Wells SC at Paris 2024 Several Wells Swimmers and Coaching staff had the amazing experience of spectating at the Olympic Games in Paris. The Team travelled to the Paris La Defence Arena where the Olympic swimming was taking place. They were lucky enough to see Team GBs Anna Hopkin compete in the Womens 100m Freestyle heats in a time of 53.67! A huge inspiration to swimmers and coaches alike! What an incredible experience!!

Special Guest Matt Richards at Presentation Evening! Wells had a very special guest to this years Presentation Evening held on 24 Feb at Wells Town Hall. Olympic Gold Medalist Matt Richards, who lives and trains locally, attended the event and presented medals and trophies to our swimmers. Post the presentation, Matt gave a talk and Q&A session regarding his insprirational career in swimming and his preparations for the upcoming Paris Olympics. What an amazing evening, inspirational to all who attended!

Jazz Carlin at Wells SC Presentation Evening!! We had a really special guest this year at the Wells Swimming Club Annual Presentation Evening. Olympic double Silver Medalist Jazz Carlin! Jazz spoke to the club about her olympic experiences including winning 2 silver medals in Rio 2016 in 400m and 800m Freestyle. Jazz kindly presented our evenings special awards. Truly inspirational, I hope everyone had a great evening.

The younger swimmers aged 9-12 from Wells Swimming Club took on five other Somerset based clubs last week at the latest round of the Four Seasons Galas. They travelled to Bridgwater and competed brilliantly against Bridgwater, City of Bristol, Clevedon, Cheddar Kingfishers and Burnham- on-Sea, coming a very creditable 4 th at the end of the evening. For many of the Wells swimmers this was their first taste of a team gala as there haven’t been galas over the last two years due to Covid. They embraced the challenge brilliantly,...

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement on 22 February outlining the roadmap out of the national lockdown, with the return of outdoor pools and venues from 29 March and indoor pools from 12 April, we are busy working with our pool providers to enable our swimming members to commence training again. Unfortunately it looks like Masters will need to wait until May to join us in the pool.

The younger swimmers from Wells swimming club proved they are a force to be reckoned with recently when they took on swimmers from Cheddar Kingfishers, City of Bristol, Clevedon, Burnham and Bridgwater swimming clubs in the first Four Seasons gala of the season at Hutton Moor leisure centre. All the swimmers were aged between 8 and 12 years old and some were competing for the very first time. However they refused to be overawed by the occasion and put in some amazing performances with a huge number of first and...

Keynsham go to a lot of effort to make sure this event goes ahead, unfortunately finding long distance swimming pool events can be tricky. They don’t have quite the cut and thrust of a 50m event, swimmers have to rely more heavily on tactics, concentration and stamina. With that in mind a number of the Wells Squad Swimmers attended the meet on the last day of November. Ex-Wells Swimmer Asta Maddox is still impressing she dropped 20s off her 400IM PB. As for our current crop Brianna Davies took first...

Swimmers from Wells Swimming Club enjoyed a successful weekend at the City of Bristol Early Bird meet recently. The team won medals of all colours, set numerous personal bests and showed that all their early season training is definitely paying off! Early morning is a tough time to swim – especially for a long-distance event – but Bri and Sian Davies were on great form in the 400m freestyle, winning silver and bronze respectively. In the 200m individual medley Theo Truan-Thatcher won a silver and Anthony Davies a bronze, making...

Wells Swimming Club held an extremely successful Club Championships recently with over 70 swimmers taking part! Everyone enjoyed a fantastic couple of evenings at the Kings of Wessex pool in Cheddar - from the youngest aged 6 to the oldest aged over 70! There were some fantastic races of all distances from 25m up to 1500m, some very close finishes and some incredible support from parents, friends and fellow swimmers. A few weeks later the club held the annual presentation evening near Wells where all the medallists from the championships...

Club Championships A fantastic 73 swimmers took part in the annual Wells SC Club Championships last weekend. Congratulations to everyone who competed, you created a wonderful atmosphere and it was great to see our new swimmers taking part along with seasoned competitors and Masters. Special mention to the youngest swimmer Orrin aged 6 and oldest swimmer Terry aged 76! Welcome back Terry, but that's not how you use a snorkel! Results from the weekend have been emailed this week; if you haven’t received them please get in touch with Marisa...