Opportunity knocks for British swimmers…Dolphin’s national preview

One of the changes to British Swimming’s new national competition calendar is to provide “home nation” championships allowing swimmers to nominate either England, Scotland or Wales as their applicable home country and the chance to qualify for their respective summer championships. These three championships, in addition to the top level British Summer Championships, provide more […]

Dolphin go outdoors

Swindon Dolphin were once again a force to be reckoned with at the Wiltshire County Open Water event held at Lake 32, on a warm but very breezy evening in June.

The 3k swimmers were in first, and after a gruelling 4 laps around the lake, Megan Jones took silver in the 17-25 years age […]

Dolphin strike gold at Regional Age Groups

The South West Regional Age Group (11 to 14 year olds) Championships took place over two weekends recently at Bristol and Millfield. Like the Youth Championships in early May, the rewards on the day were either in the form of medals or personal best swims. The prizes of achieving national qualifying times were no longer […]

Dolphin reap rewards at Regionals as records fall

With the national qualification window closing at the end of May, Swindon Dolphin’s performance level training program was largely geared towards yielding best times at the Regional Youth Championships over the May Bank Holiday weekend in Plymouth , with one last chance to post times at the Cardiff Open Meet at the end of May. […]

Tales from two cities

Event: Gloucester City Level 2 Open Meet / City of Bristol Level 1 Open Meet Venue: Gl1 Gloucester / Hengrove Park, Bristol Date: 10th to 12th April 2015

With the county championships a distant memory and the regional championships on the horizon, Swindon Dolphin were in action last weekend at the short course competition pool […]