Swim Wales Summer Nationals 2025

20 Holywell swimmers travelled to Swansea for the Swim Wales 2025 Summer Nationals, held over 5 days from July 30th to August 3rd. The team was led by coach Lorna Clarke and supported by family and friends who travelled down to support them. A huge thank you to you all!

The Team looked amazing on poolside wearing a new white kit that was designed especially for the event. The team stood out as they cheered for their teammates on, in both preliminary events and finals.

Some amazing swims over the 5 days saw the team win a total of 22 Championship medals – 9 Golds, 10 Silver and 3 Bronze.

Swim Wales National Championship Champions

• Tomas Clarke – 200 Fly and 50 Backstroke
• Patrick McCullagh – 1500m Freestyle
• Reggie Park – 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m Freestyle

We had some fabulous swims from the team and not just the gold medal swims mentioned above. Everyone swam well, worked hard on their race processes, had some great personal best times, and swam memorable swims over the week.

• Thomas Baldwin – 1500m Silver and 800m Bronze in the freestyle events.
• Thomas Clarke – 200m Fly and 50m Backstroke Golds
• Charlie de Haan – 50m, 100m, 200m Backstroke winning Silver in them all.
• Sian Evans – Silver in the 50m Fly.
• Noah Jones Walker – Silver 50m & 100m Free, Silver in the 50m & 100m Breaststroke and Bronze in the 200m Breaststroke.
• Patrick McCullagh – Gold in the 1500m Freestyle and Silver in the 400m Freestyle.

Stand out swimmer was undoubtedly Reggie Park. Prior to Summer Nationals, Reggie was invited into the Swim England 5k open water meet where he finished as the fastest Welsh swimmer in his age group. Following that success, he went on to achieve something very rarely seen at a Welsh Nationals. Reggie completed a clean sweep, winning gold in ALL 6 of the freestyle events, a fantastic achievement. Reggie also made the time for the Welsh squads for his 400m freestyle.

The Team:-

• Thomas Baldwin (1 Silver, 1 Bronze, 1 Sixth , 5 PBs)
• Clemmie Batt
• Jenaya Carr (1 PB)
• Tomas Clarke (6 Finals, 2 Gold, 4 Fourth, 1 Eighth,5 PBs)
• Charlie de Haan (6 Finals, 3 Silver, 1 Fourth, 2 Sixth,  9 PBs)
• George Donnan (4 PBs)
• Sian Evans (3 Finals, 1 Silver, 1 Sixth, 1 Seventh)
• Poppy Johnson (4 Finals, 1 Fourth, 1 Fifth, 2 Sixth, 4 PBs)
• Jay Jones
• Noah Jones-Walker (5 Finals, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze, 10 PBs)
• Oliver Langridge (2 PBs)
• Joe Lunt-Sulivan (1 PB)
• Elen McCoole-Jones (1 Final, 1 Seventh, 6 PBs)
• Patrick McCullagh (3 Finals, 1 Gold, 1 Bronze, 1 Fourth, 1 Seventh, 1 Eighth 9 PBs)
• Matilda McIntyre (1 PB),
• Noah McKeown
• Millie McPherson (2 PBs)
• Luca Owen (3 Finals, 1 Seventh, 2 Eighth, 1 PB)
• Reggie Park (6 Finals, 6 Gold, 1 Silver, 10 PBs)
• Amelia Woodbine