Harbour Swimming Club, the oldest swim club in Bermuda, have continued their remarkable resurgence in the past few years.

One of their own, Emma Harvey, has developed into a Scottish age group national record holder, and a qualifier for the UK Championships.

Harvey is continuing her development at Millfield, the highly acclaimed sports school in Somerset, England, which has produced dozens of British Olympians.

This is symptomatic of the club’s enduring success and Stephen Castree, the Harbour Club president, said: “We are delighted to see Emma work through the Harbour Swimming Club programme and be able to support her in her move overseas to continue her development.”

Shona Palmer, the Harbour head coach, added: “Since making her move, Emma has continued her non-stop improvement and is not only continuing to beat her own Bermuda national age group records, but she is rapidly approaching some national records which are typically held by senior athletes.

In the past six months, Harbour have seen several more of their members be added to the extra training programme facilitated by the Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association.

At the same time, the club are actively evaluating the needs of these developing swimmers and have added a gym training programme to complement their swimming workout.

“The club now offers training sessions every day of the week and several times more than once per day,” Palmer said.

Castree added: “As well as Carifta for the national team, Harbour are sending our seniors to the T2 Aquatics meet in Florida, as well as our top seniors to a further overseas meet in addition to ensure that all swimmers can compete at their levels and maximise their own ability.’

Palmer continued: “Our multi-year development plan is continuing to yield results as well as provide fantastic physical and social development for the members.”

The club are preparing to run the Harbour Open Meet — a meet where local teams and those overseas will be invited to participate in a festival of swimming. It will run over three days from June 30 to July 2, and will be followed on July 3 with the Trunk Island Swim organised by BASA.

Nick Strong, the BASA president, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for young and mature swimmers to compete in a multi-day heats and finals event and also to show case the Bermuda Open Water Swimming offering which is one of the jewel’s in Bermuda’s crown.

“The Trunk Island swim has long been an annual event in the calendar, but adding a greater number of swimmers will hopefully allow this event to mirror the success of the Bermuda Round the Sound Swim which takes place every October and attracts over 100 swimmers from overseas’

Harbour will hold tryouts on Saturday, April 16 for new members to join and those successful will be invited to start training to gain experience before the summer break.

Harbour trains at both the BASA pool at Saltus Grammar School, as well as at the Aquatic Centre, at the National Sports Centre.

All those interested should contact Ally Harvey at acam@logic.bm.