{"id":12562,"date":"2026-03-12T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=12562"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:21:42","slug":"sutton-and-cheam-scs-long-standing-president-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=12562","title":{"rendered":"Sutton and Cheam SC&#8217;s long-serving president dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Sutton and Cheam Swimming Club president Fred Andrews has died aged 97.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12593 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/FredAndrews-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/FredAndrews-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/FredAndrews.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>He joined the club in 1970 and almost immediately became part of the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Over the years he had been a committee member, competition secretary, treasurer, chairman and for the last three decades <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He was hugely proud to follow his friend Charles Thurley Snr as president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Many will remember Fred as a teacher at Cheam Baths, helping the club&#8217;s youngest members on their swimming journeys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He always had friendly words for the kids and parents, and if they had been good, a sweet from his bag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Even near the end, he wanted to hear news about the club, how busy the spring open meet would be and whether the club had a full team for the final round of the British Water Polo League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He was universally respected in swimming and water-polo communities. His family have been inundated with condolence messages from current and past members from around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sutton and Cheam president Fred Andrews passes away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12562"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12620,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562\/revisions\/12620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}