November Newsletter

Birthdays

Happy Birthday to the following swimmers who celebrate their birthdays in December

December 3 Adam Vaughan

December 8 Eve Calpin

December 9 Emma Sanderson

December 22 Michael Trueman

December 22 Finley Fox

Events

13 swimmers travelled to Knottingley for the Barnsley Minor Open meet on 6^th November.   The event consists of 50 metre short course swims in each stroke and is always a popular meet. Of the 13 swimmers we took part in 19 finals and achieved a massive 42 P.B,s  with Ryan Johnson and Nathan East achieving P.B’s in all their swims. Ben Cantrill swimming finals in all of his events achieving two 2^nd place finishes and one 3^rd.  Finley Fox continued to knock off seconds and also took part in three finals achieving two bronze medals.  Lauren Gwynne swam through to the finals in all four of her events and took home two silver medals.  Ryan Johnson also kept Anchors place in the finals also taking part in all four and for him two silvers and a bronze, also a massive three second P.B for him in the 50 fly with a new time of 35.51.  Charles Kenny also swam in two finals and achieved two silver medals, he achieved two new P.B’s, one in the 50 free with a very impressive time of 31.26 and another in the 50 back knocking a massive 2.48 seconds of his previous time.  Scott Strong and Adam Vaughan also competed in the finals with a P.B for Scott in the 50 free with an incredible 27.51 and for Adam a P.B in the 50 breast of 40.73.  Special mentions too to Jess Skinn, Ellie Taylor, Edward Kenny and Ellie Chafer who all achieved P.B’s of between two and four seconds.

The 13^th November saw the 2^nd round of the National Arena League which also coincided with round 2 of our gala run alongside this event.  Our gala was hosted at Riddings pool and was a very successful gala and some fantastic swims.  As mentioned before the decision to host this gala was made by the committee to allow all swimmers to be given the opportunity to swim and was deemed to be a huge success and will therefore be carried forward to 2011.

General Information

The lucky winner of the 100 club was Daniel Strong.

The draft programme for the Rotherham Metro Meet held in January is now available.

The last session before Christmas takes place on Thursday 23^rd December and two morning sessions will be arranged for the week between Christmas and  New Year.

Dave has decided to produce a coaches bi monthly newsletter for all swimmers/parents and handed his most recent newsletter out at the pool.  Anybody who missed the publication can read this using the following link (Coaches Reports).  Due to Dave covering September/October I have therefore not completed a monthly newsletter for those two months.

Forthcoming Events

 The final round of the National Arena League takes place on 11^th December.

 Happy Christmas to al swimmers and parents and heres looking forward to further successes in 2011 for the club and all its swimmers.