Exmouth Swimming Club has seen further success at this year’s Devon Championships, exceeding the club’s previous best, with the junior and youth swimmers gaining 17 medals, including 4 golds. To even enter the championships, held over various weekends in January and February, swimmers needed to have achieved qualifying times at other official events throughout last year. The club saw more junior swimmers qualify this year than previous. Impressively, Exmouth swimmers reached the finals in around half the races that they entered.

Picture: Rosalyn, aged 11 who won two gold medals for 200m Individual Medley and 200m Butterfly

​Swimmers, coaches and volunteers from Exmouth Swimming Club have been able to experience Olympic and Paralympic level training during a recent visit by senior coaches from Aquatics GB, the governing body, for Olympic and Paralympic swimming, Para Swimming, diving, artistic swimming, water polo, and open water in Great Britain.  The unique opportunity saw 5 members of the coaching and management team visit the Exmouth club to run training, coaching and workshop sessions.

During the day, coaches from the club were able to spend time with Jacquie Marshall, Performance Pathway Lead for Para Swimming, to brush up on the most up to date techniques to support performance swimmers in their training and development.  At the club’s evening training sessions, the junior and youth swimmers received a special strength and conditioning land training session with the Head of Physical Performance & Support Science and Medicine Lead, Daniel Waddingham.  In his role, Daniel has overseen the physical development of many of GB’s Olympic and Paralympic gold medallists.
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After an intense physical session, the swimmers were back in the pool being coached by Jacquie to develop their competitive swimming, using similar training techniques as the UK’s top swimmers.