Junior League Final

Just a few last minute messages before Sunday.

 

Tattoos

Due to the very tight schedule in Corby on Sunday we ask that all swimmers who want to wear tattoos to please apply them before arriving at John Charles on Sunday morning.  Please see Kay Jackson if you do not already have some shark tattoos.

 

Racing Suits

There will be only 4 minutes to get changed into team kit and be ready in the changing village for the parade.  Due to this swimmers will need to change into their racing suits before the warm up.  Swimmers are advised to keep their hat and goggle on them at all times or zipped up in their bag.  The competition is going to be very fast and we do not want a team missing their race because of lost hats and goggles.

 

Car Parking at John Charles

The John Charles Aquatics Centre will be open until 9:00pm on Sunday due to an event that is taking place.  Parents are advised to park in the long stay car park.  The car park at the front of the Aquatics Centre is a maximum of 3 hours parking.  Leaving your car in the short stay car park may result in you receiving a parking ticket.

 

I hope you are all excited for the big day!

Snow Frills - Warm Up Changes

Hi All,

 

Just a quick email to make you all aware of the revised warm up times for this weekend's competition at Ponds Forge, Sheffield.

 

Saturday 25^th November AM

Arrive:  07:30

Warm Up:  08:00

Start:  09:00

 

Saturday 25^th November PM

Arrive:  12:30

Warm Up:  13:00

Start:  14:00

 

Sunday 26 November AM

Arrive:  07:30

Warm Up:  08:00

Start:  09:00

 

Sunday 26 November PM

Arrive:  12:00

Warm Up:  12:30

Start:  13:00

 

Please remember it is City of Leeds policy to arrive and check in with team managers 30 minutes before the start of the warm up.  Failure to do so could mean that your child is withdrawn from the competition.

 

Kind regards,

 

The Regional Team

Easy Fundraising

The City of Leeds Swimming Club are always looking for new ways to raise funds to support our swimmers.  The Club is registered with Easy Fundraising.

Easyfundraising.org.uk helps charities, schools, sports clubs, community groups, and other good causes to raise money when their supporters shop on line. So far they have raised over £3 million for causes throughout the UK.

It works in a similar way to many other loyalty shopping sites, but instead of earning points when you shop, you raise a donation for City of Leeds Swimming Club instead. It's as simple as that!

I am sure with Christmas fast approaching most of us will be doing our shopping on line, so please register with easy fundraising, it really is a very simple way to boost funds for the club.

For information how to register click on the following link which is a letter from the supporters committee explaining how.

Help Your Club - Easy Fundraising

If you have any questions please see a member of the supporters commitee.

Happy Shopping

The Supporters Committee

City of Leeds Swimming Club.

Junior League National Final (Sunday 26th November)

The gala will take place at:

Corby International Pool,

Parkland Gateway,

Corby,

Northampton,

NN17 1QB

 

All swimmers will need to arrive at John Charles no later than 8:15 am ready for the coach to depart at 8:30 am sharp. We will not be allowed in to the building until 12:15 so we strongly advise that children bring a warm/waterproof jacket with them as we could be eating on arrival outside.  Warm-up starts at 12:30 pm with the parade of teams at approximately 13:30 pm. We hope to be back at JCC for 7:30 pm.  All swimmers will be required to travel to and from the meet on the team coach. 

If your child has a team track suit they should travel to and from the event in it.  Each swimmer must wear their Junior League Final 2017 whilst the event is taking place and for all team photographs.  Junior League Final 2017 T Shirts will be handed out on Sunday.  Please also ensure your child has another Leeds t-shirt to wear on the way home.

 

Obviously this will be a long day, so the children will need enough food and drinks to last the day. They should not be given all of their food for the day straight away, as they tend to eat too much on the journey down to Corby. Swimmers will not be allowed to leave our teams marshalling area to collect drinks from parents etc during the meet. Therefore please ensure they are adequately supplied with nutritious snacks and enough hydration on arrival at the pool. 

Swimmers please remember everything you have practiced.  This will be a tough competition, every millisecond counts in an event like this so remember shallow dives, kick hard, get up and race hard and don't slow down into finishes.  BE CAREFUL ON THE TAKEOVERS!!!! It is better to go late than early.  We need to grab every point we can, getting disqualified can cause the team to loose 8 points, this we don't want. 

 

Parents please wear team colours!!!  Remember the louder you shout the faster the swimmers will go, nobody should have a voice left by the end of the competition.  We look forward to seeing you all dressed up in your hats, wigs, face paints etc.  Make as much noise as you can!  Drums, horns, flags, floating sharks, chants we want to see you go all out!  We do not just want the best swimmers on the day, we want the best supporters on the balcony too.  We are all part of the same team, please make sure you get behind every swimmer.

Kay Jackson (Megan Sharp's mum) will be selling shark tattoos for the Junior League Grand Final.  You can purchase 2 tattoos for £1 from her during the week or on the Junior League bus.

I am also delighted to let you know that we will have a special guest attending (Adam Peaty) to present the medals to the swimmers at the end of the event. Due to this, I hope you will appreciate that the day will be slightly extended for the presentations.  There will be NO individual photos with Adam at this time due to the time constraints.  If there is time after all the teams have had their Age Group photos and Adam is still available, by all means do ask him. Please do not be offended if you have had your photo and you are asked to move on to allow others to have their photos taken; as said we have very limited time to be able to complete this for all of the teams.

TIMELINE & PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY

• 12:15 – Balcony & changing room access – due to lack of locker space please keep your kit with your team poolside (in a tidy manner)

• 12.30 Safety announcement and warm-up to 13.00

• 13:00 – End of warm-up ONLY 4 mins to get ready for the parade and line up in the changing village – IT WILL BE BUSY – please listen to the stewards, they are trying to help the parade go smoothly

• 13:00 – OFFICIALS to line up along flume barrie

• 13.05 - Team parade from changing village (– teams to be to lead by a ref/starter)

• 13.25 - Officials parade from 'flume line-up', introduction of Referees and Starter

• 13.27 - National Anthem – please stand still for this and if you feel appropriate, cheer at the end

• 13.28 - Safety announcement revisited - first and second race competitors to go to start ready behind blocks

• 13.30 - Racing begins

Hope you all have a fun and exciting day. 

 

Good Luck Everyone! 

 

The Regional Team

  

Junior League Grand Final Extra Tickets

Hi All,

The following swimmers were successful in their request for extra spectator tickets for the final.  Please could you get the money to Kim ASAP.

 

Charlotte Clarke (2)

Arthur Firth (1)

Gabrielle – Idle Beevers (1)

Iona Logan (1)

Jolie McGreavy (1)

Daniel Ransom (1)

Harry Senior (1)

Charlotte Shaw (1)

Jacob Talbot (2)

Elliott Watkins (1)

 

Many Thanks

The Regional Team

'Snow Frills' Meet 2017

Hi All,

Details of this weekends competition can be found by clicking the links below;

Draft Programme

Meet Information Pack

Am Sessions

Arrive:  07:30

Warm Up:  08:00

Start:  09:00

Pm Sessions

Arrive:  12:30

Warm Up:  13:00

Start:  14:00

Good Luck to everyone competing, get chasing those long course Yorkshire times!

Swimmers in Regional Development are to report to Kevin on Saturday and Lyn on Sunday.

Swimmers in Regional Performance are to report to Harrison on Saturday and Lyn on Sunday.

Please be advised that due to Craig Robertson's wedding taking place this weekend Kevin and Harrison will be arriving late on Saturday am as they have to attend morning training with National Squad at John Charles first.  Phil will be looking after the swimmers for the warm up.  Swimmers should know their race warm up for the weekend as it will be practised on Friday night before the meet.

"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 the other swimmers think about me, not me about them." 
Amanda Beard

"If you want to win.....throw your excuses in the bin!"
 
SMASH IT!!!

The Regional Team

Training Changes

 Hi All,

 

Due to both squads competing next weekend training will be as follows;

 

Regional Development & Performance

Friday 24^th November – 19:00 – 20:00

Saturday 25^th November – No Training (Squad competing at Snow Frills)

Monday 27^th November – No AM Training (Recovery after Junior League & Snow Frills)

 

The Regional Team

Junior League Spectator Tickets - Last Chance

Hi All,

 

Just a reminder that today is the last chance to purchase your tickets for the Junior League Grand Final.  If you still need to purchase a ticket or are not wanting your ticket please could you email Kim (kjm@nationalsearchservice.co.uk) and let her know.  Any spare tickets will go into a draw which will be conducted tomorrow.

 

Many thanks

The Regional Team

Important Notice From Swim England

The introduction of online membership (OMS) in 2012 streamlined the administration of renewals data.  This means that the clubs are now submitting their ASA renewals earlier every year.  To make sure that clubs and members are properly insured for the activities they are taking part in, we have made the decision to bring the submission of the renewals deadline forward to the 28th February 2018.

It is important that we get returns to SE by their deadline, as failure to do so results in us being heavily fined and suspended from the SE.  This means for us, as a club, that we will now have to close books for checking in mid February, a month earlier than previous years, in order to hit their deadline.  You will only have six weeks instead of ten to pay your ASA renewal.  As before failure to pay by mid February will result in your swimmer being lapsed from the ASA register and therefore unable to compete.  To subsequently reinstate will incur a re-registration fee of £25.00 in addition to the normal fees so please be aware of these changes and make sure fees are paid on time.

Details of fees for 2018 will follow in the usual way by means of an attachment to an email which will be distributed mid December. 

John Clayton

Registration and Memberships Secretary

City of Leeds Swimming Club  

Training Changes

Hi All,

 

Due to a pool booking this weekend, training for Regional Performance on Saturday 18^th November will be at the earlier time of 6:30 – 8:00am.

 

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

 

The Regional Team

Development Meet Success

 Well done to those Regional swimmers who competed in the Development Gala on Saturday afternoon.  The squad achieved 38 PB's out  of 42 Swims, 13 Gold Medals, 11 Silver Medals, 6 Bronze Medals,  4 Yorkshire Qualifying Time and 13  top 4th - 10th place finishes.

 Gold Medallists (6)

Alexander Mc (3), Darcey Cr (3), George Br (2), Hazel Bl (2), Valeria Pi (2), Chloe Ma (1)

Silver Medallists (5)

Chloe Ma (4), George Br (3), Alexander Mc (2), Darcey Cr (1), Hazel Bl (1)

Bronze Medallists (4)

Hazel Bl (2), Valeria Pi (2), Darcey Cr (1), Lexi En (1)

4th - 10th Place Finishes (3)

Lexi En (4th, 4th & 5th), Lauren Th (4th, 5th, 5th, 5th & 7th), Anna Sh (4th, 6th, 6th 7th & 7th)

Results can be viewed by clicking the link below

Autumn Development Meet Results 2017

Regional Development Updated PB's can be viewed by clicking the link below

Regional Development Best Times

Well Done!

The Regional Team

Autumn Development Meet

Hi All,

There will be no Saturday AM training for those swimmers in Regional Development who are competing in the Autumn Development Meet this weekend.

Swimmers should report to Kim for this meet.

If there are any parents willing to help out on the day please email Vicky Spencer (vickispencer@hotmail.com) and let her know of your availability.  This meet cannot run without the help of parent volunteers.

Please note the arrival times below.

Arrive: 12:00

Warm Up: 12:15

Start: 13:00

Autumn Development Meet Info Pack

Autumn Development Meet Draft Programme

Good Luck to all competing

The Regional Team

200m Max Kick Test & 15m Underwater Fly Kick Test Results

Hi All,

Here are the results from this months kick test.  PB's are highlighted in green.  The next kick test will be held on Monday 4th December.  

All times from the start of the season can be viewed using the link below.

Regional Kick Tests

Well Done!!

The Regional Team

Reg Dev	200m Max Kick
Samantha Kn	3:30.25
Matthew Ju	3:40.68
Lilka Ba	3:41.95
Oliver Br	3:45.25
George Br	3:46.95
Oliver Wh	3:49.10
Jacob Ta	3:49.67
Macy No	3:52.85
Edward Ja	3:54.31
Rhea Sm	3:54.36
Milli Pr	3:56.87
Daniel Ra	3:57.75
Dominic Vi	4:09.85
Arthur Fi	4:13.53
Valeria Le	4:14.73
Curtis Me	4:15.23
Charlotte Ha	4:16.03
Oliver Go	4:23.79
Sam Re	4:30.38
Chloe Ma	4:31.69
Nathan Du	4:31.69
James Ad	4:35.95
Hazel Bl	4:38.98
Maddie Wr	4:39.47
Sedona Re	4:39.72
Isabel Sy	4:44.02
Alexander	4:44.22
Ellie Ak	4:45.08
Erin He	4:45.80
Oliver Ne	4:50.80
Lauren Li	4:54.47
Anna Sc	4:58.20
Amelia Ca	5:17.94
Sophia Hi	5:18.98
Lexi En	5:23.91
Mae Jo	5:52.97
Erin Th	Absent
Lauren Th	Absent
Sophie Sm	Absent
Amy Ro	Absent
Reg Dev	15m U/W
Oliver Br	9.23
Macy No	9.69
Samantha Kn	9.81
Nathan Du	10.03
Lilka Ba	10.24
Jacob Ta	10.4
Rhea Sm	10.4
Daniel Ra	10.52
Sedona Re	10.68
Hazel Bl	10.69
Matthew Ju	10.79
George Br	10.79
Lexi En	10.83
Arthur Fi	10.87
Charlotte Ha	10.88
Dominic Vi	10.96
Valeria Le	11.2
Milli Pr	11.37
Edward Ja	11.46
Erin He	11.5
Chloe Ma	11.55
Lauren Li	11.67
Maddie	11.71
Sophia Hi	11.73
Oliver Go	11.81
Oliver Wh	11.84
Alexander	12.19
Amelia Ca	12.33
James Ad	12.55
Curtis Me	12.65
Sam Re	13.3
Isabel Sy	13.42
Ellie Ak	13.56
Anna Sc	13.64
Oliver Ne	15.06
Mae Jo	17.1
Erin Th	Absent
Lauren Th	Absent
Sophie Sm	Absent
Amy Ro	Absent
Reg Per	200m Max Kick
Kourosh Kh	3:23.47
Thomas Mi	3:24.16
Gabrielle Id	3:32.89
Hannah Sm	3:35.88
Harry Se	3:35.88
Jad Id	3:43.32
Joseph Le	3:44.25
Kieran He	3:44.25
Solomon Ho	3:51.61
Charlotte Sh	3:51.90
Abigail Ha	3:53.22
Zak St	3:54.07
Emma Wo	3:55.75
Jamie Br	3:56.31
Grace Mi	3:56.75
Pheanie Ba	3:59.43
Olivia He	4:00.02
Evie Ha	4:04.49
Darcey Cr	4:05.50
Millie Wi	4:13.19
Ashton De	4:15.61
Neve Pa	4:25.40
Alex Du	4:27.23
Ava Ra	4:35.66
Jacob Gw	4:43.63
Eve La	Absent
Theodore Ro	Absent
Perry Le	Absent
Reg Per	15m U/W
Harry Se	9.15
Emma Wo	9.19
Thomas Mi	9.26
Solomon Ho	9.41
Evie Ha	9.46
Kourosh Kh	9.48
Ashton De	9.48
Grace Mi	9.69
Jacob Gw	9.79
Hannah Sm	9.9
Charlotte Sh	9.93
Zak St	9.95
Gabrielle  Id	10.15
Kieran He	10.17
Neve	10.55
Darcey Cr	10.6
Pheanie Ba	10.77
Abigail Ha	10.9
Olivia He	11.15
Jamie Br	11.46
Alex Du	12.18
Millie Wi	12.57
Eve La	Absent
Theodore Ro	Absent
Perry Le	Absent
Joseph Le	No Time
Jad Id	No Time
Ava Ra	No Time