Age Group Development Squad 1 & 2

Thursday, 23 January 2020

Regional 400m Time Trial Results

400m FS Time Trial Results LC (Thu 23rd January Am)

Regional Performance

Caitlyn Sm = 6:06.13

Freya Co = 6:19.13

Isabel Ha = 6:27.23

Naomi We = 7:01.45

Mia TJ = 7:14.80

Ellie Ak = 7:30.48

Ella Jo = 7:57.48

Beth Wa = 8:12.05

Ellie An = 8:23.37

Regional Development

William Wi = 6:17.37

Lucas Pi = 6:18.17

Owen Ca = 6:28.25

Jacob O'Do = 6:19.78

Aira Wi = 6:29.55

Matilda Po = 6:30.42

Evie Wo = 6:48.05

Pawel Bo = 6:48.28

Shaunak Kh = 7:20.71

Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Leeds Sports Awards 2020

I am proud to announce that the City of Leeds Swimming Club have been shortlisted as a finalist in the Young Achievers category for the Young Club/Team – Participation award for their fantastic results at the British Summer Nationals 2019 and their hatrick win at Junior League National Final.

The winners will be announced at the prestigious Leeds Sports Awards on Thursday 27th February at the First Direct Arena.

We would be delighted for finalists to come along and join us on the night to celebrate your fantastic achievements. Family and friends get a reduced ticket rate which includes a four course meal (inc vat and a £5.00 donation to Leeds Cares). Concession rates are also available for under 16's guests. The Club have agreed to subsides the price of tickets for any swimmers who attended the British Championships or contributed to the A Team winning the Junior League final.

If you would like to attend the Leeds Sports Awards 2020 please make payment for your tickets in the Denison Suite on Monday 27^th January. Anyone who is not able to attend on Monday 27^th January can pass ticket money to Kevin Schofield in a named envelope before this date. Please state if you have any dietary requirements, along with all the guests names you are bringing in your party.

Family and Sports Club members = £50.00 (inc vat)

Concession rate (under 16's only) = £35.00 (inc vat)

Swimmers who represented the Club at British Summer Nationals/ Junior League A Team = £20.00 (Discounted form City of Leeds Swimming Club)

Please note this is not an official City of Leeds night and coaches will not be responsible for swimmers. All swimmers attending must have an appropriate adult with them or arrange with another swimmers parent to be responsible for them whilst at the vent.

The STS Coaching Team

Friday, 17 January 2020

Harrogate Spa Town Entries 2020

Hi All,

Entries for the Harrogate Spa Town Graded Meet will be taken on Monday 27th January. Swimmers are advised to enter events they will have not raced in at the Yorkshires.

Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th March 2020 (Ages at 29th March 2020, 9 Years +)

We advise you to update your 200m short course times as you will have chance to do the 100's at the BOK Meet in April. The BOK meet only has the 200m Freestyle out of the 200m races available.

The Harrogate meet will be a great opportunity for swimmers to try events swimmers have never swum before such as the 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 400 FS and 400 IM.

We would also suggest entering the 50m FS and your best 50m form stroke between these two meets to keep your times up to date for Junior League selection.

Please note the Harrogate Spa Town Meet is limited to 400 entries per club. So that we can give everyone an opportunity to race we ask that swimmers do not enter more than 6 events across both days. If 400 spaces are not filled by the entries taken on Monday evening we will reopen entries on Tuesday 28th January by email to fill any remaining spaces on a first come first serve basis.

Swimmers must not have swum faster than the Upper Limit Time in the previous 12 months but must have swum faster than the Lower Limit Time in the same period. Upper and Lower Qualifying times can be seen by using the links below. Swimmers who are wanting to try new events can use the standard times formula to work out an estimated entry time based on your PB's. However if you do use this please make sure your estimate is within the upper and lower qualifying times Harrogate have published.

Standard Times Formula

We will start signing forms now. Please remember we will be unavailable to sign forms and discuss entries on Monday evenings as we will be coaching from 4.30pm onwards.

Harrogate Spa Town A/B Graded Meet 2019 - Schedule, Upper & Lower Times etc

Harrogate Spa Town Entry Form

The Regional Team

Winter Development Meet

Hi All,

There will be no Saturday AM training for those swimmers in Regional Development who are competing in the Winter Development Meet next weekend (Saturday 25th January).

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

Winter Development Meet Info Pack

Winter Development Meet Draft Programme

Good Luck to all competing

The Regional Team

Thursday, 16 January 2020

March Madness Meet 2020 - Draft Programme

Hi All,

Please use the link below to view the draft programme for the March Madness Meet 2020.

March Madness Meet 2020 - Draft Programme

Please advise of any errors in the draft program to marchmadnes1@gmail.com by March 1st 2020. Improved times from original entries will not be accepted.

Sheffield are always looking for help at these Galas and in particular they are very happy to accommodate those who would like to officiate at this superb venue. If you are visiting with your swimmers and are a qualified official and would like to help (they do pay expenses!) then please contact Mick Budd via email at buddies1@btinternet.com.

The Regional Team

Monday, 13 January 2020

Great Start to 2020 at the City of Leeds January Meet

A great weekend of racing in our home pool at the start of this month. It was good to see the first racing of 2020. We are looking forward to watching some quality swimming at the Yorkshire's in February. Over all...........

Regional Development achieved 129 Pb's out of 225 Swims, 18 more Yorkshire Qualifying Times, 26 Gold Medals, 25 Silver Medals, 25 Bronze Medals and 104 4th - 10th place finishes. Brilliant!

🌟Gold Medalists (12)🌟

Jacob O'Do (5), Owen Ca (4), Dexter Ro (4), Zac Jo (3), William Wi (3), Scarlett Cl (1), Holly Ha (1), Zach He (1), Abdullah Mo (1), Finnlay St (1), Yuvraj Ub (1), Alfie Yo (1)

Silver Medalists (11)

Dexter Ro (5), William Wi (5), Jacob O'Do (3), Finnlay St (3), Holly Ha (2), Mia T-Jo (2), Owen Ca (1), Jackson Cl (1), Scarlett Cl (1), Abdullah Mo (1), Caitlyn Sm (1)

Bronze Medalists (14)

Patrick O'Ha (3), William Wi (3), Alfie Yo (3), Owen Ca (2), Zach He (2), Lucas Pi (2), Finnlay St (2), Yuvraj Ub (2), Scarlett Cl (1), Freya Co (1), Isabel Ha (1), Lily Pe (1), Zach Pi (1), Mia T-Jo (1)

4th - 10th Place Finishers (28)

Owen Ca (4th), Patrick O'Ha (4th), Finnlay St (4th, 4th & 5th), Zach He (4th, 5th, 5th & 6th), Alfie Yo (4th & 6th), Zach Pi (4th, 4th, 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th), Yuvraj Ub (4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 6th & 7th), Isabel Ha (4th, 5th, 5th, 6th, 6th & 7th), Abdullah Mo (4th, 5th, 7th & 8th), Caitlyn Sm (4th, 7th & 8th), Mia T-Jo (4th, 4th, 4th & 10th), Freya Co (4th, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th & 10th), Scarlett Cl (4th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 10th), Jackson Cl (4th, 5th, 6th, 6th, 7th, 8th & 10th), Caitylyn Sm (4th, 8th, 9th & 10th), Evie Wo (5th & 7th), Tylan FL (5th, 9th & 9th), Bertie Pi (5th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 8th & 9th), Aira Wi (5th, 5th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th & 10th), Oscar Sc (6th), Holly Ha (6th, 6th, 7th, 8th & 8th), Harriett Da (6th, 7th & 9th), Lily Pe (6th, 7th, 8th & 9th), Lucas Pi (6th, 8th & 10th), Matilda Po (7th), Zac Jo (8th), Darcey Bl (10th)

Regional Performance achieved 107 Pb's out of 171 Swims, 22 Gold Medals, 19 Silver Medals, 22 Bronze Medals and 79 4th - 10th place finishes. Well Done!

🌟Gold Medalists (9)🌟

Max Fo (7), Jessica Wo (5), William Hi (3), Lillie Ha (2), Charlie Hi (1), Asher Ma (1), Hari Mo (1), Callum Ra (1), Naomi We (1)

Silver Medalists (11)

Lillie Ha (4), Matthew Ja (3), William Hi (2), Jessica Wo (2), Asher Ma (2), James Ad (1), Max Fo (1), Oliver Go (1), Hari Mo (1), Callum Ra (1), Naomi We (1)

Bronze Medalists (14)

William Hi (3), Asher Ma (3), Luke Dy (2), Isabel Ra (2), Anna Sc (2), Naomi We (2), James Ad (1), Zach Cr (1), Oliver Go (1), Joseph Ha (1), Lillie Ha (1), Callum Ra (1), Daniel Ra (1), Jessica Wo (1)

4th - 10th Place Finishers (21)

Jessica Wo (4th), Oliver Go (4th, 4th & 4th), Joseph Ha (4th, 4th, 4th, 5th & 6th), Matthew Ja (4th, 5th, 7th & 8th), Joshua Ba (4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 8th & 9th), Hari Mo (4th, 4th, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 8th & 9th), Isabel Ra (4th, 4th, 5th, 7th & 9th), Isaac Fo (4th, 5th, 6th, 8th & 9th), Callum Ra (4th, 5th, 6th & 10th), George Ca (4th, 7th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 9th, 10th & 10th), Lillie Ha (5th), Matthew Ju (5th), Naomi We (5th & 5th), Zach Cr (5th, 7th, 8th & 9th), James Ad (6th, 6th & 10th), Luke Dy (6th, 7th, 7th, 8th & 9th), Oliver St (6th, 7th, 8th, 8th & 10th), Eloise An (6th, 8th, 8th & 10th), Eva He (7th & 10th), Anna Sc (7th & 10th), Mia St (9th)

City of Leeds New Year results can be viewed by clicking the link below:

City of Leeds New Year Meet Results 2020

Regional Development Pb's can be viewed by clicking the link below:

Regional Development Squad Life Time Bests

A big well done to those swimmers in green who were selected for promotion to Regional Performance.

We have now started the block of training which will take us into the Yorkshire's. Keep training hard, try to attend every session to prepare your body ready to SMASH the Yorkshire's!

The Regional Team 😉

Sunday, 12 January 2020

Yorkshire Championships 2020 Rejected Entries

We have had a dramatic increase in the number of swimmers who have qualified for the 800m & 1500m Freestyle at the Yorkshire County Championships to be held in February 2020. In order to keep sessions to a reasonable length it is necessary to reject a number of swimmers who have qualified for these Events.

We have still scheduled 10 heats of each event.

Rejections are based on the standard of the entrants across the various age groupings.

We realise that this decision will not be popular with some swimmers but there is little else that we can do in the circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience that this decision may cause.

A list of Rejected Swims can be viewed using the link below.

Yorkshire Championships 2020 - Rejected Entries

All entries for the other events at the Championships have been accepted.

Arrangements will be made to refund the entry fees for the rejected swims.

Yours

Barry

Barry J Saunders

Swimming Secretary

Yorkshire Swimming Association

12^th January 2020

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."