Falkirk Integrated Regional Swim Team

03/08/2022

What a Commonwealth Games it's been in the pool! Fantastic swims every day and the finals have been electric... So happy for FIRST auld boy, Duncan Scott, coming back from having to sit out the Worlds to rock the pool again! Great swimming big man! 👊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏽‍♀️👊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏽‍♀️
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Duncan Scott takes his FIFTH medal of Birmingham 2022 and it's GOLD! 🥇

An incredible 12th Commonwealth Games medal to his tally!

22/07/2022

We have three swimmers competing in the next week at British Summer Meet. Great to see the hard work paying off Suzie McNair, Zoe Crawford and Lexine McCappin... Swim fast girls!

Seven days of high-quality racing await at Ponds Forge for what promises to be one of the most exciting British Summer Championships to date.

30/06/2022

The charge to the season end begins with a big squad in Aberdeen for the Scottish National Open Meet. Many swimmers making their debut! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Have a great time, swim fast 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏽‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏻‍♂️❤️

29/05/2022

Great weekend at the Glasgow International Swim Meet. In a meet slightly outside our training pattern, the swimmers had the chance to test themselves on the international stage - national teams from Ireland, Denmark, Iceland and a Scottish National select. Great performances all round - then there was this 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

“SHE'S DONE IT!! Massive swim there from . Subject to ratification her time of 4:34.26 is an SB5 200m breaststroke British Record. Congratulations Laura 🔥💪👏”

03/05/2022

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Falkirk Integrated Swim Team are super excited to share this multiple draw raffle in celebration of back to training and competitions! The funds raised will be to support Falkirk Integrated Swim Team with many opportunities e.g. new equipment and payments for pool time. We would also like to thank e...

01/05/2022

After a great distance time trial on Friday night - the squad returns full force to the University of Aberdeen Age Group Open.
After two sessions, we have Keziah McCappin, Madison Gallacher, Lexine McCappin, Lisa McNair, Suzie McNair, Zoe Crawford, Zuzia Smith and Aidan McCavish returning for the night session finals! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 14 between them....

Over this we've already had Suzie's GOLD in 400IM and SILVER in 200 Back 🥈, Zuzia's 6th and Lisa's GOLD in the same event - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏽‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️🥇👌🏻

Across the rest of the squad we've hardly had a swim not a best time - incredible with SNAGS being just a couple of weeks ago!

Blistering swims from Lucy McLeod, Caitlin Frame, Samuel Beetham, Jake Ferguson, Anna Beetham

Big thanks tonight to Colin Fawkes for coaching the squad through 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

16/04/2022

Saturday roundup :

The first SNAGS in 3 years continued today with 19 of our athletes on the blocks :

Emma Silcock
Fraser Gemmell
Jake Ferguson
Aidan McCavish
Ewan Stevenson
Lisa McNair
Anna Beetham
Suzie McNair
Zoe Crawford
Madison Gallacher
Lexine McCappin
Ava Kirkham
Cameron Gill
Gregor Skinner
Alex Black
Cameron Shaw
Zuzia Smith
Caitlin Frame 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

They hit 12 finals, including 1 reserve and a 7th place in 4x100 Free with Alex, Gregor, Baillie and Cammy G each smashing 2 lengths 👊🏻🏊🏻‍♂️

Suzie returns tonight with 200IM gold 🥇, 800FR silver 🥈 and 100 FLY bronze 🥉

Super stuff guys! Let's go and do it all one more time... See you at 0730 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏽‍♀️❤️

16/04/2022

Day 3 round up :

Busy day three across the three sessions for a large FIRST team:

21 swimmers 🏊🏻‍♂️
9 finals! 👏🏻
2 reserves 🤞🏻
4th place finish in the 14-16 4x100Medley 👊🏻
Gold 🥇400 FR - Suzie McNair
Silver 🥈200 Fly - Suzie McNair

Friday's Team was

Baillie McGinley
Anna Beetham
Aidan McCavish
Keir Campbell
Emma Silcock
Lisa McNair
Jake Ferguson
Ewan Stevenson
Fraser Gemmell
Bradley Jack
Gregor Skinner
Samuel Beetham
Caitlin Frame
Emily Fawkes
Zoe Crawford
Alex Black
Cameron Gill
Lexine McCappin
Suzie McNair
Madison Gallacher

Just the weekend left now! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👊🏻🏊🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

14/04/2022

Day 2 at with this bunch of gladiators....🏊🏻‍♂️👊🏻🏊🏻‍♂️👊🏻
3 sessions of fast racing, processes realised, PBs and finals reached 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥇🥈🥉... 18 swimmers in today's team with 10 finals hit in the last session 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Finals from:

Lisa McNair 100BK, 400IM
Ewan Stevenson 200FLY
Fraser Gemmell 400FR
Suzie McNair 200BR, 400IM (GOLD! 🥇)
Lexine McCappin 400IM
Baillie McGinley 200FLY
Zoe Crawford 100BK, 400IM
Also a 6th place finish from the 4x100 medley girls : Zoe, Ava, Madison Gallacher and Suzie

The remaining swimmers today were:

Emma Silcock
Keziah McCappin
Aidan McCavish
Finlay Byrne
Jake Ferguson
Ava Kirkham
Cameron Shaw
Zuzia Smith
Bradley Jack
Gregor Skinner (captain)

Great day guys! Let's do it all again tomorrow! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏻‍♂️👊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏻‍♂️👊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏻‍♂️👊🏻🥉🥈🥇

05/04/2022

Hugely excited for Suzie McNair who competes in the 400IM today in Sheffield in the BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS 🏊🏽‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏽‍♀️.
The second seed 2007 there and lines up 5th fastest Scot behind Team GB regulars 👏🏻👏🏻
400IM - arguably the toughest race there is, definitely the most exciting to watch..Both '07 girls go off in outside lanes in heat 6 today! Smash is Suzie!!! 👊🏻🏊🏽‍♀️❤️👊🏻🏊🏻‍♂️❤️

27/03/2022

Day 2 at the West District pre-SNAGS Meet and the swimming didn't disappoint...

Yet again the swimmers from across the FIRST family delivered 28 medals! No fewer than 11 GOLDS! 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
(Meet total : 56 medals - 20 GOLD!)

Again, lots of SNAGS swims confirmed and times bettered 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Your gold medalist today were:

Fraser Gemmell
Ava Kirkham (Team Captain)
Lisa McNair
Suzie McNair
Cameron Shaw
Ruaraidh Stevenson
Gregor Skinner (Team Captain) - Special mention to Gregor : at 16 had never won a Districts medal, yesterday bagged two bronze - came back today and left with a silver 🥈 and a GOLD 🥇! Great to see hard work paying off 😃

Now down to a solid preparation block before 13th April 🏊🏽‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏽‍♀️

27/03/2022

A really fantastic first day at 2022 West District pre-SNAGS Meet today... Between the three partner clubs in the FIRST Performance Pathway (GASC, Bo'ness and Falkirk Otters) we came home with 28 medals 🥇🥈🥉including 9 Golds!

Gold medals 🥇 from Cameron Gill, Lisa McNair, Suzie McNair, Zoe Crawford, Grace Blair and Ruaraidh Stevenson and a heap of SNAGS consideration and qualifying times from the biggest team we've had at Tollcross for some time 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great to have coaches, team managers and audience (!) all there in support 😍

Day 2 tomorrow.... Swim well, swim fast 🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏽‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️👊🏻