Overseas swim camps
Our overseas swimming camps are an important part of the club's development programme, and for many swimmers is a highlight of life as an Otter. Over the past nine years we have delivered six overseas swim camps, giving almost 150 swimmers aged 9 and upwards a unique opportunity to develop their swimming in world-class Mediterranean swimming facilities.
Devon 2023
In October 2023, 26 swimmers attended our UK swim camp at Mount Kelly, Devon, enjoying six days' intensive long-course pool training, land training, social activities and a huge amount of fun!
Crete 2022
Our first post-Covid swim camp took place in Crete in October 2022. Twenty-seven of our senior swimmers took part in a warm-weather swim camp over six days in a long-course Olympic pool on the north coast of Crete.
Mallorca 2019
For our sixth international warm-weather training camp, we changed destination again, this time taking 30 athletes, three coaches and four team managers to Mallorca to return to the world renowned BEST Centre in the beautiful town of Colonia Sant Jordi on the most southerly tip of Mallorca, where we enjoyed six days’ intensive long-course pool training combined with land training and social activities.
Torremolinos 2018 #teamotters
Our fifth warm-weather overseas training camp was held over the course of six days in October 2018, investing in 36 of our elite swimmers with intensive pool training in a long-course pool, land training and team building exercises throughout the week. Our squads returned to gain several personal best times in competitions following the camp.
Cyprus 2017 #trainhard #swimfast#progress
Our fourth warm-weather training camp was held in Cyprus, from 23-29 October 2017, with twelve two-hour long-course training sessions, clocking up 65km over the course of six days in a fantastic 50m, 10-lane outdoor Olympic-standard pool. For this camp we were joined by our friends at Chesham Swimming Club, investing in the development of 27 swimmers drawn from the elite squads across the two clubs.
Cyprus 2016
Our 2016 warm-weather training camp comprised 7 days’ intense training of 4 hours a day in the Olympic-sized swimming pool at the 5* Coral Beach Hotel in Paphos, Cyprus, land training, open-water swimming, stretching and social activities for 28 swimmers from our senior squads, two coaches and seven team managers. The camp was an intense, action-packed week, with our swimmers returning home fitter, stronger, faster and loving long-course warm-weather outdoor swimming.
Mallorca 2014
Our second overseas training camp was held in Mallorca in October 2014, based at the Blue Water Elite Swimming Training (BEST) Centre in Sant Jordi, southern Mallorca, where our squads combined long-course training with land training and team-building activities.
Cyprus 2012
Chalfont Otters took 23 swimmers aged between nine and 19 for their first ever warm-weather swimming camp in Cyprus. The camp combined a solid week of long-course training in a 50m pool used by Team GB with open-water swimming the Mediterranean, in a bid to increase stamina and technique.
