Saturday 2nd November saw teams from Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities join the Oxford Blues and Dolphins for a friendly head-to-head in the Rosenblatt pool, Iffley Rd. Just four weeks into this season’s training programme, OUSC showed signs of great potential for the upcoming year, topping …
The OUSC Blues team have had some fantastic results this year with a record number of records broken and a thrilling varsity win. The team is from a variety of colleges, courses and backgrounds but in the pool they work incredibly well as a team. …
The Thames waters were a tropical 19.2 degrees for Oxford’s 5:40am swim in the Selkie Henley Classic 2019. A team of 7 Oxford swimmers – 3 boys and 4 girls – embraced the cold, early start and were ready to race the 2.1km course. Newly …
As Zoe Faure Beaulieu rounds off her first year at OUSC by being shortlisted for Oxford Sports Federation’s ‘Fresher of the Year’ award for her great attitude to swimming and 4 new club records, we ask her about her experience of adapting to swimming at …
A team of 11 traveled to Ponds Forge, Sheffield for the annual BUCS Teams Championships in March. Day 1 saw a series of record-breaking swims from OUSC, securing the team a place in the National Championship final where they rounded off a highly successful season …
After reintroducing the seconds varsity match last year, this year saw the seconds team congregate at Parkside pool to face the Cambridge team again. In an incredibly well-fought match, Oxford won the Men’s trophy, but unfortunately lost out on the Women’s and Overall trophy. Points …
This year, Varsity was held at the Parkside pool Cambridge on the 3rd March. In an incredibly exciting match, Oxford and Cambridge were neck and neck throughout, separable by only 2 points at the end of the individual races. Oxford then dominated the relays, winning …
The seconds squad arrived in Cambridge in good spirits and ready to compete in the second ever seconds Varsity match. After the parade we were quickly into the first events. Cambridge started off strongly in the women’s 100m IM, with strong swims from Ada Taggart …
Members of OUSC travelled to Vila Real de Santo António in Portugal this year for our annual training camp. The new destination was accompanied by new faces to the team, all eager to compete in their first Varsity match later this term. Training camp is …
This year, Cambridge rehoming to host alumni relays on the day of Swimming Varsity on 3rd march 2019. These would take the form of 4x50m mixed freestyle relays and would be just before the main Varsity event. There will be an aged-based handicap, so older …