Colchester Phoenix Amateur Swimming Club

24/12/2025

Wishing everyone a fantastic Christmas 🎄

14/12/2025

A big well done to Beau, Faith and Ziva who produced some fantastic results yesterday with lots of personal bests (PB’s)

Beau achieved PB’s in 100m freestyle (seven seconds!) 100m butterfly and 100m backstroke.

Faith achieved PB’s in 100m breaststroke and 50m freestyle.

Ziva knocked twelve seconds off her previous PB in the 400m freestyle, swimming her way to a bronze medal 🥉

She also achieved PB’s in 50m and 100m freestyle.

13/12/2025

Good Luck to Ziva, Faith and Beau who are competing at Colchester’s Last Chance County Qualifier today 🏊🏻‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️

09/12/2025

Huge congratulations to Colchester Phoenix’s former swimmer Ellie Challis who finished runner up to footballer Michelle Agyemang, who helped the Lionesses to an inspirational Euro’s title in July in the Active Ess*x Sports Personality of the year.

Ellie attended the awards at Hatfield Place last Thursday evening and received a Highly Commended award for her performance in the World Championships this year. Ellie achieved a stunning set of gold, silver and bronze 🥇🥈🥉

Well done Ellie 🥰😍

06/12/2025

Phoenix swimmers don’t just work hard in the water. They work hard in everything they do.

Our Co-Team Captain, Isla, recently flew out to Romania to carry out voluntary work at a children’s hospice, at a centre for adults with special needs and also carry out building restoration work.

Isla said of her time out there “that it was a amazingly awarding experience”

We think you’re amazing Isla. Carry on being the kind hearted person you are - we’re very proud of you!

03/12/2025

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

We at Phoenix are proud to be an inclusive swimming club for adults and children with disabilities. Regardless of your journey, whether you want to be a Paralympian or are happy just having a splash about, you all matter and you all do us proud in and out of the water.

02/12/2025

Congratulations to Jack who recently received two awards for cricket.

When he is not swimming, he plays for the Ess*x Ability Stags and is a promising bowler.

He is pictured with his trophies and earned the title of best bowler of the season.

Well done Jack, this is fantastic ⭐️🏏👏

25/11/2025

Some fantastic recent out of the water success!

Swimmer and teaching pool volunteer Amelia has won the prestigious Jack Petchey Achievement Award which recognizes outstanding young people and their personal triumphs.

It recognizes those who have faced challenges, pushed themselves outside of their comfort zone as well as demonstrating outstanding efforts in being a team player.

Well done Amelia. You work so hard and you absolutely deserve this! Keep on being you 🥰

24/11/2025

An amazing and thought provoking interview with Paralympic Gold medalist and former Phoenix swimmer Ellie Challis.

Inclusion matters!

“Inclusivity isn’t just a box to tick , it’s about creating spaces where everyone truly belongs.”

We recently spoke with World and Paralympic champion Ellie Challis, who shared her powerful perspective on what it means to make sport accessible for all. She spoke about some of the biggest challenges she's faced in her career and also addressed some of the changes she would like to see made to make sport and physical activity more inclusive for everyone.

An absolute pleasure to be given the opportunity to help share her thoughts.

Read the full blog with Ellie here: https://bit.ly/49QCpw9

23/11/2025

It’s Christmas Raffle time!!!! Time to politely pester your friends and family and sell some tickets.

Please share this post so we can reach as many people as possible , with rising costs we need your help to enable this inclusive club to thrive.

First prize - £100! Other prizes kindly donated by a wide range of businesses such as Jimmys Farm, Curve Watersports, Bill & Bert’s, Beth Chatto Gardens, Go Bananas, Bannatynes and many more (full list to be disclosed later)

Each ticket is £1. If you need more, please contact us so we can get these over to you during the Saturday teaching or squad sessions.

Please bring back any money and completed tickets to the desk on Saturdays. The raffle will be completed during our fun session on Saturday 20th December.

If you don’t swim Saturdays, let us know and we can arrange getting these to you.

17/11/2025

The final results are in for the DSS British Championships 2025!

Congratulations to Mark, Holly and Nikos - who has won his first Age Group medal at a national level. We are so proud of you all 🎉🥰😍

Down Syndrome Swimming GB

15/11/2025

Half way through day 1 of the Down Syndrome Swimming British Championships 2025 and the results (and the medals) are coming in, well done Holly and Mark

Nikos swam a brilliant 50m butterfly this morning coming in 6th in the very tough seniors (17-25) category.

Well done to you all! Keep on going - we’ll keep everyone updated on your journey