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 …
Varsity 2016 was held at the Rosenblatt Pool in Oxford on 27th February. It was an incredibly closely-fought match, with the result coming down to the very last event. Oxford won the women’s event but unfortunately lost out in an incredibly close final relay to …
A successful season for OUSC came to a strong conclusion on Saturday 21st March, as Oxford secured an impressive 7th place finish at BUCS Team Swimming Championship Finals at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, fighting hard to maintain the same position as the previous year. Having pulled …
Varsity 2015 was held in Cambridge on February 2015. Oxford were once again victorious in the men’s, women’s and overall trophies. Heerden Herman was recipient of the prestigious ‘Swimmer of the Meet’ award for his performance in the 400m Freestyle. Xander Alari-Williams also broke both …
After months of tough training, hours of effort, aches and pains, and numerous dark cold mornings, V-Day had finally arrived for Oxford University Swimming Club. On Saturday 28th February, OUSC continued their supremacy in the pool, taking the tabs for the fourth year running. Records …
There was a fantastic turn-out from some of the colleges on Saturday of 2nd week MT. The atmosphere on poolside was electric as everyone prepared to partake in the greatest sporting event since London’s Olympics. Congratulations to Magdalen College on winning Cuppers yet again this …
After a truly successful summer for Oxford University Swimming Club, during which five members of OUSC and one member of OUMPA took part in the biennial Varsity Channel Swim, braving nine hours of the icy, jellyfish-infested depths of the Channel, the swimmers are back with …
At 1:43am on the morning of Saturday the 12th of July, 2014, Frederick Faulkner, an Undergraduate at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, stood on Shakespeare Beach in Dover, shook hands with his Cambridge counterpart and dived into the channel to begin Oxford University’s channel relay crossing …