Newsletter 8 July 2013
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Newsletter 8 July 2013 Latest News Welcome to the last newsletter of this swimming season which is almost at an end. Whilst hopefully more glory awaits our record number of WSMSC swimmers heading off to nationals – what a season it has been all round. This edition carries our usual write-ups of galas/meets, the Southern Junior League and South West Regional Championships, alongside reports received on Learn To Swim and water polo. A reminder to please support our kind sponsors who are backing us in 2013. Brilliant Bethan swims 400 lengths of Burnham Pool to help young Deborah Star billing this issue goes to Bethan Rees who completed an unbelievable 10 kilometre swim to give an African child a better life. Eleven year old Bethan has been sponsoring little Deborah Chome, six, from Kenya, for three years. Every year Bethan finds a different way of raising the £72 annual cost of giving Deborah an education. Through English language tuition, tackling basic maths and learning to read and write she will at least be given a chance to make something of her life. This year Bethan decided to head to Burnham Pool, where she swam an incredible 400 lengths – raising around £300. Bethan was up at 05.30, in sub-zero temperatures, to start swimming at 6am when most 11 year olds on their Easter holidays would still be tucked up in bed. She swam front-crawl non-stop for 3.5 hours, turning onto her back every 10th length to sip a drink whilst still kicking. Bethan told her local newspaper - the Weekly News - “I’ve always liked swimming and I just wanted a challenge. I was very relieved when I finished and very tired but I’m proud to have done it.” Bethan met Deborah last year (photograph above) when she went to Kenya with her younger sister Megan and mum Sarah. Sarah said: “It was an eye-opener. We went to the Jolourabi School, which Deborah goes to, and went through the village and saw the poverty. It opened my children’s eyes as to what life can be like.” For further details about sponsoring a child and making a difference, please speak to Sarah. From all your friends at WSMSC – amazing Bethan. Well done. WSMSC PB LIST – NEW POLICY Going forward we have decided that times will only go onto the PB (personal best) lists that have been achieved at licensed meets and tightly controlled events like Southern Junior League, Arena National League, Bristol North, etc. We will not include times from events such as our Novice Gala, Club Championships, etc., where there are neither the required number of, nor qualified level, of officials (as per a licensed meet or a league competition) and DQ’s tend not to be enforced. Paul and Nic Daniel have kindly agreed to continue to operate the PB list and will have times forwarded to them after each gala that we attend to be added to the PB list. Where swimmers’ enter a gala not being supported by the club and get a PB that they would like to have added to the PB list, they can forward times on to the Daniels with proof of the time where possible (results sheet or weblink to the meet results, specifying event number and heat number etc.) and those times will then be added to the PB List. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WHEN ENTERING GALAS, ENTRY TIMES SHOULD BE TAKEN FROM THE SWIMMER’S BIOGS RATHER THAN THE PB LIST PARTICULARLY FOR LEVEL 1 AND LEVEL 2 MEETS WHERE ENTRY TIMES WILL INCREASINGLY BE CHECKED BY THE CLUBS ORGANISING THE MEET. How do I access my child’s ASA biog to get their official times? Go online and enter the following address into your browser: https://www.swimmingresults.org/biogs/ Either enter your child’s ASA registration number or your surname. If you enter the former, then click “go looking”, your child’s times will then appear (short and long course for all events). If you enter your surname, then click “go looking”, you will have to scroll down until you find your child, then click on their ASA member number and you will then see on the next screen their full biography. These biogs are updated after every single licensed event, usually within a few days of the event itself. OFFICIALS UPDATE - Congratulations to Diane and Malcolm Anderson on passing their Judge 2 assessment at the Millfield Last Chance Meet. This adds stroke & place judging to their repertoire. Next stop – starters …….. then refs!!!!!!!! ADVANCE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - SOMERSET ASA COMPETITIONS Development Meet 5th/6th October 2013 at Millfield – a super meet for swimmers to get official times with no need to enter an entry time for events. 2014 County Swimming Championships (“the Somersets”) 2nd March (Long Distance), 8th/9th March, 15th/16th March, and 22nd /23rd March (Millfield) Millfield is also the confirmed venue for the 2015 and 2016 county championships. Plymouth Leander will once again face the might of the purple army in round 1 of the 2013 Arena League. Leander recently won the overall National Arena League Final in April 2013 at Cardiff International Pool (if you ever want to know how to get there, Dave Brunsdon’s your man – provided you want the scenic route) for the fifth time in 6 years, defeating allcomers, with fellow Western Division teams - Taunton Deane (third) and Millfield (fifth) also performing incredibly well, demonstrating the strength of swimming in the south-west. The draw for the first round of the 2013 league competition has been made (venues haven’t yet been determined). The six teams who will slug out gala 1 on Saturday 12th October 2013 are: Plymouth Leander Nofio Sir Gar A Weston-Super-Mare Bridgend Soundwell A Swim Bournemouth A PERSONAL SURVIVAL SUCCESS Children’s safety in the water is a major concern for parents and guardians, and the ASA’s Safety and Survival Awards are designed to offer a little peace of mind. The awards cover survival knowledge, awareness of dangers and vital life-saving information – life-skills that no-one knows when could be called into play. Many congratulations to the following WSMSC swimmers who have recently gained their Level 1 and 2 Kellogg’s ASA Personal Survival Awards: Amber Spillane Taylor Kingston Bethan Anderson Jessica Knight Caitlin Ashurst George Cook Beth Bryant Amy Lance Reece Coombes The Personal Survival Awards complement Stages 8-10 of the LTS. They ensure learners know how to react if they find themselves in difficulty by testing them in real-life situations. 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Chiropractic has great success in treating: Back pain , Neck pain, Headaches, Leg pain, Arm pain , Sciatica , Disc problems , Tennis Elbow, Sports Injuries and Arthritis Phone now to book your appointment on 01934 627733 WSMSC - Most Improved Swimmer Awards As stated in the last newsletter, here is the photograph that appeared in The Mercury showing most of our MIS Award winners from the Christmas 2012 and Easter 2013 terms. Photographed are: back row (left to right) Amy Mathews, Immy Moroney, Ollie Elliott, Lauren Hodgkin and Holly Hudghton. Front row (left to right) are Lottie Dadds, Charlie Deakin and Rhianna Gardner. The other award winners (Marcus Gardiner and Tommy Kendall) were not available for the photograph. Well done to you all. These prizes are awarded on the basis of improvement and not ability. They are based upon observation by all of the club’s coaches and decided at the coaches meetings. Swimmers – keep working hard and next time – it could be you! 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Anyway, on to the event itself, which was to be punctuated for some of our under-12s by the need to get to Horfield on the Saturday evening in time for the SJL round.