Swimming @ Warwick School

Swim Success at Bromsgrove Relays & Warwick IAPS Qualifing

Bromsgrove Relays
The U11 and U13 relay squads returned from the Bromsgrove Junior Relays with 2 trophies and being the only school to reach all 4 relay finals.

With the posting of the times and successful swims for 2010 it is now official that Warwick is the most successful English Channel Swimming School on the records with the highest number of swims. Not just content to get across time is always important and Warwick have good times regardless of the conditions swum in. They remain the England to France Junior(Under 16 years old)Schools' record holders which they set in July 2006.

The senior swimmers are never content to sit on their laurels & they are already planning other long distance swims for the summers of 2011 and 2012.

We have raised over £6400 so far on the Just Giving site and handed in offline through the pledges to our great team of over 70 swimmers. Fantastic guys!

The image is of the first 30 swimmers at 4.20pm Friday 29th Jan 2010 just before the start.

Everyone made a great effort - from having to swim at 3am to the last swim of the 'shift' with a positive approach. Counting for others, encourgaging any and all swimmers, then diving in and swimming hard all added up to a great team experience.

MORE THAN £47,500 RAISED in 6 years
With the successful Channel swim behind them Warwick swimmers have now raised over £47,500 for good causes in the last 6 years. An amazing effort all going to locally based projects and funding new resources for the local community.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support.....The swimmers have raised over £14,000 for the Acorns Childrens Hospice from their double successes with the Channel Swims. The only School to complete a successful crossing this year Warwick's double success in just 5 days in early July make Warwick the most successful Channel Swimming school with 4 attempts and a 100% success rate.

Result: Warwick 410 Nottingham 418

Last Thursday the senior squad entertained Nottingham in a 5 age group gala. In what has been a tough fixture in previous years a very exciting competition unfolded.

Match at Bromsgrove: Combined scores of boys and girls teams Bromsgrove 610 points Warwick 618 points.

The season started for the Junior School team with literally a huge splash as the U8 team did their first competitive dives and races. In a close match every point counted and despite dominating the boys U11 competition the scores swung one way, then the other right up to the last 2 freestyle relay races. The U10 boys and U11 boys teams look very strong and as starts and getting more quickly into race pace swimming comes on stream best times should tumble.

The Senior Swim teams started their season with a double match win vs Solihull & Camp Hill. Winning 5 of the 6 age groups and all the overall stroke competitons the result was a sound overall victory.

Warwick Boys 222 Solihull 158 Camp Hill 131
King's HS Girls 229 Solihull 164 Camp Hill 108

Report: School records fell on Tuesday 22nd September as the swimmers started their season with a bang! Three age groups at U13, U15 and U18 competed with A & B teams with over 110 competitors taking part. Clearly in some events Warwick & KHS had some
swimmers clearing......

Looking ahead!

Ambitious swimming goals for this year and next have been set due to the depth and ability of the Junior and Senior swim squads. Improvement is a given - what was thought to be 'impossible' we will do at every session and improve further in the heat of competition.

To stretch everyone we have the 100 Mile Swim on the last weekend of January and our largest & most difficult fixture list ever.

What's coming up in January / February?