Age Group Development Squad 1 & 2

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Easter Training Reminder!

Competition Squad Central

Friday 22^nd April 2011 Facility Closed

Sunday 24^th April 2011 Facility Closed

Monday 25^th April 2011 Facility Closed

Wednesday 27^th April 2011 Normal

Thursday 28^th April 2011 Normal

Friday 29^th April 2011 Facility Closed

Sunday 1^st May 2011 Facility Closed

Monday 2^nd May 2011 0700-0830 25m x 12m (Diving Pit end)

* Monday 30^th May 2011 Facility Closed

Have a good few days recovery and don't go too crazy on the Easter Eggs

Kevin & Ryan

Sunday, 17 April 2011

The Leg and Armpit Wax is done!

Area manager above walked in mid waxing and offered the second £20 for the second armpit....

Hello Everyone!

Above are two of the videos from the leg waxing yesterday, and I then got offered 20 pound for each armpit, which was an extra 40 quid for the fantastic cause, so that is an entertaining watch for you all. Photos follow.

Above: Store manager enjoying it too much...

I will add more photos to this post as I get them emailed in. Some parents from both squads got some rather funny snaps.

Thank you all for your generous contributions, I really did go through enough pain for every penny for the NSPCC, I can't stop scratching....

If you have not yet handed in your money, I would appreciate it if I can have it in by this coming Friday, So I can get it sent off.

Between myself and the extremely brave Pam who had her head shaved, we reckon that we will of raised £500 for the charity, a massive achievement and I am very grateful for the support.

Thanks for your support,

Ryan Mortimer.

Friday, 15 April 2011

Leg Waxing, Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, 16th April, at 1pm, my leg waxing will take place.... At Matalan Leeds Wortley, Just off the ring road. A lady is also getting her head shaved. Feel free to come down and have a laugh at my expense, its for a good cause.

Cheers!

Ryan.

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Timetrials

If there are any swimmers needing timetrial times to enter York B Grade can you please email me with which times you need. I will be setting a side a few lanes on Sunday 17th April to do these.

Thanks

Kevin

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Easter Training, Draft Timetable

Competition Squad Central

Friday 22^nd April 2011 Facility Closed

Sunday 24^th April 2011 Facility Closed

Monday 25^th April 2011 Facility Closed

Wednesday 27^th April 2011 Normal

Thursday 28^th April 2011 Normal

Friday 29^th April 2011 Facility Closed

Sunday 1^st May 2011 Facility Closed

Monday 2^nd May 2011 0700-0830 25m x 12m (Diving Pit end)

* Monday 30^th May 2011 Facility Closed

This is the draft training times over easter. I will post on here if anything changes.

Regards,

Ryan.

Friday, 1 April 2011

Easter Training Arrangements

As far as I know the Leisure Centres will be closed on the following dates so there will be no training.

Friday 22nd April

Sunday 24th April

Monday 25th April

Friday 29th April

Sunday 1st May

Monday 2nd May

Have a nice rest

Kevin

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Away Meet

The City of Leeds Swimming Club usually sends a team of youngsters to the Penarth meet in Cardiff during the summer, however, this has been cancelled due to the club folding. The Club have found another meet where we can take the swimmers away to compete. The meet is Fareham Nomads Open Meet in Southampton on the16th and 17th July.

We were thinking of travelling down to Southampton on Friday evening and then returning to Leeds Sunday afternoon as the children will still have school on the Monday so they will swim three of the four sessions.

This competition is targeting all 12 / under swimmers in the Development and the Competition Squads.

Richard has 30 Rooms at the Jurys's Inn Hotel on hold in Southampton. For Dinner, Bed and Breakfast it is £33 per person per night. Two nights staying £66 per person. The hotel is a walk across a park to the pool which is good news!

More information on the event can be found at http://fnsc.wikidot.com/nomadsopenmeetentry

If there is not enough interest from swimmers the trip will not be able to go ahead, so if you do want to go mention it to me or Ryan over the next few sessions and we can give the feedback to Richard and try to get the trip up and running.

Kevin

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Holiday Cover

I will be taking a short break from the 2nd to the 9th April to go on a surprise family holiday to Gran Canaria. This means my last session with anyone moving up a group will be this Friday. I would just like to take the chance to say good luck in your new groups and train hard for your new coaches like you have done for me and Ryan. I hope you have all enjoyed your time in C Central, it has been a pleasure coaching you all and helping you along your way to the top. I will be sad to see you leave but hopefully you will go on to be more successful and achieve your goals.

Whilst I am away there will be 6 new swimmers moving in on Monday 4th April. Please all work together to set a good example, make the new swimmers feel welcome and introduce them to the C Central team spirit. Moving groups can be scary as I am sure some of you will be able to remember.

When I return I will be starting in my new post as Assistant High Performance Coach. My new job is full time hours working as our Head Coach's assistant on Senior National Squad. I will still be the Lead Coach of C Central, however on the rare occasion my job may require me to be away on courses or at meets with the older swimmers. In my absence Ryan will make sure the group will run as normal.

I have arranged cover below:

Sun 3^rd April - Ryan/Lyn

Mon 4^th April – Ryan (Am)

- Ryan/ Helen (Pm)

Wed 6th April - Ryan/ Sharron

Thu 7th April – Ryan (Am)

- Sue/ Ryan/ Alex (Pm)

Fri 8th April – Ryan/ Lyn

Kevin

Monday, 28 March 2011

Sports Aid

Entries are tonight, and tonight only.

Cheers!

Ryan.

Friday, 25 March 2011

NSPCC

Hello Everyone!

I am doing a sponsored leg wax for NSPCC, something thats quite important to me. I will be doing this at Matalan Wortley (Lower Wortley Ring Road). I plan to do this at some point within the next two weeks.
I will be getting both legs fully waxed.... Something I am sure you can all laugh at, at swimming when I turn up in shorts in the increasingly warmer weather.

So please if you are willing to sponsor me I would greatly appreciate it, and I will have a sponsor form at training with me over the coming week.

Thanks for your support,

Ryan Mortimer.

Monday, 21 March 2011

Training Cancellation

On Thursday 31st March our PM session (7.00 - 8.30pm) will be cancelled due to the Aquatics facilities closing at 6.30pm. Morning training will be on as normal. Please try to make up the missed session by attending an additional work out during the week. Hope you all have a nice night off.

Super Sprinters!

Some really good sprinting by our group this weekend and some amazing times. You should all be very pleased with yourselves.

Overall as a group you achieved 98 PB's out of 127 Swims, 59 Final Swims, 10 Gold Medals, 7 Silver Medals and 6 Bronze Medals.

Yorkshire Finalists (23)

Leah, Ellie, Sophie, Rachel P, Anna, Phebe, Hannah, Zoe, Amelia, Abigail B, Oliver, Thomas, Jake, John, Shaheen, Euan, Liam, Jacob, Billy, Layla, Rachel M, Amber, William

Gold Medallists (7)

Ellie (1), Sophie (2), Phebe (1), Jake (2), Euan (1), Liam (1), Blly (2)

Silver Medallists (5)

Leah (1), Hannah (1), Euan (2), Liam (2), Jake (1)

Bronze Medallists (5)

Sophie (1), Phebe (1), Abigail B (1), Thomas (2), Billy (1)

"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it".
Michael Phelps

Kevin

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Training Cancellation

Due to the amount of swimmers that are swimming from our group over the two days at Sheffield training will be cancelled on Sunday 20th March.

The programme of events for the weekend can be found by clicking the following link

http://www.yorkshireswimming.org/2011_championships.htm.

Kevin

Monday, 14 March 2011

Photography

Hello everyone,

if you want to order any photos off of Lizzie Coombes she will bring her laptop down tonight for you to view and purchase, and she will bring them down on Wednesday printed.
Prices are £6 For one A4 Size or two for £10.

Regards,

Ryan.

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Meet Entry Guide

Meet Entry guide is now online for you all. This file is really helpful.

You can find it under the swim meet section to the right.

Ryan.

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Yorkshire Teams Sunday 20th March

The following swimmers below are confirmed to swim in the Yorkshire Teams on 20th March at Ponds Forge. Every swimmer is guaranteed a swim (possibly as many as 4 if they make finals).

Teams will be selected and announced on the day in accordance with the City of Leeds Swimming Club selection policy (available on the website).

Sun Am (7.30 am poolside)

Euan

Jacob

John

Liam

Brannan

Thomas

Billy

Huzayfa

Phebe

Amelia

Abigail B

Emily R

Hannah

Megan

Abigail J

Oliver

Shaheen

Matthew B

Sun Pm (12.30pm poolside)

William F

Kit

Rachel P

Ellie

Sophie

Amber

Maisie

Layla

Rachel M

Aimee

Anna

Emily B

Leah

Rebecca

Monday, 7 March 2011

Harrogate & National Qualifying Meet

The Harrogate A/ B grade is down as one our Squads meets on the Competition programme but unfortunately all entries by the City of Leeds for this meet have been rejected. There is another meet on the same weekend as Harrogate (City of Leeds National Qualifying Meet) which is mainly aimed at Alex's group and above. If your PB's are near the consideration times and you are aged 11 and above on the day of the meet I would like you to enter this meet. Entries will be taken tonight. For more information click the link below.

http://www.swimleeds.org.uk/meets/meet-info.php?meet_id=146&ref=upcoming

Arena League

Sunday 17th April - Ponds Forge (Sheffield)

Meet at JCC - 11.30am

Coach Departs - 11.45am

W/Up - 13.30

Start - 14.30

Return - 18.30 (estimate)

Could the following swimmers please confirm your availability to Alex by email alex.gray@leeds.gov.uk or by text to 07515 254 245 if you haven't already done so.

Liam

Jacob

Ohebe

Amelia

Euan

Support Needed!!

If you are free on the day of the Arena League and would like to go watch and cheer your team mates on, tickets are now available to buy. Tickets can be purchased from Kay Cheesbrough (email - kcheesbrough@featherstone.wakefield.sch.uk) for £7.00 (£3.50 for senior citizens and under 16 years). If you would like to travel on the supporters coach there will be a charge of £5.00 per head. The swimmers coach will be free of charge. The supporters bus will leave at 11.45am.

Hopefully it will be a great day and as exciting as the Junior League Final was. If you are going to support please don't hesitate to dress up in Leeds colours with face paints, wigs, pom poms, drums, horns ect.

Kevin

ASA Cards

The following swimmers ASA cards are available to pick up from John Clayton in the Denison Suite tonight.

Megan

Oliver

Hannah

Sunday, 6 March 2011

If you think you're beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't,
It's almost for sure, you won't.

If you think you're losing, you've lost.
For out in the world we find -
Success begins with a person's will,
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you're outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise.
You have to stay with it,
In order to win the prize.

Life's battles don't always go,
To the one with the better plan.
For more often than not, you will win,
If only you think you can

Quote Bank!

"Kevin!, On the whole I think C Central have swum absolutely fantastic this year". Jacob Butterfield - C Central.

"Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit"

"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it". Michael Phelps.

"Train insane, or remain the same".

"Dream. Believe. Achieve".

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get". Michael Phelps.

"I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself ..... I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities". Grant Hackett.

"In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races it's 90% mental because there's very little that seperates us physically at the elite level". Elka Graham.

"The hardest thing about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom".

"We need to create a way of working, and that's why I felt the need to set some rules. For example, we will all eat together, leave the table together - it is all about respecting each other. And being punctual is key". Fabio Capello.

"Unleash the Inner Beast!".

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing". Muhammad Ali.

"Many people say you are as only good as your last race, but we know we are only as good as our next race!".

"It was not the 10 work outs I did every week for four years that allowed me to overcome my competitors, it was the ones that they missed". Graeme Smith (1996).

"It's how you prepare months before in the training pool that will determine your performance at the main event. Your ruthless attendance, quality and consistency of your training will serge you forward to a result you will be happy with!"

"Winning the Gold Medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career, mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience". Frank Shorter (American Athlete, Olympic Gold Medalist) (Munich 1972).

"Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what if's' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win". Shannon Miller (American Gymnast, two time Olympic Gold Medalist) (Atlanta 1996).

"As the years go by I train physically harder and I am always trying to go faster, further and higher. I train seven days a week and at the end of the day, I'm pretty tired but I never wish I was anyone else. If I miss a days training I feel guilty and I know I should have done it. I'm conscientious and unless I have a very good reason to, I never miss a session. It seems unfair to train for years and miss days just for the hell of it, and if I ever start to skip days, I would realise my attitude was not right and it was time for me to finish". Olympic Champion.

"Have a clear goal in your head of where you want to be and never give up!".

"Remember what doesn't challenge you, doesn't change you!"

"Not a day goes past where I don't go to bed with aching limbs ..... I have lost friends over it ..... I have lost girlfriends because of it ..... My family hates it ..... The only person that understands it wants to beat me ..... But I love it more than anything in the world!"

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning". Robert Kiyosaki.

'Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday'. William Rudolph (American Athlete, three-time Olympic Gold medalist) (Rome 1960).

"It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts in the middle of a race; we can's stop and catch our breath; and we can't ask for a substitution".

"We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can".

"In 2004 , I won a bronze. This is a silver. Maybe in 2012, it will be a gold. Slowly, slowly". Eliud Kipchoge (Kenyan Athelete, Olympic silver medalist) (Beijing 2008).

"I came out here to beat everybody in sight and that is exactly what I'm going to do. Sure, I can do anything". Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson (American Athlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist) (Los Angeles 1932).

"Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualisation. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was going to be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally". Michael Phelps. (6 Gold Medals, 2004 Olympic Games).

"Success comes with determination to get up the morning after the hardest practice of your life and do it all over again!"

"There is nothing like the smell of chlorine in the morning, and nothing like the smell of victory in the evening"

"Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment and quit worrying bout winning and losing". Matt Biondi. (American Swimmer, eight-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992).

"You only get one shot, go out there and do your best". Chad le Clos (200m Butterfly Champion).

"No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them". Danny Harris. (American Athlete, Olympic Silver Medallist. Los Angeles 1984).

"When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from". Ian Thorpe.

"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let other swimmers think about me, not me about them". Amanda Beard.

"An athlete cannot race with money in his pockets. He must race with hope in his heart and dreams in his head". Emil Zatopek. (Four Time Olympic Gold Medallist).

"If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from". Ian Thorpe. (Australian swimmer, five-time Olympic gold medallist. Sydney 2000, Athens 2004).

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up!".

"Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow".

"Champions train, losers complain".

"Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up." Dwayne Johnson.

"Life is full of disappointments, failures and setbacks. None of those things can permanently stop you. You have the power to overcome anything that life throws at you. There is nothing as powerful as a made up mind. Surround yourself with people who remind you that you matter, and support you in the ways that matter most to you. No person, situation, or circumstance can define who you are. Don't give up. cave in, or stop believing that it's possible. It's not over until you win."