After a very successful year in the pool, including a varsity win in February 2017, Dr Victoria Cox and OUSC Coach Naomi Vides turned their training focus to open water swimming, with the aim of crossing the English Channel. OUSC is in awe of their hard work …
Early on a midsummer morning in June, the Oxford and Cambridge swimming teams met before sunrise on the banks of the river Thames at Henley for the annual open water varsity match. Eight Oxford swimmers braved the Thames, swimming 2.1km upstream along the famous rowing course, in …
This year the OUSWPA annual old member’s dinner was held on Saturday 13th May at Somerville college. It was a lovely evening, where current and former members of the swimming and water polo were able to catch up and have fun. The evening started off …
The varsity 2017 match report written by Lauren Burton: We came, we swam, we shoed: OUSC won back the Varsity title in style after a bitter defeat last year. The team started in style, despite not having a home advantage, by winning seven out of the …
Varsity 2017 was held at the Parkside pool in Cambridge on the 25th February. Oxford won the women’s and overall trophy, with a tie for the men’s trophy. Special mention to Zara Ryan for winning the ‘Swimmer of the meet’ award and congratulations to Tobermory Mackay-Champion for …
5 Members of OUSC; George Stannard, James Manning, Dan Manners, Naomi Vides and Tilly Ansell, and one from OUWPC, Steph Millin, were selected in early Hilary to take part in a swimming race against Cambridge. Unlike in Swimming Varsity, where each member of a relay …
Swimmers are known for their love-hate relationship with the sport, particularly the early morning training sessions. But whilst morning training typically begins around 6am, the Henley Classic takes things a step further with a start time verging on ‘middle of the night’. When your alarm …
Queenford Lakes saw a record turn out of students & alumni taking part in the open water Varsity team trials last weekend. The swimmers raced over a 1km course, non wetsuit, in a bid to make the dark blue team for the third annual open …
Many congratulations to Naomi Vides, member and former captain and president of OUSC, for being elected to the post of president of Oxford Sports Fed! Speaking of her goals for this role Naomi said: “I’m incredibly excited to have been elected the 2016-17 Sports Federation …
Between 2nd – 7th July, 6 Oxford University open water swimmers will race against the Cambridge team as a relay, to cross the English Channel by swimming from Dover to Calais on the French coast. A great article on the race can be found here Following …