The 200m freestyle brings us to the half way stage in the events that make up the club short course rankings and it is perhaps worthy of restating why the articles that make up ‘Pathway to the Top’ are being written. Basically, the articles take one event at a time [...]

Nine Fins’ younger swimmers were back at the Michael Woods Centre last Saturday and Sunday for the Carnegie Spring Meet. The meet, which was restricted to 8 to 14 year olds, attracted a large entry and in addition to six of the Fife clubs competing there were entries from clubs [...]

The Fife Swimming Leagues made a welcome return last Sunday for the first time in over two years, when the first round (of four) Fife League and the Fife Novice League took place at the Michael Woods Centre in Glenrothes. Eight Fife clubs competed in a revised version of the [...]

Fins Competitive Swim Club The top age group meet in the Scottish Calendar was held last week from Wednesday morning through to Sunday evening when the Scottish National Age Group Championships were held at the Tollcross International Swim Centre in Glasgow. The meet attracted a sizable number of swimmers from [...]

Pathway to the Top – 100m Butterfly The next event we cover is noteworthy in that the female ranking contains the oldest club record dating back to December 1983. The 100m Butterfly record of 1 minute 4.64 seconds was set by the then Carole Lewis, sister of the current head [...]

Pathway to the Top – 200m Individual Medley This is the seventh event in Pathway to the Top and we will look at the 200m Individual Medley. This, along with the 100m, tends to be a reasonably popular event probably as it gives the swimmer an opportunity to swim all [...]