Many thanks to everyone who has entered our October Open Meet. This meet is now full and we can accept no further entries.
We hope to be able to post the Accepted Entries in the coming days
National Success For Masters Away From The Pool
Congratulations to club coach Dave Wright on his Bronze medal at the Swim England Open Water Championships. Dave’s medal came in his age group’s 3k swim. Alice Pinney meanwhile finished 4th in the 18-24 years’ Ladies 5k event.
Read here for further details.
Team Luton Winter Development Meet 8 December 2019
We are pleased to start accepting entries for our Winter Development Meet to be held at Inspire on 8 December 2019.
Further details can be found here
September Open Meet 3ER190369. Accepted Entries are now available
Thank you to everyone who has entered our September Open Meet on 28/29 September 2019. We have now processed all of the entry files and have now created our Accepted Entry files. We were oversubscribed for our long distance events and so have created reserve lists for each of 800m and 1500m. If you have any queries please speak to us at galas@teamluton.com
We would appreciate volunteers to officiate at this event. If you are able to do so please notify us at officials@teamluton.com.
The accepted entries and reserve lists are shown below
Please note that Active Luton have introduced car parking charges at Inspire. Further details can be found here
September Open Meet is now full
Many thanks to everyone who has entered our September Meet. This is now full and we can accepted no further entries. We do still have some capacity in our October Autumn Short Course Meet – including long distance events.
Accepted entries for the September Meet will be posted in the coming few days
Silver Medal For Matt Wright At Swim England Summer Championships
Six of the Club’s swimmers competed at the British and or English Summer Championships held respectively in Glasgow (23rd – 28th July) and Sheffield (31st July – 4th August). Their 2018/19 season ended with various finals and new Club age group records.
Celyn Walmsley, Rhys Davidson and Jj Wilde all made finals but in literally the very last event over the two competitions, Matt Wright claimed a silver medal for Team Luton in the 19 years & over 400m Freestyle with a blistering final 50m. Read here for a full report.
Golds for Anna & Jj At Swim Wales Summer Open Championships
Four of our Performance swimmers rounded off their 2018/19 competitive season in spectacular style, registering personal best times whilst claiming two gold, three silver and one bronze medal at the Swim Wales Summer Open held in Swansea. Full report and further photos here.
Abbie 4th at Swim England Open Water Champs
Congratulations to Abbie Barnwell, coming 4th in the Girls 16 years’ Swim England 5k Open Water.
Abbie, together with Chantal Smith, qualified for the Swim England National Open Water Championships by virtue of them winning their respective age group’s 5k events at the East Region’s 2019 Open Water Championships.
In total seven of the Club’s swimmers took part in the East Region event with everyone (Lauren Donnelly, Lauren Hooker, Lyla Howard, Zara Fallon and Dave Wright) winning regional or County medals. Full report here.
Promotion to Division 1 of M11 Junior League
Our junior swimmers finished in second place in Division 2 of the 2019 M11 League to gain promotion to Division 1 for 2020.
In a closely fought Round 3 we ended up with 170 gala points to finish behind Camden Swiss “B” team. Only 11 points split the clubs finishing in 2nd to 6th place (Team Luton, Epping Forest, Halstead, Borough of Harrow and Enfield Swim Squad). Read here for more details and dates for 2020.
Seven Qualify For British / National Championships
It is a busy few weeks for our Performance swimmers competing at the British Championships, English Nationals, National Open Water and the Swim Wales Summer Open.
First off it’s the British summer Championships up in Glasgow (23rd to 28th July) where Rhys, JJ and Celyn will be swimming for Team Luton and Matt and Chantal for Bath University and Sterling University. To watch the swimmers “live” each day click on the Youtube.com link.
At the English Summer Meet (31st July – 4th August) in Sheffield Rhys, Celyn, Matt and Chiara will all be swimming for Team Luton. This should also be live streamed from the Swim England website.
Download this Summer Meets Schedule to see on which day each of our swimmers are competing.
The Welsh Open meet (29th July – 2nd August) sees JJ, Menna Walmsley, Anna and Zara Fallon competing over in Swansea.
Chantal and Abbie Barnwell have also both qualified to swim on Monday 5th August at the National Open Water Championships, following their swims at the weekend’s East Region Open Water championships.
Good luck to everyone!