​This year there will only be a one week summer shutdown. It will be from Monday August 23rd, with training resuming on Tuesday 31st after the Bank Holiday.

Advance notice of squad training in August. The following training will take place at Leyland Leisure Centre on the dates below:

Tuesday 10th August 
6.00 – 7.30  Alphas & Improvers
Replaces Tuesday & Wednesday training
7.30 – 9.00  District, JD & Juniors 
Replaces Tuesday & Wednesday training
 
Saturday 14th August 
3.15 – 4.15  Alphas & Improvers
Replaces Friday training
4.30 – 6.00  Intermediates & Juniors
Replaces Friday training
 
Sunday  15th  August   
3.00 – 5.00 Intermediates & Juniors
Replaces Sunday morning
5.00 – 7.00 District & JD 
Replaces Saturday morning
 
We have booked the above sessions at Leyland so that we can run time trials and give all swimmers the opportunity to practise diving off the blocks and backstroke starts ready for the return of competitions.
 
The sessions replace the training sessions at Chorley and Brinscall for that week only.

No training at Chorley Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th and Friday 13th August.
​No training at Brinscall Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th August.

Please post any questions in the comments section.

Is anyone available to help out at training tonight or tomorrow registering swimmers?

Thank you to those who have been helping to keep our swimmers safe in these challenging times. Due to a number of parents and swimmers currently isolating we are in need of volunteers to offer 10 mins of their time at the beginning and end of each session. You would be required to register swimmers on entry and to help coaching staff ensure swimmers are collected at the end of the session. All help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Please contact Claire by email competitions@chorleymarlins.org.uk or by text/call on 07595974314.

A reminder that face covering are still required when entering the leisure centres unless exempt. 

Swimmers may remove their face coverings on poolside immediately prior to the commencement of the session and will be asked to put the face covering on before leaving the poolside.

It is optional for children under the age of 11 as they are not required by law to wear face coverings.

​Thank you for your continued support.

Monday 31st May is a Bank Holiday so there will be no training on that day.

Our normal weekend training times of Saturday 5-7pm and Sunday 5-8 pm at All Seasons Chorley are still unavailable to us with the leisure centre closing at 4pm at weekends. We do not have any indication yet when we will be able to restart weekend training at Chorley. We hope Chorley Council will review this as soon as possible rather than leaving the pools closed and unused on weekend evenings. 
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Fortunately, Mary has secured continued use of Leyland Leisure Centre for at least the next four weeks on Saturday’s 2-3pm to allow us to continue running Mini Marlins and Development Squad sessions.

Congratulations to former Chorley Marlins swimmer Anna Hopkin on winning the Women's 100m Freestyle Bronze at the European Swimming Championships today in Budapest.

This was a brilliant individual bronze for Hopkin a talented freestyler, taking her European medal tally to three, having already won gold in the Women’s 4x100m Freestyle and Mixed 4x100m Medley relays – this would become four before the night was out with gold in Mixed 4x100m Freestyle relay.

​Anna joined Chorley Marlins at the age of eight. She has described her earliest swimming memory as “Doing micro-leagues when I was eight or nine" representing Chorley Marlins.

“It was similar to Arena League and it was for the younger ones – 4x25m relays and 50m races – so it was just a lot of fun."

“At that point, we were doing quite well in the micro-leagues; our relays were really fast. It’s fun to do relays and get to know people that way and make friends with them.”

Everyone at Chorley Marlins is extremely pleased to see Anna's success and look forward to watching her in the Olympics in Tokyo in July.

Watch Anna Hopkin win bronze:

​BRONZE Anna Hopkin (GBR) 53.43 – “I’m so-so happy, this is my first individual international medal. The time is not far from my persona best which is 53.2. I feel great....”

There is a change to the weekend training schedule at Brinscall from next weekend to give Junior and Intermediates more recovery time as they also swim Friday evenings.

From Saturday 8th May - District, JD and Club 3 to swim on Saturday, 8.00am – 10.00am. Juniors and Intermediates to train Sunday, 8.00 – 10.00am.

Thank you for your continued support and patience as we continue our return to training. A reminder that standing orders for training fees should have been restarted for April.

These should be at last years levels as shown in the table below.

Sort Code: 20-69-85 A/c Number: 73040828 A/c Name: Chorley Marlins ASC. Please add the swimmers name as reference.

There we be no training this Monday, 3rd May, due to it being a Bank Holiday.