Training Changes

Due to events taking place on Monday 17^th and 24^th September and the 1^st October, we have arranged for the Junior League Team to practice together again at John Charles on:

Wednesday 26^th September 2012 at 6:30pm

Wednesday 3^rd October 2012 at 6:30pm

 

Therefore Junior League practice will take precedence over your scheduled training session on these days only.

 

Wednesday 26^th September 2012 & Wednesday 3^rd October 2012

 

Regional Age 1:

 

To train at JCC with Craig & Kevin, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Viktoria, Amber, Jamie, Charlotte, Katherine, Matthew, Eleanor

 

Rest of squad - normal time at Armley with Elysha

 

Regional Age 2:

To train at JCC with Craig & Kevin, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Ella, Joseph T, Tia, Nathan L, Joe S, Daniel

 

Rest of squad - normal time at JCC with Tom

 

Kevin, Tom, Elysha & Josh

 

 

 

Junior League - Northern Final

Hi all,

 

Please note that the Northern Junior League final falls upon the second day of the City of Leeds Grand Prix Meet. Therefore the City of Leeds exec committee have ensured that any entries made will be refunded in the event that a swimmer is selected to represent the team at the Northern Final.

 

The team will be travelling by coach on Sunday 7^th October to the Palatine Leisure Centre in Blackpool. The aim will be to arrive for 11:45am. Doors open at 12:00pm and a parade of the teams will take place shortly after. Warm-up will be 1:00pm. Competition begins at 2:00pm.

 

Therefore please meet at the John Charles Centre for 9:30am. There will be NO stops en route.

 

Time will be limited for lunch, therefore I advise a hearty breakfast, and plenty of snacks as well as a sandwich; But most of all, please ensure they have ample to drink.

  

Spectator seating has been assigned by the Junior League Organiser. 44 Seats have been allocated to City of Leeds. There are 34 swimmers selected. Therefore for each child representing 1 spectator seat has been allocated. Each allocated Spectator may request 1 additional spectator ticket which will be placed in a ballot drawn as soon as possible. There will be no access to the Palatine Centre without an authorised ticket sold by the City of Leeds Swimming Club.

 

Tickets will cost £14 and include Transport with an organised bus from John Charles Centre 'to and from' the Palatine Leisure Centre in Blackpool. If you do  not wish to use the Bus, the cost of the ticket will still be £14.

 

Lucie or Tony Black (Layla & Maisie Black's Mum & Dad) will be taking payment for Junior League tickets. Cheques must be made payable to: 'City of Leeds Swimming Club'.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, please ensure you wear YELLOW on the day, these are our team colours and you are our supporters. Even if you do not have a club T-Shirt, please wear a yellow top. Ensure you voice boxes are in good working order. We expect you to be the loudest people there. The children can not see you when they swim…but if you're loud enough…they will hear you!

 

Please could you all ensure that you have sent your T-shirt sizes to Craig (craig.robinson@leeds.gov.uk). Note to new members of the Junior League team: 1 T-Shirt is provided for each team member free by the City of Leeds Supporters committee. The following team members still need to let Craig know your T-Shirt size.

 

Jamie Broome

Daniel Jones

 

Thanks

 

Kevin, Tom, Elysha & Josh

Junior League - Northern Final

Date:  Sunday 7th October 2012

Venue:  Palatine Leisure Centre

Time: 12:00pm (Parade)

Warm Up: 1:00pm

Please can swimmers confirm their availability to Craig by Thursday 20th September at craig.robinson@leeds.gov.uk

Swimmers who have already entered the City of Leeds Grand Prix Meet on the same day must make swimming for the team in the Junior League a priority and receive a refund for other races entered on this day.  There will be a coach from John Charles to take swimmers to and from the final.

Regional Age Squad 1
Viktoria
Amber
Jamie
Charlotte
Katherine
Matthew
Eleanor

Regional Age Squad 2
Ella
Joseph T
Tia
Nathan L
Joe S
Daniel

Thanks

Kevin, Tom, Elysha & Josh

National Arena League - Round 1

Saturday 13th October 2012

 

Venue:  Ponds Forge (Sheffield)

Arrive: 18:00

W/ Up: 18:30

Start: 19:00

 

Please confirm your availability to Richard by email at richard.denigan@leeds.gov.uk

 

Rebecca Fisher - Regional Age Group 1

 

Thanks

 

Kevin, Tom, Elysha & Josh

Reminder

Please remember swimmers are expected to arrive on poolside 10 - 15 minutes before the training session starts in order to do light blood flow exercises and prepare for the work out.  We do appreciate that sometimes swimmers are late due to factors beyond our control, but it seems to be the same swimmers arriving late.  The aim is to dive in the water on time so we can make use of all our pool time and maximise potential.  There are still some swimmers not turning up to training until 15 minutes into the session.  This then disrupts the session for everyone else and is also a danger to swimmers becoming injured due to not warming up properly.  We currently have 10 hours pool time per week and missing 5 minutes per session nearly adds up to a full session missed.
 
Kevin, Tom & Elysha
 
 

Underwater Fly Leg Kick - 5th Stroke

Check out the speed of the Fly leg kick on these videos. These videos show that Butterfly kick is the 5th stroke as it can be done faster than the world record.

Hill Taylor (Lane 7) - 50m Long Course Butterfly Kick on back in 23.10 (Liam Tancock's LC World Record 24.04)

Ryan Locte - 50m Short Course Butterfly Kick on back in 20.80 (Peter Marshall's SC World Record 22.61)

This is what you should be aiming to do for the first 5 metres of every push off. This is what gets pb's and medals. You should all try and aim to beat your rival in the next lane on each push off during training by racing the first 5m kick feet to flags.

Kevin, Tom, Elysha

Duncan Goodhew Vist

There has been a change to the Duncan Goodhew visit. Duncan will now visit the Club on Monday 24^th September 2012 at 6.15 pm. The visit is in recognition of the City of Leeds having the highest number of participants in the 2012 National Swimathon. Duncan will be delivering a coaching session to the swimmers in our Regional Squads. If you took part in the 2012 Swimathon and you would like to meet Duncan but you do not ordinarily swim with the Regional Squads you are welcome to join the squad for that evening. I understand that Duncan will be available for photographs.

 

Kevin, Tom & Elysha

Meet Entry Deadlines

Can we remind all swimmers that they must have their entry forms approved and signed off by their Squad Coaches. Everyone should endeavour to do this in good time and not to leave it until the last minute Please! The competition programme including deadlines can be found on the City of Leeds Swim Club website.

Coaches will not be able to sign forms on a Monday night due to work commitments with other squads.
 
Thanks
 
Kevin, Tom & Elysha

Regional Age Group Parents Meeting

There will be a squad presentation for the parents of Regional Squads on Monday 24^th September 2012. The presentation will outline the aims and objectives for the forthcoming season, promotion standards, the competition programme and entry procedures and our expectations for the swimmers going forward.

 

The presentations will be held in the main Stadium building, in the Parkside Suite 7.15-8.15 pm.

 

We would like to encourage all parents to come along.

 

Kevin, Tom & Elysha

 

 

 

Junior League

Well done to all swimmers who competed in the Junior League at Harrogate on Saturday.  After an exciting afternoon of racing we were crowned the winners of the first round.  The next round of the Junior League is the Northern Final which will be held in Blackpool on Sunday 7th of October.   This is our third year in the competition and after winning two years in a row it would be great to storm through the next round and get the hatrick by winning the National Final. 

Round 1 Results

1st: City of Leeds = 266 Points out of a possible 294

2nd: City of Sheffield = 224 Points

3rd: Doncaster Dartes = 179 Points

4th: Kingston Upon Hull = 143 Points

5th: Harrogate = 114 Points

6th: York = 79 Points

Swimmers who competed will need to make themselves available to swim again for the team in Blackpool on Sunday 7th October.  There will be a team bus to transport swimmers to and from the meet.  Swimmers who have already entered the City of Leeds Grand Prix held on the same weekend, will need to pull out of any races they have entered on the Sunday in the Denison suite and get a refund as the Northern Final will become your priority on this day.

Kevin, Tom & Elysha

Entry Reminder

Just a reminder that it will be the last chance to enter the following 2 events on Monday 10th September.

City of Leeds Grand Prix Meet (6th & 7th October)

Yorkshire SA Winter Championships (13th & 14th October) - Swimmers should enter all events qualified in.

Entry forms can be downloaded by clicking the links.

Kevin, Tom & Elysha

Blog Notifications

Due to the blog changing names, anyone who was subscribed to the old C Central blog will no longer receive email updates.  

If you would like to receive blog updates by email again for the new Regional Age Group Notice Board then please enter your email address in the white box, under the follow by email section on the blog and click submit.  You will then be asked to confirm your submission by clicking on a link in your inbox.

Great Start to Morning Training!

Hi All,

It was great to see so many of you attend the first morning session of the season looking keen and raring to go. 

As we get back in to the swing of things here is some information regarding Regional Age Group Mornings from next week onward.  This is to ensure each swimmer attends the workout best suited to their needs.

Monday am (Pit):  This session is for all Regional 1 & 2 swimmers who are aged 10 and under and need to attend a morning.

Monday am (LC):  This session is for all Regional 1 & 2 swimmers who are aged 11 and over.

Thursday am (LC):  This session is for all Regional 1 & 2 swimmers who are aged 11 and over.

In some cases swimmers who are aged 10 and under may be invited to attend one of the additional long course sessions by their coach.

If you have any questions about which morning you should be attending, please see your coach.

Kevin, Tom & Elysha

New Blog Name

Over the past 3 years the blog has become very popular and useful tool to have for all the swimmers and parents of C Central.  In the new structure Regional 1 & 2 will be running along side each other with the same competition programme, I will therefore be making the blog into a joint noticeboard for all parents and swimmers of both Regional Squads.

The name of the blog from now on will be:

www.swimregionalagegroup.blogspot.com

Enjoy 

Kevin

Well Done Cashmore

I hope you all enjoyed watching City of Leeds Claire Cashmore from National Senior Squad win her Paralympic Silver Medal on Saturday.  If you missed her race or would like to watch it again here is the link.

Woman's 100m Breastroke SB8 Final 2012 London Paralypic Games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbRzk9y39Y

Claire Cashmore Interview

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00y2x4f

Well done Claire.  We are all very proud!! 

Duncan Goodhew Visit

Just to let all you all know that Olympic Champion Duncan Goodhew will be visiting Leeds on Monday 10^th September. Apparently the City of Leeds Swimming Club had more swimmers taking part in the 2012 Swimathon than any other club in the UK so Duncan is coming down to thank us on behalf of the organisation.  

 

Duncan will be taking the training session for the swimmers from Regional Squad 1 & 2 (6.30-8.00pm) during the evening and will be available for photo opportunities and autographs.

 

If you were one of the those who took part in the Swimathon and you would like to meet Duncan, then you are welcome to come down to the pool at 6.30 with the Regional Squads.      

Kevin & Elysha

Junior League

We will be doing a 1.5 hour session covering, Starts, Turns and Takeovers.  

 

Therefore, please could ALL members of the Junior League Team report to poolside on Monday 3^rd September at 6:15pm (until 8:00pm).

 

Please disregard your appointed training time for this evening, as they will need their energy as we put them through their paces ensuring their skills are to the highest standard the National Junior League Champions require.

 

Also a kind reminder that the Team needs to be at Harrogate Hydro on Saturday 8^th September for 3:30pm. It is essential we have everyone together on time to minimise disruption to team changes. Once a team change has been made because of a late arrival or absence it is improbable that the team can be changed back.

 

Please ensure your child has Team Kit for the event, not only is this effective for our management of the team but we like to blind our enemies with a blaze of yellow(not blue please). Therefore if you have not purchased any team kit yet, please ensure you do so from the club shop on Monday 3^rd September.

 

As with all City of Leeds Team events, please respect that we are there as one, and children should, win or lose, remain at the end to cheer their team… as should you.

 

Suporting parents please remember your hats, wigs, horns, face paints etc. The louder you cheer the faster the swimmers will go.

Welcome Back!

Hi All,

Welcome back to training and to your new group Regional Age Group 1, hope you all had a nice restful break.  The hard work will start again very soon. 

At the moment we will be working hard on perfecting the skills and stroke techniques, like they were just before we broke up.  The quicker the skills are in place again the quicker we can get to the hard stuff. 

Our first morning session will be on Monday 3rd September.

There will be no land training on this week as Stephen is at the Paralympics and Shaun is away with diving. 

Kevin & Elysha

New Season

I hope you are all having a great summer and looking forward to coming back to training.  I now have a copy of our competition programme for the new season below.

As we will be changing over from C Central to Regional Age Group 1 on Monday 13th August, I will be changing the name of the blog address from this Friday.

Our new blog address will be: www.swimregionalagegroup1.blogspot.com

Our first session back will be on Monday 13th August and we will be starting on our new sessions which can also be viewed by clicking the link below.

Links

Competition Programme 

New Training Times and Venues 

I am on holiday in the USA for the first two weeks back, so I have arranged cover.  Please work hard for the coaches covering and I look forward to seeing you all on my return.

Monday 13th August Pm - Elysha/ Steve Waterhouse
Wednesday 15th August Pm- Elysha
Thursday 16th August Pm - Paul or Craig
Friday 17th August Pm - Elysha
Sunday 19th August Pm - Lyn 
Monday 20th August Pm - Elysha/ Steve Waterhouse
Wednesday 22st August Pm - Elysha
Thursday 24th August Pm - Paul or Craig
Friday 25th August Pm - Elysha
Sunday 26th August Pm - BANK HOLIDAY
Monday 27th August Pm - CHECK WITH ELYSHA IF JCC IS OPEN
Wednesday 29th August Pm - Elysha
Thursday 30th August Pm - Paul or Craig
Friday 31st August Pm - Elysha
 

Sunday 2nd September - I will be back 

Mornings will commence from Monday 3rd September

Enjoy the rest of your summer break!

Kevin & Elysha

Welsh Summer Nationals

Well done to everyone who attended the Wales meet.  The trip was a brilliant success with lots of fast swimming and a great experience for the swimmers who's first time it was away from home by themselves.  Our group achieved 101 PB's out of 139 Swims, 29 NER times, 6 Finalists and 1 Gold Medal over the week.  

Gold Medallist (1)

Euan (1st 100m Fly)

Finalists (6)

Euan, (100m Fly, 200 IM, 100m BR, 200m BK, 100m FC, 200m FC)

Emily (100m FC)

Liam (200m Fly, 100m Fly)

Shaheen (100m Fly, 200m BR)

Abbie H (200m FC)
Leah (200 BR)

Reserve Finalists (6)

Euan (100m BK)

Abbie H (200m IM)

Shaheen (100m BR)

Emily (200m FC)

John (200m BR)

Ciara (200m BR)

Also a big well done to Harry Devlin who made the 100m & 200m Breastroke final at the National Championships achieving two 6th places in a 2 best times.

For some of you this was your last competition in C Central, I hope to follow your progress as you move on through the scheme.  I hope you are all looking forward to joining your new squads and I hope you will work as hard for your new coaches as you have done for me.  I will defiantly miss you all.

Excellent Swimming!!! A great way to finish off the season. 

Wales Pics

Lizzie Coombes has kindly sent me all the pictures from Wales.  I have uploaded them for you all to see.

Enjoy

Paralympics Video......

Hi All,

If you have not already seen this advert on channel 4 it features Claire Cashmore who swims in the National Senior Squad. Claire will be competing at the Paralympics in a few weeks time, see if you can recognise her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuAPPeRg3Nw&sns=fb 

Swimming Videos

Here are some videos you might like to watch which swimmers have emailed me over the past week.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66molzUEkWI 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDFxP77pBwc&feature=plcp
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00v9gnx

Enjoy!
Kevin & Jean

Last Few Sessions....

For some of you Sunday was my last session with you until next season.  I wish you all a fantastic and well deserved summer break.  I have really enjoyed coaching you through C Centrals most successful season to date. 

 

Some of you maybe receiving letters during the holidays to notify you on your promotion.  Therefore after Wales I may longer be your coach.  I hope you will be happy in your new squads and I look forward to seeing you progress to the top.  I have thoroughly enjoyed coaching all of you and I want to thank you all for making coming to work so much fun, I will miss coaching you.  Keep up the hard work in the new season as dreams can become reality through hard work.

 

Swimmers who are not going to Wales you are still welcome to go to the following sessions:

Monday 16th July (AM & PM) - No Training

Wednesday 17th July (PM) - No Training

Thursday 19th July (AM) - No Training

Thursday 19th July (PM) - 19:30 - 21:00 (Armley with Sharon)

Friday 20th July (PM) - 18:30 - 19:30 (Armley with Lyn)

 

Swimmers who are travelling to Wales for the Welsh Nationals we will train together until Friday making last minute preparations for our Olympics.

Monday 16th July (PM) - 19:15 - 20:45 (LC) Lanes 0, 1, 2 & 3 

Tuesday 17th July (PM) - 19:15 - 20:45 (LC) Lanes 0, 1, 2 & 3 

Wednesday 18th July (PM) - 19:15 - 20:45 (LC) Lanes 0, 1, 2 & 3 

Thursday 19th July (PM) - 19:15 - 20:45 (LC) Lanes 0, 1, 2 & 3 

Friday 20th July - 10:00 Travel to Wales

 

The Wales Travel Itinerary:

Meet at JCCS Aquatics Centre: 09:30

Coach Departs: 10:00

Arrive in Swansea: 16:00 (approximately)

 

Depart Swansea 27th July: 10:00 (approximately)

Arrive at the JCCS Aquatics Centre: 16:30 (approximately)

 

Please remember to label all your kit before travelling to Wales.

 

Good Luck to everyone competing in Wales and to Harry Devlin who will be representing our squad in the National Age Group Championships in Sheffield. 

"It's the magic of risking everything, for the dream that nobody sees…but you!"

 

Elysha and Lyn will look after you all until my return on Sunday 2nd September. 

 

Happy Holidays!

 

Kevin

 

 

 

Junior League

National Junior League - White Rose Gala (8th September 2012)

 

The following swimmers still need confirm your availability to Craig (craig.robinson@leeds.gov.uk) as soon as possible.

 
Oliver
Euan
Kit
Shaheen
 
Thanks
 
Kevin

Wales Meeting

Just a reminder that there is a meeting for all parents of swimmers who are going to the Welsh Nationals on Monday 9^th July in the Stadium building at 7:00pm.  We will be using one of the upstairs conference rooms that over-look the track.

Kevin

Wales

Hi all,

 

Please find below the link to the Draft programme for Welsh Summer Nationals.  1 or 2 omissions have already been identified, therefore could you please review your own child's entries to ensure they have all been entered in the correct events. In the event they have not, please get back to Craig (craig.robinson@leeds.gov.uk) identifying the appropriate events.

 

http://www.welshasa.co.uk/index.asp

 

Also I can now confirm that the Presentation Evening will proceed as planned on Monday 9^th July (Not the 8^th as I previously noted) in the Stadium building at 7:00pm. We will be using one of the upstairs conference rooms that over-look the track.

 

We are also planning a presentation for children only closer to the time, details yet to be decided. With the children we will cover codes of conduct, approach to poolside, competition warm-ups etc and diet awareness.

 

T-shirts will hopefully be distributed following the meeting, we are going to make an effort to group all T-shirts according to the sizes you ordered and Initial them. In the event that they are not initialled, I will leave a marker pen available for you to do this immediately before the risk of forgetting.

 

That's all for now folks. 

 

Leeds A/ B Graded Meet

Well done to everyone who competed over the weekend.  The group achieved a whopping 80 PB's out of 115 Swims, 31 Gold's, 24 Silver's and 15 Bronze Medlas.  Great Job!
 
Gold Medallists (14)
Huzayfa (2), Amber (2), Emily (5), Angelo (2), Stephen (2), Ben (3), Danielle (4), Charoltte (1), Amelia (1), Rebecca (3), Sam W (1), Viktoria (1), Abbie H (3), Megan (1)

Silver Medallists (15)
Amber (5), Stephen (1), Kit (1), Danielle (1), Charlotte (3), Amelia (2), Rebecca (1), Sam W (2), Jamie (1), Huzayfa (1), Viktoria (1), Abbie H (1), Thomas (2), John (1), Zoe (2)
 
Bronze Medallists (10)
John (1), Abigail J (2), Amber (2), Emily (1), Kit (2), Katherine (2), Rebecca (1), Viktoria (1), Brannan (2), Thomas (1)

Keep up the hard work up to our Olympics (Welsh Nationals), not long to go.  Lets smash it!!!!!!
 
Kevin

National Junior League - White Rose Gala

National Junior League - White Rose Gala (8th September 2012)

 

Can the following swimmers please confirm your availability to Craig (craig.robinson@leeds.gov.uk) as soon as possible.

 

'A' Team

Euan                   Harry

Amber                 Liam

Jake                    Billy

Leah                    Emily

Jamie                  Stephen

Ben                     Charlotte

Viktoria               Katherine

 

'B' Team

Shaheen             John

Kit                      Oliver

Huzayfa             Rebecca

Abbie H              Zoe

Helena               Thomas

Sam W               Ciara

Sam K                Danielle

 

Thanks

 

Kevin

 

Olympic Torch

A big thank you to Alan Hutchinson for bringing his Olympic torch in yesterday for us to see.  I do have a team picture which I will be putting on the blog.  If any of you would like your pictures added to the blog then you can email me them and I will add them on soon.

 

Thanks

 

Kevin

Kevin

Lost Kit

Sarah Eastwood has collected quite a large amount of lost kit over the last few meets.  If you think you have lost anything, please catch her on a Monday night at John Charles.

 

Kevin