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Yet another great performance in round 4 of the Octopus league saw us finish 2nd on the night, with a fantastic 14 PBs.

That is our 4th top 3 finish in the league this year. We remain in 2nd place overall, just 1 point behind the league leaders - Cheam.

Congratulations to the following swimmers for winning their individual event or breaking the time limit; Lucy Marchant (25m Backstroke), Emma Potts (50m Butterfly), Georgina Piper (25m Breaststroke), Eddie
Ashworth (25m Breaststroke), Grace Onder (25m Breaststroke), Chloe Stephens (50m Backstroke), Jade Hewitt (50m Backstroke) and Richard Knight (50m Breaststroke).

Well done to everyone who competed on the night.

Report by Steve Reynolds (July 2010)

Six swimmers took part in the Thanet Open on the 10th July. It was a separated medley event where all swimmers were required to swim either 50m (for the 10 & unders) or 100m (for the over 10s) of each stroke. The aggregate scores were then counted and the top 6 swimmers in each age group went through to the final where they had to swim either 100m or 200m IM.

Well done to all six swimmers, Tanglin Ireland, Robert Shorter, Alex Din, Vicky Ward, Nicola Kleist and Henrietta Shorter for braving all four strokes. Every swimmer achieved at least one significant PB so it was worth the effort.

Tanglin Ireland came first in all four of his 50m swims and went through to the final to win the 100m IM. Robert Shorter came 4th in his freestyle and breaststroke and 5th in his backstroke, and completed a 200m IM coming 5th in the final. Alex Din achieved three 3rd places and a 4th and came 4th overall in the 200m IM final. Nicola Kleist, competing in her first ever open meet, did very well coming 6th in the 200m IM final in a personal best time and Henri Shorter went through to the 200m IM final and achieved 5th place.

A very successful weekend for you all and very enjoyable for me to see you swimming strokes you might not normally swim. Well done to you all.

Report by David Court (July 2010)

London Sprints took place on the 11th July at Crystal Palace. This was a level 3 open giving swimmers a chance to race all four strokes over 50m. Bromley was represented by 10 swimmers in 26 events achieving a 73% PB rate and with 77% of swims being a top 8 finish.

Congratulations to those of you with a top 8 finish: Theo Haslam (2nd 50m Fly, 2nd 50m Breast’, 4th 50m Back’, 5th 50m Free’), Felicity Hamilton-Cox (1st 50m Breast’, 3rd 50m Back’, 7th 50m Free’, 8th 50m ‘Fly), Vicky Ward (3rd 50m Back’, 7th 50m Free’, 8th 50m ‘Fly, 8th 50m Breast’), James Brinkley (2nd 50m ‘Fly, 2nd 50m Back’, 8th 50m Breast’), Oliver Reynolds (3rd 50m Back’, 5th 50m Breast’, 5th 50m Fly), Oliver Lister (3rd 50m Breast’) and Abbie Regelous (4th 50m Breast’).

Well done also to those of you who swam PBs: Richard Knight, Oliver Lister, Oliver Reynolds, Chloe Dobb, Louisa Knight, Vicky Ward, Theo Haslam, Felicity Hamilton-Cox and James Brinkley.

I hope you all enjoyed the competition and were pleased with your end of season swims.

Report by David Court (July 2010)

The London British Age Group Categories took place on the first and second weekend of June at Crystal Palace and this year Bromley had 3 swimmers competing.

The weekends saw Ethan Reeves competing in his first regional competition, a major achievement that shows a vast improvement in his times over the past year. Ethan is a perfect example of what you can achieve if you have the determination and put in the effort in training. He competed in the 100m Free and achieved a time of 1.02.9, smashing his entry time by nearly a second, and narrowly missing the personal best time he set the previous week at Beckenham Open.

Theo Haslam also competed with great success, swimming in seven events over the course of the competition: 100m & 200m Butterfly, 200m Backstroke, 100m & 200m Breaststroke, 100m Freestyle and 200m IM. Theo achieved PBs in 6 of these 7 events (again just missing the personal best time he set the previous week in the 100m Breaststroke at Beckenham Open), and also made the final in both the 100m and 200m Butterfly coming third and eighth respectively.

Vicky Ward was our sole representative from the junior girls and competed to a high standard in three events: 100m Freestyle, 100m Backstroke and 200m IM achieving a personal best time in her 100m Freestyle.

Overall a successful weekend for our swimmers; all three of them show our younger swimmers what can be achieved. It would be great to see more of our junior swimmers meeting the qualifying times for the regional championships. For those of you with Kent times, this is the next step up so talk to your coach about how you can achieve these qualification times. Well done again to Ethan, Theo and Vicky.

Report by David Court (July 2010)

JUNE 2010 - Black Lion, Whitehorse, Masters & Kent Junior League

This year we had one lonely soul competing at the Kent Masters championships but he did us all proud.

Our new recruit Damian Locascio competed in his age group 50 'fly, 100 IM and 50 free', winning all three events.

Most notably, Damian took the county record for the 40-44 years 50 'fly in 28.36, smashing the old record of 28.80 which has stood since 1993.

It would be great to try to get a bigger masters presence there next year! If you know any keen adult swimmers who are looking to train or compete, please point them our way.

Report by David Court (June 2010)

On Saturday evening we turned in our best performance of the year in this league, still coming third but only missing the top spot by 11 points. It was a very close gala.

Well done to the large number of you who performed pbs on the night under hideously hot circumstances: Ellen Scholes, Theo Haslam, Nicola Kleist, Richard Knight, Natalie French, Tanglin Ireland, Alex Din, Heather Perfect, Chloe Dobb, Henri Shorter, Cameron Butler, Gabby Eastment, and Gina Deave.

A special congratulations to Oliver Lister and James Brinkley who both lowered their own club records after having spent a long day competing up at Crystal Palace and still turning out for the team in the evening. Well done chaps.

Report by David Court (June 2010)

Kent Junior League

Bromley got off to an excellent start at this year's Kent Junior League by winning the first of three rounds beating Maidstone, White Oak, Margate, Edenbridge and Ashford.

It was a very exciting gala with some excellent swims and really good team spirit from you all. Overall we won 17 races and achieved 19 personal best performances.

Well done to those of you who won your individual races: Theo Haslam (12/u 100 'Fly, 13/u 100 Breast', 13/u 100 'Fly), Alex Din (12/u 100 Back', 12/u 100 Free'), Natalie French (11/u 50 Back'), Grace Scopes (10 yrs 50 Breast'), Matthew Rogers (10 yrs 50 Breast'), Chloe Dobb (12/u 100 Free').

Well done also to those relay teams who got us those all important first places: Boys 9/10 yrs Medley relay, Girls 12/u Medley relay, Boys 12/u Medley relay, Girls 12/u Freestyle relay, Boys 12/u Freestyle relay, Boys 9/10 yrs Freestyle relay, Boys 13/u Medley relay.

A big congratulations to those of you who achieved PBs: Ellie Quinn, Isaac Korro, Emily Norris, Tanglin Ireland, Taylor McCarthy, Jade Hewitt, Alex Dinn, Chloe Dobb, Natalie French, Vicky Ward, Cameron Butler, Grace Scopes, Theo Haslam. It's brilliant to see so many of you improving your times.

If we can maintain this level of performance at the next gala we will really be in with a chance for promotion in the league. But let's remember that the teams will be fighting back next round- keep working hard in training and make sure I'm not writing the same things on your feedback sheets next time! A very well done to all of you, you did your team proud.

Report by David Court (June 2010)

Black Lion Open Meet

On the 22nd/23rd May Bromley Swimming Club took part in the Black Lion Open Meet. This was a level 2 open meet and an excellent opportunity for some of our younger and less experienced swimmers to get some race practice as well as for our older swimmers who missed out on competing in the London Regional Championships or Beckenham open meet in the preceding weeks. 18 swimmers from Bromley competed in 48 events with a very respectable 54% of those swims being PBs.

It was good to see so many of the younger swimmers taking part and trying new events. Well done to all of our young swimmers; Joe Dobb, Michael Eagling, Phoebe Hampson, Felix Haslam and Joel Woodward.

PB achievers were: Alex Din, Cameron Butler, Chloe Dobb, Ellen Scholes, Felix Haslam, Jade Hewitt, Joe Dobb, Katie Lockwood, Michael Eagling, Nick Lockwood, Phoebe Hampson and Theo Haslam.

Those swimmers with a top 6 finish were: Alex Din (3rd 400 Free’), Chloe Dobb (6th 400 Free’), Felicity Hamilton-Cox (3rd 100 Breast’), Phoebe Hampson (5th 200 Breast’), Theo Haslam (3rd 50 Back’, 2nd 100 Breast’, 5th 100 Back’, 2nd 50 Breast’, 4th 50 Fly’, 5th 50 Free’).

Well done again to everyone who took part.

Report by David Court (June 2010)

MAY 2010 – London Youth Champs & Beckenham Open

Beckenham Open 2010

The weekend of 9th/10th May saw another very successful competition at Crystal Palace. 18 swimmers represented Bromley SC in 56 events. Of these swims 82% were long course personal best times, and we achieved a top 6 finish in almost a quarter of them.

Beckenham open meet is a Level 1 open- the highest level of competition you can get to in an open meet format. This means it attracts top swimmers, many of whom attend in the hopes of achieving their national times, so Bromley faced some very tough competition.

Congratulations to all PB achievers, and special congratulations to those of you who were swimming in a long-course pool for the first time either this weekend or last weekend at the London Regional Championships. Many swimmers achieved a PB in every race they swum: a very good effort from you all. PBs were achieved by:
Robert Shorter (50 Breast’, 50 Back’, 100 Free’, 200 Free’, 200 IM), Theo Haslam (50 & 100 Fly’, 50 & 100 Back’, 50, 100 & 200 Breast’, 50 & 100 Free’), Alex Din (50, 100 & 200 Back’, 50 & 100 Free’), Cameron Butler (50 Fly’, 50 Free’), Ethan Reeves (50 Breast’, 50 Back’, 50 & 100 Free’), Richard Knight (50 Fly’, 100 Back’, 50 & 100 Free’).
Chloe Dobb (50 Free’), Louisa Knight (50 Free’), Taylor McCarthy (50 Free’, 50 Breast’, 100 Back’, 200 IM), Jade Hewitt (50 Free’, 50 Back’, 50 Breast’, 100 Back’), Gabby Eastment (50 Breast’), Henri Shorter (50 Free’, 50 Fly’, 200 Free’), Holly Barnes (50 Free’), Felicity Hamilton-Cox (50 Fly’), Hailey Pearcey (50 Breast’), Emily Bone (50 Breast’).

Top-6 finishes were achieved by Theo Haslam (2nd in 50 Breast’, 100 Breast’ and 50 Fly’, 3rd in 100 Fly’, 4th in 50 Back’ and 100 Free’, 5th in 50 Free’), Ethan Reeves (4th in 50 Breast’), Oliver Lister (6th in 100 Breast’), Felicity Hamilton-Cox (1st in 100 Breast’), Abbie Regelous (5th in 50 Breast’) and Emily Bone (1st 50 Breast, 4th 50 Fly’).

Well done to everyone who swum, I hope you all enjoyed yourselves. The full results can be found on Beckenham SC’s website or by clicking ::here::

Report by David Court (May 2010)

London Youth Championships

This year’s London Youth Championships were our most successful to date with our highest number of entrants (9 swimmers) competing in our highest number of entries (24 races). 67% of our swimmers made finals in their events- an excellent result that ensured Bromley SC really made an impression.

Well done to all finalists; Benedict Kelleher(50m Backstroke & 200m Backstroke), Oliver Reynolds (50m Backstroke and 1st reserve for 100m Backstroke), James Brinkley (50m Backstroke), Gina Deave (50m, 100m & 200m Breaststroke, 50m Fly), Felicity Hamilton-Cox (50m & 100m Breaststroke), Emily Bone (50m & 100m Breaststroke and 1st reserve for 50m Butterfly). The London Youth Championships only award medals to the top three in each final but Bromley managed to walk away with three 3rd places (Ben 50 Back’, Oliver 50 Back’ and Felicity 50 Breaststroke) and one 2nd place (Gina 50 Breaststroke).

Every single swimmer who competed this weekend achieved a long-course personal best time: Gina Deave (50m, 100m & 200m Breaststroke), Felicity Hamilton-Cox (50m Breaststroke), Emily Bone (50m Breaststroke), Abbie Regelous (50m Breaststroke), James Brinkley (50m Backstroke, 100m Backstroke), Oliver Reynolds (50m Backstroke, 100m Backstroke, 50m Freestyle), Ben Kelleher (50m, 100m & 200m Backstroke, 50m Freestyle), Oliver Lister (100m Breaststroke & 50m Freestyle), Alex Lister(50m Breaststroke).

Underlying these excellent results is the fact that these swimmers all qualified for the Regionals; an achievement in itself. I hope over the years that more swimmers will get to this level; it is a very enjoyable weekend with top class performances from the biggest and most elite teams in London. Bromley SC is a much smaller club than the major players at the London’s and the fact that our swimmers still managed to make such a big impact is a testament to their hard work and dedication. Well done to everyone who competed, keep up the good work.

Report by David Court (May 2010)

For the full results (when available), click on the "competitions" tab.

Orpington Open 2010 & Crawley Open 2010

Orpington Open took place on 17/18th April and Bromley SC came away with 40 personal best swims and 24 top 6 places, a brilliant result.

Congratulations to all PB achievers:
Alex Din (200 back', 100 free', 50 free', 200 free', 100 back',) Chloe Dobb (50 free', 50 'fly) Ellen Scholes (200 breast', 50 free') Emily Bone (100 back') Felix Haslam (50 'fly) Georgie Ward (50 breast') Henri Shorter (100 free', 50 free') Isaac Korro (50 'fly, 50 back', 50 breast', 50 free') Jade Hewitt (50 free', 100 back') Joe Dobb (50 free', 50 back', 50 'fly) Louisa Knight (50 free') Nick Lockwood (100 free') Ollie Lister (200 breast'- also a new club record) Rebecca Ireland (50 free') Richard Knight (100 back', 50 free', 200 free') Robert Shorter (50 free', 50 breast', 50 back') Tanglin Ireland (50 breast') Taylor McCarthy (50 free', 50 'fly, 50 breast') Theo Haslam (50 breast', 50 'fly) Vicky Ward (400 free')

Equally well done to those of you who achieved a top 6 placing:
Abbie Regelous (5th 100 Breast’)
Alex Din (6th 100 Back’, 5th 200 Free’)
Ben Kelleher (2nd 200 Back’)
Chloe Dobb (5th 50 ‘Fly)
Emily Bone (1st 50 Free’, 3rd 100 Back’)
Felix Haslam (6th 50 ‘Fly)
Hailey Pearcy (1st 200 ‘Fly, 4th 200 IM)
Isaac Korro (6th 50 Free’, 4th 50 ‘Fly, 3rd 50 Breast’)
Joe Dobb (6th 50 Back’, 2nd 50 ‘Fly)
Oliver Lister (1st 100 Breast’, 1st 50 Breast)
Richard Knight (4th 100 Back)
Tanglin Ireland (1st 50 Breast’)
Taylor McCarthy (5th 50 Breast’, 4th 50 Back’)
Theo Haslam (1st 50 ‘Fly, 1st 50 Breast’)
Vicky Ward (3rd 100 Free’)

Well done to everyone who attended. It was great to see so many of you there, and especially to see so many of the younger swimmers showing an interest in competing; it’s what we do the training for and you did yourselves proud.

Full results can be found here:

Crawley Open Meet (Long-course) also took place this weekend and we had three swimmers competing. Both Felicity Hamilton-Cox and Gina Deave achieved Long Course PBs, Felicity in the 100m Breaststroke and Gina in the 200m Breaststroke.

Special congratulations go to James Brinkley for achieving his National Qualifying Time for 50m Freestyle. James is the first swimmer I have coached to this standard so I am particularly proud of him and he will go on to compete at Ponds Forge pool in Sheffield later this year against some of the best athletes in the country.

Overall a very successful weekend, well done everyone.

David Court

APRIL 2010 – Opens & Galas

The club had a very good weekend at Opens in Crawley and Gillingham. The most notable performances were:
James Brinkley - 50m freestyle - 25.25 - National qualifying time. This is my first swimmer to achieve this standard so well done James - a particularly special swim.
Oliver Lister - 200m breaststroke - 2.39.94 - broke the club record by over 5.5 seconds

Theo Haslam - 50m butterfly - 32.64 - places him in the top 10 in the country for his age group, 50m breaststroke - 38.99 - places him 12th in the country for his age group.
Congratulations to Vicky Ward - currently ranked number 1 in Kent for 50m freestyle long course!
Well done to everyone who competed in these Opens and all those swimmers who achieved a PB (according to my records).
Report by David Court (April 2010)

We had a great round 2 in both the Whitehorse and Octopus leagues, finishing 2nd and 3rd respectfully, with a fantastic 33 PBs over the two galas. Special congratulations to James Brinkley who broke the 50m freestyle Club Record. For all the gala result, click on the "competitions" tab.

Report by Steve Reynolds (April 2010)

MARCH 2010 - Bernard Belton Trophy Gala

We had some great swims in the Bernard Belton Trophy gala, hosted by Saxon Crown. It was a very close gala, with the league positions changing repeatedly all evening. We eventually finished in 3rd place, with a fantastic 24 PBs.

Congratulations to the following swimmers for winning their individual event; Felix Haslam (50m Fly), Victoria Ward (100m Free), Hailey Pearcey (100m Fly) and Grace Scopes (50m Breast).

Well done to all those swimmers that achieved a PB; Emma Wade, Felix Haslam, Rachel Peares, Joshua Reynolds, Hailey Pearcey, Richard Knight, Emily Norris, Joel Woodward, Georgina Ward, Robert Shorter, William Simmons, Emma Potts, Oliver Dovey, Grace Scopes, Harry Paterson, Aaron Stephens, Chloe Stephens, Nicola Kleist, Matthew Ruiz, Katie Lockwood, Matthew Knight, Luke Gentle and Katie Woolsey.

Thank you to all the swimmers that represented Bromley and to Marcus for team managing.

Report by Steve Reynolds (March 2010)

Bernard Belton Trophy Gala Results - PDF

FEBRUARY 2010 - Kent Championships

Congratulations, we are now one of the top ten clubs in Kent, the results from 2009 are also here for comparison.

2010

Position
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

2009

Position
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Beckenham
Thanet
Black Lion
Canterbury
GBM
Sevenoaks
Orpington
RTW
Monson
Bromley

Beckenham
Black Lion
Canterbury
Thanet
GBM
Sevenoaks
Orpington
Bexley
Whiteoak
Dover
Bromley

Boys
739
374
384
348
189
323
307
171
32
106

Boys
561.5
496.5
342.5
326
268
326
247.5
183
217.5
108
35

Girls
791
680
237
210.5
314
149
133
236
316
115

Girls
1062
307.5
318.5
333
250
153.5
180.5
96.5
13
120
177

Total
1530
1054
621
558.5
503
472
440
407
348
221

Total
1623.5
804
661
659
518
479.5
428
279.5
230.5
228
212

JANUARY 2010 – Galas

We had a great start to this years Octopus league, finishing 3rd in the first gala of 2010 with a fantastic 25 PBs.

DECEMBER 2009 - WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Another great team performance in the final play-off round of the National Arena League South saw Bromley Swimming Club win the Division Two East title with maximum points.

It was a very exciting and close gala, which saw Bromley in second place after the opening 10 events. With a string of great swims in the middle section, Bromley clawed their way to first place by the end of the individual events.

However, RTW Monson closed the gap during the relays and with two events to go, they were back in front by one point. Bromley’s ladies’ open team then bought the scores level by winning the 6x50m freestyle relay in a club record time. So it all came down to the final event and Bromley’s men’s open team didn't disappoint, leading from start to finish, claiming victory by a single point. Bromley enjoyed 14 individual and relay wins, 38 top three finishes and 14 personal bests, of which three were new club records.

The Bromley squad celebrate their triumph!