Yorkshire Entries

Please remember to enter the Yorkshire's tonight for all the events you have qualified for.  If you are chasing a time in the 200's at the Development Gala on Sunday and achieve the qualifying time, enter this on a separate sheet to the one you are handing in tonight and take it to the timing suite at the end of the balcony after the race on Sunday.  No entries for Yorkshire's will be taken on Monday of next week. 

Development Meet New Event Order and NER Times

The order of events for the development meet have now changed to the following...

• G 200m Br
• G 50m Br
• B 200m Bk
• B 50m Bk
• G 200m Fly
• G 50m Fly
• B 200m Fly
• B 50m Fly
• G 200m Bk
• G 50m Bk
• B 200m Br
• B 50m Br
• G 200m Fs
• G 50m Fs
• B 200m Fs
• B 50m Fs

And the new NER times for both of this years meets are now online too, under the Qualifying times section to the right.

Ryan.

C Central's New Year Resolutions & Targets

Here are all the targets you made for this year. We will look back later in the year to see if you have achieved them.



Hannah W

•To not look for the wall on Backstroke

•To have high elbows on Frontcrawl

Shaheen

•Not breath on first stroke out of turns on Frontcrawl

•Speed Up

Oliver

•To do 6 fly kicks off every start and turn

•To get better at fly

Amelia

•Get North Eastern time in 100m Back or any stroke

•Get better at Breastroke

•Get a Yorkshire medal

Matthew B

•Not to look for wall on Backtroke on turns and finishes

William

•Improve Breastroke

•Silent swimming

•Get changed in time for mum after training

Abigail J

•Keep head down on Fly

•Improve on all 4 strokes

John

•To get faster at Butterfly

•Not give up on IM sets

Leah

•Improve 50m Breastroke time

•Always get to flags when coming out of turns

Masie

•Always get timing correct on Breastroke

•Drink more water during the training session

Jake

•Cup hands on Frontcrawl

•Always get to the flags on starts and turns

Layla

•To get a North Eastern time in Freestyle

•To get a National in Breastroke

Huzayfa

•Always breath every 2 strokes on Butterfly

•To get all my North Eastern times

Euan

•To always get past the flags on every stroke

•Continue swimming well in Galas

Phebe

•Get more 12 year old North Eastern times

•Improve my Butterfly

Anna

•Drink more water during the session

•Always try my best

Aimee

•Get better at Fly

•To get past the flags on starts and turns

Brannon

•Not to look for the wall on Backstroke

•Not to breath in the last 5 metres

Billy

•Not to look for the wall on Backstroke

•Keep my head still

Abigail B

•Not to look for the wall on my Backstroke turn

•To try 100% on kick and fly sets

Ellie

•To get better at Fly and Breastroke

Matthew L

•To do at least 6 dolphin kicks on turns and push offs

•Not to breath on first stroke out of turns

James

•Get better at kick

•Get a North Eastern Time

Liam

•To PB on 50m Fly

•To not breath on my first stoke out of turns

Emily B

•To work on underwater breath holding

•Do more leg kicks off the wall

Thomas

•Improve Butterfly technique

•Always push off streamlined

Amber

•To kick more on Backstroke and Frontcrawl

•To never ever get DQ'd in a Breastroke race ever again

Emily R

•Get better at Breastroke

•To get North Easterns

Kit

•Concentrate on keeping my head still

•Get better at Fly

Jacob

•Kick my legs faster on Backstroke

•Lower head on Frontcrawl

Remember everything in training should be practised perfectly. Every start and turn should be practised as a race turn. Practising something bad will only make you be brilliant at doing something bad.

Good look in achieving your targets


Kevin

Speed Awards and Newsletter Sections

I have added 2 new sections to the right, ASA Competitive Swimming Performance Awards and Newsletter Archive.

Information about the post below is now in the ASA performance awards section.
Any newsletters that the COL/Swim office produce will be electronically archived in Newsletter Archive. The one handed out last night is online.

Ryan.

NEW SPEED AWARDS!

The City of Leeds are launching the ASA Competitive Swimming Performance Awards.  The awards will be available from the Development Meet on 23rd January 2011.

 

The ASA Competitive Swimming Performance Awards are time based awards. The times for the awards are consistent with the ASA Graded Swimming Times and the Gold Standards approximate to average county age group qualifying times for 12 year old boys.  When this level is reached there is a good chance that these swimmers would qualify at county level.

 

The awards are aimed at the younger swimmers in particular, although all swimmers on the scheme can achieve them regardless of age. We have introduced the awards as a progressive incentive to the swimmers to ultimately achieve their County Championship standards. The awards will be available to the swimmers at the Development Meets in particular, but they can be achieved by competing at any meet in our calendar throughout the season.  

 

Please click on the 2 links under speeds awards to the right for an information booklet about the awards and the times standards to be achieved.  (This will be uploaded on the blog in the next couple of days)

Kevin

 

Yet another article in the Media....

Breeze Leeds Article

Ryan

Fame Again....

From Leeds Weekly News, and other free Papers I do Believe....
(Click Image to enlarge)

Ryan

COL Hit the News....

Hello Everyone.

We have made the news again! Click the link below to see the BBC Article on last years success.

BBC Article

It is fantastic to see all our hard work recognised. It was in the Leeds Weekly News too, I will scan in and upload a copy soon.

If you have seen this covered anywhere else please let me know so I can share it with everyone.

Cheers,

Ryan.

Blog Update

Hello,

Right I won't give you all the details but basically because Google has stopped a service, I have spent 4 hours today transferring all the files on the blog to a new file host. I expect us to have some issues, like file links to the wrong files etc, because its an awful job. So please let me know if you find any errors. This does not effect you in any way, apart from the slight change to the way you view files. If you have any problems let me know.

Finally after sitting on my desktop for 6 months my Coaches Profile is now on-line to the right for you to have a read.

Yours,

Ryan.

Christmas, New Year.

Hello Everyone,

First of all we would like to say that we hope you had a fantastic and safe Christmas and New year, and that Santa brought you everything you wanted.

Also, me and Kevin would like to say a massive thank you to you all for the presents and cards we received.

Lastly, a reminder that we are back to training this Wednesday, and Thursday AM is on this week as far as we understand. Like to see you all fighting fit and ready to continue to work hard and really progress in 2011, just like in 2010.

Yours,

Ryan and Kevin.

Last Session Tomorrow Night...

Hello Guys..

A reminder to bring PJ's to training tomorrow night!
And also we want as many parents as are willing to get in for a kids vs Parents relay for the last 20 mins of the session on Thursday night, so please dig out them old speedo's, shorts, costumes and come join in the fun!
Any questions, let me know.

Ryan.

Fame hits the Junior League Team....

Christmas Party Menu

Options for £4 inc Inflatable
Nuggets
Scampi
Popcorn Chicken
Spicy Wings
Donner Meat

Options for £5 inc Inflatable
Pizza of your choice

Ryan

Christmas Party - URGENT!

Hello.

Right, the plan for the Christmas party,
Friday 17th December at Armley.
7.30pm until 8.15/8.30pm Inflatable pool party.
8.30/8.45pm until 10pm Food/ Music/ Party at Dany's Cafe, literally just over the road from the pool.
Party wear please, get yourselves all glamored up!
We have managed to negotiate a good price for the pool and food, Which means the combined cost for the full night including food will be £4/£5 depending what food you order.

I NEED PAYING TO CONFIRM YOUR PLACE BY WEDNESDAY AT THE VERY LATEST, SO I CAN ORDER THE FOOD. IF YOU DO NOT PAY BY THEN YOU WILL MISS OUT ON THE FOOD.

Sounds a bit heavy I know but I do not want people missing out.
Siblings welcome for food only.
So please try pay me Sunday, and I'm sure we will have a lovely night.

Thanks,

Ryan.

C Central Xmas Party and Xmas Break

Xmas Party

After all the great swimming this season me and Ryan thought you all deserve a Christmas Party.  This will take place on Friday 17th at Armley.  We have booked the inflatable from 7.30 - 8.15pm (we would have liked it for longer but the centre will only give us it for 45 min) then after we will go over the road and eat in Danny's Cafe.  The party should finish between 9.45 and 10 ish. The price to go on the inflatable will be £1 per swimmer and we are still negotiating a deal with Danny's Cafe for pizzas but we will let you know as soon as we do.  Parents are welcome to join us for food over in Danny's with the swimmers if you like.  

Xmas Break

Due to centre closures over the Christmas period our Last session will be Thursday 23rd December and our first session back will be Wednesday 5th January.  This gives you time to go out see you friends and family, play with your toys and have a well deserved break before starting the hard work again in the new year.

Message from me & Ryan

Hope you all have a great Xmas and New Year, we hope Santa visits you all, stay safe, have fun and we will see you all in 2011.

Kevin & Ryan

National Arena Legue - North East Region Round 3

Sunday 12th December- JCC

Arrive 13:00

W/Up 13:30

Start 14:00

If you are on the list below and you have not confirmed your availability can you please let Alex know by email alex.gray@leeds.gov.uk or text 07515 254 245

Euan  Liam

William F John

Brannon Amelia

Jacob Phebe

Thanks

Kevin

Development Meet Entries

I now have the entry form for the Development meet on the 23rd January 2011.  Each time trial is £2 each. I have entered all the swimmers events on the entry form that I have received, Ryan will be coming around collecting the money along with the swimmers ASA registration number over the next few sessions.  The deadline for money in to Ryan is Thursday 16th December.   Entry is not confirmation that swimmers will defiantly swim due to numbers.  Priority will go to swimmers with no 200m times on the rankings and then swimmers who are closest to Yorkshire times.  If you are unfortunate to be rejected you will be refunded your £2 per event.

Kevin

C Central End The Year In Style

Bradford Xmas Meet

Another great weekend at Bradford achieving 142 PB's out of 164 swims and 37 more Yorkshire Qualifying times from our squad.  

14 Gold Medals

Ellie J (1), Ellie P (1), Abigail B (1), Phebe (5), Euan (2), Liam (2), Rachel M (1), Rachel P (1)

18 Silver Medals

Leah (2), Ellie J (1), Anna (1), Abigail B (2), Euan (2), Liam (4), Huzayfa (1), Thomas (1), Oliver (1), Kit (1), Amelia (1), Rachel M (1)

19 Bronze Medals

Ellie J (3), Ellie P (1), Anna (1), Abigail B (1) Billy (1), Euan (3), Abigail J (1), Layla (2), Hannah (1), Sophie (3), Kit (1), Maisie (1)

Fun Relay with me and Alex = 1st and won £100 for charity

Phebe Robinson = 2nd in Top Girl

A great end to 2010!! Great swimming C Central.

Kevin 

Christmas Holiday Dates are here!

Last Session

Thursday 23rd December

First Session Back

Wednesday 5th January 2011

Friday 17th December - Night of Christmas Party, Swimming part is planned, we are working on some food for the children, please bare with us.

Ryan.

Time Trial - Final Development Gala Entries

The final copy of Development Gala entries from our group is below.  If your name is on the list it does not mean you will definitely swim, places for the time trial are limited.  Priority will go to swimmers with no 200m times on the rankings and then swimmers who are closest to Yorkshire times.  I will put a confirmed list up as soon as I know.

200 Fly
Matthew Lowe 
Leah Crisp 
Sophie Hobbah 
Oliver Bingham 
Layla Black 
Billy Walker 

Shaheen Alghofari 

Megan Bannon 

Abigail Burton

200 Back
William Finn 
Matthew Lowe 
Jake Lambert 
Sophie Hobbah 
Rebecca Fisher 
Emily Rice
Thomas Coates 

Megan Bannon 

Shaheen Alghofari
Rachel Mawson

Kit Lawless-Coombes

Huzayfa Kayani

Abigail Jack

200 Breast
Amelia Clynes
Matthew Lowe 
Jake Lambert 
Thomas Coates 
Huzayfa Kayani 
Billy Walker 

Megan Bannon 

Shaheen Alghofari

Rachel Mawson
Kit Lawless-Coombes

Emily Braginton

200 Free
Amelia Clynes 
William Finn 
Layla Black 
Jake Lambert 
Hannah White 
Thomas Coates 
Billy Walker 

Huzayfa Kayani 

Shaheen Alghofari 

Sophie Hobbah 

Megan Bannon 

Rachel Mawson

Kit Lawless-Coombes

Rebecca Fisher

Emily Braginton

Kevin

Development Gala Entries

Hi, 

So far these are the entries I have for the 200m time trials in the Development Gala for swimmers who are slightly off there Yorkshire time or who do not have a time for the event on the rankings.  If I have missed you off or made any mistakes please email me so I can get the entries correct ASAP.

200m Fly
Matthew Lowe 3.29.30
Leah Crisp 3.43.90
Sophie Hobbah 4.03.25
Oliver Bingham 3.41.09
Layla black 3.18.27
Billy Walker 4.24.52

Shaheen Alghofari - 3.47.50

200m Back
William Finn - 3.05.49
Matthew Lowe - 3.12.82
Jake Lambert - 3.27.02
Sophie Hobbah - 3.32.62
Rebecca Fisher - 3.55.15
Emily Rice - 3.27.89
Thomas Coates - 3.42.32

Shaheen Alghofari
Rachel Mawson

200m Breast
Amelia Clynes - 3.36.34
Matthew Lowe - 3.50.69
Jake Lambert - 3.50.32
Thomas Coates - 4.18.11
Huzayfa Kayani - 4.23.50
Billy Walker - 3.36.34

Shaheen Alghofari

Rachel Mawson

200m Free
Amelia Clynes - 2.50.17
William Finn - 2.55.43
Layla Black - 2.58.46
Jake Lambert - 3.12.75
Hannah White - 2.51.31
Thomas Coates - 3.55.15
Billy Walker - 3.16.39

Huzayfa Kayani - 2.57.28

Shaheen Alghofari - 3.05.50

Rachel Mawson

Thanks

Kevin 

Snow causes training to be cancelled

Due to the weather, training will be cancelled tonight (Wednesday 1st December) and in the morning (Thursday 2nd December).  Keep checking the blog for updates.

Have fun and enjoy the snow!

Kevin & Ryan

Alex's Report on the Weekend!

City Of Leeds Victorious

 

Arena Junior Inter-League Swimming Competition

 

City Of Leeds won the Arena Junior Inter-League Final for the first time in their history on Sunday 28th November 2010.

Teams competing in the final were:

• City Of Leeds
• Hillingdon Borough
• Boldmere
• City Of Liverpool
• Southport Aqua
• City Of Derby
• City Of Norwich UEA
• City Of Newcastle

 After setting off in decidedly chilly conditions, which prevented City Of Newcastle travelling, the team and supporters arrived at the International Pool in Corby for the final.

After the formalities were completed, the swimming started and City Of Leeds got off to their now traditional strong start, winning the first four events to take an early lead. City Of Leeds were instantly pegged back and the competition began to hot up. At the first points check City Of Leeds held a slender 20 point lead over nearest rivals Hillingdon Borough with City Of Liverpool close in 3rd. The competition continued with teams trading race victories and fighting hard for every point. By the half way stage City Of Leeds had extended their lead to 43 points with Hillingdon and Liverpool tied in 2nd place.

City of Leeds were never to loose this lead and ran out eventual winners with 16 race victories and 39 finishes in the top 3 positions. The final standings were:

 

• City Of Leeds 322
•  Hillingdon Borough 274
•  City Of Liverpool 254
•  Southport Aqua 223
•  Boldmere 214
•  City Of Derby 212
•  City Of Norwich UEA 191
•  City Of Newcastle 0 (DNC) 

City Of Leeds victory was the product of an excellent team performance and outstanding support, with our colourful and vocal supporters cheering the team all the way.

Kiani Campbell-Grady and Liam Birrell won best in age group awards and Liam Birrell picked up the top overall boy trophy.

Well done to swimmers, coaches and supporters for a fantastic event and an outstanding victory.

 

Junior League Team Photo

There will be a team photo for all swimmers who competed in the Junior League tonight (Monday 29th November) at 7.15pm.  This clashes with our session so I will get swimmers out at five past 7 and they can get changed on poolside by putting their kit on over their costumes.  Please do not forget to bring Junior League yellow polo t shirts and City of Leeds shorts for the photo.

Kevin 

Leeds Come Home Victorious!

Well done to all the swimmers who took part in the Junior Swim League.  After 3 rounds of swimming Leeds came out the strongest in all 3 rounds and were crowned the National Junior League champions yesterday.  It was a great day with lots of good racing and fun and was good to see you all working together as a team.  Parents, thank you for all the effort that went in to supporting the team, you were all excellent and it really helped motivate the swimmers.  A special well done to Liam Birell who achieved a top boy award.

The final results were

City of Leeds - 322

Hillingdon - 274

Liverpool 254

Southport Aqua - 223

Boldmere - 214

Derby - 212

City of Norwich - 191
Newcastle - DNC 

Also well done to the swimmers who competed at the Sheffield meet, I heard there were speeding tickets, pb's, medals and more Yorkshire times.  GREAT!!

Keep it up team! 

Kevin

Development Gala

Hello.

All entries for the TT at the gala need to be to with me at the latest of tonight, or we will not have time to do the trials in training.

Cheers,

Ryan.

Junior League Tickets

Anyone who has paid for junior league final tickets please collect them from Alex on Wednesday or Thursday night.  Also Alex has 2 spare tickets if anyone wants them on first come first served.

Kevin 

A few more things about the development gala...

Hello Everyone.
I would just like to clear a few things up...

• First of all  we cannot guarantee any swims, we have a limited number of places available to us, that we share with all other C and D groups.

• Sunday 23rd Jan is the date of the gala. 

• If you do not have a time for a particular swim, we will be TT them in training.  This will then give us an entry time, that we can consider.
• 200 IM is also part of the programme, I don't think that was clear in the last post.

Email me with any questions.

Ryan

Rejections, Entries and Swimmers with no 200m times on rankings!!!

Hello everyone,

There is now a new system where all swimmers entry times for galas must be achieved in a licensed meet and must be from the ASA rankings.  Previously coaches were allowed to conduct time trials to enter swimmers into meets such as B Grade's, however most meets are no longer accepting this method of entry.  Due to this there is now a problem where some swimmers have no time to enter a meet, so therefore cannot achieve qualifying times e.g Yorkshire's.  This will mainly effect the younger swimmers in the group who have never swum 200's before and also the swimmers who were rejected from the B Grade next month.

To solve this problem The City of Leeds Swimming Club will be providing an opportunity for swimmers to get entry times by running 200m events in all 4 strokes at the next Development meet.  This will enable swimmers to achieve times that will then be listed on the ASA rankings so they can enter meets in the future.

This Development meet is open to 

• swimmers 8-12 years old.
• swimmers who are within 8 seconds of a Yorkshire time, and we deem it reasonable that the swimmer can achieve it.
• swimmers who do not have a 200m time in a particular event (this been the main priority). 

Swimmers can only do 200's, no 50's in C group.   50's will only be for E and D group swimmers.  There will be no prizes in the gala for 200m swims, the 200's are designed strictly for time only.  Due to the time slot the Development meet has, the Club cannot guarantee all swimmers will swim, there will be 2 heats for each 200m time trial and the fastest swimmers (closest to Yorkshire times) will be picked to swim first.

If you think you meet the above criteria or have any questions please don't hesitate to ask one of us this week.  All entries for this event must be in by the end of this week.

Yours,

C Central Coaching Team

National Arena League

National Arena League - North East Region - Round 3 (Sunday 12th December)

Leeds - JCC

Arrive - 13.00

W/UP - 13.30

Start - 14.00

Swimmers please confirm your availability to Alex by email at alexgray@leeds.gov.uk or text 07515254245

Euan Cowan

Liam Birrell

William Finn

John Cooper

JAcob Butterfield

Brannon Pearson

Phebe Robinson

Amelia Clynes

Thanks

Kevin

Junior League Final

The Junior League Final is this Sunday (27st November).  Swimmers must arrive at the Aquatics Centre for 7:45am, where a team photo will be taken before boarding the coach.  Please wear City of Leeds shorts and the Junior League T Shirts (Alex will give out on Wednesday) for the picture.  Don't forget your packed lunches and plenty of drinks as it will be a long day.  

Parents, remember the swimmers need all the support you can give so lets see you in your Leeds colours prepared with your chants, banners etc.  

We have a good chance of winning the final, make sure starts, finishes, takeovers, turns are perfect this week in training and most importantly swim the fastest you have ever swum on Sunday.  LETS BEAST IT!!!!!

Training on Wednesdays will return back to normal, 6.30 - 7.30 pm the week after the final.

The video Above...

Hello Guys,

I had an assembly today (Yes I do still have them at 17!) and it was about who inspires you and what inspires you.
They showed us this video. I thought it was something that all the swimmers could think about, so I would like to watch it, as I think its really motivational.

Ignore the adverts, I can't get rid of them.

Cheers!

Ryan.

change of details...

Hello,
My mobile number has now changed to 07775755876, expect a text off me shortly,
cheers!

Ryan.

Updates!

Hello...

• North Eastern Counties Results - In Results
• Disqualification Codes- Competition Squad Central Section
• http://www.swimnortheast.org.uk/ - Useful Links

Hope its helpful!

Ryan.

BAGCAT (25m) Championships

Some fantastic swims again over the weekend.  38 PB's achieved out of 40 races and 7 medals, well done everyone.  Jacob won a Bronze medal in the 400m Freestyle and Jessica Manning achieved 4 Golds, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze.

Jessica has now moved up to Alex's group.  Best of luck Jess!

Overall the swimming was excellent and I was very impressed how you all organised yourselves to do your blood flow exercises without me having to say anything.  You all looked very professional.  I thought all your turns looked faster when you raced this weekend, however distance and kicks off the wall still needs to be improved.  Remember keep practising in training and then in a race it will be easy.

The PB sheet should be back on by the end of next week.  If anyone spots a mistake with their time please let me know and I will change it.  

Keep up the hard work guys, me and Ryan are very proud of you all at the moment.

Kevin 

1500m TT!

Hello.

The swimmers who wanted to do the 1500 on sunday night did so, and the results follow.

James      21.17.33
Amelia     21.37.30
Matthew  22.25.64
Liam        22.21.94
Maisie     22.58.16
Emily       25.09.43
William    23.16.39
Shaheen  27.22.89
Huzayfa  24.34.49
Billy        27.04.49

Ryan.

Oooooppss!

Sorry everyone, I didn't mean rejections on the lower post, I was supposed to say withdrawals!
Sorry for the confusion and thanks for pointing it out!

Ryan.

Lost Property..

I had a hoody given to me by Elysia on Monday night that was left in land training. It was unnamed!
I do get quite a collection of lost property, so can we please put names in things, and if you have lost anything, then ask me.

Cheers!

Ryan.

NER Rejections....

Hello...

We hope you don't, but if you do have any rejections for the NER's this weekend, then we need to know before Friday to reduce the likelihood of a fine for yourselves.  We also need to know why you are rejecting.
Please email/text me ASAP.

Cheers!

Ryan

NER's Sunderland

Information on schedule of events, directions, parking etc.

http://www.swimnortheast.org.uk/results/2010/asaner25m2010/sunderland_info.pdf

Kevin