On the 19th and 20th of April the club competed in the Scottish Masters Championships in Edinburgh. A fuller report will follow but the highlights were as follows.

The club retained the top club trophy, winning it for a 20th time in the 23 occasions it has been contested.  REN 96 were runner-up with Heart of Midlothian in third.

We won too many medals to list here but special mention goes to Kelly McIntosh, Audrey Cooper, Chris Ferguson, Martin Snape, Andrew Evans, Bert Philip and Farqhuar Macrae who all won the best in age category awards.

The Meet was notable for the number of records that the club members amassed. By our counting there were 24 Scottish Masters records spread amongst Kelly McIntosh , Laura Robertson, Chris Ferguson, Bill Reid (3), Martin Snape (5), Audrey Copper (5) and topped off with a massive 8 for Farqhuar Macrae. Four of Audrey’s records were also British Masters records and among these the 400 I.M. was a European Masters record.

Further awards were announced at the Championship dinner that evening with Kevin Reynard winning the top men’s 50 metre backstroke trophy with Martin Snape and Audrey Cooper winning the equivalent for men’s 50 metre breaststroke and women’s 1500 freestyle respectively. Martin and Audrey were named as the winners of the Scottish Masters Decathlon’s while Chris Ferguson was in third place.

On Sunday the 10th of March, Silver City Blues took part in it’s first Inter-Continental Dual-Meet with Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada. An idea thought up by Bill Nash of the Grand Prairie Club to enable his swimmers to compete in real-time against other clubs without having to travel to location. It was the intention to […]

The 1st of February saw a small contingent of five SCB team members travel to Carlsile for their annual Masters meet. This year the meet would specially commemorate Graham Pearson who was a big personality within the Carlisle club as well as British Masters swimming as a whole. The team certainly left their mark with […]

Report by Ailsa Main Photos by Brian Battensby and Kelly Borland On the 26th of January a large SCB team of 32 descended upon ASV and it was a great competition for all this year. Thank you to everyone who took part and helped out in setting up the competition. A special thanks goes to […]

The results of the 2018 British Masters Swimming Decatlon have now been made final and confirms good results for a number of Silver City Blues swimmers. Audrey Cooper finished in third place and this achievement was shared by Martin Snape. With over 2100 swimmers ranked in the men’s event and over 1700 in the women’s […]

A Report by Alison Findlater On the 12th January 2019 Silver City Blues held their annual quiz night. This year we had a new venue – The Royal British Legion in Bridge of Don. This was an excellent venue with plenty of space, our own barman and exceptionally cheap drinks! The quizmaster for the night […]

A Report by Ailsa Main The last quarter of the year started with six of our swimmers visiting the Slovenia to compete in the biggest competition of the year the European Masters Championships in September. The team of Kelly McIntosh, Greg Smedley, Gillian Main, Alison Pirie, Brian Bain and Louise Kennedy swam many exciting events […]

The club continued its winning ways at the Inverclyde Masters Meet on 21st/22nd September with lots of great swims from the assembled team of Audrey Cooper, Bronwyn Farr, Alison Findlater, Dianne Fraser, Ailsa Main, Gill Main, Kelly McIntosh, Alison Pirie, Brian Bain, Adam Caton, Chris Ferguson, Bill Forbes, Pete Long, Greg Smedley, Martin Snape and Dave Sutherland. Among […]

   Not content with winning in the pool, SCB took to the waters of the River Dee at the end of June to win the annual Inter-Company Row organised by Aberdeen Boat Club. The crew, rowing as “Clasher, Slasher, Smasher, Thrasher and Basher” had 6 training sessions to prepare for the event and went on […]

Scottish National Masters Championships  2018 Tollcross  Glasgow The view of the trophy at the end of the social. After some concern that the club was under threat of losing the top club award at the Scottish, a fantastic team effort resulted in the club dominating the event once again  – winning the trophy with more […]