Regional Age Group - Notice Board: April 2019

Tuesday, 30 April 2019

B.O.K Meet Photos

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for coming to our gala and making it such a great meet- the children all did amazing. On the way out of the leisure centre I took a minute to look at all the amazing photos- if any parents didn't get to have a look I have got the following details from the photographer.

DE Photography
Website information: www.dephoto.biz/bok
Event code: knight (lowercase)

You may need to register with DE Photos first at the www.dephoto.biz/bok front page and DE Photography will notify you when they are online.

Please circulate to all swimmers as they may want to purchase something now that they are back home

Thanks again, see you next time
Helen Berry

B.O.K Spring Open Meet

A big congratulations to you all on the fantastic racing at B.O.K on Sunday . The coaching team were very impressed and are excited to watch you race in the last few meets of the season which are quickly approaching. We are very proud of you all. Please try to attend as many sessions as possible in the last few months of the season to give yourself the best possible chance of success in the summer.

Just a reminder that swimmers who are aged 9 years and above must attend a minimum of one 5am morning per week.

Regional Development achieved a whopping 82 PB's out of 113 Swims, 2 Gold Medals, 9 Silver Medals, 10 Bronze Medals, 10 more Yorkshire Qualifying Times.

🌟 Gold Medalists 🌟 (1)

Jacob O'Do (2)

Silver Medalists (4)

Jacob O'Do (5), Millie Wa (2), Dexter Ro (1), Pawel Bo (1)

Bronze Medalists (6)

Owen Ca (3), Amos Pe (2), Millie Wa (2), Freya Co (1), George Wo (1), Oliver Pu (1)

Regional Development best times an be viewed by clicking the link below;

Regional Development Life Time Bests

Regional Performance achieved an amazing 138 PB's out of 187 Swims, 22 Gold Medals, 24 Silver Medals, 20 Bronze Medals, 18 more Yorkshire Qualifying Times and 2 more NER's.

🌟 Gold Medalists 🌟 (11)

Sophie Ra (6), Jamie Br (3), Libby Di (3), Max Fo (2), Samantha Kn (2), Alex Ne (1), Hazel Bl (1), Charlotte Mo (1), Luke Dy (1), Oliver Go (1), Oliver St (1)

Silver Medalists (13)

Hazel Bl (3), Oliver St (3), Alex Ne (2), Asher Ma (2), Dominic Vi (2), Jamie Br (2), Libby Di (2), Samantha Kn (2), Sophie Ra (2), Joshua Ba (1), Megan Tr (1), Sophia Hi (1), Matilda As (1)

Bronze Medalists (14)

Ashton De (3), Hollie Wi (3), Alex Ne (2), Megan Tr (2), Asher Ma (1), Chloe Ma (1), Dominioc Vi (1), Hazel Bl (1), Jamie Br (1), Libby Di (1), Max Fo (1), Matthew Ja (1), Oliver St (1), Samantha Kn (1)

Results from Sunday can be viewed by clicking the link below;

B.O.K Spring Open Meet 2019

WELL DONE EVERYONE!!!

'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 throw 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'

The Regional Team

Saturday, 27 April 2019

Welsh Summer Nationals 2019

Hi All,

Thank you to those swimmers who have registered their interest in the Welsh Summer Nationals 2019. The qualifying times look generous which means we should be taking quite a large team of swimmers.

There is an open online entry system which is now declared as a 'Level 1 Meet' meaning events will be filled on the fastest qualifiers for each event and NOT a first come, first served basis which has been the case in previous years. Therefore there is no guarantee if you make the qualifying time you will be successful with you entry. If the meet becomes oversubscribed lanes will be filled with the fastest swimmers in each age group first. With this in mind swimmers are advised to enter ALL EVENTS they qualify in.

Note: Only times swam as of 29th July 2018 will be accepted.

For now the links below maybe useful to have;

Meet Schedule

Qualifying Times

Please remember the following dates;

Friday 8^th June at 9am (TBC) – Online Entries (We will send more information out nearer the time)
Monday 3^rd June - Last day for deposits (£110) to Kim Mathias/ Jo Yeomans
Monday 3^rd June – Last day for code of conduct forms (Swimmer & Team Manager copy) to Kim Mathias / Jo Yeomans
Monday 3^rd June – Last day for medical forms to Kim Mathias / Jo Yeomans
Monday 3^rd June – Last day for lunch forms to Kim Mathias / Jo Yeomans
Monday 8^th July - Last day for final payments

The Regional Team

Tuesday, 23 April 2019

Sheffield Summer Meet Entries

Hi All,

The club will be taking entries on Monday 29th April for the City of Sheffield Summer Meet. This meet will be held at Ponds Forge on 20th and 21st July. For those swimmers not attending the Welsh Summer Nationals this will be your last meet of the season.

As this is the last meet of the season swimmers are advised to enter their best events. Your best events are the ones you have achieved Yorkshire and NER qualifying times in or are close to doing so.

Age at 21st July 2019 (9 yrs+)

Events Available: 50's, 100's, 200's All Strokes & 400m FS

Entry forms and information can be viewed by clicking the link below;

Sheffield Summer Meet 2019 - Information Pack

Sheffield Summer Meet 2019 - Entry Form

The Regional Team

IMPORTANT CHANGES: BOK Tickets

Hi All,

Please see below a message from BOK Swimming Club about this weekends competition.

Due to postal issues caused by the bank holiday - we will not be sending spectator tickets in the post to you as I am aware that you will not have time to get them to all your swimmers.

We will have a list of all swimmers on the door - please remind all of your club it is only 1 ticket per swimmer - extras will be turned away - including children).

We are very aware that some families may be upset at the restriction of 1 spectator per swimmer, however it is out of our hands – it is due to fire restrictions on the viewing balcony which has a maximum of 300 and we have 300 swimmers attending.

The Regional Team

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Training Changes Reminder

Hi All,

Please take note of the training changes below due to the Richmondales Booking and the BOK Spring Open Meet.

Regional Development

Saturday 27th April - Normal

Monday 29th April - No AM Training (Recovery after BOK Spring Open Meet)

Regional Performance

Saturday 27^th April – 06:30 – 07:50 - Dive Pit (Richmondales Meet)

Monday 29^th April – No AM Training (Recovery after BOK Spring Open Meet)

The Regional Team

IMPORTANT INFORMATION - BOK SPRING OPEN MEET 2019

Hi All

BOK Swim Club is really looking forward to seeing you all at their Open Meet this Sunday 28th April at the new Huddersfield Leisure Centre, Spring Grove Street, HD1 4BP

Sunday 28th April 2019
Arrive: 08:00

Warm Up: 08:30
Start: 09:30

Meet pack and list of accepted entries can be viewed by clicking the links below;

BOK Meet Pack

BOK Draft Programme

Here is some info you will need for Sunday's gala.

Spectators and Entry Fee

The great news is the BOK gala is fully subscribed - 300 swimmers competing, meaning it will be a great event. However that means, due to the building fire regulations, we will need to do the same as last year. 1 swimmer = 1 spectator ticket, i.e no additional children/ siblings can attend to watch (no space on laps). KAL fire wardens will be in attendance, therefore there is no room for negotiations, as the building is only licensed for 300 people in the balcony area. On Sunday, doors will open at 8.00, so no one will be allowed into the building before that. Please don't forget there is ticket entry only, then pay at the door. Spectators fees will be £8.00 for full day or £5.00 morning/afternoon. This will include a start sheet. Raffle tickets will also be on sale at the door.

Swimming Bags

Please take your swimming bags and leave them upstairs in the marshaling area. There is no space on poolside to put them so please take a small bag on poolside with just your essentials. The bag areas will be marked so please put them in your club space.

Marshaling

I would just like to advise everyone on the marshaling arrangements this weekend and where swimmers should go once they've warmed up.

The main marshaling area is the studio space that is upstairs and faces out onto the balcony / walkway over looking poolside.

This room on the day should be accessed by swimmers only from the back stairs leading up from poolside. The medals table will also be based in here.

HLC staff have asked that all swimmers have dried off before accessing the stairs and the room, so a small towel to carry round is advisable. Swimmers need to wear shoes (flipflops or trainers) and shirts down onto poolside and then back up to marshaling. If swimmers do not wear their shoes they will not be allowed on poolside, hence no shoes, no swim.

Swimming bags cannot be left in the changing rooms unaccompanied if not in a locker and need to be taken up to marshaling where there will be a roped off area to put them in.

Marshall's are in the Studio and will be leading heats up and down the stairs. The stairways are not for swimmers to hang round in or run up and down. I'd appreciate it if you could pass this on.

Unless swimmers need the bathroom or something out of their locker, the changing rooms should be empty.

Marshals have specific areas to focus on and will not be hunting down late swimmers for heats. It is up to your swimmer to know when their race will be, and if they are not due on poolside they should be in the studio.

We would also appreciate it if parents could stay on the balcony. If a swimmer needs you for any reason they will come and find you.

There is a full wall of windows onto the pool from the room so many swimmers can see what heats are running.

Swim Shop

The swim shop will be open.

Raffle

We will run a Raffle so please feel free to bring something for it. We will aim to call the numbers out by the end of the gala.

Thanks for your co-operation and see you on the day. Have good swims and enjoy.

Coaches will be handing spectator tickets out next week.

See you Sunday and Good Luck

The Regional Team

Monday, 15 April 2019

Easter Weekend Training Changes Reminder

Hi All,

Below is a reminder of the training arrangements for both Regional Squads over the Easter weekend:

Friday 19^th April 2019 - OFF

Saturday 20^th April 2019 - OFF

Monday 22^nd April 2019 - AM & PM OFF

Enjoy your long weekend!

Those swimmers who are competing in the Stocksbridge meet at Ponds Forge over Easter weekend should report to your previous County Squad Coach for this competition.

The Regional Team

Winter Yorkshires 2019

Hi All,

The qualifying times are now out for the Winter Short Course Yorkshires. Swimmers should aim to achieve as many qualifying times as possible before the closing date.

Age 12 & Under (Age 20th October 2019)

Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th September 2019

John Charles

Qualifying Times - Lower Age Group 2019

Age 13 & Over (Age at 20th October 2019)

Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th October 2019

Ponds Forge

Qualifying Times - Upper Age Group 2019

Good Luck

The Regional Team

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."