Leander is a family-friendly, competitive swimming club where hard work and commitment count.
We’ve made a few changes to our website so that important things like training session times are on the home page. There are still a few things to add, so please bear with us during the transition.
Please note the following days off coming up.
No training for all squads on:
No training for Platinum and Gold Friday 29th June
As mentioned in our December newsletter, we are introducing Squad Leaders (Red Hats). Duties will include welcoming new swimmers to the group and helping them to settle in, leading your squad on poolside in the pre-swim warm-up (your coach will explain what they want you to do) and generally helping out.
Congratulations to all of the new ‘Red Hats’ they are as follows:
Bronze Hettie Moorcroft, Poppy Coulthard and Olivier McLean
Silver Mara Schwarz and Tane Stappard
Fitness Sarah Whitlam and Arran Mason
Gold Ella Wakefield and Joseph Metcalfe
Platinum Emma Ashton and Aymeric Bouyer.
Red Hats will be given out by the coaches in the coming weeks.
Good luck guys.
Well they have finally started! Last weekend saw a very cold and snowy start to the 2012 Surrey Age Group Championships. Getting to Surrey Sports Park in Guildford was challenging enough in itself, but it proved to be well worth it for our swimmers. The weekend was dedicated to all the long distance events and there was some fantastic swims from all of our swimmers; lots of PB’s and a Silver medal already! Kane Rabanal-Hunt put up an impressive performance in the 400m Free (13 & under) – well done Kane. I would like to take this opportunity to predict; it won’t be the last Leander medal! Latest Results here.
We would also like to congratulate Matthew Chan Quee Lin’s brother Julian, who used to swim with Leander. Julian broke the Surrey record for the 400m free in a time of 4:03.33, beating the old time of 4:05.10 by a whopping 1.77 secs. This record has stood for 36 years, so massive congratulations to Julian.
There is almost a month to recover before things really get going in March. So swimmers, try and stay away from all those coughs and colds out there, eat well and train hard!
Congratulations to all of our swimmers who’ve qualified for this year’s Surrey County Championships. In total we have 44 swimmers competing this year – we’d like to wish them all the very best of luck, especially all the first-time qualifiers, as they prepare for the galas which take place during February and March. Click here for a full list of swimmers and their events.
Please could all squad members keep the date of the relays free if possible (18th March) as we’d like to give as many swimmers the chance to compete as we can – relay teams will be announced soon.
We welcome swimmers of all ages and abilities who want to reach competitive standard.
