As our sport becomes more diverse and we have swimmers stretching themselves in terms of ability and distance, the club is pleased to announce some new records created following recent achievements.

Lottie Haworth-Blomfield represented the club at the SE NE Regional Championships last month. She is an S9 multi-classification (MC) swimmer and took part in both the 400m freestyle and 50m backstroke events. Lottie is the first female MC swimmer to have represented the club in competition having had great success with two male swimmers in the past. Her time for 400m freestyle was 6:55.74 and for 50m backstroke was 44.73, setting herself good targets for the next time she competes.

The club’s other new record was created as a result of Lily Cattlin achieving a time of 41:12.7 in the 3k open water swim at the SENW/SENE Championships at the weekend. Lily already holds the under 15 record in the same event but now she’s a little older, has had the chance to set the record for the open age group.

Well done to both girls!

Esme Beevers is a new name we can add to the club record lists following an outstanding swim at the Yorkshire Championships last weekend.

Esme represented the club in the 1500m freestyle achieving a time of 18:19.39. This knocks over 30 seconds off the previous record set by Lily Cattlin in May last year.

Esme was also awarded the silver medal alongside this long course club record for the under 15 age category.

Well done Esme and keep up the great work!

It is the Yorkshire Swimming Championships this month starting this weekend so this is a great opportunity to share some fantastic news about one of our swimmers.

Back in December, Oscar Gavelle represented the club at the Swim England National Winter Championships. He had a superb swim in the 800m freestyle achieving a time of 8:23.46. This was enough to put him in the Yorkshire record books so he now holds the junior short course record in this event.

The records can be found here: https://yorkshireswimming.org/speed-swimming/records/

Well done to Oscar!

Lily Cattlin is unstoppable at the moment, yet again breaking her own junior record in the short course 1500m freestyle. Her latest record was set at the Scarborough Winter Open Meet last weekend. Her time was 18:11.40, 14 seconds faster than time set in Nottingham just last week.

Wow Lily, you are on fire at the moment!

Lily Cattlin was again back to breaking her own records at the NOVA Centurion Open Meet in Nottingham last weekend. She knocked another 4 seconds from a record she only set at the SENER Championships just two weeks ago!

Her time for the short course 1500m freestyle is now 18:25.51.

Fantastic swimming yet again!

Lily Cattlin was back to breaking her own records at the SENER Age Group Championships last weekend. She knocked around 17 seconds from a record she set in Scarborough this time last year.

Her time for the short course 1500m freestyle is now 18:29.79.

Keep up the great work!

Lily Cattlin was again in action last month in the National Open Water Championships. She becomes the inaugural holder of the 5k record for our under 15 girls. She adds this record to the 3k record we created for her earlier in the year. She recorded a time of 1h 14m 45s. Well done to Lily!

Another record was broken at the Swim England Summer Nationals yesterday with Maddie Johnson adding to her record count with a time of 2:23.49 knocking a fraction of time from the previous record held by Debbie Cocking since July 2016. Maddie also finished first in the final and was awarded the gold medal in the process.