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Swim Wales Nofio Cymru Annual Report 2009 - 2010 1 Swim Wales Nofio Swim Wales Nofio 2 Annual Report 2009 - 2010 Annual Report 2009 - 2010 A couple of points The road to success Of the many positive steps taken by Welsh Swimming meetings early in 2011. We want to identify the key local It is with a certain amount of trepidation that I write this build up for our ultimate challenges in London in 2012 in the last year, two stand out as particularly significant issues and broker a series of workshops with those report as by the time it is read the Commonwealth Games and Glasgow in 2014. I believe these two events will be for the future of the sport - the major sponsorship from organisations or individuals best placed to tackle and in Delhi will have happened and the outcomes known. the greatest Games ever in the history of Welsh and British Gas and The Chairpersons Conference held in resolve the issues. British Swimming. Llandrindod Wells in May of this year. I hope that the results obtained in Delhi will mirror the The forecasted reductions in public sector spending outstanding if not great year Welsh Swimming has seen Our responsibility is to do our best in providing our British Gas is evidence that another major blue chip will have an impact on our sport and developing strong this year. swimmers with adequate resources during the present Company can see the benefit of an association with working relationships with, particularly, the pool economic turmoil and allow them to focus on their our sport and we have already hosted a British Gas owners will be an absolute priority for us all in the We must all also contemplate the challenges ahead. jobs - swimming! GB International (Great Britain versus Germany) in coming months. The Regional Chairpersons meetings The final countdown to London’s Olympic Games of 2012 Our swimmers are already attending training camps in Swansea in June thus bringing world class swimming will be a way of developing our strategy to retain an is high in our minds and we are already into our planning Doha, Qatar and will soon be on their way into Delhi to into the heart of the nation. attractive sport for the present and future generations stages for beyond 2012 in terms of performance and our challenge the best of the UK and the Commonwealth. of swimmers. strategy for the international events programme. But British Gas interests are not only confined to This will be a great challenge not only in the competition the elite; they are also supporting free recreational Results in Delhi will have an impact on the national We are pressing on with this in what must be the most but also the conditions. I am sure that our competitors swimming across these isles. We obviously have other profile of the sport and, at the time of writing this turbulent economic period we have ever experienced. from around the Commonwealth will ensure we swim at contribution, the Commonwealth Games have yet to our best to achieve our targets. ideas to encourage all of our sponsors to support the Our performances over the past eighteen months are sport, particularly at grass roots, particularly at a time take place. the best we have ever achieved in my time, if not the very Martyn Woodroffe has provided ‘The Best Prepared when public sector investment in sport and leisure may best ever, in our history. We have seen 18 swimmers, Welsh Swimming Team Ever!’ and I know our swimmers shrink significantly. In the meantime the directors continue to lobby hard on behalf of the sport and it is our intention to work closely both disabled and non-disabled, in our programmes will ensure they all rise to the occasion. We wish them This brings me on neatly to the Chairspersons with the clubs to develop the sport in all its facets. representing British teams; this has been achieved by all well. Conference, an important step for the directors Martyn, Billy, Huw and our coaches working hard to The Board introduced a new approach to the development and staff to get a feel for the issues and challenges Roger Eady prepare our swimmers in the very best possible way. of our strategic programmes this year. We held a faced by our club network across the country. We CHAIRMAN It doesn’t stop there and we must encourage them Chairpersons Conference in Llandrindod Wells in the did listen carefully to your views and concerns and all to maintain and improve with more training and summer; this was an excellent day with some very good will be following up with a series of Regional Chair more competitions as we prepare our swimmers and ideas and recommendations coming out of it. 3 Swim Wales Nofio Swim Wales Nofio 4 Annual Report 2009 - 2010 Annual Report 2009 - 2010 Our strategies of 100,000 members and ‘Every child Clubs. This scheme, which has been piloted in Rhondda in Wales to be swimming by the age of eleven’ were Cynon Taff and Torfaen, will ensure that our clubs are discussed and although both of these will require a large able to capture all of the swimmers who qualify at Key commitment, it was agreed that we should be aiming to Stage 7 level. This should assist our clubs in linking Performance be the best and most professional sport in Wales. with a major potential new membership intake and I recommend that all of our clubs work more closely These strategies will ensure we will be very close to with our Local Authorities in promoting our seamless this achievement. We intend, in the early part of next pathway in swimming. The last twelve months has again been successful at Welsh Swimmers have continued to rewrite the Welsh A high percentage of this year’s National Team Plan year, to extend this to a regional version which will the National and International Level with the following Records at both Junior and Senior Level. There have has been focused around Commonwealth Games Our Millennium Volunteers programme continues to bring all of our ideas together for a further National notable performances from our swimmers been many other notable performances with good preparations. Working with British Swimming and the advance and introduces our young people into volunteering Conference in the late spring or early summer. This will improvements across all age bands and all levels Commonwealth Games Council for Wales along with at Club, Region and National Levels. We have been act as a magnificent springboard for the future for all of David Davies Selected for Great Britain European particularly Welsh Swimmers competing consistently Sport Wales I am confident that the 2010 Games Team is commended by British Swimming for the achievements us who are involved with swimming. Open Water Championships at British Age Group, Youth and Senior Levels. the best ever prepared team and the most professional these volunteers have made. Full statistics can be seen Jemma Lowe Selected for Great Britain European group of Swimmers and Staff we have ever had. We have, as you will see from the Education Report, in the Volunteer Coordinator’s Report. Currently the Senior National Team is preparing for Championships embarked into an initiative with the Welsh Assembly the Commonwealth Games and I would like to extend We have also continued with developing our National These volunteers have combined with our new Events Government and Sport Wales (formerly Sports Council congratulations to the following swimmers and coaches Squad Structure and I am pleased to report that whilst Team in producing some excellent competitions this Jazz Carlin Selected for Great Britain European Wales) to enhance the teaching and coaching of swimming on their selection to the 2010 Commonwealth Games over the past twelve months we have improved the year culminating in the much –praised Great Britain v Championships – Bronze Medal 4 x 200 within Wales by expediting a new initiative on up-skilling qualifying standards for Squads we still have more Germany Meet at Swansea. Freestyle Relay Jazz Carlin Lowri Tynan Local Authority poolside coaches, teachers and staff. swimmers qualifying for the Squads. It is also noticeable Sara Lougher Selected for Great Britain at European that as standards have been improved swimmers This scheme was founded as part of the Assembly’s I want to thank all our staff, volunteers and partners for Georgia Davies David Davies Junior Championships Silver Medal 4 x qualifying for Regional Squads and above are now Free Swim Initiative and will lead to well over 3,600 the tremendous contributions you have all made this 100 Medley Relay and Bronze Medal 50 Georgia Holderness Tom Haffield coming mainly from our identified Performance Clubs. course places over the two year project. This also year and I invite you all to join with the Board and me, in Breaststroke the next year, to make significantly more achievements Sara Lougher Robert Holderness allows us to enhance the supply of specialists in our The past twelve months has proved exceptionally busy and do even more and, as with our swimmers, continue other disciplines of Water Polo and Diving to date, the Tom Allen Selected for Great Britain at European with training camps and competitions being arranged on our pathway of achievement, advancement and Jemma Lowe Ieuan Lloyd uptake in both disciplines has been very encouraging Championships and World Open Water for each developmental level. We have also added commitment to our sport. with our Senior Welsh Water Polo team winning the Championships Sian Morgan Marco Loughran into the Swim Wales National Team Plan several new inaugural Celtic Tri Nations Water Polo Competition activities.

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