SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER

Birthdays

Happy Birthday to the following swimmers who celebrate their birthday in October

October 5 Faye Calpin

October 20 Francesca Maw

October 29 Frances Moir

New Swimmers

May we take this opportunity to welcome some new swimmers to the club.

Elise Richardson

Leon Fyer

Kyle Driffill

Daniel McGready

Jack Christer

Ethan Green

Melanie Calder

Finley Fox

Events

The 12^th September saw the final round of the Lincs Junior League with both CASA A & B competing.  The A team were the first to swim on the day with the gala being held at Riddings Pool.  We had some great individual performances with Nathan East achieving 2 P.B’s with his individual back and breast races, knocking a massive 6 seconds off his previous 25m breast time.  Lauren Gwynne was to also gain two new P.B’s in her two individual races, 25m back and breast and earning her 1^st place in the backstroke.  New P.B’s also fell to William East (25 Back) and Ryan Johnson (50 Breast).  First places in their races after two brilliant swims went to Axel Schygiol (50 fly) and Finley Fox (25 fly).  We also had some great swims in the relay events with the 12U girls coming first in both the free and medley relay, well done Hannah Mayall who was part of this team alongside some other swimmers from Cleethorpes. 

Head Coach Dave then made the journey over to Lincoln to join the B team who were competing against Trenton Dolphins, Louth, Lincoln Vulcans A and Grantham.  The atmosphere was tense as we knew that last year we had finished top of the league which had seen us travel to Liverpool for the Northern Final.  We knew that from previous rounds Lincoln Vulcans wouldn’t want this to happen again and were certainly going to field a strong team.  We started the proceedings with relay events,  the 12U girls started with their medley relay and Caitlin  swam the breaststroke leg with a split P.B and bringing us back into the lead against the Vulcans girls.  We were pipped to the finish though and finished in 2^nd place.  The 12U boys with Josh Jones finished in 1^st place by almost half a length from the rest of the field.  The 10U boys with Scott Zimmerman overtook Louth in the final leg to finish 2^nd.  Bryony Bower and Scott Zimmerman finished a close 2^nd in the 10U 50 breast  and after twelve events we were in 2^nd place, just 10 points behind Lincoln Vulcans.  Holly Williams and Jack Newton both gained new P.B’s in the 12U 50 fly with 37.45 and 37.50 respectively, and a 2^nd place finish for Holly.  Josh Jones swam a fantastic 50 breast finishing in 1^st place and with a new  P.B of 37.36.  We had lots of impressive swims with 16 P.B’s and we were to finish in 2^nd place to Lincoln Vulcans.

A report for the Junior League will be submitted to the Telegraph.

The final weekend of September saw swimmers travel to Edlington for the final round of the Barnsley Minors League.  We had some fantastic swims and achieved four first places in the individual races by Hannah Mayall, Yasmin Callaghan, Scott Zimmerman and Adam Vaughan with each achieving new P.B’s also.  It was a good day for P.B’s with a further 11 more being achieved.  The relays also proved to be a strong event for us over all age categories with 7 1st places, and 5 2^nd places from 17 races.  The final result saw us finish in 2^nd place overall to Barnsley with Knottingley 3^rd and final place to home team Edlington.  If anyone who attended this gala would like to submit a report for the Telegraph please email it to me z.newton@ntlworld.com.  Many thanks.

General Information

The lucky winner of the 100 club for September was  Rebecca Conlon .

Dave has asked that all entries for the Rotherham Metro Meet in January should be returned to him no later that 11^th October.  As soon as the draft programme becomes available it will be updated on the Events page.  Please check your entries to ensure that all required races have been entered and in the event of any problem please see Dave as soon as possible to discuss further.

Please ensure that your 2008 club champs trophies have been engraved as the trophies are now  been collected by the Trophy Secretary in preparation for this years event in November.

Riddings pool will shortly be closed for necessary repair work,  it is anticipated that the pool will be closed for two weeks commencing at 6pm on 25^th October.  Andy has been trying to gain pool time elsewhere and a meeting will be held to discuss this with parents on Sunday 11^th October (see notices/updates for details).

A list of disqualification codes is now available using the General Information link.  Please take time to read this and if you have any questions please see Dave.

National Qualifying times for 2010 has been published and is available following the General Information link.

The club uses Easy Fundraising to help raise club funds.  If you shop online and access retailers using the link on our homepage they make donations to the club.  Over 600 retailers are now available and you also may receive discounts on your purchases too.  Please use this link wherever possible, the current amount raised by members stands at  £520.59

Events

It looks like the busy schedule has started !   The first weekend of October sees our swimmers competing in the City of Leeds Open Meet at John Charles Aquatics Centre.  The first round of the Arena National Swimming  League takes place on the 10^th October with two teams competing under the CASA team, we have one team swimming at Grimsby and the other at Wellingborough.  The final event for October is the Lincoln Vulcans Open Meet on the 17^th at Ponds Forge, Sheffield in which a number of our senior swimmers are taking part.

 For further information regarding forthcoming competitions please use the Events link.  A complete 2009/2010 fixture list is also available on the website.

If anybody has any news they wish to be submitted in the next newsletter please email in time for the next issue - z.newton@ntlworld.com