Inverness Swimming Club

10/11/2026

⭐⭐⭐Matthew is a World Champion⭐⭐⭐

Massive congratulations to Matthew McCreadie who won gold 🥇 in the 200m butterfly whilst representing Great Britain at the World Down Syndrome Swimming Championship in Portugal. He also came home with a brilliant bronze 🥉from the Mens 4 x 100m freestyle Relay.

Read more about Matthew's amazing week below.

Special mention to Highland Disability Swim Team, Matthew's Coaches and family for the incredible support, it takes a team to achieve this level of success and Matthew's team is amazing!

🌍🏊‍♂️ WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SUCCESS FOR MATTHEW! 🏊‍♂️🌍

A huge congratulations to Matthew McCreadie, who has been representing Team GB at the World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships in Portugal! 🇬🇧

Matthew has put in some fantastic performances on the world stage, bringing home some brilliant results:

🏊‍♂️ 4 Personal Bests (PBs)

🏊‍♂️ 200m Backstroke – Qualified for the final

🏊‍♂️ 200m Butterfly – Qualified for the final and went on to win a fantastic Gold Age-Group Medal! 🥇

🏊‍♂️ 50m Backstroke final– 1st reserve

🥉 Men’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay – A fantastic Bronze podium medal alongside team mates Zac, Dorian and Mark.

What an incredible achievement!

Everyone at Highland Disability Swim Team is incredibly proud of you, Matthew. You have done yourself, your club and your country proud!

Well done, Matthew! What a star! 🏊‍♂️🇬🇧🤩

30/10/2026

Please share with any of your swimmers who are 12-17 years old!

13/10/2026

This looks like a great opportunity for our volunteers, it would great to have a strong representation from IASC, please attend if you can.

🤝Volunteer Networking Day

It’s four months to go until our first ever Volunteer Networking Day! Bookings are opening Monday 26th October ✅

Venues are now confirmed as: Glasgow (C7 Conference Centre), Edinburgh (Oriam), Dundee (Dundee Contemporary Arts), Aberdeen (Village Hotel), Inverness (Leonardo Hotel) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

All sessions will be connected through a hub and spoke model, with the aim to allow volunteers to learn, share best practice and network, with the conference focusing on volunteer management and utilising young volunteers 🗣️

01/10/2026

Congratulations to Freya Allan who has been selected for the North & Midland Team, competing at the Swim England Inter-counties Championship in Sheffield on Sunday.

Freya is heading South tomorrow with a warm up comp in Durham on Saturday, en-route to Ponds Forge.

Safe travels, swim well and enjoy the experience Freya!

Image by ://www.lewismackenziephotography.co.uk/

19/09/2026

Massive congratulations to HST Head Coach, Lisa Houston on being awarded Scottish Swimming Age Group Coach of the Year! Thoroughly deserved after a great season. Well done Lisa! ⭐️🥳🎉🍾

16/09/2026

Head coach Fay is a poster girl for a great message from Scottish Swimming!

For the body and mind 🧠

70% of regular swimmers say they swim for physical or mental health 💪

27/08/2026

⭐️⭐️⭐️Academy Squad Selection ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Congratulations to Lauren, Anwen, Katie & Freya who have all been selected for the 26/27 North District Junior Academy Squad!

Also to Katelin who has been selected for the National Youth Academy!

We are so proud of the girls and can’t wait to see what this season brings for them all.

26/08/2026

Congratulations to Iyla, Anwen and Emrys who have all been selected for the Scotland IRC triathlon team! Good luck for your races this weekend we hope you all have an amazing experience and race well 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

04/08/2026

Good luck to all our swimmers receiving their exams results today 🌟

25/07/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💜 Commonwealth Games 💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

What an amazing day our swimmers and families had at Tollcross. They soaked up the atmosphere with Finnie the mascot then had a great time poolside for day 2.

🌟We also have Madi down volunteering at the pool. She was part of the team for last nights finals and we can’t wait to hear about her experience. Well done Madi, we are very proud of you.

🫶 Huge thanks to our coaches and committee who are making this happen, they look like they are enjoying the session too!

🥳 we are loving these pic of our swimmers enjoying a fab club day out, whilst being inspired by the amazing athletes in the water.

Highland Swim Team we hope you all have a great day too, what an experience for our swimmers!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Good luck Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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