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NEWSLETTER
Where Excellence is Inevitable
January 2015 www.swimwestlothian.com Issue 23
NEWS
Scottish Champion
JPD
National Potential
LEARN TO SWIM 8
Thank You
WHO’S WHO IN 9
Swim West Lothian
Gala Co-ordinators
Squad Admin
Coaches
Committee
Ordering Team Kit
Contact Details
Publicity
EVENTS CALENDAR 10
Upcoming Meets
Competitions
Calendar
Swimming Lessons
Thank You
SQUAD UPDATES 5
Easyfundraising
Yellow Moon
FUNDRAISING 7
SWL Records 6
Happy New Year! 2014 was a fantastic year for the Swim West Lothian and we’re now looking forward to a busy and exciting 2015!
Scottish National Junior Champion!
At the recent Scottish National Short Course Championships, amongst the fantastic results and 16 new SWL records that were set, one swimmer rose above the rest of the country. Gülsüm Önal was the best of Scotland ’s junior athletes in 3 separate events. She won the 100 FC being the fastest in the heats bringing down the SWL record to 57.51. In the 100 IM she won the final in another SWL record of 1:04.71 bringing the record down by 5.05 seconds! Finally she won the 200 FC in another programme record smashing time bringing down the senior females 200 FC record to 2:04.42.
Gülsüm Önal 3 x
Scottish National
Junior Champion
SWL NEWS 2
Ollie’s Anniversary
EDAG Round 3
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EDAG Round 3
Royal Commonwealth Pool Edinburgh Sixty-five Swim West Lothian swimmers attended EDAG Round 3 from across all the squads with 267 swims over 2 days of competition. There were 185 PB’s, from a massive 82% of swims, and we had relay teams from Bathgate, Fauldhouse, Trojan and LDD competing. A great Performance all round. See page 3 for further details:
Apologies for missing Shannon Paterson from the list of athletes attending the Scottish National
Short Course Championships in December 2014.
Ollie’s Anniversary #BLUEANDYELLOW Congratulations to our Performance Development Coach, Oliver Waddington who has now been with the programme for a year, as of the 6 January 2015. Not only has he helped steady the ship through that time but he’s begun to help put wind in the sails, developing 5 athletes into Performance group swimmers. He has continued to push forward the performances of our SNAG’s finalists and medallists in PD as well as helping more and more of the group qualify for this year’s event. Ollie attended the Tenerife T3 training camp with us where he was fantastic, that effort culminated in awesome performances for SWL athletes at both British and Welsh Summer Nationals. He has taken the lead role on the Skill Development Days that SWL provide to member clubs in order to develop and inspire the next generation of SWL athletes. Ollie has developed into a critical member of the Coaching team over the year and we look forward to many more with him driving high performance in West Lothian as part of our Team. He says he cut himself shaving the other day and was surprised to see he actually bled blue, then some yellow!
Here he is in action at the West District Grand Prix
Swim West Lothian News
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The following athletes made their finals: AQUANAUTS Ryan Davidson 100 Fly 5
th, 100 Free 7
th
BATHGATE John Kean 100 Breast 8
th
BROXBURN Karen Heath 100 Fly 5
th
Shannon Paterson 100 Breast 7th
Craig Watt 100 Breast 6th
FAULDHOUSE PENGUINS Joseph Brownlie 100 Back 7
th, 100 Fly 6
th, 200 IM 5
th, 100 Breast 5
th
Nicola Lees 200 IM 8th,
100 Fly 8th, 100 Back 6
th, 100 Free 8
th
Natalie Lees 100 Back 5th, 200 IM 7
th
Ashley McAdam 100 Fly 6th
Caitlin Smith 100 Fly 5th
TROJAN Daniel Ferguson 200 IM SILVER, 100 Fly GOLD, 100 Back 7
th,
100 Breast SILVER, 100 Free GOLD Nathan McGraw 100 Free 6
th
Ross Neally 100 Fly 8th, 100 Breast GOLD
LIVINGSTON DISTRICT DOLPHINS Ellis Bryant 100 Breast 8th Euan Dalgleish 100 Breast 8
th
Alasdair Dunse 100 Back BRONZE, 100 Free SILVER, 100 Fly BRONZE Emma Govan 100 Free SILVER,100 Fly BRONZE James MacFarlane 200 IM 6
th
Gulsum Onal 100 Breast 6th, 100 Back BRONZE, 100 Fly 5
th, 100 Free 6
th,
200 IM BRONZE Erin Robertson 100 Free 6
th, 100 Back 5
th, 200 IM 5
th
(Thomas Coates, Ben Preston, Alasdair Dunse, Yasin Onal) Boys 10-12 200 Medley Relay BRONZE (Gulsum Onal, Kirsty Forsyth, Victoria Broe, Erin Robertson) Girls 15 & Over 200 Freestyle Relay BRONZE SWIM WEST LOTHIAN NEW LONG COURSE RECORD Ross Neally 100Breast (1:12.47) 13-14 year boys, 50 split in the above 100
Breast (34.77) Gulsum Onal 200 IM (2:27.39) 15 year & Over girls
Continued from page 2
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Swim West Lothian News Continued
Congratulations to Andrew Addison on being nominated for an award
at sportscotland Coaching, Officiating and Volunteering Awards 2014, for his continuous contribution to sport in Scotland. Well done Andrew!
Thanks to St Margaret’s Academy and Scot Signs Limited for working with us on our new Home of Swim West Lothian sign.
It’s looking good!
The Home of Swim West Lothian
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Squad Updates
Junior Performance Development JPD have enjoyed their Christmas and New Year break. They are now back to full training in preparation for the schools finals, Carnegie meet and First open meet. They also enjoyed a trip to the cinema before Christmas. Congratulations to Alasdair Dunse and Karen Heath on their move to PD! Well done this is a well deserved achievement. They will both be missed by the squad, but we wish them well. Results from EDAG – Weekend of 10
th & 11
th January saw 21 swimmers from JPD attend the 3
rd
round of East districts at Edinburgh’s commonwealth pool. This was the first time competing in a long course pool for many of the swimmers. All swimmers achieved PB’s over the weekend. Special mention to the following swimmers who all made finals: John Kean – 100m Breast (8
th);
Karen Heath – 100 Fly (5th); Joseph Brownlie – 100 Back (7
th), 100 Fly (6
th), 200 IM (5
th), 100
Breast (5th); Alasdair Dunse -100 Back(3
rd), 100 Free (2
nd), 100 Fly(3
rd). Fantastic. Keep up the
good work. Swimmers celebrating birthdays in January are: Anna Law (13), Eilidh Calder (12), Ellie Hume (11), Penny Moffat (12) and Joseph Brownlie (12) Jayne Parker
Happy Birthday National Potential! National Potential are officially one year old this week! And what a difference a year makes; we now are a squad that has doubled in size and whilst we have said goodbye to a few faces, we have welcomed a lot more into the SWL fold! National Potential has enabled older club swimmers who have been assessed as showing sprint distance potential, and swim-mers who wish to specialise within SWL, opportunity to train and compete in more specific and focused events, adding to the West Lothian success in the pool. Over the past year we have represented West Lothian alongside other squads at District and National events at both Age Group and Masters level. Thank you to all the swimmers involved since January 2014 for their dedication, patience and participation as we have devel-oped the squad programme including all the challenges that has brought (including no pool sometimes!) .
Here's looking to an even better second year! Jenny McCabe
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Records at Recent Meets as at 15/01/2015
Name Age Group Event Record Broken Record Was
New Record
Gulsum Onal Senior Female 50 FC Her own 2014 27.12 27.10
Senior Female 100 FC Her own 2014 58.58 57.82
Senior Female 200 FC Her own 2014 2:05.78 2:04.78
Senior Female 50 BK Shona Mackie’s 2013 30.90 29.95
Senior Female 100 BK Her own 2014 1:03.68 1:03.44
Senior Female 100 Fly Ashley McAdam’s 2012 1:06.67 1:05.05
Kirsty Forsyth Senior Female 50 Fly Her own 2014 30.24 30.22
Ashley McAdam also broke the old record by 0.01
Alex Forsyth Senior Male 200 FC James-Alan Kitching’s 2007
1:55.91 1:55.23
Ross Neally 13-14 Male 50 BR His own 2014 34.13 33.38
Craig Watt Senior Male 100 BR Andrew Aitchison’s 2008
1:08.06 1:07.49
North (C.O.A.S.T) Grand Prix
15 New SWL records including:
Scottish National Short Course
16 New SWL records including:
Name Age Group Event Record Broken Record Was
New Record
Gulsum Onal Senior Female 50 FC Her own 2014 27.10 26.78
Senior Female 100 FC Her own 2014 57.82 57.51
Senior Female 200 FC Her own 2014 2:04.78 2:04.42
Senior Female 50 BK Her own 2014 29.95 29.37
Senior Female 100 BK Her own 2014 1:03.44 1:02.95
Senior Female 100 IM Her own 2013 1:09.76 1:04.71
Senior Female 200 IM Shona Mackie’s 2012 2:25.41 2:20.06
Natalie Lees Senior Female 50 FC Kirsty Forsyth’s 2014 30.22 29.59
Alex Forsyth Senior Male 100 FC Jamie Coulter’s 2009 52.73 51.83
Euan Dalgleish Senior Male 200 BR Craig Watt's 2014 2:28.17 2:26.84
Fraser Gill Senior Male 200 IM Andrew Hosie’s 2011 2:12.95 2:12.62
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easyfundraising raising funds for SWL Using the easyfundraising site for on-line shopping is an easy way for parents and family to raise funds for SWL. To date we have raised over £70 from the site but we could raise so much more if parents register and visit the site every time before they buy on-line. All you need to do is register with the easyfundraising site and then search for retailers via the site. Every time you access a retailer and then buy on-line you raise money for SWL. Lots of our local shops like Marks and Spencer, Asda, Debenhams, Argos and many more like Apple, iTunes, Amazon, Book People are all members. So when you are shopping remember to shop via the easyfundraising site. Three easy steps to getting started: 1. Access the website via http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/swl 2. Enter - Create an Account (green button at the top if the page). Choose a good cause - you type Swim West Lothian and select Enter Personal Details. 3. Then shop!
Online shopping with Yellow Moon (Arts & Crafts Retailer)?
Raise money for Swim West Lothian
Anyone can go online at www.yellowmoon.co.uk and if buying, on the last screen just before you
enter your credit card details, it will ask if you have a source code, for SWL it is swi9662 you pay
as normal and then Yellow Moon send us a cheque made payable to SWL for 20% cashback on
any purchases made.
The two most powerful words in fundraising.
Fundraising - Fundraising Group
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Learn to Swim
Learn to Swim with:
Where Excellence Is Inevitable
Contact: [email protected]
Learn to Swim/Thank You
Thank You
Linda and Judith An enormous Thank You to Linda Taylor and Judith Hargreaves who are
‘retiring’ from their respective roles as Secretary to the Executive Committee, a role
which Linda has performed for the past 3 years, and Gala Convenor and Junior
Performance Development squad administrator, roles which Judith has performed
for the past year.
We would like to wish them both well in the future, and to thank them for the
contributions they have made to Swim West Lothian over this time.
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Gala Co-ordinators NATIONAL ENTRY ADMINISTRATOR NATIONAL - Andy Gill – [email protected]
NATIONAL TEAM MANAGER - Saran Jones—[email protected] ENTRIES CO-ORDINATOR – Stuart Reilly - [email protected] GALA CONVENOR – TROJAN - [email protected]
Squad Administrators PERFORMANCE – Shelagh Andrews - [email protected] NATIONAL POTENTIAL SQUAD – John Calder - [email protected] PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT - Karen Smith - [email protected] JUNIOR PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT –Jayne Parker - [email protected] MASTERS – Dan Rosenfeld - [email protected]
Coaching Staff PERFORMANCE - Andrew Addison - [email protected] NATIONAL POTENTIAL SQUAD - [email protected] PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT – [email protected] JUNIOR PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT - Dougie Hopkins – [email protected] MASTERS - Alistair Ross - [email protected] LEARN TO SWIM CO-ORDINATOR - Karen Paterson – [email protected]
Executive Committee Members CHAIR - Susan MacFarlane - [email protected] VICE CHAIR – Joe Robb - [email protected]
SECRETARY - Mitch Hiddleston - [email protected]
TREASURER – Colin Cooper - [email protected] FACILITIES CO-ORDINATOR – Graham Templeton - [email protected] ADMINISTRATOR SUPPORT – Karen Paterson - [email protected]
Kit Co-ordinator
To order new kit please see the Swim West Lothian website, www.swimwestlothian.com where you can view our on-line catalogue and fill out an order form, or contact Karen Paterson at [email protected] Tel – 01506 501301 or Mobile No – 07890823763.
Kit Recycling Swim West Lothian has started to recycle kit. If anyone has any SWL t-shirts/hoodies, that don’t have their names embroidered/printed on them, that they would like to hand over to be recycled, please let Karen know, her details are above.
Contact us at Swim West Lothian As a first point of contact and for those looking to start swimming KAREN PATERSON – [email protected] Head Coach ANDREW ADDISON – [email protected] In writing to: Swim West Lothian, Community Reception, Inveralmond CHS, Willowbank, Ladywell, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 6HW, Scotland
Publicity
If anyone has any articles that they would like included in the Newsletter or local press, please contact YVONNE MACDONALD at [email protected].
Website
If you have information for the website please contact Steve Coates at [email protected].
Who’s who in Swim West Lothian?
Who’s who in Swim West Lothian?
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Upcoming Events 25-26/01/15 - First Open 06-08/02/15 - Derventio 14-15/02/15 - Bellshill Sharks 14-15/02/15 - East District Challenge Meet 21/02/15 - Silver City Blues
Competitions Calendar
Month Date Event Venue Perf PD JPD National Potential Masters10-11th EDAG Weekend 3 RCP Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers
11th Coaches Meeting RCP16-18th West GP ?
25-26th FIRST OPEN Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers
31st Scottish Schools Finals Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers
1st SWL Skill Development Day 26th Splash League St.Margarets
6-8th Derventio
14-15th Bellshill Sharks Sir M att Busby
14-15th ED Challenge Meet Ppans
21 Silver City Blues Masters Westhill
TBC Coaches Meeting Bathgate
13-15th Edinburgh Iternational Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers
TBC Coaches Meeting Bathgate22nd (TBC) SWL Skill Development Day 3
TBC - No info yet Warrender Junior Open Prestonpans
31st Mar-5th Apr Scottish National Age Group's Aberdeen All Qualifiers All Qualifiers All Qualifiers All Qualifiers
14-18th British Gas Swimming Champs London Aquatic All Qualifiers
Scottish Masters S.C Aberdeen TEAM TRAVEL
TBC Coaches Meeting Bathgate
2-3rd Carnegie So Long Michael Woods
Manchester Open Manchester
15-17th IM TOUGH BathgateTBC Coaches Meeting Bathgate
29th Splash League St.Margarets29-31st East District Grand Prix OWN TRAVEL
British National Masters (LC) Swansea7/14th (TBC) SWL Skill Development Day 4
21&22nd ELST Distance Meet PrestonpansTBC Coaches Meeting Bathgate
24-28th Scottish National Long Course Any Qualifyers
TBC Coaches Meeting Bathgate
TBCYouth Olympic Games Hungary Any Qualifiers
British National Age Groups Sheffield Any Qualifiers Any Qualifiers
Welsh Summer Nationals Swansea
British National Youths SheffieldAug-15
TEAM TRAVEL OPEN TO ALL NON - BRITISH QUALIFIERS
TEAM TRAVEL OPEN TO ALL QUALIFIERS
The summer meets as described in July and August will probably change due to the new British Swimming plan
please bear with us but continue with planning to compete during this period.
SWIM WEST LOTHIAN AND COMPETITION AND EVENTS CALENDAR 2014-2015
Selected Club Swimmers
Feb-15
May-15
TEAM TRAVEL OPEN TO ALL
Jun-15Selected Club Swimmers
Jul-15School Holidays 26th June-17th August
3rd ANNUAL SWL SUMMER BBQ
Mar-15Selected Club Swimmers
C o aches M eet ing Sunday P M
Apr-15School Holidays 2-20th
Jan-15
TEAM TRAVEL OPEN TO ALL - Very Important Meet - Please Attend
School Holidays 12-17th
