Five Fins’ junior swimmers made the short trip to Lochore Meadows on Sunday, 4 June, to compete in the Scottish East District Open Water Championships, in what proved to be a very successful day, with two Open Wins, three District wins, an Open 3rd place plus two District second places. [...]

The 100m individual medley is a relatively recent event in Scotland. It has only been around for just over 30 years, as more 25m pools were built, and 33-1/3m pools were converted to 25m pools with the use of a boom. For example, the pools at Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes, which [...]

  Back row Left to Right – Adam Selbie and Charlotte Wardlaw, front row  – Etan Pate, Caleb Gray, Eva Watson, and Irys Blair Left to Right – Cole Gray, Lilian Blair, Millie Whytock, and Sadie Paton   Missing from the Photos are Abby Morris, Dmitri [...]

The ‘Pathway to the Top’ this time features the 200m backstroke event. In the girls’ rankings the current record is held by Nicola Lamb with a time of 2 minutes 18.27 seconds, recorded at the Scottish National Short Course Championships in December 2012. There are two swimmers from the current [...]

Last Sunday, 7th May, was another very encouraging day for Fins’ swimmers competing in the 2nd round of the Fife Leagues, held at the Michael Woods Centre. This was certainly the case with the Novice League swimmers who doubled the wins recorded in round 1 and increased the number of [...]

With no competitions last weekend there is an opportunity to highlight another event in ‘Pathway to the Top’. Two weeks ago, I attended the Kirkcaldy and Central Fife Sports Council Awards evening where Erin Taylor won the Youth Award and the Sports Personality of the Year Award, which reflects, her [...]