Away from the pool at Inspire, our swimmers excelled themselves at the East Region’s Open Water Championships in Norwich, with both Zara Fallon and Jo Mitchinson being crowned champions in their respective age groups. Details of everyone’s swims can be read here.
FOUR Individual British Masters Champions
The 2022 British Swimming Masters Championships held in Aberdeen saw four Team Luton members crowned individual champions.
Kelly Cooke, Karen MacKenzie, Dave Wright and Graham Powell spearheaded a weekend that saw the squad of eight competitors win 6 Gold, 5 Silver and 3 Bronze medals whilst setting 4 East Region, 15 Beds County and a total of 20 Club Masters records. Read here for a full report
We are now accepting entries for our Autumn Short Course Meet 2022
We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting entries for our Autumn Short Course meet. This will be held at Inspire on 22 and 23 October 2022. The meet is licensed at Level 3 under number 3ER220160.
Entries will be accepted on a strictly first-come-first-served basis. Full details can be found here.
We look forward to welcoming you.
DRAFT ACCEPTED ENTRIES FOR SUMMER LONG COURSE MEET
We are pleased that we have now processed all of the entries to our Open Meet and are able to publish our draft accepted entries. Unfortunately, in order to maintain a balanced programme, we have had to reject some boys from 400m freestyle. This was done strictly in order of when we received the entry files.
We also were over-subscribed in the long distance freestyle events and are therefore publishing waiting lists for these. Further information can be found here
TEAM LUTON SUMMER LONG COURSE FULL
Update 15/3/22. Many thanks to all swimmers who have entered this meet. Unfortunately we are completely FULL and are unable to accept any further entries. We have processed the entry files in strict order of receipt and will be running a waiting list for the long distance events for 800m/1500m events and, in order to run a balanced programme we are also going to have to reject some male swimmers from 400m free. We hope to have sorted all of this out by next weekend – thank you for your patience.
Masters’ Rewarding Return To Newmarket
After a two year hiatus, seven of our swimmers brought home 24 medals from Newmarket’s Open Masters Meet, claiming two new Beds County records as they set three new Club Masters records.
Masters’ Travels Reap Records And Medals
Five of our Masters travelled in various directions during the first quarter of 2022 to compete, all returning with medals of varying colours.
Bracknell and Swansea were the two destinations which reaped a new Beds County record for Dave Wright and new Club Masters’ records for Dave, Colin Mayes and Sam Bradley.
A report (with a link to the full results) may be accessed here.
Matt Wright In Three Events At British Championships
Academy Coach Matt Wright qualified to compete in three events at the 2022 British Swimming Championships held in Sheffield 5th – 10th April.
Matt swam in the 200m Butterfly, 100m Freestyle and 200m Freestyle. He recorded personal best times of 52.59 seconds and 1:55.22 in the two freestyle races, setting new Club records in both events
New Club Records and Individual Personal Best Times
Congratulations go to Lyla Howard and Matt Wright on being the Club’s first swimmers in 2022 to break Club records in their respective age groups.
Whilst these club records have to be claimed, it’s been heartening to see as we return to more regular competitions so many of our members achieving personal best times at the various recent Swim Meets held at Inspire, Hatfield etc. These are recorded automatically by British Swimming and may be viewed on the swimming.org website.
Not to be outdone by our younger swimmers, Colin Mayes and Dave Wright also broke two of the Club’s Masters records at the Bracknell Masters meet in March. Dave’s 200m Freestyle time was an improvement on his own Beds County record for the 60 -64 years’ age group.
Titles, Medals & Team Spirit At 2022 Beds County Championships
Eleven Senior and five Junior County titles with 32 Gold, 26 Silver and 20 Bronze Individual Age Group medals. After the Covid-pandemic induced break in 2021, the return of the County championships also saw numerous personal best times. These were achieved over a range of strokes and distances not only by our more experienced swimmers but also those having their first taste of competition in a 50m pool against youngsters from all the other Bedfordshire clubs.
Read the detailed report and go to the Beds ASA website for the full results