Another stroke of success!
Over 700 of England’s best swimmers descended on the Olympic pool last weekend to contest the National Finals of the English Schools Relay Championships.
The King’s intermediate girls team of Rosie Broujeni (MT), Stephanie Andrews (BR), Louisa Long (BR) and Phoebe Brockington (HH) had qualified for the championships for the 1st time in the school’s history by winning the South East Regional Qualifying event at Guildford in September.
The girls responded brilliantly in the freestyle relay dropping three seconds off their qualifying time and improving their overall ranking from 23rd to 16th in the country.
In the medley relay, the team went one step better dropping five seconds on their entry time and qualifying for the final. This gave them the opportunity to compete against the top swimming schools such as Plymouth College, Millfield School, Ellesmere College and Mount Kelly. The girls rose to the task finishing 9th overall in England.
School records continued to tumble with Stephanie claiming the U15/16 records for the 50 Freestyle lead off leg and Phoebe taking U14/15/16 records for the Backstroke lead off on the medley relay. Our swimmers have now amassed an astonishing 77 new school records since the summer.
