Swimming

 

 

 

Please be aware that the start and warm-up times for the Final of the Minor Gala at Worksop on 27th March have changed. The warm up will now begin at 6:30pm for a 7:oopm start.

 

 

 

Taking place on Thursday 4th March 2010, the third ASA Swimming Teaching Conference will be held at the Heritage Motor Museum in Warwickshire.
Swimming teachers still have the chance to sign up to the conference, and learn vital insights into how to deliver and improve swimming.

 

There are 17 informative and inspirational workshops available on the day, including:

Marc had his left leg amputated because of cancer when he was just 17-years-old but was still able to fulfill his dream of being the best that he could be and just 18 months after he finished his chemotherapy he was selected to represent Great Britain.
He subsequently competed at European & World Championships and Paralympic Games. In his 17 years of competition he won a staggering 12 Paralympic medals from 5 Games, 4 of those medals being gold. Marc also won a further 21 medals from European and World Championships.

The conference is open to all swimming teachers and co-ordinators working on the delivery and improvement of 'Learn to Swim'.
Don't forget: Teachers receive 5 CPD points from attending the conference and there are 100 free teacher licenses to the first 100 that sign up!

 

 

Single Gender Events:

 

Question: Our club would like to organise an Open Meet that includes 800m and 1500m Freestyle events but want to swim males and females together. I understand that FINA has introduced a new rule that prevents us from doing that. Is this correct?

 

Answer: Yes, that is correct. FINA has introduced a new rule.

 

SW10.1. All individual races must be held as separate gender events.

However, it may still be possible for you to include these events as mixed providing they are age group events. FINA provides the opportunity for Federations to adopt their own Age Group rules (SWAG 1).

 

You will need to ensure that the competition conditions state clearly that these are Age Group events and will be swum as mixed male and female.

 

Rebecca Adlington will officially re-open the Swimming Centre named in her honour on Thursday 18 February after its £5 million transformation.

 

Rebecca learned to swim at the facility as a four year old on Mansfield District Council's swimming lessons programme.

Rebecca will officially unveil the name 'Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre' on the front of the building.

 

The unveiling ceremony is open to the public and begins at 12.30pm. Members of the public are advised to arrive early.

 

Please note: there will be no parking available at the centre or at the Sherwood Colliery Welfare Centre. Please make alternative arrangements.

 

The building is closed until 2pm, when free tours of the facility will be available for members of the public.

 

The building is open as usual from 4pm onwards.

 

Since March 2009, the centre has undergone the following redevelopment:
* Extending the 25m pool from four to six lanes;
* Refurbished training pool;
* New technique pool;
* Poolside changing for disabled swimmers;
* New 44 station state-of-the-art fitness suite;
* Sherwood studio featuring interactive dance mats and activity wall;
* Carbon efficient building.

13th February 2010

 

The first weekend of County Championships got off to a difficult start due to to problems with the electronic timing system. We apologise that this has delayed the posting of results but the circumstances were beyond our control. Sessions 1 & 2 are available, Session 3 and the BAGCAT points update will be added as soon as possible. Hopefully all the issues have now been resolved to ensure a trouble free Sunday.

For available results >> click here

1st February 2010

Former International swimmer, Selena Burgess has been appointed as the new head coach at Bramcote Swimming club. Selena replaces Tom Wilkinson who is leaving to take up a position with the Nottingham county squad, Nova Centurion. Selena is delighted to be joining Bramcote:

 

"I took part in the 1996 Olympic Trials, and after competing at the European Junior Championships in 1997, I joined Nova Centurion in 1998 and made the British Senior Team for the first time in 1999.

 

"Tom Wilkinson has made a huge contribution to building such a thriving swimming team at Bramcote and his shoes will be difficult to fill.

 

"My particular emphasis will be to develop the technique of our talented swimmers. Technique is the most important factor in developing young swimmers. If technique is right then speed will naturally come. This is the philosophy I plan to bring to my new coaching role at Bramcote."

 

Bramcote has undertaken a significant number of developments over the last two years: a summer swim camp was organised in Germany in 2009 for 40 swimmers; the Bramcote Open Meet is now in its third year and several new Invitational events have seen increasing levels of support. The annual Bramcote Club Championships is now a licensed meet running on BAGCATS principles.

Throughout last year Bramcote swimmers have secured places in GB national squads, English Schools, and County squads. The Club received the Swim 21 accreditation and the senior team has just been promoted to the Arena National League division 1 as division 2 Champions. Andy Thornton, Chair of Bramcote Swimming Club, said:

 

"We are sad to see Tom leave us as he has helped to create a vibrant squad. However, this is natural progression for Tom and we aim to develop our coaches as well as our swimmers. I am very pleased to announce that Selena has now joined us to help drive the club even further forwards in its development."

 

Selena achieved a first class honours degree in Sport Science at Nottingham Trent University in 2004. She is a teacher of Science and Psychology at Redhill Secondary School in Arnold. She is a Level 2 Swimming Coach and is currently progressing though her Level 3 coaching qualification. She she still swims regularly, completed her first triathlon in September 2009 and will be doing the 3 peaks challenge in April 2010 for a school charity.

Thank you to all the clubs for their hard work in coordinating and submitting the entries electronically. All entries received have now been processed, for the latest information click > here

 

On Friday the 15th of January 2010 Calverton & Bingham Swimming Club held their presentation evening at the Trent Bridge Cricket Ground. During the evening awards were presented to swimmers from the very young novices to the masters that competed in the 2009 Club Championships.

 

The overall winners trophies were -
Novice - Kelsey GILES and Jorge STEVENSON
9's - Claire SNOWDEN and Oliver BOND
10's - Olivia WALLACE and Joseph WAKEFIELD
11's - Rosie RUDIN and Jack WILSON
12's - Amber KEEGAN and Calum MURRAY
13's - Poppy RUDIN and Joe STEVENSON
14's Faye HENESY and Robert BARTON
15's Rachel SELBY and Jorge PHENIX-COYNE
16-24 - Rebecca BARSBY and Sam WASS
Masters 25 to 34 - Matt BRENTLEY
Masters 35 to 44 - Elaine RICHARDS and Logan TWEEDIE
Masters 45+ - Karen BLAKEMORE and Mark PATTERSON

 

The Freestyle Skins trophies went to -
Juniors - Amber KEEGAN and Calum MURRAY
Seniors - Rebecca BARSBY and Dan WINTER

 

2010 Club Captains were introduced and presented with their Captains shirts -
Junior Girls Captain - Megan GEOGHEGAN / Junior Boys Captain - Luke JACKSON-SELBY
Senior Girls Captain - Rebecca BARSBY / Senior Boys Captain - Tom BATES

The Swimmer of the Year Award as voted by the swimmers went to - Olivia Wallace

Volunteer awards went to - Trudi Manterfield, Paul Hough, Betty Snodin and Karl Knox

 

The evening marked the retirement of the well liked and respected Head Coach Mike Adams. Mike was the Head Coach at Calverton Swimming Club between 1997 and 2007 and then Head Coach of Calverton & Bingham Swimming Club between 2007-2009 after the merger with Bingham. When Mike initially joined Calverton the club was in division 3 of the Speedo league and low down in the Nottingham league galas. This subsequently changed with Mike's guidance and the club gained promotion every other year and reached their first final of the West Midlands division 1 by 2002, which was also the club's first year in the top division.

Over the years Mike has been a dedicated coach not only to the club but the sport as well. During his time at Calverton and CABSC he travelled about 90 miles to training and back each session approximately around 25000 miles a year, enough to travel around the world 3 times!

All funding streams are now back on line for Nottinghamshire. This includes grant aid to Clubs and Organisation (Community Sports Fund), Talented Individuals (Rising Stars and Shining Stars) and Coaches (Coach Scholarship).

On-line application forms will be available from the following link on Monday or Tuesday next week. Full criteria is available now.

http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/home/leisure/l-sport/sport-support.htm

Please can you promote to your clubs and coaches within the County.

Deadlines are a little tight for this financial year so please be aware.

Any clubs or individuals based within the City should apply to Nottingham City Council who have similar schemes - details available from the link below:

Nottingham City link:
http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2668

 

 

Updated link to UK Sport anti-doping video.