York City Baths Club is delighted to announce that several of its swimmers have achieved the accolade of being invited to swim at this year’s British Summer Championships and/or the ASA National Summer Championships, to be held at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, between the 26th July and 5th August 2016. This is a fantastic achievement for the swimmers involved.

To be eligible to swim in the British Summer Championships, a swimmer must have been ranked in the top 24 in the ASA rankings for their age group, for a swim during the qualifying window of 11th March 2016 – 30th May 2016. The next top 20 English swimmers in each age group, outside of those who qualified for the British Summer Championships, are eligible to swim in the ASA National Summer Championships.

Our British Summer Championships qualifiers are:

Harry Devlin, 16:  50m breastroke, 100m breastroke, 200m breastroke

Lucy Nicholson, 16:  400m freestyle, 200m butterfly

Marcus Walker, 14:  50m breastroke

Our ASA National Summer Championships qualifiers are:

Ella Fisher, 14:  200m butterfly

Lucy Nicholson, 16:  800m freestyle, 400m individual medley

Jason Robson, 13:  50m breastroke, 100m breastroke, 200m breastroke, 200m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley

Neola Thorpe, 15:  50m butterfly, 100m butterfly

In addition, Jack Pears-Dorland has qualified for the ASA National Open Water Championships 3K event for 16 year olds, which will take place over the weekend of 23rd/24th July at Rother Valley Country Park.

Head Coach, Josh Spencer, said:

These swimmers have fully committed themselves to the training programme to even qualify for the national championships. They have prepared very well and I’m confident that this will be reflected in the results. I’m very fortunate to coach such a hard working and dedicated group of swimmers.

York City Baths Club is very proud of these swimmers and wishes them all the best of luck in their respective competitions.