Swim England National County Team Championships

The victorious Kent Team receive their awards

2024 team selection

We are delighted to announce the County Team for this year’s National County Team at Sheffield on 6 October. Congratulations to all those selected!

The team is as follows:

Open		Girls
12/13		12/13
Oliver Ratchford	Sevenoaks	Jessica Long	Bromley
William Larter	Sevenoaks	Julia Elvidge	RTW Monson
Hayden Sanders	Bromley	Olivia Quiller	Maidstone
Jake Mok	Sevenoaks	Jessica Evans	Sevenoaks
		Sophia Caloudis	Thanet

14/15		14/15
Henry Shepherd	Bromley	Madeleine Hind	RTW Monson
Jeremiah Carnegie	Beckenham	Amalie Smith	RTW Monson
Filip Grigoras	Thanet	Imogen Myles	Sevenoaks
George Goodwin	Black Lion	Morgan Pashley	Medway Maritime
Tom Atkins	Herne Bay

16/17		16/17
Chengze Duan	RTW Monson	Ilana Nightingale Ellis	RTW Monson
Denys Mialkovskyi	RTW Monson	Jessica Gable	RTW Monson
Finley Gilham	Bromley	Scarlett Davie	Sevenoaks
Hayden Annan	RTW Monson	Hannah Murphy	RTW Monson
Demi Alli	Sevenoaks
Ruben Cowley	RTW Monson

Head Coach:

Selection is based on performance for the year ending 31 August 2024 and on competing in the County Championships last January/February. The Clubs listed are therefore the Clubs swimmers swam for prior to 31 August.

About the Competition

The County Team Championships takes place in two short course (25m) pools at the same time – one for Division 1 races, the other for Division 2. There are two heats for each event on the schedule with heats in Division 2 starting about 20 seconds after those of Division 1. The heats for individual races will be seeded according to entry times but the team events will be randomly drawn.

Events

Individual events are contested over:

100m Freestyle
100m Backstroke
100m Butterfly
100m Breaststroke

and in three age groups:

12/13 years
14/15 years
16/17 years

There are also 4 x 50m Medley Relays held for each of the age groups and one Mixed 6 x 50m Freestyle Relay ,with teams made up of one boy and one girl from each age group.

Scoring

Point scoring is by place:

first place worth 20 points
second place worth 19 points
third place worth 18 point
etc right through to one point for 20th.

No points are awarded for disqualification. At the end of the competition, the bottom four teams from Division 1 are relegated to Division 2 for next year’s event with the top four from Division 2 replacing them.