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Congratulations To The Barramundis At Zonals 2012. Gold Went To Alex Murphy.
Well done to all 5 swimmers who competed at this prestigious event. Higher level than a Regional, actually the best from 3 Regions came together to compete; South East, London, South West. The same was happening in Corby and Sheffield.
Alex Murphy, Shannon Motha, Jamie Goldstone, Oliver Ripley and Danny...
January 29th, 2012 | Click To List All Competition News, Featured, Lead Story | Read More
Well Done At 2 Events This Weekend!!
Magnificent results from 2 galas this weekend. DBSC secured more County qualifying times and personal bests from 20 swimmers.
At the South East Regional Winter Championships in Aldershot Garrison 50m Pool, Alex Murphy (16yrs) hauled 5 golds and 1 silver medal and 2 Trophies across the 2 days.
He...
December 7th, 2011 | Click To List All Competition News, Featured, Lead Story | Read More
ESSA Relays No Problem For Junior Team!!
St Birinus Junior Swim Team Compete in ESSA National Relay Finals
Our junior swimmers competed in two events in the English Schools Swimming Association (ESSA) 2011 Secondary School Team Championships finals held on 26th September 2011 at The Quays, Southampton. ESSA was formed in 1949, initially organising...
November 28th, 2011 | Click To List All Competition News, Featured | Read More
Great Results From Barramundi Swimmers Again!
DBSC swimmers brought home the medals, personal best times and a new County Record at 2 events this weekend. The club came 12th out of 51 clubs taking part in this L1 gala.
There were great swims from all, securing not only County Times but Regional Times too from Ollie Ripley (13) and a Winter Champs...
November 21st, 2011 | Click To List All Competition News, Featured, Lead Story | Read More
Barramundi Sisters Abroad!!
2 Barramundi sisters swam in Malt this half term, aginst Maltese clubs at their National Trials. Other UK schools were also invited. The week included 2×2hour training sessions and ran as a camp for the Maltese hopefuls.
Roshani Motha (15yrs) swam 50, 100 and 200 back, 50 free and 50 fly and won...
October 31st, 2011 | Click To List All Competition News, Featured | Read More
Congratulations To 3 Parents!!
Karen Underwood and Sharon Motha and Jo Murphy have succeeded in passing their National Rescue Award For Swimming Teachers and Coaches. This allows them to support sessions pool side when a full NPLQ is not necessary. This allows them to give greater confidence to the coaches pool side as they are the...
October 25th, 2011 | Click To List All Club News, Featured | Read More
Good Swims From Barramundis! ONB Promoted To Div 1!!!
Didcot Barramundi swimmers had great successes at separate galas last weekend
On Sunday 16th October, David Murphy (12yrs), Ollie Ripley (13yrs) and Alex Murphy (16yrs) swam for the Oxfordshire and North Bucks County Team at the British Gas National County Team Championships. The event took place at...
October 17th, 2011 | Click To List All Competition News, Featured, Lead Story | Read More
Congrats To Barramundi Swimmers At Brackley Try-A-Triathlon!
Luc Bouet, Toby and brother Ollie Mew, Kieran Agg and Freddie Wilkinson took part in Brackley Try-A-Triathlon.
BRACKLEY TRIATHLON
L-R Toby, Freddie, Ollie, Kieran, Luc.
Luc came 1st in the 13/14 yr old category – he did a 300m swim, 6km bike ride, 2.4km run, in a time of 34mins 1 second.
Freddie...
October 2nd, 2011 | Click To List All Competition News, Featured, Lead Story | Read More
Barramundi Brings Back The Trophy!! And more….
After a fanatastic day’s competition, all our Barramundis worked hard at bringing back not only the Main Trophy but the Cannon Relay Trophy. On top of that we had a jnr County Record broken, the 100IM (59.56), by Alex Murphy who dashed back from Coventry camp to get points in the last session.
We...
September 18th, 2011 | Click To List All Competition News, Featured, Lead Story | Read More
David Walliams Gets Support From Barramundi’s Finnley Clarke!
A crowd supported David Walliams on his 3rd day of his 140 mile River Thames swim for Sport Relief, at Wallingford Bridge. Feeling unwell, David came out to say thank you to the crowd, and targeted Finnley and his sister for some personal thank yous!!
Finnley sported the Barramundi top and sweatshirt...
September 13th, 2011 | Click To List All Club News, Featured, Lead Story | Read More