Team Luton won one gold, six silver and two bronze medals at the Welsh Open Masters Championships with Kelly Cooke breaking the club’s 45 – 49 years’ 200m Freestyle record as she stormed to victory.
We are now accepting entries for our 2022 Long Course meet
Team Luton are delighted to announce that we are now accepting entries for our March Long Course Open Meet. This will be held at Inspire on 19 and 20 March 2022 and licensed as 1ER220159.
Further details can be found can be found on our Open Meets page here.
Best Ever National Masters’ Performance?
Our Masters won a total of 2 Gold, 6 Silver and 7 Bronze medals whilst setting 5 East Region, 15 Beds County and a further 6 Club Masters records at the Swim England National Masters Championships.
Read here for further details of the individual and relay team successes.
Regional Masters’ Record Breakers
Team Luton swimmers broke three East Region and seven County records at the East Region Masters championships held in Newmarket. Read here for a detailed report.
GUIDANCE FOR AUTUMN SHORT COURSE OPEN MEET
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to competition next weekend.
With cases of Coronavirus rising, particularly among children, we have undertaken a thorough risk assessment together with our pool operator. From this we have developed guidance to keep everyone as safe as possible.
Please can you read this guidance thoroughly and ensure that your swimmers understand its contents as well.
Most importantly please can everyone intending to be in the venue strive to take a lateral flow test on Friday 22 October and to not attend should the test come back positive.
Many thanks
OUR MASTERS ARE BACK TO WINNING FORM!!!
After 18 months’ absence due to the COVID pandemic, seven of our Masters’ squad revelled in being back in competition, all winning medals at the Barnet Masters Sprint Plus Meet. They won a total of 10 Gold, 8 Silver and 1 Bronze Medals. Three were also in County Masters record-breaking form. Read here for further details.
UK Government and Swim England issue further guidance on Coronavirus
On 12 March 2020 the Government announced that we were moving from the Contain to the Delay stage of their action plan for handling the pandemic.
The key change in their guidance is that people should self isolate at home for 7 days if they have a new persistent cough and/or a fever.
We would ask that any swimmers, parents, coaches or friends please follow this guidance during training sessions and also with respect to attendance at galas.
On 10 March Swim England issued further advice and links to UK Government website. This can be found here
Team Luton training will continue as normal.
More Masters County Records…
Six of our swimmers competed the Bracknell Masters Meet, collecting 16 medals and setting four more County Masters records. Read here for more details.
East Region and Beds Long Course Masters Records For Jo
Congratulations to Jo Mitchinson on setting an East Region and 4 new Beds Masters records in the 40 – 44 years’ age group with her winning swims at the Welsh Masters Long Course Championships.
Jo’s 200m Freestyle time of 2:21.53 broke the East Region record by 6 seconds whilst her time of 2:47.62 in the 200m Butterfly set new figures for the County’s 40 – 44 years’ age group record. Her 100m splits of 1:20.82 and 1:08.23 were both new Beds records; Jo’s freestyle split breaking the record club mate Kelly Cooke had only set back in January.
Great Success for Team Luton in the 2020 County Championships
This year’s County Championships saw 56 of our swimmers battle it out against the seven other clubs in the County over 3 separate weekends. All of the swimmers excelled during the competition and together they won 146 individual medals, 19 Senior and Junior Championship trophies and 6 relay trophies. In the course of the event 2 swimmers also set new County Records. For the full report please click here.
Congratulations to all of the swimmers who competed – your hard work over many months of training shone through. And huge thanks to the coaching team who prepared all of the swimmers so well.