Head Coach Meet Report: M&B's top swimmers travelled to Edinburgh for the Scottish National Open Championships last weekend. The flagship event of the domestic swimming calendar featured several Olympic bound athletes and included a modest group of nine M&B swimmers, making the step up to senior national level. In total they raced in 24 events and recorded 10 personal best times. New team captain Kayden M led the way with 3 pbs (50 fly, 50 free, 100 free), followed by Rose Mc (50 back, 50 breast) and Calum Mac (100...

M&B travelled to Aberdeen last week (10-14 April) for the Scottish Age Group National Championships. In all, 17 swimmers made the trip, competing in 49 individual races and 3 relays, finishing with 33 long course personal best times, 11 finals and 1 medal. Hayden (2 swims, 2 finals, 1 bronze medal) led the finishers with a fantastic bronze medal in his first Scottish national championships. In a close 100m Breastroke race, Hayden finished strongly to claim the club's top finish of the week. Grace (5 swims, 4 finals) was top...

M&B returned to West District action at the weekend (17-18 Feb) winning 1 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals over the two day competition. Leading the way was Grace on backstroke, backing up her recent breakthrough short course backstroke swims with strong long course performances over 100m (gold) & 50m (bronze). Adam took silver in the 50m Breaststroke in a big personal best time and Mollie and Hollie won bronze in 50m backstroke and 50m freestyle respectively (both long course PBs). Hollie narrowly missed another top 3 finish with...

Head Coach report: M&B kicked off long course season at East Kilbride last weekend (3-4 Feb). The first of 3 West District meets this month, and next, offered an early test of form with national age groups just a couple of months away. Top finishes came from Calum with 3 gold medals (50 breast, 50 free & 100 free), Rose with 1 gold (100 free), 1 bronze medal (50 free) and bronze medalists Grace (50 free) and Annabel (50 fly). Other PBs and/or top 6 finishes came from a number...

From Craig Houston: M&B travelled to Glenrothes on Saturday (16 Dec) to compete in the B final of this year's National League competition. 23 swimmers from the club contested 24 individual events and 12 relays, finishing 6th overall in a very competitive final. PBs from Ben and Abi and top place finishes for our Girls Open 200 Free relay (Grace, Sarah, Abi and Hannah), Ruaraidh in the Boys 15u 50m Freestyle and Grace in the Girls Open 50 Freestyle highlighted some tough racing. Congratulations to the swimmers on their selection....

From Craig Houston: Nine M&B swimmers were competing at the Scottish Short Course Nationals in Edinburgh at the weekend. The team of Katie, Ben, Grace , Calum and Eilidh, Rose, Eilidh and Sarah (plus masters swimmer Eva) raced against the best swimmers in the country across 3 days, finishing with 13 personal bests. Top finisher was Grace in the 50m freestyle, placing fifth in the C final. Congratulations to the swimmers for their qualification and performances.

Myself & Kris had a tour of the building today and let's just say - Wow, we are in for a treat! Everything looks great and well thought out and we are even more buzzing to be starting back next week. We spoke about a few minor changes to our routine when entering the building & getting changed One of the coaches will be in the foyer on Monday, Tues & Wed to make sure this process runs smoothly. But here is what is expected: 1. Car Parking Limited -...

Exciting Times! We have got the green light to get back into the New Allander from this Monday when it opens on the 6th March (subject to any last minute delays that may prevent the Allander opening on time). This has just been communicated with us and it is on the provision that for the first 2 weeks we will have a maximium of 4 lanes which has an impact for us on the weekday mornings, Monday evening and Saturday morning. So we have created 2 timetables - one for...

West District Sprints - September 2022, Tollcross I feel like I am saying this about many meets we are swimming at but it was great to be back! WD Sprints has always been a great curtain raiser for the season, a great opportunity to shake off the racing rust and we certainly did that. We will certainly get better at racing through the season, but the team battled hard throughout the whole weekend and we came away with 3 golds, 6 silvers, 6 bronze medals and a further 26 final...

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