International Success at European Aquatics Junior Championships

Posted on 21 July 2025

In April our swim­mers attend­ed the Aquat­ics GB Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships. This is the high­est lev­el of domes­tic com­pe­ti­tion in the coun­try. As a result of some strong per­for­mances from the Leeds Swim­mers 5 of them were select­ed to rep­re­sent Great Britain at the Euro­pean Aquat­ics Junior Cham­pi­onships in Slovakia:

  • Emma Wood – Start­ed at Kip­pax Stage 8, joined the scheme in 2016
  • Daniel Ran­som – Start­ed at John Smeaton Stage 8, joined the scheme in 2016
  • Matil­da Pot­ter – Start­ed at Kirk­stall Stage 8, joined the scheme in 2018
  • Hol­lie Wil­son – Start­ed at Scott Hall Stage 8, joined the scheme in 2018
  • Gabriel Shep­herd – Start­ed at Har­ro­gate SC, joined the scheme in 2022

Last week the select­ed swim­mers trav­elled to Slo­va­kia for the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships. Which proved to be a week of fan­tas­tic devel­op­ment for all 5 of the indi­vid­u­als some of which per­formed at an out­stand­ing­ly high lev­el and came away with medals, whilst oth­ers expe­ri­enced suc­cess in the form of learn­ing and devel­op­ment which will serve them well for future expo­sures to the inter­na­tion­al stage.

Medals

Gabriel Shep­herd

  • Bronze – Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay
  • Sil­ver – Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay
  • Gold – Men’s 4x100m Med­ley Relay

Hol­lie Wilson

  • Bronze – Wom­en’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Daniel Ran­som

  • Gold – Mixed 4x100m Med­ley Relay
  • Gold – Men’s 4x100m Med­ley Relay

As a result of their per­for­mances across the week both Daniel and Gabriel have been sub­se­quent­ly select­ed for the World Aquat­ics Junior Cham­pi­onships in August, where they will rep­re­sent Great Britain again amongst some of the strongest junior swim­mers from across the world.

To have 5 swim­mers at Euro­pean Junior lev­el is a fan­tas­tic achieve­ment and is more than any oth­er pro­gramme in Brit­ian. A true tes­ta­ment to how strong our age group and youth devel­op­ment pro­gramme is.

First, Third and Fourth at White Rose Junior League

Posted on 13 June 2025

What an excit­ing morn­ing of com­pe­ti­tion at the Annu­al White Rose Junior League on Saturday.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our City of Leeds A, B and C Team who fin­ished 1st, 3rd and 4th. The City of Leeds A team tri­umphed with 384 points. The A Team will now progress through to the Nation­al Final Leeds A had an amaz­ing 39 1st places. The B Team (311) and C Team (268) fought with Sheffield (312) all the way through to the end and came an over­all third and fourth in the com­pe­ti­tion. Well done everyone.

The next round of the Junior League is the Grand Final which will be held on Sun­day 30th Novem­ber at Cor­by Inter­na­tion­al Pool Northamp­ton. This is our four­teenth year in the com­pe­ti­tion win­ning four years in a row (2010 – 2013) and claim­ing the title back again (2017 – 2019, 2022 – 2024). It would be great to secure the tro­phy back in Leeds again by win­ning the Grand Final for anoth­er year.

New Year Meet Rescheduled for this Sunday

Posted on 8 January 2025

Hel­lo all,

We hope you’re well.

Great news! We have been work­ing hard in the back­ground to move the can­celled New Year meet from Sun­day to this week­end, Sun­day 12th Jan­u­ary and it’s look­ing like we will have enough staff to cov­er the key areas. All events and entries are as published.

The only down­side is that we do not have the use of the dive pit facil­i­ty for warm up and cool down until 12:00pm.

We appre­ci­ate that it’s short notice and that you may have oth­er things booked in so we will of course hon­our any with­drawals. If you are UNABLE to attend on Sun­day, please email leedsentries@​gmail.​com with the swim­mers names and which events they are with­draw­ing from. We will then be able to process a refund for you. It may work bet­ter for you guys if you ask the par­ents to email us direct­ly and copy your­selves in? As the meet is going ahead, we will need to with­draw swim­mers from the Sport­sys File indi­vid­u­al­ly so swift respons­es would be very much appreciated.

We will also need vol­un­teers to ensure the smooth run­ning of the event, pre­dom­i­nant­ly any time­keep­ers or offi­cials. If any­one is able to help, please email anna.​darnell79@​gmail.​com.

Last­ly, thanks all for your under­stand­ing, it real­ly is appreciated.

Speak soon,
Leeds Entries Team