Please note that this Friday and next Friday's training at the Garrison will only be for one hour (6-7am). The Garrison need the pool for the second hour and are unable to let us use it.

After the counties the Reading open was the next opportunity for the club’s swimmers to be able to achieve regional times. By the end of the the end of the easter weekend the club had two additional swimmers qualifying for the SE Regional Age Group Championships; Eoghan Wiles and Gemma Lee Ross. Not content with this Adi Vachon post times which have been submitted to Surrey and the South East as records, an amazing achievement.

Last year a seed of an idea was placed to go on a training camp overseas to help develop the swimmers in the club. At the beginning of April 20 swimmers headed for Malta not only for the training camp but also for the 17th Malta International Swimming Meet. The first three days were competitive followed by three days of intensive training. After successes at the counties and the Reading Open we went to Malta with optimism and excitement. For many this was their first experience of open pool competition and with more English than Mediterranean weather it was more jackets and fleeces rather than Raybans and suntan lotion. The competition included 2 Maltese clubs, Italian, Swiss and Windsor Swimming Club.By the end Farnham had amassed a fantastic 57 medals, see results below.

• Natalie Jones Silver - 800m freestyle women Open
• Lucy Peters Bronze - 800m freestyle women Open
• Jack Peters Gold - 800m freestyle Men Open
• Joe Peters Bronze- 800m freestyle Men Open
• Pippa Littlejohn Bronze – 50m BreastStroke Group A
• Liz Kelly Bronze – 50m BreastStroke Group C
• Amy Wilkinson Gold – 100m Butterfly Group A
• Sara Beattie-Spanjol Silver– 100m Butterfly Group A
• Lucy Peters Gold – 100m Butterfly Group B
• Sara Beattie-Spanjol Gold – 200m Backstroke Group A
• Pippa Littlejohn Silver – 200m Backstroke Group A
• Gemma Lee Ross Bronze – 200m Backstroke Group A
• Lucy Peters Bronze – 200m Backstroke Group B
• Sam Rees-Clarke Silver- 200m Backstroke Group D
• Marcus Frontera Gold- 200m Backstroke Group A
• Jack Peters Silver - 200m Backstroke Group C
• Amie Jones Silver – 200m Freestyle Group A
• Pippa Littlejohn Bronze – 200m Freestyle Group A
• Sam Rees-Clarke Gold – 200m Freestyle Group D
• Marcus Frontera Gold- 200m Freestyle Group A
• Jack Peters Silver - 200m freestyle Group C
• Pippa Littlejohn Gold – 200m Breaststroke Group A
• Amie Jones Silver – 200m Breaststroke Group A
• Amy Wilkinson Bronze – 200m Breaststroke Group A
• Liz Kelly Silver- 200m Breaststroke Group C
• Joe Peters Silver – 200m Breaststroke Group A
• Sean Hilton Gold – 200m Breaststroke Group B
• Sara Beattie-Spanjol Silver– 50m Backstroke Group A
• Pippa Littlejohn Bronze – 50m Backstroke Group A
• Marcus Frontera Gold – 50m Backstroke Group A
• Lucy Peters Gold – 200m Butterfly Group B
• Pippa Littlejohn Bronze – 100m Freestyle Group A
• Lucy Peters Bronze – 100m Freestyle Group B
• Marcus Frontera Silver– 100m Freestyle Group A
• Jack Peters Bronze - 100m freestyle Group C
• Jack Peters Silver - 400m freestyle Men Open
• Amy Wilkinson Silver – 50m Butterfly Group A
• Sara Beattie-Spanjol Bronze– 50m Butterfly Group A
• Marcus Frontera Gold– 50m Butterfly Group A
• Sara Beattie-Spanjol Gold – 100m Backstroke Group A
• Pippa Littlejohn Silver – 100m Backstroke Group A
• Gemma Lee Ross Bronze – 100m Backstroke Group A
• Sam Rees-Clarke Silver- 100m Backstroke Group D
• Marcus Frontera Silver - 100m Backstroke Group A
• Joe Peters Bronze - 100m Backstroke Group A
• Pippa Littlejohn Silver – 50m Freestyle Group A
• Natalie Jones Bronze - 50m freestyle Group C
• Marcus Frontera Bronze - 50m freestyle Group A
• Jack Peters Bronze - 50m freestyle Group C
• Amie Jones Bronze – 100m Breaststroke Group A
• Lucy Peters Silver – 100m Breaststroke Group B
• Liz Kelly Bronze- 100m Breaststroke Group C
• Joe Peters Silver - 100m Breaststroke Group A
• Jack Peters Bronze - 100m Breaststroke Group C
• Pippa Littlejohn Gold – 200m IM Group A
• Lucy Peters Silver – – 200m IM Group B
• Marcus Frontera Silver - 200m IM Group A

I think that’s it. It would not have been possible without the effort Simon Peters put in to make the trip happen and a great debt of gratitude goes to him. Thanks go to the coaches on the trip Marilyn and Rob who remained cheerful and spurred everyone despite the long days. In addition thanks goes out for everyone who support the club who were unable to go. From these results and the hardwork roll on the regional championships.

Farnham Swimming Club have once again punched above their weight at The 2010 British Gas Surrey Age Group Championships. With the eagerly awaited reopening of the pool in Farnham expected soon Farnham Swimming Club has clearly shown its metal in an excellent display.

Twenty-two swimmers took part in the event held over the last six weeks with a total of 153 race entries. The progress was superb with 90 of those races producing personal bests. With over half of the swimmers making the grade to be elgible for the South East Regional. Adenais Vachon deliver national level qualifying times to enable her to compete at Sheffield, Ponds Forge, at the National Age Group Championships.

A very proud Marcus Frontera with the 10 year old boys BAGCAT shield

The Girls 11 year old Freestyle Bronze medalists - Pippa Littlejohn, Amie Jones, Gemma Lee-Ross, Sara Beattie-Spanjol

The Bagcat point place swimmers in there age group across several disciplines. Pippa Littlejohn came 5th in the 11 year old girls, Lucy Peters 7th in year ld category. Marcus Frontera came the first in the 10 year boy category, a fantastic achievement. Head Coach, Marilyn Flook, was delighted by the committment and determination the swimmers at the club had shown in that all contributed to a fantatsic performance with an overall sixth place in the county.