
Black Lion Regional Chaser – 2nd & 3rd April 2022 at Medway Park
03 Apr 2022
We had a successful gala at the Black lion regional chaser on the first weekend of April. 37 Saxon Crown swimmers travelled to Medway Park to swim in some of the 160 entries Saxon Crown had put forward. The results were fantastic, with some swimmers obtaining their first official times, others their first regional times, and more who managed to improve their personal bests and regional entry times. It was a fantastic weekend, well done everyone!
By the end of the weekend Saxon swimmers were happily clinking their medals with an impressive medal tally of 3 golds,12 silvers, and 8 bronzes.
Bronze: Erin O'Hara in 200 IM and 100 Fly, Alex Forsyth & Maddison Williams in 200 Free, Timi Adelowo in 50 Breast, Ellie Harden & Paris Fairhurst in 100 Back, Kombo Kachildza in 100 Fly.
Silver: Jakab Varga, Ruby Gold, Marlena Van der Ploeg, Maisie Van der Ploeg in 200 Free, Jakab Varga in 50 Breast, Darragh Brady in 100 Back, Ayotunde Dauda in 200 IM and 100 Fly, Paris Fairhurst 100 Fly, 200 Breaststroke & 50 Back, Madison Williams 50 Back.
Gold: Erin O'Hara in 50 and 200 Breaststroke & James Sugrue in 100 Backstroke.
A big thank you goes to parents, officials and organisers for helping to make this event successful.
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
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!
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!
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.
Tunde 6th, Kerem 8th and Freya 3rd in the 1500m finals of the last day of the Kents. Well done.
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!
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!!
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!!!!
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!!!