

British Swimming Glasgow Meet 2021 This was the final preparation meet for the British Olympic team and the final opportunity for swimmers to gain qualification times. It further provided an opportunity where Junior swimmers could log times to qualify for the European Junior Team that heads out to Rome in July. Meeting the qualifying times for the meet were Catherine E and Robbie H who would make the journey from Poole with coach Barry. Jacob P would make the journey from Bath with the National Centre, and Emily C from...

As mentioned earlier, we are a club that relies heavily on our valuable staff and volunteers. To celebrate these wonderful people, we will be running a initiative in 2021, where we recognise these special people through sharing their amazing superpowers with our community. If you have any lovely stories from your experiences with these fantastic people, please do share them with us here [email protected] We would love to hear them. Assistant Head Coach Jan Hutchings On March 8th, we celebrated International Women’s Day and as a club, we send a...

Swim England Level X Racing Series 1 During December 2020, the club took part in the Swim England Level X Racing series. In essence, Level X racing provided an opportunity for us to run in-house time trials with all the results being submitted to Swim England’s Rankings database. The series also offered a fun opportunity for swimmers to practice their racing skills in the comfort of their home training environment during the absence of face-to-face competitions due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Many, but not all, Swim England clubs took part...

Gold Squad Meet Final 2020 Challenges In and Out of the Pool We hope you all enjoyed Christmas, below is a news brief on the brilliant work that Gold Squad have been up to since November 2nd under the caring yet challenging reach of Maralyn’s wise wings. The many challenges achieved below really demonstrate how to best deal with the end of a disruptive year, enjoy reading... Challenge 1 During lockdown version 2.0, the squad members and parents were challenged to running (not walking) a mile under 10 minutes. Maralyn...