The group performed fantastic last weekend at the Yorkshires achieving 56PB's out of 75 Swims, 22 more NER times, 14 final swims, 8 Gold Medals, 4 Silver Medals and 1 Bronze Medal.
I will put the swimmers who won medals on the blog after this weekends meet. Carry on chipping away at those times and lets have another great weekend of racing.
Squad Promotions
For some swimmers this will be your last meet with C Central as you have been selected for promotion to National Age Group.
Well Done to the following swimmers on their promotion,
Jacob
Ellie
Sophie
Layla
Enjoy your last few weeks in C Central, take the skills you have learnt with you and show those older swimmers how it is done!
These swimmers were selected to move by Richard and Craig as they have achieved over 95% attendance since the start of the year, have North Eastern times in 200FC & IM (and other strokes) and have shown to have a great attitude to move to the next level. I wish you the best of luck when you move to your new squad, you will be missed by us all.
Some of you are very close to being considered for promotion but are just outside the two North Eastern Times needed to move up. The 200FC & 200IM NER are required before you move up as this shows Craig that you are likely to be able to cope with the demand of the sets and turn around times in National Age Group.
Craig does have space for some more swimmers in the near future but he has said they have to show great commitment, he will not take anyone who's attendance is under 95% regardless of what times swimmers are achieving.
For the rest of you keep training hard, the results show that the training is defiantly paying off as you are all improving your times.
Yorkshires - Meet 2
Just a reminder of the arrival times at John Charles this weekend.
Training Changes
To make sure you are all tapered and ready for the Yorkshires, Thursday night we will finish once the set is finished and Friday night will just be an hour.
I know some of you miss Friday night before a meet, which is fine if you have attended your required amount of sessions during the week. The session before a gala is great for race preparation and should not be missed, as we iron out any last minute problems, practice turns, finishes, starts etc.
There will be No Training Sunday Pm due to nearly all the group competing again.
Training will be back to normal next week.
Quote Of The Week
"The water is your friend....you don't have to fight with the water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. (Alexander Popov, 50m & 100m Freestyle Olympic Champion, 1992, 1996)
Good Luck for the weekend!
Kevin, Nina & Elysha
