This year, the Blues Varsity Match was held at the Rosenblatt Pool, Iffley Road, Oxford on Saturday 26th February 2022. Oxford dominated the Varsity Match, winning all but 3 races and finishing a massive 26 points ahead of the Cambridge Team. A massive congratulations goes …
On a freezing winter morning, the OUSC 2nds woke up ready to win Varsity. The metres had been swum, the alcohol ban (mostly) followed, and it was now time to show the tabs what we were made of. First up was the 100IM: Katherine McKane …
With a strong team, and a lot of training under their belts, the Oxford Blues team were very excited, and confident leading up to the 127th Varsity match on Saturday 26th February 2022. A few threats of COVID and some injuries did risk putting the …
BUCS Long Course was the return of Long Course racing for OUSC after the 2 year covid pandemic. The weekend saw a fantastic weekend of swimming, with 12 Blues Times swims, 18 PBs, 3 Club Records broken and one person’s special 10 year anniversary of …
On Wednesday 2nd February the Blues Team travelled back to the Surrey Sports Park for the Phase 2 of the British University Swimming League. This competition was the head-to-head divisional final against the University of Surrey, Oxford Brookes and Brunel University. The team from Oxford …
On Monday 3rd January 2022, 18 swimmers and Zichen met at Gatwick Airport to escape the UK for a week of swimming in Lanzarote. Unfortunately the team was slightly depleted having lost a couple of swimmers to COVID isolations. The week-long training camp involved 20 …
Michaelmas has seen an exciting change to the traditional OUSC Season Schedule this year. The Blues team competed in the British University Swimming League (BUSL), and had duel matches against Brunel, Oxford Brookes and the University of Surrey. With over 50 Universities competing this year …
At the end of 6th week, swimmers from the Blues and Dolphins teams travelled up to Sheffield for the return of BUCS Short Course on the weekend. OUSC had an impressive weekend with 3 club records being broken, 7 finals, 10 Blues Times, 4 lucky …
On Saturday 4th November, the Oxford Blues and Dolphins hosted teams from Oxford Brookes, Warwick, Nottingham and Bristol in the annual Friendly Gala at the Rosenblatt Pool, Iffley Road. Having been cancelled in 2020, this was the first proper competition for both the Oxford Blues …
The annual Open-Water Varsity Mob Match against Cambridge is usually held in Henley, racing the 2.1km classic upstream course, but with COVID and the dates for the Henley Classic not working for either team, this year the race was held at the London Victoria Dock. …