
White Horse League Round 4
02 Jul 2022
On Saturday 2nd July 2022 it was the 4th and last round of the season White Horse League team event. Despite the numerous short notice withdrawals from the team and very little time to organise replacements, Saxon Crown managed to present a full team - and what a team it was! Many young swimmers performed in older age group events and relays and certainly bought their ‘A game’ achieving many pbs. At one point our team was fighting for third place, however in the end Saxon came 4th on the day closing distance with Erith compared to previous rounds.
Well done everyone for the tremendous effort!
| 3rd Place | 2nd Place | 1st Place |
| Alex Lin, Jake Venn, Matthew Shirley and Alejandro Martinez.– 11u Boys Freestyle & Medley Relay |
James Surgue & Abdul-Aziz Bakar - 50 Backstroke | Ellie Harden & Maisie van der Ploeg - 50 Backstroke |
| Ellie Harden, Erin O'Hara, Charlotte Redman, Madison William- Girls Open Freestyle Relay |
Tunde Dauda - 50 Butterfly | Erin O'Hara - 50 Breaststroke |
| Matthew Shirley - 50 backstroke | Ellie Harden - 100 Backstroke | |
| Alex Lin - 100IM | ||
| Abdul-Aziz Bakar in 200 IM | ||
| Orla Renny - 50 Butterfly |
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!!!