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  • GB Championships Day 2 - Zoe Joins Emma On World Youth's Team!! (0)
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  • 40 County Champions By The End Of Final Devon Meet!! (0)
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  • Amanda Selected As Head Coach For Kenya At World Championships! (0)

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    National Speedo League Cup Champions of England & Wales 2009 & 2008

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    The Plymouth Leander 20 Year Reunion - It's On!! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Thursday, May 28 2009 @ 10:23 PM BST
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Plymouth, England: We've never had a full on reunion, so this is it!

    This September, it's 20 years since Jon became Head Coach of Plymouth Leander. From the former days of Ballards and Seaton through to becoming the strongest swimming club in the UK, we have much to celebrate and remember - but we need all you old boys and old girls back to do it.

    So... if you're a former swimmer, current swimmer, coach or former coach or you've been part of ther club over the last two decades, come and have a couple, nah, make that several drinks with us!

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    Come On PL! - National Swimming League Cup Champions of England & Wales 2009!! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Tuesday, April 28 2009 @ 01:12 PM BST
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Sheffield, England: Plymouth Leander won the 40th National Swimming League Cup Final of England and Wales at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield in front of a packed spectators gallery. This, their second successive National Club Champions title sees them join an elite group of only four English swimming clubs who have managed to win the Cup Final in two successive years.

    Read on...

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    Sam Brings Down Foz and Liam's British Records In One Weekend! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Monday, November 17 2008 @ 01:39 PM GMT
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Haslemere, England: Two of Great Britain’s most iconic swimming figures had their British Junior short course records taken at the Haslemere Open as Plymouth Leander’s Sam Straughan set about two of the former marks held by Liam Tanc0ck and Mark Foster.

    Now surely that's worth a read...

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    Jarvis Takes Silver At Commonwealth Youth Games! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Wednesday, November 05 2008 @ 03:27 PM GMT
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Pune, India: The exciting prospect that is Calum Jarvis was to return from the 2009 Commonwealth Youth Games with a silver medal round his neck and some highly promising early season times under tough conditions in the sweltering Indian heat. PL were to have six athletes selected to compete at the meet from five different nations, with Calum Jarvis (Wales) joined by David Gregory (England), Grant Halsall (Isle of Man) and Heather Millar (Isle of Man) also taking great International experience from the occasion. Achieng Ajulu-Bushell (Kenya) and Christian Homer (Trinidad & Tobago) opted to decline their country’s selections due to academic commitments.

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    Emma Ready For Senior British Test At 2008 European Short Course! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Tuesday, October 28 2008 @ 09:10 PM GMT
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Rijeka, Croatia: It’s been a rollercoaster ride for Emma Wilkins since her major breakthrough at the British Championships in April of this year and it hasn’t stopped yet with the announcement that she will form part of the British team that will travel to the LEN European Short Course Championships from 11th – 14th December in Rijeka, Croatia.

    Emma, who is sponsored by Wilkinsons Stores, will feature amongst a large British contingent, including thirteen British athletes from the Beijing Olympics, all appreciating that this is the starting point on their journey towards London 2012.

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    National Swimming League 'B' Team - PL Start The Division 2 Onslaught! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Tuesday, October 28 2008 @ 10:15 AM GMT
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Plymouth, England: It was a historical day in Plymouth Leander’s history when their first ever ‘B’ team stepped into the National Swimming League fray last year and decimated Division 3. Bolstered by a home draw at Plymouth's Central Park Pools in Division 2 this time round, their foot had to be firmly on the pedal from the very start.

    “We want to make League history”, claims Head Coach Jon Rudd. “The first Club to ever have two teams in the Premier Division – and within three years. That’s our intention”. So can the leap frog from Division 3, to 2, to 1 and then to the Premier occur by 2010?

    Once again, it would seem so...

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    National Swimming League 'A' Team - PL Unstoppable in Bournemouth In Premier Division Round 1! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Tuesday, October 28 2008 @ 09:13 AM GMT
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Bournemouth, England: Plymouth Leander’s defence of their National Speedo League title could not have got off to a better start as they demolished their opposition in their Round 1 clash at the Littledown Centre in Bournemouth.

    Having finished as Champions for the first time in the National Cup Final in April of this year, PL’s reputation and credibility, particularly in this format of competition, has never been higher. Touching home first in 33 of the 50 events once again underlined Leander’s unmatchable strength in depth, even in the highest of the Western League’s four Divisions.

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    Achieng Set To Go At The 2008 World Short Course Championships - TV's At The Ready!! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Monday, April 07 2008 @ 09:45 PM BST
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Manchester, England: Plymouth Leander’s Kenyan superstar Achieng Ajulu-Bushell is only 48 hours out of competing in the biggest meet of her life as she represents her nation at the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships 2008 at the Manchester Evening News Arena.

    Achieng will be comforted in the fact that Amanda Booth, one of her major coaching influences at PL, has been named as the Head Coach of the Kenyan team.

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    GB Championships Day 4 - Five British Records In Three Swims? Surely That's Not Possible!! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Friday, April 04 2008 @ 01:04 PM BST
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Sheffield, England: Day 4 of the British Championships and surely PL were to slow down. Erm, no. In fact three PL athletes were to break five British Age Records in three swims! How does that happen?

    Well read on and see how Antony James, Grant Halsall and Sam Straughan were to manage such a feat…

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    GB Championships Day 3 - Podium For Emma and GB Records For Calum & Grant!! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
    Thursday, April 03 2008 @ 02:55 PM BST
    Contributed by: PL Swimming

    Sheffield, England: Just when we thought it couldn’t get any better, it then did. Day 3 at the British Long Course Championships saw Emma Wilkins take PL’s first medal at an Olympic Trials whilst Grant Halsall and Calum Jarvis decided to set about the British Record books in a big way.

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