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Beckenham Swimming Club
Beckenham Swimming Club welcomes you to its web site. We hope that you will find all the information that you require about our club, which has been established since 1893. The web site is a great opportunity to build on the successful reputation we have as a club and improve all of our communication across the club.
All our members are valued and it is always exciting for us to have new members as this brings in enthusiasm, passion and talent. We wish every member personal success in their swimming.
With over 300 members, Beckenham Swimming Club is a very successful swimming club and our members have gained success swimming at Club, County, District, National and International levels. We also have a Masters section for over 19 year olds, a Morning section and a very strong Waterpolo section running Men’s, Women’s, Junior and Mini teams.
Our coaches are professional and dedicated in the art of coaching to ensure every swimmer reaches their potential. In return, we expect dedicated commitment from every swimmer.
Further information about the squads, locations and training times can be found on the SQUADS web page. For more information or to speak to us about joining Beckenham SC, contact the membership secretary or come along to The Spa in Beckenham on a Monday night to watch eight of our squads train between 6pm and 10pm.
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Ellen, Congratulations on reaching the Olympic Semifinals! From all at Beckenham SC
Women’s 200m Butterfly National Aquatics Centre, Tuesday 12th August 2008. Team GB Olympic Profile |
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Beckenham Swimming Club News
Summers gone, back to the grind
Welcome back after the summer break and don’t forget Club Championship forms need to be in by Monday 8th September 2008.
Jackie Elliott
Membership Secretary
Junior Fun Open Meet on 7th September 2008 is Cancelled
Beckenham Swimming Club Members please click here for details.
Patricia Ogunfeibo
Open Meet Secretary
ASA National Youth and Welsh Summer National successes
8th August 2008
Last weekend saw the end of the club's swimming competition year conclude with the National Youth Championships in Sheffield and Welsh Summer Nationals in Swansea.
Last week I mentioned Liesje Van Der Velde hit Gold in an impressive PB of 57.08 in the 16/17yrs 100m Freestyle. Not content with that Liesje then made it a double in the short sprint 50m in a time of 26.52 and also made the final of the 200m Free finishing 8th in a time of 2:06.32.
For Liesje, it capped an impressive year in addition to being selected for the GB team for the World Youth Championships in Mexico last month.
This followed yet another successful sprint freestyle performance from Steph Denny, who in the 14/15yr event secured a bronze in 27.50. This is a great achievement from Steph who has had to battle a tough year with injury.
Steph King, who recently joined the club, also successfully made two finals in the 14/15 Backstroke events finishing 4th in the 200m in 2:23.08 and 5th in the 100m in 1:06.63.
Overall the girl's team finished 11th (10th if you remove Team Ireland!) and Beckenham finished 23rd.
Well done to Tony and everyone who competed in Sheffield!
(Left: Tony Beckley with Liesje Van der Velde and Steph Denny. Right Liesje with Trophies from both sprint freestyle events)
Click here for the ASA Youth Results
Many then travelled from Sheffield to Swansea for the Welsh Summer Nationals too supported by the club for the first time. There were a number of good swims. Star of the show was Georgia Phillips who won two Golds in the 14/15yrs 100 Free and 50 Free.
Georgia won the 100 in 1:02.40 just pipping Katie Irving who finished in a time of 1:02.69. Katie went on to win further medals, along with Jack Regan, Olivia Handley, Jack Brown and Louis Phillips, as well as numerous other finalists.
Well done to everyone in Swansea and click here for all the Welsh Summer Nationals Results.
Some farewells
For Liesje, competing in Sheffield was her last swim in Beckenham colours, as next year she will be completing her A-Levels and swimming at Millfield School . In a personal message to the whole club Liesje said…
"Dear All… Sadly I have now swum my last race for Beckenham and it is time to move on to pastures new. I will miss the club, I will miss Tony Beckley, and I will miss all my friends tremendously. Although I have already told some of you, I just wanted to state for the record, that my reason for leaving is purely because I couldn't continue with the 24 hours a week travelling time given that I had A levels looming. Beckenham is a fantastic club and Tony Beckley is a fantastic coach. I would like to take this opportunity to thank him publicly for all that he has done for me and for helping me to achieve what I have achieved. If I can leave one piece of advice then this would be to put your faith in Tony and if you work hard for him he will bring success for you. I would like to wish all of you, the coaches, the parents, those that do so much for the club behind the scenes and mostly my friends, a very fond farewell and I wish you every success in your swimming careers… Liesje van der Velde"
Well done to Michael Gunning at the Age Group Nationals
1st August 2008
Michael swam five events and successfully achieved a place in the finals of the 200M butterfly in a time of 2.14.56. In the finals he came 7th. He achieved a PB in the 400m IM.
He came 10th in the BAGCATS for the 14 year old age group and he attended a presentation ceremony and was awarded a years’ free subscription to the Swimming Times and a certificate.
Overall in the BAGCATS he came 1st in the Kent County, 1st in the London Region, and 10th in the National Age Group. Well done on a successful year of swimming!
Brighton Pier to Pier Sea Swim
20th July 2008
Jackie Elliott, Masters swimmer, swam in the Brighton Swimming Club Pier to Pier race in July and came 7th in the Veteran competition. To read the report, click here.
Bromley Girls and Sutton Boys go to Olympic Aquatic Centre Site
17th July 2008
On the 17th July two Beckenham swimmers, Steph Denny and Jack Brown from the national squad, were invited to spend the morning at the Olympic Site and have a photo shoot with Seb Coe, Tessa Jowell and the top executives from Balfour Beatty.
Both were in the winning teams from the London Youth Games. Three swimmers from the Bromley girls team and three from the Sutton boys team were asked to take part in the event in Stratford as the first day of work began on the Aquatic Centre. They spent the morning looking at the plans for the new pool and having their photos taken by lots of photographers and TV crews on the site where the pool is being built.
Darmstadt 45 International Update
16th July 2008Ricky Outhwaite, Michael Gunning, Katie Irving and Steph Denny recently selected by Kent County to compete at international; meet in Darmstad competed in a challenging top level 3 day meet with teams from Canada, South Africa, Italy, Germany, Qatar, Egypt and more. A fantastic experience and time was had by all our swimmers who performed well amongst very high level competition.
Our medal haul was:
Ricky = Gold 100 Freestyle;
Katie = Gold 100 breastroke, Gold 200 breastroke, Gold 200IM, bronze 100 fly;
Michael = Gold 200 fly, Silver 200 Freestyle, and Bronze 100 Fly; and
Steph = Silver 50m Freestyle, Bronze 200m Freestyle, and Bronze 50m Backstroke.
A special well done to Michael who achieved 8th place in the Men's Open 400IM.
A fantastic achievement. Well done to Ricky, Michael, Katie and Stephanie.
Beckenham Success at the London Youth Games
21st June 2008.
On the 21st June some Beckenham swimmers were part of the Bromley team for this year’s London Youth Games. With Crystal Palace being closed we went to Ealing.
Our junior and senior girl’s team won the overall girls trophy with a large points margin and the junior and senior boys came 5th overall.
Our swimmers were:
Steph Denny, Steffi King, Rachel Bull, Fay Donovan, Rebecca Walton, Lauren Walton, Heather Travers, Ricky Outhwaite, Jack Regan, George Eagle, Michael Gunning, Henry Knight, Robert Deane.
Individual medals were won by the junior girl’s freestyle and medley relay, Michael, Steph, Steffi, Rachel and the senior girl’s freestyle and medley relays.
The photos are the Bromley Team and the girls receiving their overall team trophy.
Golden Boys
22nd June 2008
Beckenham 11 to 14 year old boys win Gold in the 4 by 100m freestyle relay & Silver in the 4 by 100m Medley relay, in the London regional this has resulted in them qualifying for the Nationals at Sheffield in July.
The Team is from left to right Gabriel Dada, Marlon Gasparotto, Jack Brown, Michael Gunning.
View the the Club News archive here!
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