National Arena League

North East Region Round 1 (South)
Saturday 8th October 2011
 
Venue:  Sheffield Ponds Forge
Arrive: 18:00
W/Up:  18:30
Start:   19:00
 
Can the following swimmers please confirm your availability to Richard by email at richard.denigan@leeds.gov.uk by Friday 30th September 2011
 
Liam, Euan, Jacob, Harry, Brannan, John, Shaheen, Billy, Kit, Ellie, Layla, Zoe, Sophie, Anna, Helena, Hannah 
 
Thanks
Kevin & Ryan

 

National Junior League White Rose Gala - Regional Final

Please can the following swimmers confirm your availability to swim on Sunday 2nd October at Tynemouth Pool to Richard Denigan and Elysha Wallis (richard.denigan@leeds.gov.uk and elysha@btinternet.com)

 

Euan

Jacob

Helena

Liam

Billy

Thomas

Jake

Huzayfa

Ellie

Sophie

Rebecca

Rachel

Amelia

Leah

 

 

Tickets to the Regional Final will cost £4.00 each and will be available to purchase from Greig Birrell. There may be the possibility of some seats available on the coach at an additional charge but this is still to be confirmed.

Kevin & Ryan

Video Feedback

Over the past week I have used a camera to film some of the swimmers technical faults and play it back to them on poolside.  I think it is a great tool to use as the swimmers can visualise what they are doing wrong in the water and see how they need to correct their technique.  I am going to carry on using the video now and again during training sessions and may include some of the footage on my Level 3 Coaches course.  If anyone does not want the camera to be used with their child please send me an email. 
 
Kevin & Ryan

White Rose League

Arrival Time for all Team Members is 1300 on Saturday 10th September 2011.

On arrival please report to the Team Managers:

'A' Team

Elysha Wallis

'B' Team

Lyn Hughes / Greig Birrell

Coaching Staff

'A' Team

• Paul Cave
• Kevin Schofield
• Marcin Pilinski

'B' Team

• Ryan Mortimer
• Alan Miller
• Ashley and/or Sharon

 
The team sheets will not be shown to swimmers until Saturday to allow for any last minute changes.
 
Kevin & Ryan
 

 

Welcome Back

Welcome back to training everyone and welcome new swimmers to C Central.  Hope you have had a great summer break and are ready to get stuck into some hard work to prepare for the upcoming meets.

Leeds City Council are hosting the Dutch National Swim Team week commencing Monday 5^th September 2011.

 

This week the pool will be in Long Course configuration each session.  Some sessions may be a squeeze as we will only have 2 lanes but I am sure we will cope just for this week.  There are a few last minute changes with lanes due to the press coming.  Please try to be on poolside 15 minutes before the session starts to loosen off.   

 

Monday 5th September

Am = No Training

Pm = No Land Training 

        We will train at the later time of 7.30 - 8.30pm in Lanes 0 & 1

Wednesday 7th September

Pm = Normal time 6:30 - 7:30 (Lanes 5 & 6)

Thursday 8th September

Am = Normal

Pm = We will train at the earlier time of 6:30 - 8:00 in Lanes 5 & 6

Please remember entries for the Early Bird meet will be taken on Monday 5th September.  There is no form available on line to print off, so write the times down on paper and one of us will sign it.

Kevin & Ryan

Monday 5th September

Please note that the lane allocations have changed for the Dutch Visit on Monday night. We are now in Lanes 0 & 1. Land Training is cancelled as we cannot reschedule this. 

Regards,

Ryan.

Wales Trip & New Season

Well done to everyone who attended the Wales meet.  The trip was a brilliant success with lots of fast swimming and a great experience for the swimmers who's first time it was away from home by themselves.  Our group achieved 55 PB's out of 69 Swims, 4 Finalists and 3 Bronze Medals over the week.  Lizzie Coombes took lots of pictures of the team in Wales and hopefully we should be able to upload some onto the blog soon.

Hope you are all having a fantastic break.  Just a reminder below when training restarts.

First Session Back 

Monday 22nd August (PM)

August Bank Holiday

Sunday 28th August 2011 No Training

Monday 29th August 2011 No Training

Morning Training

Morning Training will recommence on Thursday 8th September 2011.

Kevin & Ryan 

Welsh Summer Nationals

Anyone who is swimming in the Welsh Summer Nationals will only be training for one hour on Thursday night. 
 
Please make sure the Emergency Contact Number is saved in your phones;  07504 411 157
 
Swimmers are to travel in City of Leeds Tracksuits and wear the White Shirt that was given out in the meeting last Monday.
Remeber to label any medicine and give to the Team Manager.
Swimmers will need a packed lunch or money to be able to get lunch on the journey down and will need money for lunch on the return.
 
Travel Itinerary

Meet at JCCS Aquatics Centre 29th July: 09:00
 
Coach Departs: 09:30
 
Arrive in Swansea: 15:00 (approximately)
 
Depart Swansea 5th August: 11:00 (approximately)
 
Arrive at the JCCS Aquatics Centre 17:00 (approximately)
 
There is a last minute advice sheet I will be giving out tonight.  The sheet will also be available to print out under the Swim Meets section of the Blog called Gala Preparation when ryan has uploaded it.

Hopefully the trip will be a great success.  Anyone who is not swimming have a great Summer !
 
Kevin & Ryan

Breakfast Club & Turn Practice

Hope you are all looking forward to the Summer Break or Wales.  This Thursday is the last morning training for C Central until Thursday 8th September.  It would be good if we can get as many swimmers to attend as possible and have a team Breakfast after the session before we break up for the Summer.

The pool will be free before our session starts on Wednesday and Thursday this week as the older swimmers are away at the Nationals in Sheffield.  Any swimmers who wish to come in and practice turns from half an hour before our session starts are welcome to do so.

Kevin & Ryan

Couple of Reminders

Land Training

This will be on as normal tonight as Helen will be back from her Iron Man Challenge

Entries

Entries for Winter Yorkshire will be taken tonight and next Monday

Wales Meeting

Just a reminder that the meeting for all parents and swimmers attending the Welsh Summer Nationals will be at 19.30 in the Grandstand Suite which is in the Stadium.  Swimmers who are going to Wales will be finishing training at 7.15pm so they can get changed in time for the meeting.

Kevin & Ryan 

1500m Time Trial

Don't worry too much about the times it was more of a mental test to achieve 1500m without stopping, even though surprisingly some of you achieved a North Eastern time in training which is excellent.  In C Central swimmers normally cover between 1500 - 4500 metres per session, but to swim 1500 metres without breaks is a test of fitness, mental concentration, gets swimmers to focus on keeping going when their bodies are finding the event tough and helps swimmers overcome the fear of swimming longer distances in races.  Well done to everyone who finished the 1500m.  There are also some 1500m times below from previous time trials and there is a huge improvement showing that you are all fitter, and stronger.  We will attempt the 1500m again in the year. 

NER Times

11yrs = 20:45.00

12yrs = 19:54.00

13yrs = 19:30 .00

Sunday 17th July 2010

Matthew 19:42.11

Euan 20:00.50

Brannan 21:03.47

Liam 21:01.81

Leah 21:10.79

Jacob 20:06.95

Shaheen 21:27.82

Maisie 23:35.26

Layla 22:43.53

Abigail 23:22.34

Megan 23:34.24

Hannah 22:08.32

Oliver 23:46.91

Sophie 24:10.84

Ellie 23:54.80

John 22:32.30

Kit 22:26.42

Amber 23:56.37

Emily DNF

Ayesha 23:40.74

Rebecca 26:27.76

Huzayfa 23:40.68

Billy 23:40.97

Helena 24:45.58

Harry 25:45.58

Rachel 24:42.08

Vikoria 25:42.68

Tide 24:45.38

Sunday 7th November 2010

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

Sunday 4th July 2010

Shaheen 26.06.35 
Megan 24.58.68 
Anna 27.23.73 
Liam 24.05.73 
Layla 25.54.36 
Maisie 24.54.16 
Emily B 26.58.74 
Jacob 23.59.56 
John 23.15.51 
Euan 22.36.81 
Billy 27.00.51 
William 25.19.45 
Abigail J 24.28.83 
Ellie  24.54.16 
Kit 25.50.44 
Amber 26.54.53 
Brannon DNF

Kevin & Ryan

National Junior League

Date: 10th September 2011

Venue:  John Charles

Time: 13:00

Warm Up: 13:30

Please can the following swimmers confirm your availability to swim to Alex Gray and Richard Denigan at: 
alex.gray@leeds.gov.uk and richard.denigan@leeds.gov.uk

White Rose Gala (A Team)

William Euan

Jacob Harry

Layla Liam

Billy Thomas

Jake Ellie

Sophie Leah

Rachel M

White Rose Gala (B Team)

Hannah Kit

John Brannan

Shaheen Zoe

Anna Helena

Abigail Oliver

Huzayfa Tide

Viktoria Rebecca

Kevin & Ryan

Training Changes (Week of Monday 5th Sept)

Leeds City Council are hosting the Dutch National Swim Team week commencing Monday 5^th September 2011.

 

This week the pool will be in Long Course configuration each session.  Some sessions may be a squeeze as we will only have 2 lanes but I am sure we will cope just for this week.

Monday 5th September

Am = Normal

Pm = No Land Training 

7:30 - 8:30 (7:30 - 8:00 = Lanes 5 & 6, 8:00 - 8:30 = Lanes 4, 5 & 6)

Wednesday 7th September

Pm = 6:30 - 7:30 (Lanes 5 & 6)

Thursday 8th September

Am = Normal

Pm = 6:30 - 8:00 (Lanes 5 & 6)

Kevin & Ryan

Welsh Summer Nationals

There will be a meeting for all parents and swimmers attending the Welsh Summer Nationals on Monday 18^th July at 19.30 in the Grandstand Suite which is in the Stadium.  

Swimmers who are going to Wales will need to finish training 15 minutes early at 7.15pm so they can get changed in time for the meeting.

Kevin & Ryan

A Great Ending To The B Grade Series

C Central achieved 115 PB's out of 122 Swims, 10 Speeding Tickets, 7 Gold Medals, 8 Silver Medals and 12 Bronze Medals this weekend.  Another fantastic meet and a great end to the season.

Results Summary

Speeding Ticket Winners (5)

Abbie H (3), Rebecca (3), Viktoria (1), Matthew B (2), Harry (1)

Gold Medallists (5)

Tide (1), John (1), Matthew B (2), Rebecca (1), Billy (1), Sophie (1)

Silver Medallists (5)

John (1), Tide (2), Viktoria (1), Kit (2), Maisie (1), Hannah (1)

Bronze Medallists (9)

Thomas (1), John (2), Tide (1), Viktoria (2), Abigail (2), Helena (1), Kit (1), Maisie (1), Amber (1)

Reminder 

There is no land training tonight (Mon 11th July) as Helen is still away.  Land Training will be back to normal next Monday.

Chocolate Bar Challenge

Well Done to Zoe who won the Chocolate Bar Challenge on Friday night.  This is a test of turn speed where swimmers push off the wall turn at the flags, sprint to the wall, turn and sprint back to the flags.  The fastest swimmer wins a chocolate bar.  It was a very close final but Zoe just managed to scrape top place. 

Keep chasing those times!!!

'Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.' 

Well Done Everyone! 

Kevin & Ryan

B Grade

Just a reminder about the changed warm up times for the B Grade meet this weekend.  The times are:

 

Session 1 will warm up at 08:30, start at 09:30 and finish about 12:00.

Session 2 will warm up at 13:00, start at 14:00 and finish about 16:20

Session 3 will warm up at 09:00, start at 10:00 and finish about 12:00

Session 4 will warm up at 13:00, start at 14:00 and finish about 16:30

Please arrive on poolside 30 min before Warm Up

Lets have a great Meet

Kevin & Ryan

Yorkshire Entries

Message from Richard

Parents,

 

Due to the Scheme summer break and the August bank holiday the City of Leeds Swimming Executive Committee have thought it would be best to open entries for the Yorkshire Winter meet on the 8^th & 9^th October early.

 

Monday 18^th July and Monday 25^th July 2011 are the dates that the COL SC will be taking entries for the above event.

 

Please enter every event your child has qualified for to give them more experience of racing at county level ready for the forthcoming competitions.

 

Kevin & Ryan

 

White Rose Teams Gala

Alex has asked me to pas this message on to you all.

The 2011 White Rose Gala will be held on the 10th September at the John Charles Centre for Sport.

 

The Gala will take place between 13.30 and 18.00.

 

The City of Leeds will field 2 teams again this year so members of the Competition and Development Squads and any member of the National Age Group squad who will be no older than 12 on the 31st December 2011 could be selected.

 

Can we ask that all parents and eligible swimmers keep the 10th September free as the City of Leeds embark on the defence of their National title.

 

Team sheets will be posted by Friday 15th July 2011.

 

Kind Regards

 

Kevin & Ryan

Winter Yorkshires - Message from Richard.

Parents,

Due to the Scheme summer break and the August bank holiday the City of Leeds Swimming Executive Committee have thought it would be best to open entries for the Yorkshire Winter meet on the 8th & 9th October early.

Monday 18th July and Monday 25th July 2011 are the dates that the COL SC will be taking entries for the above event.
Please enter every event your child has qualified for to give them more experience of racing at county level ready for the forthcoming competitions.

Kind Regards


Richard



Richard Denigan
Senior Age Group Coach
Leeds City Council Swim Training Scheme
Aquatics Centre, John Charles Centre for Sport,
Middleton Grove,
Leeds,
LS11 5DJ
0113 39 57 360 

Summer Break!

Not long to go now until a well deserved break.  

The summer break for our squad will commence from Saturday 30th July 2011, training will recommence Monday 22nd August.

Last Session

Friday 29th July

First Session Back 

Monday 22nd August (PM)

August Bank Holiday

Sunday 28th August 2011 No Training

Monday 29th August 2011 No Training

Morning Training

Morning Training will recommence on Thursday 8th September 2011.

Ryan will be covering the first 2 weeks back as I will be away in the USA from Sat 13th of August and I will return to training on Sunday 4th September.  

Have a fantastic break everyone! 

Kevin & Ryan