Coach Ted here with the young Saxon Crown swimmers at the RTSC National Qualifier Open Meet, Crawley. Picture taken by Coach Molly Ferrigan. Thanks Ted and Molly great work today! Here's to more success on day 2!!!
On Sunday, 26th May, Saxon Crown swimmers plus family members and GLL staff are “swimming the channel” at Glass Mill to raise funds for our lovely Jess O’Hara who has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatment.
On Friday 26th April, Masters swimmers Alex Williams and team mate Lara Proctor took part in the Swimathon Triple 5km challenge but with a twist: they did it in ONE DAY!!!. They swam at 3 different pools across London, set 2 PB times for the 5k distance and raised £1,300 for Marie Curie, Cancer Research and the Swimathon Foundation. Amazing, well done!!!
A fantastic win again at the White Horse League. Two more rounds to go and its looking good for Saxon Crown.
Saxon Crown's Roman Monroe looking his very best at the Saxon Crown Spring Challenge. Clubs came from all over London to compete in a fun packed gala. As well as the older swimmers achieving lots of Pbs and medals, it was the first time some of the very young swimmers competed in a proper gala. See you all again next year!!
Saxon Crown win a hard fought 3rd in the first round of the Kent Junior League.
A super pic of Lenny and Fiachra cheering Saxon Crown on to a fabulous win at the White Horse League last Saturday. We achieved 33 top three places out of 48 events. Bring on Round 2!!!!
Here's a group shot of most of the Saxon Crown swimmers who competed in the Kent County Championships this year.
The Kent County Championships 2024 included 31 Saxon Crown qualifiers and they did us proud achieving 78 PBs, 59 top 10 finalists and 7 bronze medalists. The boys and girls teams both finished in15th place giving us an overall placing of 14th amongst the 36 clubs in Kent. Well done all and special congratulations to the following for achieving bronze medals! Ayotunde DAUDA (U14), 100m Backstroke, 50m Backstroke, 200m IM Freya SHEARD (U12), 400m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle Ruth ALLEN (U12), 200m Butterfly Lenny LEWIS (U11), 200m Butterfly
Lenny Lewis swimming butterfly at the Lewisham Primary Schools Gala. Over 20 schools and 250 swimmers attended. It was a fabulous noisy event and we were honoured to have Councillors Walsh and Paschoud from Lewisham Council present the awards.
- 22 Mar 2026Fantastic Day for Saxon Crown Yesterday
Our young swimmers came a very impressive 2nd in R1 of this year's Kent Junior League and Ella S took gold in the 1500m at LAC - 20 Feb 2026AP Race - Breaststroke Clinic
A fantastic opportunity for Alex J this week at the AP Race Breaststroke Clinic — learning from some of the very best in elite performance and race preparation! - 06 Feb 2026John Eady RIP
It is with great sadness, that we report the passing of John Eady, the father of Matt Eady, a long time head coach at Saxon Crown. John himself coached the Masters' squad and is fondly remembered by our longer serving members. John's funeral is on 26th February and the club can put anyone wishing to attend, in touch with Matt, to obtain the details. - 15 Mar 2025Saxon Crown win Round 1 at the White Horse League
Saxon Crown lead the way at the White Horse League after round 1. We managed to squeeze our way past Bexley by 3 points. There were some great swims, pbs, regional times and amazing camaraderie. Keep it up team! - 14 Mar 2025Lewisham Primary Schools Gala 2025
On Friday 14th March over 270 swimmers from twenty-seven of the Borough’s primary schools arrive at Glass Mill Leisure Centre to compete in this year’s Lewisham Primary School Gala. The event was organised by Saxon Crown Swimming Club, supported by Lewisham Council and GLL, who provided pool space and staff free of charge. Photo of Jessica MIllot from Saxon Crown and Kilmorie Year 5. See below for the full report. - 01 Mar 2025Tunde, Kerem and Freya at last day of the Kents
Tunde 6th, Kerem 8th and Freya 3rd in the 1500m finals of the last day of the Kents. Well done. - 01 Mar 2025Successful Kents 2025, Summary from Sergio, Head Coach
For a few years now Team Saxon made a presence at Kent County competitions. Going from strength to strength even in 2025 it was great to see many more swimmers fast enough to participate in this tough event. And we did not disappoint.40 of our fastest athletes amongst which some new qualifiers competed in 214 events performing incredibly well swimming many pbs and regional times and making 88 top 10 finals in all stroke and distances, achieving 6 bronze, 10 silver and 3 gold medals making us top 8/9(points not updated after 1500 event yet) club in Kent compared to 14th last year. Moreover swimmers showed great determination, team sprint and commeraderie cheering at every event as well as competing at their best.
It is a joy to see so many happy and succesful swimmers wearing the colors of Saxon Crown and making coaches proud!
Go Saxons! - 02 Feb 2025Deji giving it large at the Kents
With just one more event to go Saxon Crown are on course to achieving their best medals tally and points scored in the Kents for some time.
Look out for the final scores after the 1500m the final event on 1 March. Well done swimmers!! - 25 Jan 2025Gold and Silver medals for Saxon Crown Swimmers at the Kents
What a fantastic second weekend at the Kents for Saxon Crown swimmers winning medals and impressive PBs aplenty. Ruth Allen won Gold and Freya Sheard won Silver in the 13yr 200m butterfly. Well done Swimmers, bring on week 3!!!! - 11 Jan 2025A great start to the Kent Championships for Saxon Crown swimmers
Saxon Crown had a fabulous start to the Kents in the 800m at Crawley. Freya Sheard won bronze and James Sugrue and Kerem shaved seconds off their PBs. Marvelous!!!
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