Joining Swimming at Warwick
Warwick has a long tradition of swimming excellence but we continually to strive to offer the swimmers new & different swimming challenges.
Swimming is offered at all ages and is in the PE programme throughout a pupil's time in the school. Facilities are impressive and include a modern 6 lane 25m pool with antiwave lanes, an electronic timing scoreboard and video analysis system.
From the 8 year old in their first 25m race, Charity swim & triathlon events, the exhausting 100 mile swim or joining an amazing Channel Swim experience Warwick Swimming aims to test and stimulate the individual in a team environment.
100 Mile Swim 2010
UPDATE Saturday at 7am
We have raised over £1400 so far on the Just Giving site and we have several hundred pounds to add 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.
Could it be a third consecutive record for the event by the A team - the young Ironman group is 45 mins or 2 miles ahead of the schedule! WOW!
Warwickshire Cup (92+) and Midlands Youth League (95+) ASA registrations are due
WARNING!
If you are not ASA registered you cannot play in leagues, cup competitions or attend RTC Midlands training and so will not be selected for GB training.
Warwickshire Cup (1992+)
New Water Polo season starts in late January with the Warwickshire U18 Cup ( Born 1992+). ASA registrations are due and cost the national fee of £27.00. U18 players playing for the Club team & doing only school training pay a flat fee of £30.
Excellent practice for the ESSA rounds against strong club opponents.
Charity amount raised by Warwick / KHS swimmers passes £40,000!
MORE THAN £40,000 RAISED in 6 years
With the successful Channel swim behind them Warwick swimmers have now raised over £40,000 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.
Swimmers raise over £14,000 for Acorns Childrens Hospice from Channel efforts
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.
Nottingham match report. U12 & U13's teams win. Fawcett & Clark set new school backstroke records.
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.
U8's swim team make a splash and help Junior School Team win first gala of the year vs Bromsgrove
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.
Senior Swim teams start season with double match win vs Solihull & Camp Hill
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......
January Swimming - time trials & racing focus
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?
Channel Teams make two fantastic successful swims to France.
Channel Team make fantastic successful swims on July 1st in 11 hours 38 minutes & on July 4th in 12 hours 38 minutes! Amazingly 2 different teams completing their dream. Warwick is now the school with the most successful Channel Relay swims by a school on the record books!
Read more on the Channel swim experiences of 2009 on the Channel Swim page above.
Go to the school charity site to donate to the swimmers Acorns Childrens Hospice appeal. It was an added incentive to maximise the funds for this worthy cause. Visit http://www.justgiving.com/warwickschoolswimming to donate!
