Saxon Crown Swimming Club

Saxon Crown swimmers enjoyed a successful weekend in Ilford at the Redbridge Regional Meet 2013 where we finished 3rd best club and between them they won 46 medal, including 9 Gold, 8  Silver and 11 Bronze.

Michael Foster was in usual good form winning 8 medal, 5 of which were gold. There were great swims from Saxon Crowns younger swimmers with 9 year olds Panos and Miga of Pre Squad winning Gold medals, Panos in the 200m Butterfly & 100m Individual Medley and Miga in the 200m Backstroke. Miga also took Silver in the 100m Individual Medley. Panos along with Maddy and Keziah, also of Pre Squad also took home a Bronze medel each. Ciaran had the last swim of the weekend and finished in style, winning the 50m by nearly a second. Ciaran also took home two Bronze medals. There were also medals for Renee (2xSilver, 3xBronze), Lucas (2xSilver, 1xBronze) and Saxon Crown swimmers won 18 medals for places 4th-6th.

Swimmers and Coaches all enjoyed a fun and exciting competition filled with lots of great swims and personal bests from Saxon Crown swimmers. We're already looking forward to next year.

The Redbridge Regional Open is a Level 3 licensed meet and is suitable for swimmers in Pre Squad, Junior Squad and Top Squad. 

Attachments:

lbrsc results april gala pdf.pdf	[ ]	185 Kb
Redbridge Open 2013.pdf	[ ]	314 Kb

Saxon Crown is assisting the London Borough of Lewisham to recruit swimmers to represent Lewisham at the London Youth and mini games.
 
The mini games takes place on the 4th July (9.30 - 15.00) and is for children in school years 5 & 6
 
The youth games takes place on the 6th July, with the morning session 8.30 - 12.30 for school years 7,8 &9 and 12.00 - 16.00 for school years 10,11,12
 
The races are 50m and relays for each respective competition and the event take place at Crystal Palace.
 
IN order for Lewisham to field the strongest team and to ensure swimmers don't miss the opportunity to represent their borough I'm contacting all local clubs requesting that they speak to their parents and swimmers to establish whether they are eligible to swim for Lewisham. If you are think you are eligible to represent Lewisham Please contact Matthew Eady at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

There will be no training for any squads on Good Friday (29th March), Easter Sunday (31st March) and Easter Monday (1st April)

All other sessions during the school Easter Holidays will continue be as normal

On Friday 22nd March Saxon Crown Swimming Club hosted the Lewisham Primary Schools Swimming Gala at Ladywell Leisure Centre. The Gala was attended by 20 Primary schools and over 200 swimmers.

The gala is a great demonstration of swimming in Lewisham from swimmers taking part in their first gala to experienced club swimmers competeing at a high level and everything in between.

Attachments:

All results sorted by school.pdf	[ ]	251 Kb
Full results spreadsheet.xls	[ ]	33 Kb