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A brilliant finish for Halton Swimming Club at the Southport Shrimps, finishing second behind Leyland Barracudas.

We even got a mention in the local press - well done everyone! 🥳

Well done to everyone who participated in the three weekends of the Cheshire County Championships at Macclesfield and Stockport.

We had 25 Swimmers Qualify for the 2025 Cheshire County Championships.18 Swimmers competed and 7 decided not to enter this year. 

Competing in 2025 were: Anthony Wawrzyniak, Eloise Edwards, Isabella Cranney, Taylor Fishwick, Amelia Williamson, Dylan Taylor, Edward Marsh, Kevin Chiu, Elva Chiu, Nefeli Kalampoki, Freya Karaski, Bella Mai Fishwick, Jacob Agate, Matthew Raley, Dan Houghton Butler, Olivia Hyland, Gabriella Houghton and Mackinlay Houghton.

Ben Clayton, Beth Howard Hughes, Josh Howard Hughes, Sam Hyland, Connor O’Sullivan, Jack Hannah Holland, and Kian Karaski qualified but didn’t compete.

Over the 3 weekends we achieved the following medals:

Silver:

· Anthony (50 Free, 100 Breast & 100 IM)

· Dan (50 Fly, 100 Back & 50 Breast)

· Jacob (50 Back)

· Mackinlay (50m Breast & 100 Fly)

Bronze

· Anthony (50 Fly)

· Kevin Chui (50 Fly, 100m Fly)

· Daniel Houghton-Butler (50 Free, 50 Back, 100 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Back, 200IM)

· Mackinlay Houghton (100IM, 200 IM)

· Eloise Edwards (50 Back)

Overall, in this year’s competition, we have 21 claimed Medals ( 9 Silvers and 12 Bronze) and we had 55 Cheshire County Finalists (equivalent of a Top 8 Finish) 

We had an outstanding 75 personal best times achieved in 2025!

In the Team Points tables, we finished in 13 th  place in the Wallace Trophy on 47 points (11th on 23 in 2024) and 8 th place in the Hugh Laughland Trophy on 242 points (9th on  137 points in 2024).

Well done to all the swimmers who competed and to everyone that helped out and cheered them on! 🥳🎉👏

In the McMonagle Trophy at Everton Park our 9 Years Old Mixed 8 x 1 Relay team of Meg McAllister, Beth Macgugan, Harriet Ross, Eva Cranney, Joseph Baker, Quinton Lee, Anthoy Wawryzniak and Edward Berry retained the Arthur Derbyshire Shield through winning Event 1 convincingly.

We achieved a creditable 3rd place in Event 2 The Austin Rawlinson Trophy for the Mixed Open Cannon Relay whilst also taking 3rd Place  in event 37 the Girls McDonald's Trophy for the Freestyle Cannon. In the Boys McDonald's Trophy we claimed 2nd Place.

Final result for the Girls McMonagle Memorial Trophy - Girls Team Overall:  1st Crosby SC on 80 points; 2nd Garston SC  64 points; 3rd Halton 57 points; 4th Bridgefield SC 43 points ; 5th Bootle & North Liverpool SC 24 points.

Final result for the  Boys McMonagle Memorial Trophy - Bots Team Overall: 1st Garston SC 76 points; 2nd Halton SC 68 points; 3rd Crosby SC 61 points; 4th Bridgefield SC 40 points; 5th Bootle & North Liverpool SC 23 points.

Thank you email from Katie at the Widnes Foodbank.

I'm writing to say thank you for Halton Swimming Club's donation of food to Widnes Foodbank. As donations have dropped considerably in the current financial climate, we are very grateful for your contribution. It is only due to the goodwill of people like you that Foodbank is able to work as well as it does.

Your donation of 46 kg of food equates to 110 meals, which is a great help.

Please find a Thank You card attached.

Well done to all the swimmers who competed in the latest round of the M&D gala in Huyton at the weekend.

There were some fantastic swims and Halton finished first with a massive 27 point difference.

To see all the results click here

We are now top of the table!

Well done everyone 🎉👏

A fantastic first round at the Arena League North West competition. Halton came in second just 8 points behind the winning team Biddulph. Some great swims from our swimmers. We even featured in the Liverpool Echo. Well done everyone 👏

Thank you to all the swimmers who participated in the sponsored swim earlier this month. It was a great success and all the children seemed to really enjoy it.

Here are some stats:

Number swimmers participating = 83

Total Lengths = 10835

Total Distance (metres) = 270875 

Total Distance (miles) = 169.3 (that all the way to London - in a straight line!)

In terms of sponsorship money, so far we have raised £865! 🎉🎉

Wow!!! 🤩🤩🤩

What a weekend Halton SC had at the Liverpool & District Swimming Championships held at Knowsley Leisure & Culture Park. 22 swimmers took part, including some who had never competed before or were relatively new to competition, along with several of our senior squad.

Team spirit and support was excellent, and we returned with a massive medal haul of 32 gold 🥇, 16 silver 🥈 and 16 bronze medals 🥉, along with 6 senior Championship Trophies 🏆 presented by the former Swim England President Jim Wilks.

However, it's not just about the awards and medals for swimmers; the plethora of personal bests achieved over the competition are equally, if not, more important, as they help to demonstrate the commitment and dedication to training, fundamental to progression and performance.

Well done swimmers!! 👏👏👏

Halton Swimmers

The Girls: Layla Keeble, Taylor Fishwick, Isabelle Cranney, Bella-Mai Fishwick,

Ella Duckworth, Freya Karaski, Nefeli Kalampoki, Elva Chiu, Elizabeth Marsh,

Olivia Hyland, Rosie Barker-Mayer, Bethany Howard-Hughes.

The Boys: Edward Marsh, Matthew Raley, Kevin Chiu, Daniel Houghton-Butler,

Jack Hannah- Holland, Samuel Hyland, Kian Karaski, Charlie Bivon,

Joshua Howard-Hughes.

Micro League Swim off Winners

Last Saturday our amazing micro league team celebrated their Division B win with a spectacular performance in the swim off for Division A promotion, they came away with first place and are now competing in Division A for the 2024 season!

Celebrating with not one but two trophies

The club and coaching team are so proud of our younger swimmers and it’s great to see how much they have developed since our first team gala at the beginning of the year.  Their commitment and hard work in their swimming sessions has paid off

We will get a picture of our whole team during one of our training sessions, every single swimmer played their part in this huge achievement, what a fantastic team and great team spirit

Congratulations to Freya, Dan, Jack HH, Kian, Rosie and Josh who spent the weekend at Liverpool Aquatics Centre competing at the COLSC Level 1 National Qualifier. Some excellent PB's obtained and a decent medal haul too- well done all!Congratulations

Second MDJL team gala today Brilliant team spirit and great swimming.

The team came 2nd in the first round in October and 1st in the second round today. All back in the pool on Monday to work towards the third round in May.

Well done to all the swimmers competing today

What a fantastic weekend for the Halton SC swimmers competing in the Wirral Metro Spring Meet

14 swimmers competing

62 Personal Best Times

2 Gold Medals

13 Silver Medals

8 Bronze Medals

Rosie Barker-Mayer = 5 PB's

Isabella Cranney = 4 PB's

Jack Dean = 1 PB

Bella Fishwick = 5 PB's

Taylor Fishwick = 5 PB's

Jack Hannah - Holland = 4 PB's

Olivia Hyland = 4 PB's

Freya Karaski = 4 PB's

Kian Karaski =5 PB's

Evan Keeble = 4 PB's

Layla Keeble = 7 PB's

Edward Marsh = 5 PB's

Elizabeth Marsh = 2 PB's

Daniel Houghton - Buttler = 6 PB's

Well done swimmers!!!