News & Updates

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See below for monthly updates

April 2024

Two of our masters swimmers David Thompson(40/45 age group) and Dan Thomas(25/29 age group) qualified and swam at the British Masters National LC Championships in Swansea.

Dan finished 6th in all 3 of his events, the 50m Fly/Backstroke and 100m Fly

David won the Silver medal in the 800m Freestyle. David also qualified for his best event the 200 individual medley but the event was oversubscribed before his entry went in. well done to our masters proving swimming is a lifetime sport. Full results on the results page.

March 2024

Two of our masters swimmers competed at the Swim Wales Open Masters at the national pool Swansea 2nd/3rd March. Results are on our results page. the swimmers were Jean Hill competing in the masters for the first time. Jean swan a super 50m Freestyle smashing her PB by over 2seconds to finish with a silver medal in the 65-69 age group. David Thompson competed in the 40-44 age group swimming 4 events, 50m fly 2nd place, 200m IM 1st place, 50m fly 3rd place and 100m Breaststroke 1st place. David did a 6 second PB in the 200m IM in a British National Masters Qualifying Time. David will swim in next months British masters in the 800m Freestyle for which he already had a QT

February 2024

Several of our swimmers swam at the Swim Wales West Wales Championships 2024 LC at the national pool Swansea. A report for this featured on face book and all results can be found on our results page.

January 2024

Happy new year to you all.

14 of our swimmers swam at the NSG Carmarthen championships Open over the weekend of 13/14th Jan. Lucian Treinis was our top points scorer with a 2nd in the 9/10 100m Backstroke & 200m IM. 3rd in the 200m Breaststroke & 50m Butterfly.

Beau Crotty managed a 3rd place in the 11/12 50m Breaststroke.

And David Thompson recently out of retirement managed a 3rd in the 15+ 100m Breaststroke. its worth noting that no swimmer in the entire meet was even born when David last competed in the 100m Breaststroke. 

also competing were, Hannah Clifford, Sam Evans, Toby Harris, Olivia Harvey, Emily Moseley, Sophie Moseley. And representing Pembrokeshire County Keira Bruce, Pheobe Dyde, Wolfie Evans, Annabel John and Iolah Morgan. Full results are on the Events and Results Page.

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Ben Morgan, Keira and Skye Bruce, Julia Ostrowski, Toby Harris, Pheobe Dyde and Iolah Morgan are all entered to swim at the RCT New Year Long Course Meet at Cardiff International 50m Pool on 6/7th January 2024. All 10 lanes will be used for this large meet with most of the top Welsh youth swimmers taking part. All their results are on our Events & Results page.

Three of our members, masters swimmer Darryl and gold squad Ben Morgan along with Coach Jill Williams braved the weather and were spotted at the Angle new years day dip on west Angle beach, BRRR well done to them. Also It was Jill's Birthday as she had a big smile all wet dressed up in a pirates outfit. Happy birthday from all the club Jill. 

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December 2023

Our club Championships were a great success with new swimmers taking in competition for the first time. Lots of medals, lots of fun and a great disco presentation night at Pembroke rugby club on the Sunday evening, So nice to see new faces of young swimmers and parents. 

Our masters swimmers were in action at Newport on 2nd/3rd December taking part in the Swim Wales SC Masters Championships. Daniel Thomas came 4th in the 25/29 year age group 50m Butterfly and David Thompson claimed the Gold Medal in the 40/44 year age group 800m freestyle. well done to both 

November 2023

Several Pembroke swimmers took part in the Swim Wales SC regional Championships at Haverfordwest on 24th/26th November. very well done to all, Results are on our results page.

On the 12th November a group of around 18 swimmers took part in the Amman Valley distance meet at Carmarthen. Included in these swimmers was David Thompson swimming again after some 17years since last competing. David now a masters swimmer swam the 800m in the 17+ age group and at 40 years of managed to return with a silver medal with a time of 10min 15sec. What a great turn out by all of the Pembroke swimmers with lots of medals and PBs.

Big Shout and congratulation to one of our masters swimmers DARRYL. Darryl competed in the North Wales Tal y Llyn Cool Mile swim on 4th November. Yes he had a wet suit on but the water Temp was a very cool 9.8 degrees BRRR. Darryl finished 3rd last year but after a some really good masters training he finished in real style this year and came 1st. Well done Darryl Awesome.

October 2023

Big Congratulations to two of our swimmers who feature in our HALL OF FAME. Dan Thomas and Carys Thomas both competed at Sheffield Short Course England Masters. Dan represented the Wales Police and Carys represented Cardiff Masters. well done to them both. Dan won medals for 50m and 100m Butterfly. Carys who some may not know represented the club over many years and swam for Wales Junior team and produced a great many British National Qualifing Times. 

Pembrokeshire County Championships 2023 Super effort from all our swimmers with just so many PBs, this really does show all the hard work is paying off. Every swimmer should be so proud of themselves when they look at the results and see how much they are improving. Massive pat on the back to all those involved, swimmers and coaches. All the session results are now on the Results page.

Llanelli Open Several of our swimmers attended the Llanelli open meet at the start of the month to prepare for the county age groups which take place on the 20th/21st of October. All the swimmers performed very well and are showing great improvement. All the results and split times are on our Results page. 

September 2023

Congratulations to the following swimmers on promotion to higher squads.

Water Dragons to Bronze link

Logan Hearne, Beau Crotty, Tilly Prevel, Seb Prevel, Lucian Treinis,, Riley Price, Tilly Jarrold.

Promoted to Bronze

Ben Weston, Isla Hounsell, 

Bronze to Solver link

Iolah Morgan, Wolfie Evans, Emily Moseley.

Promoted to Silver

Pheobe Dyde, Cory Shelmerdine, Phillip Twynham.

Silver to Gold link

Toby Harris, Keira Bruce, Annabel John.

Promoted to Gold

Sophie Moseley

August 2023

On Monday 7th August Keira and Sky Bruce both competed at the Swim Wales Summer Open in the national pool Swansea. This event was run in place of the summer nationals which had to be cancelled at short notice. All swimmers could only enter if they had achieved the Swim Wales age group qualifying time. Both young ladies competed in the 50m backstroke. Keira finished in a time of 38.28 sec in 26th place and was just 0.59 sec away from her personal best time. Skye finished in a time of 36.23 sec in a very creditable 11th place, and reducing her PB by 0.22 sec. Considering both had just returned from a family holiday only that weekend they can be very pleased with their swims. Big well done from all the club.

June 2023

On Saturday 24th June Ben Morgan took on the Swim Wales Open Water Challenge at Llandegfedd reservoir and completed the demanding 3000m open water swim. No holding on to the bars or stopping at each end on this one. Well done Ben.  

Wow what a month for competition. On 10th & 11th June 14 swimmers took part in the level 1 & level 3 meet at The Cardiff 50m International pool run By Torfaen Dolphins. Results and swimmers times can be found on our results page. Swimmers swimming under our club entry had a fantastic time. Wolfie won best 9yr boy award along with 1 silver and 4 bronze. Iolah also won 1 silver and 4 bronze medals.

Logan won a gold medal to add to his 2 silvers. Annabel John won a bronze medal in a very hard older age group. Olivia managed 3 PBs while Lucian had 2 PBs. Pheobe and Emily Moseley both had 4 PBs. Ben Weston had a PB and swam excellent in his first 50m long course pool. And many thanks to our oldest swimmer at the meet Sophie Mosely for swimming and helping look after all the younger new swimmers, you are an inspiration to all the younger members of our team.

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May 2023

On the 6th & 7th May Keira & Sky Bruce along with Julia Ostrowski competed in the Swansea Aquatics May long course level 1 meet. all the girls were swimming with the Pembrokeshire county team. Congratulations Ladies. 

April 2023

Date for your diary the club AGM will be Wednesday 17th May in the Dutton Suit Pembroke Leisure Centre.

Amman Valley results are now on the Results page. The following 21 Pembroke swimmers took part in the Amman Valley Open on Sunday 23rd April.

Pheobe Dyde, Amya Evans, Riley Price, Logan Hearne, Wolfgang Evans, Lucian Treinis, Ben Weston, Beau Crotty, Toby Harris, Tilly Prevel, Emily Moseley, Keiran George, Sebastian Prevel, Iolah Morgan, Keira Bruce, Annabel John, Julia Ostrowsky, Alesha Lamin, Cory Shelmerdine, Isla Hounsel, Holly Shelmerdine. Congratulations to all swimmers who achieved a personal best time. Special mention to Pheobe Dyde in the 9/10yrs with 32 meet points just piped Iolah Morgan 8yrs with 31 meet points into top swimmers at the meet. Iolah finished with 3 golds and a silver in her 4 swims. Wolfie 9/10yrs also with 31 meet points can be very pleased with 2 silvers and 2 bronze and to finish the meet as the fastest 9 year boy in every event he swam. Special well done to Riley Price 8yrs Bronze and 2x 4th places and Amya Evans 15th in the 50m butterfly, both swimmers competing for the first time. Other top 3 placed swimmers were. Holly 8yrs 3rd 50m Breast, Keira 3rd 200m Back. Sorry if I have missed anyone. Congratulations to all the swimmers and coaches.

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March 2023

Congratulation go to Alesha Lammin, Abi Thomas and Ben Morgan. Alisha has been promoted to our Bronze Squad. Abi and Ben promoted to our Gold squad. Well done guys keep up the good work in the pool.

February 2023

Great news the club have been granted extra pool hours on a Wednesday and Thursday from February half term for a trial period until May to see how well these session are being used. we will also be adding a masters session on Thursday and Sunday to our pool timetable.

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The committee and coaching team have started an initiative for parents wanting to help on poolside to come and help on Friday evenings. The club needs as much help help as possible and the more parents get involved the more successful the club will become.

Haverfordwest pool has developed a problem and needs some repairs, this means Pembroke club will help out the County team so they can use part of our sessions until repairs are complete.

January 2023

Welcome back to the pool for our first session of the new year, and what a great night it was on Friday club night. Our committee arranged for the swimmers to have the inflatable in the pool for the first hour, and this was followed by a Christmas recovery set and drills put together by Phil Thomas. It was lovely to see so many swimmers in the pool, and even better to see them smiling and laughing together.

Also the club presented those swimmers who have been promoted within the squads over the Christmas break with certificates and new squad hats: Iolah Morgan, Wolfie Evans and Pheobe Dyde have moved up to Bronze Squad. Hannah Clifford has moved up to Silver Squad. Julia Ostrowski and Skye Bruce have moved up to Gold Squad. Congratulations to you all on your much deserved success. 

Click to open two photos of the fun  session

December 2022

Congratulations go to Iolah Morgan, Pheobe Dyde and Wolfie Evans promoted to our Bronze Squad. Hannah Clifford promoted to our Silver Squad. Julia Ostrowski and Skye Bruce promoted to our top Gold Squad. Well done to you all and reward for your hard work in the pool.

What a great month with our club championships producing some wonderful swimming skills especially from our new younger swimmers who have only just joined us. Followed by a very fantastic evening at our Disco. Keith Thompson our Head coach for so many years retired at the end of November, so their has been a small reshuffle on the coach team. But pleased to say the club is looking strong for the new year  

November 2022

Many thanks to Lily Rice our Commonwealth Games Bronze medal winner for being part of our Ladies relay team in the County Championships. Lily turned up with her Commonwealth Games medal to inspire our younger swimmers. Our younger swimmers were in awe of this medal and went on to produce many PBs. Lily you are a start thanks again.

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Check out our results page for all the results at the West Wales Sub Regional and County Championships.

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September 2022

Welcome back for the new season. And a big welcome to all the new swimmers that have joined us. We hope to see you back in training and in the pool competing in competitions.

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Sadly we have to say goodbye to Milan Tihiiv. Milan joined us this year as he and his mother left his home country Ukraine due to the War with Russia. They both have now left Pembrokeshire and settled in Cardiff. The club wish them all the best for the future. Below a letter of thanks from Milan's Mother.

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Hello. I would like to say for you and all coaches big thanks.
We Moved from Pembrokeshire to Cardiff.
We found accommodation for rent.
You are good cool people and so kind for us.
Thanks for everything one more time.

Valeriya Sloz

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May 2022

14 of or swimmers took part in the Llanelli open at Carmarthen pool on 21st May. In a meet that had lots of DQs its great to say none of our swimmers were DQd, In 54 swims our swimmers bettered their entry time 31 times. Well done to all swimmers.

In a tough meet we had 1 gold medal, Freya Thompson. 5 silver Medals, Jack Morgan(2), Freya Thompson, Cerys Griffiths, Keira Montague. 4 Bronze Medals, Cerys Griffiths(2), Keira Bruce, Keira Montague. 

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March 2022

Congratulation to the following 3 swimmers. Mason Montague, Cerys Griffiths and Freya Thompson. All 3 have been selected to represent Swim Pembrokeshire County relay teams at the Easter Nationals in Swansea. We wish them good luck. Mason will swim in the 14/15 Boys relay teams, with Cerys and Freya in the 12/13 Girls team, Well done guys all the hard work is paying off.

The following swimmers have been promoted to county academy plus, which means as well as training Saturday with county they will also train on Thursday morning in Haverfordwest 05.40am - 8am so early night on Wednesday's 

Congratulation to Cerys Griffths 11, Ben Morgan 12, Julia Ostrowsky 13, Freya Thompson 11, Skye Bruce 12. 

Swimmer Of the Month Award Alexa Aspey listening and stroke improvement.

PB of the Month goes to Jack Morgan with a 1min 26.60 sec PB in the West Wales championships 1500m Freestyle 

February 2022

Pembroke & District ASC held its 2021 annual awards and disco evening at The Monkton Swifts club house on Sunday 20th February. What a night. big turn out for team Pembroke. 

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Lily Rice WCMX is at Aberdeen Sports Village.

21 February at 17:00  · Aberdeen  · 

What a week I've had in Aberdeen

I managed to make finals for all 3 races I entered, including an International final in the @paraswimming World series! Gaining a 4 sec pb on 100m Backstroke and a 9 sec pb on 100m breaststroke

I was also invited to swim extra races over the weekend to gain times in events I wouldn't usually swim, which included 100m fly and I managed to take off another 3 seconds since I last swam in December

Huge congratulations to Lily Rice who’s been competing in the para swimming in Aberdeen this last week. We’re so proud of you Lily

Lily Rice in Aberdeen click for Picture

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PB Award for the biggest Pb at the Carmarthen County Championships goes to 

Fraya Thompson 

27.11 seconds Pb in the 11/12 Girls

100m Butterfly

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The committee has decided to start a new ongoing incentive initiative.

All swimmers who swim and represent the club at competition level will now be asked to wear only our competition swim hats. These hats will be our normal club colour but each squad will have their own individual sea horse logo colour.

Gold Squad = Gold Logo 

Silver Squad = Silver Logo

Bronze Squad = Bronze Logo 

Water Dragons = Red Logo

Starting with our April Club Championships all swimmers entering will be given a free hat with their squad logo colour. Swimmers should keep these for competitions, however you may if you wish wear them for training but if they break you will have to buy a new one for your next competition. All swimmers who have never received a hat will be presented one when they enter their first competition. Also any swimmer that gets promoted up to a higher squad will get a new hat presented free at next competition to show they swim with the higher squad. So, to all swimmers enter competitions, Work hard get promoted and be proud to wear your squad hats.

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West Wales Regional Champiopnships

Another very good turn out and well supported on poolside by our team and Officials. Sorry again no spectators in the building.

With this competition only swimmers with QT or CT times can enter.

We had:-18 swimmers in 84 events with 69 new PBs (although these are only recorded as times that were quicker than entry times and may not be actual PBs as I do not have access to our up to date PB list.) Great news no DQs. Only 22 QT achieved by 8 swimmers so we may need to look at this to help more swimmers achieve a QT.

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January 2022

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Swimmer of the month for

January 2022

Serin Rogers

for very good improvement over the last few months 

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Carmarthen County Invitation meet

Very good turn out and supported by officials willing to help from our club. Spectators had to wait outside so many thanks for all their help in such trying conditions.

20 swimmers, entering 71 swims although we had 9 DNS, 53 new PBs, 3 DQs and 1 DNF. Good result all round and a great start back into competition.

Best meet swims. Skye Bruce Girls 11/12 100m Backstroke. Ben Hillary Boys 15/o 100m Freestyle

Best PB Freya Thompson 27.11 sec Girls 11/12 100m Butterfly.

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