This year’s training camp (6th-13th January 2020) stood out for the impressive number of lengths endured by our incredible distance swimmers. The whole team’s endurance was also tested at the end of the week as Men’s Captain, Matt, tirelessly belted out several hours worth of …
OUSC saw two club records broken this weekend at the annual BUCS Short Course Championships in Ponds Forge, Sheffield. The 4×50 mixed medley relay team broke the club record in a 1.50.06 and then again in the final, where dream team James Towner (backstroke), Tobermory …
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 …