Squads
At the higher levels of performance, swimmers are divided into the bronze, silver and gold squads. Entry to these squads is defined by target speeds across all four strokes, which swimmers have to achieve. These targets are challenging - for example, membership of the silver squad requires a breaststroke speed over 100m faster than 1 minute 45 seconds, and a 100m freestyle speed faster than 1 minute 20 seconds.
It is rare in practice for our swimmers to achieve the required standard in all four strokes so on a day-to-day basis they are nominally allocated to one of the squad levels according to age and general ability. The swimmers then work with our coaches to meet individual achievement targets, albeit within the wider aspirational framework of the squad thresholds - in turn part of our goal of raising the standards of our club swimmers.
We are always on the lookout for dedicated, talented, swimmers for the squad as we are light on swimmers in a number of critical age groups. So if you are an experienced competitive swimmer and want to join a club with ambitions to go take you further, please contact Terry or Sean for a chat and a trial swim.
