
Icebreaker Dover 2022
08 Jan 2022
Some 30+ of our swimmers made their way down to Dover Icebreaker over the weekend.
As well as many experienced swimmers, we had many young and brave ones competing for the first time.
It was a long weekend in the pool, with a late 8:30pm finish on Saturday evening and an early 8am start on Sunday morning, but everyone was excited of competing.
It was a great experience for all involved and well done to all the efforts and achievements, new PBs, medals and more Kent County qualifying times achieved:
Results Highlights:
Masie, 1st in 400 free, 200 back, and 200 free. 2nd in 200 IM and 50 Back.
Erin, 1st in 200 Breaststroke, 2nd in 400 IM and 3rd in 200 Fly.
Alex, 1st in 200 IM, 2nd in 50 fly and 3rd in 100 Free,
Alfie, 1st in 200 fly,
James,1st in 400 free and 3rd in 200 IM
Maddison, 2nd in 200 Back,
Ellie, 2nd in 100 Back,
Teddy, 2nd in 200 IM and 3rd In 200 free,
Abdul, 3rd in 200 back,
Marlena, 3rd in 200 Fly
Also a special thanks goes to parents who organised, drove, helped cheered and supported this event.
Proud swimmers kept their medals tight to themselves despite the coach’s demand to have them however proud of the results!
Go Saxon Crown!
There was a record amount of lost property left behind at the Saxon Crown Spring Challenge this year. A record number of clubs managed to contribute. As well as that a record number of swimmers competed from clubs all over London and surrounding Boroughs. It was a successful and smooth running event with many of our own swimmers achieving qualifying times in time to enter the London SE Regionals at the end of April.
Saxon Crown came a formidable second in round 1 of the Kent Junior League. Some of the top clubs in Kent were competing, our swimmers achieved some impressive times and lots of fun was had by all.
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!!!
A fabulous weekend at the joint Saxon Crown and Greenwich Royals Winter Warmer where swimmers were able to get those last minute Kent Times. A super toasty time was had by all.