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Student swimming

The University of Bath Swimming Club caters for a range of abilities, from fitness swimming through to international and Olympic representation.

Based at the Team Bath Sports Training Village‘s 50m Olympic legacy pool, the student swimming programme strives to help swimmers progress to their maximum ability. The club is split into three squads – Development, Competitive and Performance – and each varies in level, flexibility and intensity.

Three student swimmers at the University of Bath have qualified to represent their countries at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (From left) Head of Swimming Mark Skimming, Angola’s Henrique Mascarenhas, Nigeria’s Tobi Sijuade, Kenya’s Ridhwan Mohamed and Assistant Swimming Coach Andrei Vorontsov.
Mark Skimming (left) and Dr Andrei Vorontsov (right) with Henrique Mascarenhas, Tobi Sijuade and Ridhwan Mohamed, who all competed at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Performance squad

This programme continues to produce and support swimmers who compete successfully at the highest level while, at the same time, gaining a degree from a world-class university which prides itself on academic quality and supporting students successfully into employment upon graduation.

University programme swimmers have won medals at the World Championships, World University Games (second largest multi-sport event after the Olympics), European and Commonwealth Games, and competed at Olympic Games with three swimmers racing at Paris 2024 (click on the picture above for a video). Tokyo Olympic gold-medallist Anna Hopkin is among the squad’s notable alumni.

The aim for our performance programme – led by Head of Swimming Mark Skimming and Dr Andrei Vorontsov, Olympic coach to Russia in 2012 and Sweden in 2016 – is to compete at senior national and international level, while balancing this with the successful completion of a degree and graduating from university having had a great experience and being a rounded and well balanced person.

The average grade a swimmer from the performance programme comes out with is a 2:1 with honours, with an average of a 4% increase in performance over the 3 years.

For more information about the programme, the squad structure and how to apply for the performance or recreational squads please click on this link.

Development squad

For students looking to improve their fitness or get back into swimming, the club’s recreational squad provides a fun and relaxed environment with complete flexibility over training times.

A team picture of University of Bath student swimmers following their victory in the 2025 British Universities Swimming League championship

Competitive squad

For those who want to maintain the flexibility of the development squad but still push themselves and perform well at target meets, this squad – with seven training sessions a week – competes at BUCS, Varsity and the British Universities Swimming League (BUSL) in which Bath are the 2025 champions.

Click here to visit the University of Bath Swimming Club’s page on The SU Bath website.

Welfare officer

Welfare Officer for swimming – Greg Sharp: Email adsgas@bath.ac.uk or call 01225 386907.

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