Surrey Champs
24/11/09 18:54
The full details of the Surrey Championships are now available. All swimmers aged 9 or over can enter, provided they have achieved the entry times. Surrey Champs
New Training Times
01/11/09 11:55
The closure of Farnham Sports Centre means that all squads will be training at new pools. To help parents find these pools we have printed a leaflet that will be available at pool side for the next week and it can be downloaded here: Pool Guide
Club Champioships
18/10/09 19:06
Well done to all those swimmers that have achieved PBs and qualification times for the Surrey Championships. All swimmers should have received an e-mail showing their current times and the Championship qualifying time. Those who are within 10% of their target stand a very good chance of getting the target time, but remember this has to be achieved at a certified meet. Next year there is a final chance to qualify at the end of January. Club Champs Day 2
Sprint Championships
30/06/09 13:18
- The Club Sprint Championships are now available by clicking on this link: Sprint Results
Two Farnham Swimmers qualify for the British Short Course championships
26/05/09 20:42
- Addy Vachon and Ollie Leonard put in massive performances over the weekend to qualify for the Senior British Short Course Championships. Addy (16 years old) slashed a second off her 50m Free PB to qualify with 27.09s while Ollie (14 years old) put in a perfect 50m Fly to qualify with 26.14s. A huge achievement for two young swimmers.
Success at the Guildford Open
25/05/09 21:00
Farnham swimmers were up against the top swimmers from the South East at the Spectrum over the bank holiday weekend coming away with an impressive haul of medals, PBs and club records. The full list of results can be found here.
Well done to:
Well done to:
- GOLD
- 16yo 50 Free: Addy Vachon 27.09 (British Short Course Qualifying Time!!!!!!!)
- 16yo 100 Freet: Addy Vachon 58.85
- 16yo 200 Free: Addy Vachon 2:07.87
- 11yo 400 Free: Lucy Peters 4:55.88
- 11yo 200 Beast: Lucy Peters 3:07.12
- 16yo 50 Butterfly: Addy Vachon 31.54
- 17+ 50 Free: Joshua Wreford 25.43
- 14yo 200 Fly: Oliver Leonard 2:23.24
- 17+ 200 Back: Joshua Wreford 2:17.11
- SILVER
- 11yo 100 Fly: Lucy Peters 1:17.73
- 11yo 50 Breast: Lucy Peters 41.01
- 11yo 200 IM: Lucy Peters 2:44.89
- 10yo 50 Free: Marcus Frontera 34.29
- 15yo 100 Breast: Connor Price 1:15.06
- 15yo 50 Free: Connor Price 26.07
- 10yo 50 Back: Marcus Frontera 40.12
- 15yo 200 Free: Connor Price 2:03.12
- 15yo 50 Breast: Connor Price 33.87
- 15yo 200 Breast: Connor Price 2:43.49
- BRONZE
- 11yo 50 Free: Lucy Peters 31.29
- 10yo 200 Back: Pippa Littlejohn 2:54.15
- 15yo 100 Free: Connor Price 55.82
- 10yo 100 IM: Marcus Frontera 1:29.00
- FOURTH
- 10yo 200 Free: Pippa Littlejohn 2:37.70
- 17+ 100 Free: Josh Wreford 54.88
- 10yo 200 Free: Marcus Frontera 2:41.50
- 17+ 200 Free: Joshua Wreford 2:00.06
- 17+ 50 Back: Joshua Wreford 30.50
- 10yo 50 Fly: Marcus Frontera 38.37
- WELL DONE TO
- 13yo 100 Free 7th: Natalie Jones 1:05.02
- 13yo 100 Free 10th: Jessica Wreford 1:07.18
- 13yo 100 Breast 6th: Kristi Stone 1:29.99
- 13yo 50 Free 9th: Jessica Wreford 30.53
- 10yo 200 Free 17th: Amie Jones 2:45.55
- 13yo 200 Free 9th: Natalie Jones 2:22.07
- 10yo 400 Free 5th: Amie Jones 5:40.86
- 13yo 400 Free 5th: Natalie Jones 4:58.32
- 13yo 400 Free 8th: Summer Pepper 5:12.78
- 10yo 200 Breast 11th: Amie Jones 3:34.00
- 13yo 200 Breast 6th: Kristie Stone 3:10.03
- 10yo 100 IM 7th: Pippa Littlejohn 1:28.06
- 12yo 100 Back 11th: Eoghan Wiles 1:21.78
- 11yo 50 Free 14th: Matthew Marter 35.62
- 11yo 50 Back 12th: Matthew Barter 42.37
- 11yo 50 Breast 8th: Matthew Barter 46.21
- 10yo 200 Breast 5th: Marcus Frontera 3:53.28
- 10yo 100 IM 5th: Joe Peters 1:32.58
- 11yo 100 IM 8th: Matthew Barter 1:32.08
- 10yo 200 Back 5th: Marcus Frontera 3:04.02
Top coach joins Farnham
16/05/09 20:39
We would like to welcome our new coach, Sergei Gloushkov, to the club. He is a highly qualified international coach who moved to Farnham last December with his wife, who has been put in charge of the British Synchronised Swimming Team based in Aldershot. Sergei is originally from Russia where he was National Junior Champion at the 200m Breaststroke and a member of the USSR swimming team at a time when swimming was supported by the communist regime.
After a successful swimming career he moved into coaching. His first club were Russian champions in 1991, he then moved to Greece where his club were Greek champions for 4 years in a row. In 1994 he moved to Israel where his was equally successful, and his club were again national champions.
Sergei has also taken swimmers to the European and World Championships.
I am sure you will agree that we are very lucky to have him coaching our best junior swimmers and you will make him very welcome.
Premier League Round 1
14/05/09 21:00
Minor League Round 1
14/05/09 20:50
Farnham swimmers compete in the first round of the Minor League. Results in the link below.
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Rother league round 1
14/05/09 20:40
Well done to all our swimmers in the first round of the Rother League. Farnham were up against the top clubs in the South East and did well to hold onto 6th place. The next round will be at Southampton and the seeding system should mean a much closer competition.
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Marcus Frontera & Ellie Walton both 2nd in Surrey Champs
18/03/09 11:12
Marcus “The bullet” Frontera had an outstanding Surrey Championships. He finished second in the 9 year old boys competition with an impressive 867 points. 3 more, equivalent to a tenth of a second, and he would have been champion.
Ellie Walton finished the Surrey Championships as second 13 yo girl with 3,511 points.
Other notable performances were Pippa Littlejohn (15th), Amie Jones (22nd), Lucy Peters (7th), Amelia Oury (35th), Natalie Jones (11th) and Jessica Wreford (35th). It is a great achievement to even get into the Surrey Championships.
Farnham finish sixth
01/03/09 19:22
At the end of the individual events this weekend Farnham Swimming Club finish sixth in the medals table. Well done to all our swimmers and to the coaches for producing such incridble performances. Our medal winners on the last 3 days were:
- Marcus Frontera Bronze 200m Back
- Ellie Walton Gold 200m Back
- Addy Vachon Gold 200m Butterfly
- Thomas Eastwood Silver 200m Breaststroke
- Addy Vachon Silver 100m IM
- Marcus `Frontera Silver 100m IM
- Connor Price Bronze 100m IM
- Ellie Walton Gold 100m Back
- Josh Wreford Silver 100m Back
- Addy Vachon Gold 100m Free
- Addy Vachon Gold 50m Free
- Ellie Walton Silver 50m Back
- Addy Vachon Silver 50m Back
- Addy Vachon Silver 50m Butterfly
- Marcus Frontera Gold 50m Free
- Marcus Frontera Silver 50m Back
- Josh Wreford Bronze 50m Back
- Marcus Frontera Gold 50m Butterfly
Farnham Fifth
12/02/09 14:57
Well done to our medal winners:
- Lucy Peters Bronze 400m Free
- Natalie Jones Bronze 400m Free
- Ellie Walton Bronze 400m Free
- Addy Vachon Gold 400m Free
- Ellie Walton Gold 200 IM
- Ellie Walton Gold 100m Butterfly
- Addy Vachaon Gold 400 IM
Farnham Swimming Club win Division 2.
25/01/09 21:02
Farnham Swimming Club went to Southampton to compete against the other top teams in Division 2; Littlehampton, Rushmoor Royals B, Chalfont, West Wight and the Isle of Wight.
Although Littlehampton went into the evening slightly ahead on points Farnham knew a good team performance could see the championship coming back to Surrey. Despite a plague of chest infections of almost biblical proportions all the competitors were at poolside resplendent in red stetsons provided by Ellie Walton.
Becky Fisher got the competition off to a great start with a win in the 100m IM in a club record of 1:09.56. The first batch of relays set the pattern for the evening with all the girls teams winning their age groups. The U11 girls Freestyle Relay team: Lucy Peters, Amelia Oury, Amie Jones and Pippa Littlejohn started things off with a great win. The U14 boys Medley Relay team: Rhys Davies, Jack Peters, James Butcher and Omar Bourak were not to be out done and won their race. The under 15 girls free style team of Becky Fisher, Alex Leonard, Catherine Jeffries and Addy Vachon followed that up with a very impressive win, coming home by a
clear length.
Alex Leonard was soon back in the pool winning the U16y 100m backstroke in an impressive 1:12.53s only to be upstaged by Ellie Walton who won the U14y 100m backstroke in 1:08.50s, nearly a full length ahead of her nearest rival, she would probably still have won while wearing her stetson. Katherine Brown kept up the winning streak in the Open 100m butterfly in 1:13.32s and Lucy Peters followed that with a win in the U12 50m butterfly in 36.06s. Jack Peters got the boys their first win in the 100m backstroke in a time of 1:16.50s and Connor Price followed that with a win in the U16 100m Freestyle in 1:00.15s. Addy Vachon is always a reliable banker of points and she did not disappoint cruising to wins in the U16 100m butterfly and freestyle in 1:08.44s and 1:03.54s and she then won the Open 100m Freestyle in 1:01.32. By this time Farnham had established a solid 12 point lead over Littlehampton, and wins for Natalie Jones in the U14y 100m Freestyle in 1:06.57s and for Becky Fisher in the U16y 100m Breaststroke in 1:21.09s kept Farnham ahead.
Second places from Amelia Oury in the U12 50m backstroke, Jack Peters in the U14 Breaststroke, Katherine Browne in the Open 100m Breaststroke, Pippa Littlejohn in the U12 50m Freestyle and Josh Wreford in the Open 100m Freestyle kept up the lead heading into the final relays.
The girls were again in top form with the U14 girls: Natalie Jones, Jess Wreford, Sam Rees-Clark and Ellie Walton winning their Freestyle relay. There were some worrying moments when the Boys open squad were disqualified and the U12 girls did not finish when one member of the team swallowed half the pool, but the lead was too great and Farnham won by 12 points. Head coach, Marilyn Flook, was delighted with the performance “The team has worked hard over the last two years to get to this moment and theyfully deserved to win.” Farnham have now been promoted to Division 1, if you would like to help them to another win please contact us through the website at www.farnhamsc.co.uk.
Although Littlehampton went into the evening slightly ahead on points Farnham knew a good team performance could see the championship coming back to Surrey. Despite a plague of chest infections of almost biblical proportions all the competitors were at poolside resplendent in red stetsons provided by Ellie Walton.
Becky Fisher got the competition off to a great start with a win in the 100m IM in a club record of 1:09.56. The first batch of relays set the pattern for the evening with all the girls teams winning their age groups. The U11 girls Freestyle Relay team: Lucy Peters, Amelia Oury, Amie Jones and Pippa Littlejohn started things off with a great win. The U14 boys Medley Relay team: Rhys Davies, Jack Peters, James Butcher and Omar Bourak were not to be out done and won their race. The under 15 girls free style team of Becky Fisher, Alex Leonard, Catherine Jeffries and Addy Vachon followed that up with a very impressive win, coming home by a
clear length.
Alex Leonard was soon back in the pool winning the U16y 100m backstroke in an impressive 1:12.53s only to be upstaged by Ellie Walton who won the U14y 100m backstroke in 1:08.50s, nearly a full length ahead of her nearest rival, she would probably still have won while wearing her stetson. Katherine Brown kept up the winning streak in the Open 100m butterfly in 1:13.32s and Lucy Peters followed that with a win in the U12 50m butterfly in 36.06s. Jack Peters got the boys their first win in the 100m backstroke in a time of 1:16.50s and Connor Price followed that with a win in the U16 100m Freestyle in 1:00.15s. Addy Vachon is always a reliable banker of points and she did not disappoint cruising to wins in the U16 100m butterfly and freestyle in 1:08.44s and 1:03.54s and she then won the Open 100m Freestyle in 1:01.32. By this time Farnham had established a solid 12 point lead over Littlehampton, and wins for Natalie Jones in the U14y 100m Freestyle in 1:06.57s and for Becky Fisher in the U16y 100m Breaststroke in 1:21.09s kept Farnham ahead.
Second places from Amelia Oury in the U12 50m backstroke, Jack Peters in the U14 Breaststroke, Katherine Browne in the Open 100m Breaststroke, Pippa Littlejohn in the U12 50m Freestyle and Josh Wreford in the Open 100m Freestyle kept up the lead heading into the final relays.
The girls were again in top form with the U14 girls: Natalie Jones, Jess Wreford, Sam Rees-Clark and Ellie Walton winning their Freestyle relay. There were some worrying moments when the Boys open squad were disqualified and the U12 girls did not finish when one member of the team swallowed half the pool, but the lead was too great and Farnham won by 12 points. Head coach, Marilyn Flook, was delighted with the performance “The team has worked hard over the last two years to get to this moment and theyfully deserved to win.” Farnham have now been promoted to Division 1, if you would like to help them to another win please contact us through the website at www.farnhamsc.co.uk.