It was a busy weekend for our Blues and Second Team swimmers at BUCS Short Course 2022, with a number of standout performances across a packed weekend. Over the weekend of 18-20th November, 33 swimmers from Oxford University Swimming Club travelled up to Sheffield once […]
Oxford University Swimming Club’s annual Friendly Gala was back in 2022 for a Halloween Special on Sunday 30th October. Teams from Bristol, Warwick and Oxford Brookes travelled to the Rosenblatt Fortress to compete against Oxford University Blues and Second (Dolphins) Teams for the prestigious title […]
Newly elected Open Water Captain Joe Read selected their team and the 8 swimmers from Oxford were eager to start the 2.1km swim upstream at 5:40am on Sunday 26th June 2022 after a 3 year break in the Henley Classic Open Water Varsity Match against […]
Back over the Easter Weekend, 10 swimmers headed up to Sheffield for the day to race in BUCS Teams. This is where the teams swim head to head and the team with the most points at the end is crowned the winners. Going into the […]
On Monday 3rd January 2022, 18 swimmers and Zichen met at Gatwick Airport to escape the UK for a week of swimming in Lanzarote. Unfortunately the team was slightly depleted having lost a couple of swimmers to COVID isolations. The week-long training camp involved 20 […]
Michaelmas has seen an exciting change to the traditional OUSC Season Schedule this year. The Blues team competed in the British University Swimming League (BUSL), and had duel matches against Brunel, Oxford Brookes and the University of Surrey. With over 50 Universities competing this year […]
At the end of 6th week, swimmers from the Blues and Dolphins teams travelled up to Sheffield for the return of BUCS Short Course on the weekend. OUSC had an impressive weekend with 3 club records being broken, 7 finals, 10 Blues Times, 4 lucky […]
On Saturday 4th November, the Oxford Blues and Dolphins hosted teams from Oxford Brookes, Warwick, Nottingham and Bristol in the annual Friendly Gala at the Rosenblatt Pool, Iffley Road. Having been cancelled in 2020, this was the first proper competition for both the Oxford Blues […]
The annual Open-Water Varsity Mob Match against Cambridge is usually held in Henley, racing the 2.1km classic upstream course, but with COVID and the dates for the Henley Classic not working for either team, this year the race was held at the London Victoria Dock. […]
This year, a friendly varsity was held virtually at the Rosenblatt Pool. Iffley Road, Oxford and the Parkside Pool, Cambridge respectively. It was held on the 23rd of June for Oxford and the 25th of June for Cambridge. Despite the match being friendly, both teams […]
