Congratulations to Karen Mackenzie, Kelly Cooke, Jodie Armstrong and Michelle Neal on breaking the 160+ years 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay record in a time of 2:06.20 at the Barnet Copthall Masters Sprints Meet. All four swam 31 second splits; a great team effort.
County Record Breakers L-R: Karen, Kelly, Jodie & Michelle
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.
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
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
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.
L-R: Matt Wright, Chantal Smith, Celyn Walmsley, Chiara Rogers, Rhys Davidson & JJ Wilde
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.
Multiple medal winners: JJ Wilde, Anna Fallon & Menna Walmsley
Congratulations to Abbie Barnwell, coming 4th in the Girls 16 years’ Swim England 5k Open Water.
Abbie with coach Rikki Morris
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.