Big Bath brigade heading to London for Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2025
Olympic Champions Tom Dean and Kieran Bird are among a 49-strong cohort of University of Bath-based swimmers heading to the London Aquatics Centre for the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2025.
The first British titles of the LA 2028 Olympic cycle and places in the GB squad for this summer’s World Championships in Singapore will be decided during six days of action, from Tuesday 15th to Sunday 20th April.
Triple Olympic gold-medallist Dean, who only returned to training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village in January, is easing himself back into competition with one runout in the 100m freestyle.
Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre team-mate Bird, who won 4x200m freestyle relay gold alongside Dean at Paris 2024, will be looking to defend his 400m freestyle title and is also contesting the 100m and 200m.
Fellow Olympians Leah Crisp, Jacob Peters and Jacob Whittle are also in action, while sporting scholars Cam Brooker, Joshua Gammon, Jack Skerry and Matthew Ward will look to build on the impressive medal-winning form they produced while racing for Bath at the BUCS Nationals.
The scholars are among 40 students competing in London over the next week, with 34 of the University of Bath Student Performance Sport swimming squad – coached by Mark Skimming and Andrei Vorontsov – targeting personal bests and podium places.
Team Bath AS, a performance swimming club that also trains in the 50m pool at the STV, will have four representatives at the Championships – Kate Baxter, Rue Fowler, Nancy Jubb and Harry Morgan-Hughes.
Visit teambath.com/swimming to find out more about the swimming programme at the University of Bath.
Who to watch at the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2025
Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre
- Kieran Bird (100m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle)
- Cam Brooker (50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke)
- Leah Crisp (1500m freestyle)
- Tom Dean (100m freestyle)
- Joshua Gammon (50m butterfly, 100m butterfly, 200m butterfly)
- Jemima Hall (50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle)
- Holly Hibbott (100m butterfly, 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle)
- Jacob Peters (50m butterfly, 100m butterfly)
- Jack Skerry (50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke)
- Matthew Ward (100m backstroke, 200m backstroke, 200m IM)
- Jacob Whittle (50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle)
University of Bath Swimming Club
- Jessica Arundale (400m freestyle, 800m freestyle, 1500m freestyle)
- Matthew Baker (200m freestyle, 400m freestyle)
- Louise Bressler (100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke, 200m IM, 400m IM)
- Harry Burns (200m freestyle, 200m IM)
- Lola Burns (50m butterfly, 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle)
- Oliver Dade (50m freestyle, 100m freestyle)
- Robert Darbyshire (50m freestyle)
- Isaac Dodds (50m butterfly, 200m backstroke, 200m IM, 400m IM)
- Kelsey Donovan (50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly)
- Maisie Elliott (50m butterfly, 100m butterfly, 200m butterfly)
- Archie Evans (50m backstroke, 100m backstroke)
- Anna Farrow (100m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 200m IM, 400m IM)
- Kaleb Fox-Jones (50m butterfly, 100m freestyle)
- Maisie Gifford (50m butterfly, 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle)
- William Godsell (50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke, 200m IM)
- Caitlin Hartley (50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke)
- Nathan Holmes (50m breaststroke)
- Charley Joyce (50m freestyle, 50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke)
- Cora Lanham (50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke)
- Tristan Lee (200m breaststroke)
- Emily Morgan-Hughes (50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke)
- Harriet Oxley (200m freestyle, 400m freestyle)
- Georgia Pease (50m butterfly, 100m butterfly)
- Jessica Podger (50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle)
- Nathan Potter (200m freestyle)
- Matilda Ransome (200m butterfly, 200m breaststroke, 200m IM, 400m IM)
- Oliver Rowe (200m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 800m freestyle)
- Christian Ryan (100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke)
- Helen Sharratt (50m butterfly, 100m butterfly)
- Hendrik Van Der Leest (200m backstroke)
- Niamh Ward (50m freestyle, 50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke)
- Matthew Warburton (400m freestyle, 800m freestyle, 1500m freestyle)
- Sophie Weston (50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke)
- Sam Williamson (50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke, 200m IM, 400m IM)
Team Bath AS
- Kate Baxter (100m butterfly, 200m butterfly)
- Rue Fowler (50m butterfly, 50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, 100m freestyle, 200m backstroke)
- Nancy Jubb (50m freestyle, 100m freestyle)
- Harry Morgan-Hughes (50m butterfly)
