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Swim England advice : Covid-19

The Club takes advice from Swim England on this subject, which advises members and athletes to follow all appropriate Government advice, in summary:

Wash hands; avoid travel to defined areas; if unwell, dial 111 and self isolate until tested and cleared.

The Club continues to train at Stretford and compete in events.

The Swim England advice is below:

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance

The welfare of all our athletes, coaches, workforce and volunteers is of paramount importance.

This communication is designed to inform and contains relevant links to the most up-to-date guidance from the Government and Public Health England regarding novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Government has issued advice around travel to and from certain areas as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation develops. Please read the latest advice HERE. This is updated regularly.

Can we ask that all swimmers, coaches, volunteers and spectators to follow the hygiene precautions to help reduce the spread of infection. For the latest infection control advice, please click HERE

Swim England members are requested to comply with the latest Government and NHS guidance. This can be found on the Public Health England website. If you feel unwell, please call NHS 111 for advice.

Swim England will be continuing to plan for our events as normal but we will be following Government guidance and assessing risk as appropriate. They will be issuing specific guidance regarding forthcoming Swim England events as necessary to those due to attend.

BlogMar 9th, 2020

Rossall Team Championship Gala

Thursday night at Rossall Swim Canp is always a highlight, with family visiting to see the swimmers compete for their team after four solid days of training. This year, we’ll done to Team Yellow for taking the gala win and thanks to all the parents volunteering on the night.

swimmer times are now published here:

team Yellow

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team Blue

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BlogApr 14th, 2019

Arena Manchester (COMAST) Meet

Just a small number of swimmers this weekend, with a few of our competitive swimmers away swimming and Rossall Swim Camp hours away, nevertheless some fantastic swims. Times are now available here:

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Thanks as ever to David for sending through the times so quickly.

Blog Competitions SwimmingApr 7th, 2019

GM Age Group 2019

some fabulous swimming over both weekends – fuller summary later.

The times from weekend 1 (>70% PBs) are here:

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The times from weekend 2 (c 80% PBs) are here:

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Blog Competitions SwimmingMar 24th, 2019

Point Score Times

Was superb to see so many new swimmers taking part in their first point score last weekend. We will have promotion news sent out via email next week, but for now, the swimmer times are posted here.

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135 PBs

Blog Competitions SwimmingMar 22nd, 2019

M&D Prog B Final

Well done to our older swimmers finishing third in this season’s Prog B final, behind Glossop and champions Trafford Mets. A tremendous competition on Sale last Sunday saw many new PBs and our team finishing in front of local rivals Flixton (4th) and Altrincham (5th).

The full result is now published on the M&D Swimming website and it’s great to be able to report that our Boys team won their competition, beating Trafford Mets into second place by 7 points. Well done guys:

All our swimmer times are in the following link: MDBSO100319

Blog Competitions SwimmingMar 11th, 2019

Trafford (team) Development Gala

1st March 2019

Yet another exciting evening of racing, with Flixton Swim Team taking the honors @StretfordSV. We were really proud of our young squad finishing third overall, the majority of our team competing in an event like this for the first time. We hope you all enjoyed it.

swimmer times can be found in the following link TraffordDevSO010319

Blog Competitions SwimmingMar 9th, 2019