Swimming at Ardingly College

At Ardingly, we pride ourselves on our studies first focus while at the same time providing high level training for our swimmers. Through close collaboration between academic, pastoral and athletic staff we can ensure nothing but the best on all fronts for our student-athletes. We aim to provide pupils with all the tools necessary for their studies and beyond. From perseverance to time-management, dedication to goal-setting, we strive to provide our students with all the skills for a successful future

None of our swimming sessions are compulsory to be a member of the Prep or Senior Swim Squads and we have no minimum attendance requirements. We know many of our pupils attend training sessions at a variety of local swimming clubs and we work with them to compliment the training they are doing. For pupils, including boarders, who want to train solely with Ardingly we aim to make it as easy as possible to manage their sporting and academic workload and make sure training fits as seamlessly as possible around the school day. We provide meals where needed and have a partnership with East Grinstead SC whereby our pupils can race for EGSC at competitions and Club Championships so they don’t miss out on County, Regionals, National Championships, etc. In addition to using the pool at school we have long course (50m pool) sessions at K2 Crawley and strength and conditioning sessions in the gym at the college