Skills Qualifier

This weekend has seen our skills and some of our pre-skills divers competing at the Swim England Diving Southeast Region Skills Qualifier, the last qualifier of the year before the National Skills Finals in July and what a weekend it has been with medals, PBs and qualification scores.

Following these results we now have a team of 6 divers heading to Southend for the Swim England Diving National Skills Final in July and we congratulate them all but we highlight this weekends successes Misha, Myla and Ruby who not only qualified in their first ever Skills qualifier but also podiumed with Misha and Ruby both taking gold in their respective events and Myla the silver.

Our Swim England National Skills finalists are:

Misha Group E
Alice Group D
Myla Group D
Harry Group C
Ruby Group C
Kate Group C

We add our congratulations to the rest of the team who this weekend, whilst not quite making the magic score, have all excelled. A special mention to both Edward and Oliver who demonstrated their gymnastics background with a superb set of poolside dives in their first skills competition, to Jasmine for a set of class lineups on 3m, to Hamish who demonstrated focused composure to claim the silver medal both again in their first competition and to Polina and Poppy who were so close to qualifying, Poppy only missing by 0.2 of a point.

Finally we thank our large team of coaches and officials: Hernan, Fin, Betty, Anjali, Malcolm, Matt and Emma. Thank you to Swim England Diving for a thoroughly enjoyable weekends diving with officials new and less new from across the region and beyond working tirelessly to ensure everything went smoothly.