Newsletter: Issue 20: September 2016

AQUAE SULIS Performance Swimming Club

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Inside Newsletter 20 Our New Head Coach Congratulations Nationals Results 2016 Round-up Aquae Sulis Sprint Meet Aquae Sulis Autumn Grand Prix Fundraising ASA Regional SC Champs 2016 ASA National Winter Meet 2016 ASA SW Regional Times 2017

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Inter Counties Representation National Talent Programmes First Head Coach Report Courses Update Fundraising Update

INTRODUCING OUR NEW HEAD COACH

LAWRIE THOMSON Lawrie Thomson is the new Aquae Sulis Head Coach, and we are delighted to have him on board! Not only is he a man with a plan for the club, he is enthusiastic about sharing the plan with swimmers and parents. As we heard in his first parents' meet-ing, he intends to speak with every swimmer (and parents too if they’re available) to understand his or her aspirations and work on setting individual training plans and goals, which will set the platform for the season ahead.

Lawrie believes education is key. He will work to increase our awareness of what performance swimming entails and, where necessary, bring in specialists to assist in that. He also believes good communications is essential and that success is borne through a healthy three-way relationship between swimmer, parents and coach. Lawrie has already published a competition calendar for this season running up to Christmas, including indications of who should compete and what the goals of individual meets need to be. Even greater attention will be given to future plans, once he has properly assessed the squads and its swimmers’ needs.

Over the coming months Lawrie will visit each of the Network Clubs to re-establish connections with the aim of building a healthy two-way dialogue about how the Net-work Clubs and Aquae Sulis can work together in the most beneficial way.

Lawrie’s arrival has breathed a new lease of life into a club, which has had its fair share of challenges over the past year, and the future is looking bright. Very bright Indeed!

Lawrie began swimming and started his coaching career in the West and has now returned. He lives with his partner, Kelly, in Portishead. His address presents quite

a commute on a daily basis and means that, where possible, anyone wanting to meet with him should aim to do so be-fore sessions, as for obvious reasons he will be aiming to leave punctually to get home at a reasonable time.

Coaching Qualifications

UKCC Level 3 Performance Coach, BSc Sports Coaching and Conditioning, HND Coach Education and Performance (from Bath University)

Coaching Achievements

University of Bath Swimming Assistant Coach (2003 to 2005) looking after both elite and age group swimmers.

Haslemere Head Coach (2006 to 2011). Lawrie took the club to the Arena league Final two years running and achieved 22 medals at Nationals including 11 Golds.

Bangor Head Coach. Lawrie transitioned and restructured the club as they moved from a 4-lane 25m pool to a 10-lane 50m pool. He achieved top age group club at Irish Nationals in 2013.

Lawrie supplied three of the five swimmers to the European Junior Championships in 2013, securing positions in two finals and a semi-final.

Amersham SC Head Coach, 2014-2016. Lawrie secured promotion to Arena League Premier Division following an un-beaten 2015 season. He had multiple national medallists.

He worked with the England Talent Programme since 2006 and was Head Coach of 12 year old age group in the South East region since 2013, and also the South West region in 2016.

Lawrie spent three months in Australia working with some of their Performance clubs.

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CONGRATULATIONS

AQUAE SULIS IS A FINALIST IN

THE BATH CHRONICLE SPORTS

AWARDS 2016

As was recently announced, Aquae Sulis Performance Swimming Club are finalists in this year’s Bath Chroni-cle Sports Awards, 2016 in the Com-munity Club of the Year category.

The awards are taking place on Wednesday 9th November at Bath Racecourse.

This is a fine achievement following the victory in the ASA Club of the Year last year, and is a testament to the ongoing hard work put in by the coaching team and by all of the volun-teers, including the committee mem-bers, who make the operation of the club possible.

NAT GORDON & SYLVIA SINCLAIR have both been shortlisted for Volun-

teer of the Year at the West of England Celebration of Sport Evening. The 5th West of England Celebration of Sport Evening will be held on Friday 21st October 2016 at the Bristol Marriott Hotel. The event will be hosted by Steve Backley OBE, 2 times Olympic Silver Medallist and former Javelin World Record holder. An estimated 300 people will be attending the event to celebrate sport and physical activity in the West of England and those who make it happen.

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Aquae Sulis had a pleasing nationals this year, achieving two silvers and a bronze at British, and two golds apiece at the English and Welsh National events. Results in the Scottish Nationals were presented in the previous newsletter but, for completeness, Ethan McNeil won three GOLDS (50m, 100m breast, 400m IM) and a bronze (200m IM) and Hugo McNeil won a BRONZE (200m fly).

British Summer Championships, Sheffield, 26 to 31 July Laura Mcnab - age 15 Womens 50m Freestyle SILVER medal, 100m Freestyle Finalist 5th place. Thomas Sinclair - age 17/18 Mens 50m Butterfly SILVER medal, 100m butterfly Finalist 5th place, 200m Freestyle finalist 8th place. Ethan McNeil - age 13/14 Mens 200m Breaststroke BRONZE medal. Daniella Whiting - age 19/0ver Womens 400IM Finals, 7th place. Henry Dixon - age 16 Mens 200m Freestyle Finals, 10th place. Swimmers qualifying in the following events: Alice Barton 200m freestyle, Stella Cookson 50m breaststroke, Henry Dixon 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 400m IM, Laura Mcnab 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle, Thom-as Sinclair 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 100m butterfly, Daniella Whiting 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke, 200m IM, Relays: Girl 14-16 4x100m freestyle, 4x 200m freestyle, 4x 100m IM.

ASA English Summer Meet, Sheffield, 1 to 5 August Henry Dixon - age 16 GOLD 1500m Freestyle. Dylan Hood – age 15 GOLD 200m Breaststroke. Alice Barton—age 12/13 Womens 100m Freestyle Finals 6th, 50m Backstroke Finals 7th, 100m Backstroke Finals 6th, 200m IM Finals 8th. Rhiannon Bowen - age 15 Womens 50m Freestyle Finals 6th, 200m Freestyle Finals 8th, 400m Freestyle Finals 10th, 50m Butterfly Finals 5th. Stella Cookson - age 16 Womens 100m Breaststroke Finals 5th, 200m Breaststroke Finals 7th. Michael Dorsman - age 17 Mens 200m Breaststroke Finals 8th. Charlie Head - age 17 Mens 200m Breaststroke Finals 4th. Ben Lawton - age 17 Mens 50m Breaststroke Finals 7th, 100m Breaststroke Finals 4th. Laura Mcnab - age 15 Womens 100m Butterfly Finals 7th, 200m Butterfly Finals 6th. Swimmers qualifying in the following events: Florence Ball 50m freestyle, Alice Barton 400m freestyle, 200m backstroke, 200m butterfly, 400m IM, Rhiannon Bowen 200m butterfly, 200m IM, Michael Dorsman 50m breaststroke, Matthew Hardick 100m breaststroke, Charlie Head 100m breaststroke, 200m IM, Laura Mcnab 800m freestyle, Ella Veakins 50m butterfly, 100m butterfly, 200m butterfly, Daniella Whiting 50m butterfly, 100m butterfly

Swim Wales Summer Open Meet, Swansea 1 to 7 August Alexander Sharman - age 14 Mens 2 GOLD MEDALS 50M Butterfly and 50m Backstroke, 100m freestyle Finals 4th, 100m Butterfly Finals 4th, 100m Backstroke Finals 4th, 200m Backstroke Finals 5th. Maia Crudgington - age 14 Womens 400m Freestyle HDW 6th, 800m Freestyle HDW 7th, 200m Butterfly Finals 8th. Amy Gordon - age 15 Womens 50m Freestyle Finals 5th, 100m Freestyle Finals 7th, 50m Breaststroke Fi-nals 7th, 200IM Finals 6th. Jude Roberts - age 13 Womens 200m Backstroke Finals 4th. Swimmers qualifying for this meet: Hannah Croker, Samantha Hammond, Charlie Hemmens, Megan Rose, Isaac Grothier.

NATIONALS 2016 RESULTS ROUND-UP

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The weekend of the 24th and

25th September saw the first

short course, early season

Sprint Meet run by Aquae

Sulis. In the past the meet

had been shared with City of

Bristol. Although a Level 3

event, the meet entertained

swimmers of all levels and

proved to be a great success. Off the back of the success, Aquae Sulis has been granted its Level

2 licence for the Aquae Sulis Autumn Meet in November, 18th to 20th. Huge thanks to all of the

volunteers and officials who turned out to support the event and make it a resounding success.

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AQUAE SULIS GRAND PRIX 18th to 20th NOVEMBER 2016

Hengrove Leisure Centre

25 Metre - 10 Lane Pool

Electronic Timing, Seating for 400, Café on site

Age on the 20th November 2016

£6.50 per event. £7 for 800M and 1500M

Closing date for entries: 5 November 2016

See the Aquae Sulis web site for further details

VOLUNTEERS AND OFFICIALS WE NEED YOU!!!!!!

AQUAE SULIS SPRINT MEET 24th & 25th September

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Thank you to everyone who took part in the Sainsbury Bag Pack at the beginning of Sep-tember. It was a good way for everyone to get together before the new season started af-ter the summer break. The kids were exemplary bag packers and I am sure Sainsbury’s will be happy to have us back next year and for this to be a regular fundraising event each September. We raised £615.54. Well done to everyone who took part. We are hoping to be chosen to do a bag pack in Waitrose in November and are waiting for confirmation of this.

We ran a cake sale, tombola and raffle at the Aquae Sulis Sprint Meet at Hengrove at the end of September and these proved as popular as usual with swimmers, parents and the general public. Thank you to everyone who supplied cakes in abundance and to Anne Cookson, Derek Hood and Cecily for manning the stand all day. We will be doing a repeat of this at the Grand Prix in November so please look out for requests for bottles and cakes nearer the time.

Lastly, please have a look at the fundraising link on the Aquae Sulis website. This takes you to easyfundraising.org.uk which is a simple way to raise funds for the club whilst using your normal online retailers such as Amazon and John Lewis. For example, you want to buy a pair of shoes from John Lewis. Instead of going to johnlewis.com directly, you first go to easyfundraising.org.uk (you will need to register and set up an account) and choose John Lewis as a retailer. Once you have made your purchase a donation will be made to us. The amount raised really can add up so please consider using this for your online shopping, particularly in the lead up to Christmas. More info here: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/how-it-works/.

If you have any fundraising ideas or would like to get involved with doing some fundraising for the club please email me or talk to me up at the Uni. Everyone is very welcome to be on the fundraising team!

Do you have any experience in Crowdfunding? If the answer is yes we would like to hear from you by this Friday 7th October if possible.

Please contact Karen at workforce@aquaesulisswimming.org.uk or telephone/text me

on 07969 341807

Many thanks for your continuing support of the club’s fundraising activities.

FUNDRAISING

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ASA SOUTH WEST REGIONAL SC CHAMPS 2016

Millfield, 4th, 5th, 6th November 2016

Registration deadline for entry 14th October

For full information, see:

http://www.swimwest.org.uk/swim/index.php/document-library/cat_view/1-competitive-

swimming/9-swimming-competition-entry-information

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NATIONAL SC CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016

Entry times for individu-al entrants from ASA, SASA or WASA must be recorded in British Swimming Rankings, from Swimming Com-petitions designated or Licensed for entry into National Competitions since 1st December 2015, and be achieved in a 25m pool. Split Times, either in-termediate distance or first leg of a relay race are not acceptable for entry Closing date for en-tries, 12 noon, Thurs-day 24th November 2016. See here for full info http://www.swimming.org/asanationals/information-competitors/

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For full information, see here: http://www.swimwest.org.uk/swim/index.php/document-library/cat_view/1-competitive-swimming/9-swimming-competition-entry-information?start=10

ASA SOUTH WEST REGIONAL TIMES 2017

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