Latest News

Gala at Steinfurt-Borghorst, Germany 2008

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:02:44 +0100

Day 1
Once again Ealing Swimming Club are in Borghorst, Germany swimming in the 2 day gala at the wonderful open air pool against seven clubs from Germany. This year as well as the first timers, we’ve bought the wet weather with us and in the torrential rain our younger swimmers (97-99) swam brilliantly exceeding expectations by bringing home 7 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronze medals. Congratulations to Joseph Sheehan, Aaron Pullen, Lizzie May, Gabriella Bishop, Charran Santhalingam and Kieran Clarke and Bill Kelly.

Not to be out done, our older swimmers have produced some excellent results, gaining 9 gold medals, 11 silver and 13 bronze medals. Well done to Daniela Raffel, Rebecca Arch, Caroline Jones, Hannah Cierebiej-Jeffery, Paul Casillas, Christopher May, Nicolas Raffel, Sebastien Bordonnat, Rebecca McCrohan, Rebecca Read, Alex Holmes, Sammy Behroozi, David Hickman, Laure Jean-Jean, Lara Simson, David McGregor, Gerard Gillespie, Robert Clarke, Tom Surey.

At the end of the day 1 we are equal first with out host S.V. Olympia-Borghorst and we’re looking forward to a fun and competitive day 2 on Germany.

Day 2
As the sun shone brightly on the morning of the second day of the gala in Borghorst, the swimmers warmed up in the beautiful 50m outdoor pool. We were neck and neck with SVO Borghorst after Day 1 and the team knew they had to swim some excellent times in order to see off the opposition and retain the trophy.

We weren't disappointed. In another medal rush the during the day our Ealing SC swimmers performed magnificently and registered some fantastic individual and team results. The 97 and under boys team scored two more relay golds making it a clean sweep in the relay events - well done to Aaron Pullen, Joseph Sheehan, Charran Santhalingam, Kieran Clarke and Bill Kelly. Not to be outdone our young girl swimmers - all first timers in the team - swam against the odds to achieve a bronze medal in the backstroke relay. Congratulations to Lizzie May, Gabriella Bishop, Helena Papworth and Meirian Hall-Jones. Well done also to Caroline Jones for achieving a gold medal in the final of the 96 and older 100m Backstroke and a bronze in the final of the 100m Freestyle; and to David Hickman for his silver medal in the final of the 96 and older 100m Backstroke. Other fantastic swims, including many excellent PBs, came from Adam Doherty, Sebastian Bordonnat, Chris May, Taylor Swift, Rianne Smith, Daniela Raffel, Rebecca Arch, Hannah Cierebiej-Jeffreys, Annabee Mizen, David McGregor, Heather May, Helen Armstrong, Freddy Billyard, Robert Clarke, Tom Surey, Nicolas Raffel and Alex Holmes.

As the gala drew to a close the excited swimmers waited anxiously to see if they had done enough to retain the trophy. The top three places were announced - Bocholter Wsv 262 points, SVO Borghorst 321 points and Ealing SC 323 points - we'd won! What a fantastic gala. Thanks to all at SVO Borghorst for organising such a wonderful event and well done to all our swimmers.

Ealing Swimming Club perform at Youth Championships

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:13:15 +0100

Ealing Swimming Club were crowned ASA National Girls Youth Team Champions after a thrilling and exciting week of competition at Ponds Forge International Pool, Sheffield last week.

This is the second time in three years that the Gurnell Pool based team has lifted the prestigious national title. Head coach Dave Heathcock was delighted with the team performance and especially pleased to see the girls make a unique double, taking both the 4 x 100m freestyle team and 4 x 200m freestyle team titles - both in new club,Middlesex county & London record times .The girls also picked up a bronze in the 4 x 100m medley team. Individual medals were also collected by Natalie Durant and Lauren Turner. All the Ealing swimmers made either semi-finals or grand finals, adding to the points total was Jenna Turner , Elizabeth Griskova, Sophie Shafique and Polly Kemp-King.

Once again the Ealing club prove to be a leading light in both London and National swimming

Looking ahead...Nationals

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:30:34 +0100

Ealing Swimmers are this week in action at the final meet of a very long season. The National Age Groups and Youth Championships in Sheffield will see seventeen swimmers, aged between twelve and eighteen years, compete in their age groups after meeting the very strict qualification criteria.

The Age Group Championships take part over the first four days and will see Melako Coker (14) race the 100m freestyle and 100m breaststroke, whilst Eamon Haroun (12) competes in the 800m freestyle. Also swimming in this meet will be the 12-14 years boys 4 x 100m medley team of Alex Bandarian, Tom Brommage, Melako Coker and Craig Pederson. The boys will hope to consolidate their result in June when they won the London Region Championships and gained the qualifying place at Nationals.

The Youth Championships then run for the next five days with heats, semi-finals & finals in most events. Leading the way for Ealing will be Natalie Durant (17), fresh from her recent double medal winning events at the English Senior National Championships in Liverpool where she won bronze in both the 100m and 200m backstroke . At Sheffield Natalie has a change of stroke and will race the 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle –Natalie is ranked in the top ten of every event. Jenna Turner is another highly ranked Ealing swimmer. The seventeen year old has just returned from the World Youth Championships in Mexico where she was a member of the 4 x 100m freestyle relay team which made 5th place in the final. At Sheffield Jenna races the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle, again with every chance of living up to her top ten ranking. Lauren Turner (15) has also high hopes for the Championships with high rankings in the 100m and 200m backstroke and 200m freestyle. Sophie Shafique (15) is another highly placed backstroker from the Gurnell based team and swims in the 100m and 200m backstroke and Elizabeth Griskova (17) will race in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle.

Ealing’s three girl’s relay teams ( 4x100 freestyle, 4 x 100 medley, 4 x 200 freestyle) have all qualified after winning the three relay events at the London Championships and the girls are joined by Polly Kemp-King (16) to complete a very strong Ealing line-up which will hope to challenge for podium places.

The boys are headed by Tariq Miller ( 16) racing in the 100m, 200m,400m freestyle and 100m breaststroke and 100m backstroke. Ramsey Haroun (15) will compete in the 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle plus the 200m backstroke. Zak Shafique (15) makes his appearance in the 100m freestyle, 100m and 200m backstroke and will hope to build on some excellent swims at the Olympic Trials earlier in the year in the same venue. Edward Howard (16) will also swim in the 200m & and 400m freestyle and Luke Shewring (17) has qualified for the longest event on the programme, the 3000m free and will hope to improve on his top ten finish last year. The Ealing boys have also qualified for relay events and will swim the 4 x 100m freestyle and 4 x 200m freestyle teams with Daniel Crawford (16) traveling to Sheffield for the relay events.

Dave Heathcock, Ealing head coach, commented “this is one of our best years for National qualifiers both in individual and team events. Although these will be a tough few days of racing I have every confidence in the swimmers producing some of the season’s best performances before a well earned break.”

Fareham Nomads Open Meet

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:11:55 +0100

It was the last meet of the season for the Ealing Swimming Club swimmers who competed at Fareham Nomads Open Meet and they turned it to good account. Hannah Cierebiej-Jeffery (12) had a particularly inspired weekend, winning three gold medals – for the 50m and 100m backstroke and the 100m freestyle, one silver medal – for the 200m medley and the bronze in the 50m freestyle. Hannah came second in the overall points for her age group.

Ade Coker (12) also had a successful competition and won the 100m breaststroke, came second in the 100m backstroke and third in the 100m freestyle with seventh place in the 200m freestyle. Polly Kemp-King (15) won Ealing’s fifth gold medal – in the 200m freestyle.

Silver medals were gained by Laura McDonnell (13) for both the 50m and 100m breaststroke; by Maisie Jameson (9) for the 50m backstroke to which she added bronze in the 200m freestyle; by Lucy Thornton (9) in the 50m butterfly plus a bronze in the 50m freestyle and by Tom Brommage (14) in the 100m breaststroke.

Many swimmers achieved results in the top eight of events. These included Harry Jukes (11) and Kaine Wright (11) – both 5 events; Rebecca Arch (12), Daniel Crawford (16) Maisie Jameson, Lucy Thornton (all 3 events); Tom Brommage, Naima Camara (14), Pooja Gupta (10), Omar Haroun (10) Sian McDonnell (9),Jed Neill (12), Georgia Watt (14) James Wilson (9) (all 2 events) and Katie Clarke (14) Bethany Hall-Jones (11), and Luke Shewring (17). Maise Jameson was third in the points overall for the nine year old girls with Lucy Thornton, sixth. Harry Jukes and Kaine Wright were 5th and 6th respectively in the 11 year old boys.

Primary Schools Gala

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:29:21 +0100

Ealing Swimming Club were joint hosts with Active Ealing of a gala for Ealing Primary Schools (years 4 to 6) held last Friday at Gurnell Pool. The schools taking part were Oldfield, Hathaway, Wood End Junior, Brentside, Christchurch, Horsenden, Grange, Stanhope and Edward Betham.

The programme consisted of 25m open individual races on all strokes, girl’s and boy’s freestyle relays and a mixed 8 x 25m freestyle squadron. The swimmers greatly enjoyed the event and produced some excellent swimming.

The freestyle was won by Chantelle Edwins (Oldfields) (girls) and Cephus Kayo (Horsenden) (boys). Deema Aliawy (Horsenden) and Antonia Thompson (Christchurch) were second and third girls and Denis Hyseni (Hathaway) was second in the boys race with Rajan Dhillon (Horsenden) third.

In the breaststroke Deena Seenapen (Horsenden) was first girl with Amy Swift (Christchurch) second and Rosanna J (Wood End) third. The boy’s race was won by George Davis (Horsenden) with Jake Edgar (Wood End Junior) second and Theodor Nikolas (Horsenden) third.

Tamara Stevanovic (Horsenden) won the girls backstroke with Shelome Phillips (Wood End Junior) second and Emily Thomas (Christchurch) third. Parthiv Vakil (Wood End Junior) was first in the boy’s race with Bruce Moffat (Christchurch) second and Ben D’Souza (Horsenden) third.

In the butterfly, Bethan Hall-Jones (Horsenden) won with Lilly Guy (Grange) second and Conah Amiss (Horsenden) third. The boy’s butterfly was won by Robin Brommage (Horsenden) with Omar Haroun (Grange) second and Henry Wildridge (Edward Bethams) third.

Wood End won the girl’s 4 x 25m freestyle relay ( Henna H, Rosanna J, Julie leJ, and Eleanor Holmyard).Runners-up were Grange (Rachel Long, Sian Whitmore, Amee Popat and Lilly Guy) and Christchurch were third (Harriet Kennedy, Celia Wilkinson, Dafina Ngei and Fiona Graham).

The boy’s race was won by Horsenden ( Ben D'Souza, Cephus Kayo, Tadgh Moloney and Robin Brommage); second were Grange (Tasman Hook, Krystian Bik, Matthew Harris and Omar Haroun) and third Christchurch (Rio Wilks, Jacob Crosbie, Lewis Wilkinson, Aleksandar Cvijanovic)

The squadron (mixed 8 x 25m) was won by Horsenden with Tamara Stevanovic, Deena Seenapen, Bethan Hall-Jones, Kimberley Morlese, Ben D'Souza, Cephus Kayo, Tadgh Moloney and Robin Brommage. Christchurch (Amy Swift, Sam Trickey, Celia Wilkinson, Edward Ervin, Rianna Cameron,Bruce Moffat, Emily Thomas and Toby Dunlop) were second and Grange (Calum Plummer , Amee Popat Antoine Hussenot, Emma Long, Dillon Bradbury, Fanny Fontaine, Omar Haroun, Rachel Long) were third.

Horsenden emerged clear winners by thirty-five points with Wood End Junior second and Christchurch third.

The event was set up following a very successful schools gala run last year by the Northolt Phoenix section of Ealing Swimming Club. Northolt also led the organisation this year and are very keen to see it expanded next year to include more schools.

Amongst those swimming were many members of Ealing Swimming Club and the Club would like to extend a warm welcome to any others who would like to join – further information follow link to Training Programme.

ASA National Championships

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:28:36 +0100

Five swimmers from Ealing Swimming Club sampled the new 50m pool in Liverpool when they competed at the National Long Course Championships last week amongst the British team getting ready for the Olympics.

Natalie Durant (17) found great form in the 100m and 200m backstroke events taking the bronze in both in personal best times of 1.04.39 and 2.17.55 minutes respectively. She also swam the 50m freestyle in 27.32 and the 200m freestyle in 2.05.39. Georgina Heyn (23) also made finals, coming seventh in the 50m freestyle in 26.82 and the 100m freestyle in 58.35 and also swimming the 100m breaststroke in 1.14.26. Holly Mills (20) achieved best times in the 400m freestyle and the 200m freestyle which she swam in 4.26.40 and 2.05.78 respectively and competed in the 100m and 200m backstroke. James Crawford (19) produced a best time in the 200m freestyle, swum in 1.54.48, and also competed in the 50m and 100m freestyle, the 100m backstroke and 100m butterfly where he came just behind Joao Matias who also swam the 50m butterfly. Neither Natalie nor Holly were fully tapered for these championships as they have competition still ahead of them - Holly will be competing for GB in the Tri-Nations meet in Canada and Natalie has the National Youth Championships later this month.

For Gina the season has now finished but Joao goes to the Olympics and James to the USA to take up his swimming scholarship.

Nationals

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:40:27 +0100

The ASA long course National Championships take place at the brand new 50m pool in Liverpool from July 10th to the 13th. Ealing have five swimmers attending all with very good chances of making a top eight finish.

Leading the list of qualifiers is 19 year old James Crawford swimming five events - the 50m, 100m, and 200m freestyle, the 100m butterfly and the 100m backstroke. This will be James’ last swim for Ealing for a while as he leaves the UK to take up a full swimming scholarship at the University of South Carolina in early August. James has swum the last five years at the Gurnell based club and has seen his GB ranking improve year on year; he hopes Liverpool will be a good venue to make even greater improvements.

Another of Ealings’s American University based swimmers is 20 year old Holly Mills who travels to Liverpool to race in the 100m & 200m backstroke and 200m and 400m freestyle. Holly has a busy few months ahead of her and shortly after Liverpool she will travel to Canada with the GB team to swim in the Tri-Nations meet (v France and Canada) in Montreal. From there she returns to Florida State University to start the second year of her swimming scholarship. Holly has been in great form. After swimming extremely well in the Olympic Trials in April she was selected for her first full international meet.

Another swimmer with a busy summer is 21 year old Joao Matias who after swimming the 50m and100m butterfly in Liverpool will travel to the Olympics in Beijing to swim for his native Angola . Joao joined coach Dave Heathcock and the rest of the Ealing set up last September and has gone from strength to strength, making National records at the recent World Short Course in Manchester. Gina Heyn has also had international duty this season, swimming for GB at the European Short Course last December – she swims 50 & 100 free and 50 & 100 breast in Liverpool, hoping to improve her top 5 national ranking. Natalie Durant completes the Ealing line-up with her 50 & 200 free and 100 & 200 back events in Liverpool. Natalie also has International Duty lined-up for later in the year with the England Team traveling to India for the Commonwealth Youth Games.

Not swimming in Liverpool will be two regular Ealing swimmers, Jenna Turner & Charlie Turner – however, both are swimming on the other side of the World. Jenna is part of the GB team at the World Youth Champs in Mexico, this follows from her excellent swims at the Olympic Trials and also the European Long Course champs . Charlie Turner, one of Ealing’s highest ranked national swimmers, is at present training at the Pine Crest club in Florida before swimming his specialist 50m and 100m freestyle at the US National Championships later this month.

A busy month for Ealing swimmers will also see competitors at the National Age Group championships in Sheffield 24 – 27 July and the National Youth Champs also in Sheffield 29 July – 2 August .

London Mini Youth Games

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:27:19 +0100

Some of the Junior League swimmers competed in the Ealing borough team which won the Mini Youth Games Competition held at Beckenham Spa. The competition, which had no separate age bands, was for swimmers up to school year six. Bethan Hall-Jones came first in the girl’s butterfly in a time of 35.50 seconds, Kaine Wright was 4th in the boy’s backstroke,Aaron Pullen was fourth in the boy’s freestyle and the breaststroke and Joseph Sheehan 6th in the butterfly. Pooja Gupta finished eleventh in the breaststroke. All individual events were 50 metres.

Joseph Sheehan, Kaine Wright and Aaron Pullen were members of the boy’s team that came first in the 4 x 50 freestyle relay and the same boys plus Omar Haroun came second in the medley. In the girl’s relay events, Bethan Hall-Jones and Pooja Gupta swam in the team that were second in the freestyle and Bethan and Ellie Love were in the medley team that finished fourth in their event.

Second Round Milton Keynes Junior League

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:27:14 +0100

Ealing Swimming Club had a most convincing twenty-one points win in the second round of the Milton Keynes Junior League against runners-up Windsor, Teddington, Harrow, Luton and Milton Keynes. Swimming at Feltham’s Airparcs pool, the team scored an impressive total of twenty-three first, eleven second and five third places – thirty-nine results in the top three of races out of the forty-nine of the gala.

First places were spread fairly evenly among the age groups. The nine year olds won five individual races – Lucy Thornton and James Wilson both took the freestyle; Sian McDonnell won the breaststroke; James Wilson also won the backstroke (with Sian second in her race); and Lucy gained the butterfly. In the 10 year old band there were seven first places - Clare Jansen and Omar Haroun both won the breaststroke; Maisie Jameson won the backstroke with Omar second in the boy’s race; Aaron Pullen took the freestyle and the butterfly. The boy’s team of Charran Santhalingam, Omar Haroun. Aaron Pullen and Kieran Clarke won the medley relay with the girl’s team of Clare Jansen, Emma-Kate Sweeney, Maisie Jameson and Pooja Gupta winning the freestyle. The eleven year olds acquitted themselves similarly with Kaine Wright winning the backstroke, Bethan Hall-Jones and Harry Jukes both winning the butterfly, Joseph Sheehan both the freestyle and the breaststroke and the boy’s team of Henry Wildridge, Kaine Wright, Joseph Sheehan and Harry Jukes winning the freestyle and medley relays. The twelve year old boy’s team of Alex Bandarian, Ade Coker, Eamon Haroun and Rohan Singh won both the medley and the freestyle relays and Coker took the individual breaststroke. All the age groups combined to win the last event event of the evening – the mixed age 8 x 1 length freestyle canon.

Second places were achieved by Eamon Haroun – 12 years butterfly; Omar Haroun and Sian McDonnell – 9 years backstroke; Alex Bandarian – 12 years backstroke and freestyle and Hannah Cierebiej-Jeffery -12 years backstroke. The 9 year old girl’s and boy’s medley teams - Lizzie May, Sian McDonnell, Lucy Thornton, and Megan Devine; and Joe Kelly, Matthew Johnson, James Wilson and Aengus Lynch also came second as did the 10 year old girl’s medley team of Maisie Jameson, Ellie Love, Emma-Kate Sweeney and Pooja Gupta and the 10 year old boy’s freestyle team of Pullen, Haroun, Sheehan and Kieran Clarke. Third places were notched up by the twelve year old girl’s freestyle team of Cierebiej-Jeffery, Annabel Jones, Rebecca Arch and Maisie Price, the eleven year girl’s team of Jameson, Love, Hall-Jones and Talullah Comins and Clare Jansen – 11 years breaststroke, Bethan Hall-Jones – 11 years freestyle and Hannah Cierebiej-Jeffery – 12 years freestyle. Having won both their first and second round galas, Ealing is is now in a strong position for the final of this year’s league which takes place on September 13th.

Have you considered joining the 100 Club?

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:55:17 +0100

..Perhaps you would like to know more about how it works?
We currently have 28 '100 club members'
Each member pays £5 per month by standing order –
this creates an income of £140.00 a month
50% of that (£70.00) goes to the club and 50% is given back to 3 lucky winners each month as follows:

1st Prize £42.00 (60% of £70)
2nd Prize £19.60 (28%)
3rd Prize £8.40 (12%)

Check out the ESC website www.ealingsc.co.uk for an up to date list of winners!
The more members we have the higher the prize fund!!
If we had 100 members that would mean a 1st Prize of £150!! every month.
It’s really easy to join...
Phone/write/e.mail YOUR bank and ask them to set up a direct monthly payment to our bank of £5.00 (preferably on the 28th day of each month) ...that's it!

Download Application/standing order form