NEWSLETTER Issue 29: July 2019

All Ready for British Summer Championships In this issue…

Summer Championships are just around the corner …we’ve got all you need to know to support our swimmers at British, English, Scottish & Welsh …

Coming Very Soon… Team Bath AS Summer Clinics

Regional Champs Round Up Eleven Team Bath AS Swimmers will be representing the #blueandgoldarmy at the British Swimming Coffee with…. the ‘style king’ Championships (23-28 July), between them swimming that is our Development a total of 24 events during the meet to be held at Coach Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Glasgow.

Racing every day having qualified for six events (50m, 100m, 200m Free; 100m, 200m Fly; 50m Back) will be 14yr old Max Adams who makes his British Championship debut alongside team mates Olly Watts (50m Free, 50m Fly), Rue Fowler (200m IM) and Katie Butcher (50m Back). There will also be appearances from our more experienced athletes with Mark Edmundson (50m, 100m, 200m Back), Rhiannon Bowen (100m, 200m Free; 100m Fly), Misty Marshall-Welling (50m, 200m Free), Ethan McNeil (200m Breast) and Laura McNab After completing her A Levels, Laura (50m Free) all competing in their best events. Niamh Ward McNab will be competing in the (14) and Finlay Saunders (15) complete the line up with 50m Freestyle at British both swimmers competing in the 100m and 200m Championships. Backstroke too. British Summer Championships #SummerChamps19 23-28 July 2019 Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Glasgow Follow team results - @teambathas on Twitter Livestream https://www.youtube.com/user/BritishSwimming

Home Nation Championships Shaping Up Nicely for #blueandgoldarmy

There’s an an exciting summer of competition ahead for Team Bath AS with swimmers preparing for British and Home Nation Championships over the coming weeks.

Home Nation Championships kick off with the Scottish Summer Meet (11-14 July) where Ethan McNeil (right) will be competing in four events (100m Breast, 200m Fly, 200m IM, 400m IM). A couple of weeks later and the English and Welsh Summer Championships take place. We have teams of qualifying swimmers heading to both Sheffield and Swansea to compete at these events too.

Our four Welsh Home Nation swimmers will head off to Swansea to fly the flag for the #blueandgoldarmy at the Swim Wales Summer Open (29 July-2 August). Swimming at the Welsh National Pool will be Lucas Lawman (200m Free, 50m Breast, 200m Breast, 200m IM, 400m IM); Katie Butcher (100m Back, 200m Back); Tegan Gibson (50m Free, 400m Free, 1500m Free) and Misty Marshall- Welling (100m Free). Left: Lucas Lawman, Misty Marshall- Welling, Tegan Gibson & Katie Butcher.

Just a couple of days later, events kick off in Sheffield at the Swim England National Summer Meet (31 August-4 August). There will be nine Team Bath AS swimmers competing – Rue Fowler (100m Free, 200m Free, 100m Back, 200m Back); Olly Watts (100m Free, 200m Free, 800m Free, 50m Breast); Dylan Hood (200m Breast, 400m IM); Lydia Crawford (200m Fly); Peter Mould (100m Breast); Finlay Saunders (50m Back); Oliver Saunders (200m IM) and Alex Sharman (200m Fly).

Above Left to Right (Top) Olly Watts, Finlay Saunders, Alex Sharman, Dylan Hood (Bottom row) Oliver Saunders, Lydia Crawford, Rue Fowler

HERE’S ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO SUPPORT OUR SWIMMERS Follow/Tweet Your Support – Find us on Twitter @TeamBathAS 11-14 July 2019 Scottish Summer Meet #ScotSM19 Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh Info: https://www.scottishswimming.com/compete/swimming/national- events/summermeet.aspx 29 July-2 August 2019 Swim Wales Summer Open 2019 #SWSO19 Welsh National Pool, Swansea Above: Peter Mould, Info: https://www.swimwales.org/events/swim-wales-summer-open swimming 100 Breast Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/swimwales/?ref=br_rs at the Swim England 31 July-4 August 2019 Swim England National Summer Meet 2019 #SESwimming National Summer Ponds Forge, Sheffield Meet. Info: https://www.swimming.org/sport/about-the-national-summer-meet/ Livestream: https://www.swimming.org/sport/swimming-live-stream/

It’s Para World Championships for Steph

Huge congratulations to Team Bath AS swimmer Stephanie Millward MBE who will be heading off to the World Para Swimming Championships 2019 at the London Aquatic Centre, 9-15 September. Steph will be competing in both individual events and relays at the Championships which are the key qualifying event for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Please join us in getting behind Steph as she prepares for this huge occasion and support her throughout the event by showing your support on social media. All the information about the Para World Championships can be found here https://www.britishswimming.org/events-and-tickets/world-para-swimming- championships-2019/

Steph will be Swimming:- 9 Sept - 100m Freestyle; 10 Sept -100m Backstroke 13 Sept - 4 x100m Medley Relay; 15 Sept – 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Our Girls Enjoy Regional Camp Following their performances at Regionals, three Team Bath AS swimmers Lucy Stevens, Molly Watts and Poppy Williams attended the first day of the Swim England South West Regional Pathway Camp at Millfield. Well done girls!

Volunteer Award for Peter Congratulations to swimmer Medals for Masters Swimmers Peter Mould who came joint 3rd place in the Somerset ASA Team Bath AS celebrated medal success at 2019 County Volunteer of the the Gloucester and Somerset Masters Year Award. Meet held at Horfield Leisure Centre, Bristol on 18 May. Peter was presented with his Guy Roberts won Gold 100 IM; Gold 100 award at the Somerset AGM Free; Gold 50 Free; Bronze 50 Fly. in June in recognition of his Alex Koniotes won Bronze 100 Free; volunteering poolside for Bronze 50 Fly. Team Bath AS.

OUR NEXT MEET

Saturday 7 September 2019 EARLY SEASON SHORT COURSE L4 SPRINT MEET & RELAYS Horfield Leisure Centre, Bristol BS7 0XW

Further details www.teambathas.co.uk

Big Shout Out To Our Volunteers

The annual National Volunteers Week took place 1-7 June and gave us a chance to say a big thank you to all those volunteers who help run our Club. Like most Clubs we could not exist without the free time, passion and tireless work done by our volunteers and as ever we’re always in need of more help. We launched our new commitment to volunteering scheme this year and we thank all parents who have responded so far either by paying the opt out fee or by registering their hours with our volunteer coordinator Mark Birkett ([email protected]). If you still have to get your hours in, do it right away as this seasons contributions will be concluded at the end of July.

Movers and Shakers….

Team Bath AS Volunteers Co-ordinator Mark Birkett with our swimmer Mark Congratulations to our Academy Swimmers who have moved up to new squads since our Edmundson. last newsletter.

Well done to all our swimmers who have Welcome to our new Performance graduated from the Academy Finish Squad into Swimmers the Performance Program Transition Squad A big Team Bath AS welcome to the new after completing their trial. Welcome to Oswin, Talya, Katie, Finnley, Tallulah and Grace. swimmers (and their families) who have joined the Performance Program since our last issue: Glesni Lewis (below) has moved up from the Turn to Finish Squad within the Academy. Abi Coppard, Izzy King, Tegan Gibson, Logan Bolwell, Poppy Williams & Seb Gillett.

Congratulations Debbie

Congratulations to Debbie Rafferty who joins our team of officials A big warm welcome to our new Academy Swimmers and their families who have joined having qualified Team Bath AS following the last Academy as a J1. Swimming Taster Day. Thank you Grace, Cara, Jimmie, Cesca, Will B, Isabella, Will Debbie. M, Erin, Peter and Wilson.

Emerging Talent Makes a Splash Youth Regionals

Team Bath AS swimmers competed in Plymouth in the Swim England South West Regional Championships over the weekend of 4-6 May with the competition revealing some star performances from emerging talent with Championship titles for both Niamh Ward (15yr, 200 Back) and Olly Watts (14yr, 800 Free) who were both competing for the first time at Plymouth. Entering the competition on 2.23.93, Niamh’s 200 Backstroke heat swim produced a new PB which she promptly slashed again in the finals by a further two seconds to produce her golden swim in a time of 2.21.14. Having already contributed in the full set of Boy’s Relays, Olly Watts pulled out a new LC PB on the final afternoon winning Gold in the 800m Freestyle in a time of 9.15.71. Double Silver Medallist Finlay Saunders (16) also showed solid progression through the competition knocking 3 seconds off his 200m Backstroke PB and a second off his 100m Backstroke time to win his medals.

Backstroke medals kept coming with Mark Edmundson’s Bronze (17+yr, 200 Back) and Niamh’s second medal, a Silver in the 15yr 100 Back. Having already swum in the 100 Free (6th) and 100 Fly (6th) finals, Rhiannon Bowen demonstrated her signature grit in the 17yr 200 Freestyle Finals winning a further Silver medal for the Team in a time of 2.06.98.

Competing for the first time in Plymouth 15yr swimmers Lydia Crawford (5th 200 Fly, 8th 100 Fly), Katie Butcher (7th 50 Back, 10th 100 Back) and Niamh Ward (1st 200 Back, 2nd 100 Back, 8th 100 Free) all achieved Finals swims with 16yr boys Arthur Bown-Mazzoni (8th 200 Free) and Finlay Saunders (2nd 200 Back, 2nd 100 Back, 5th 50 Back, 6th 800 Free) adding further to the Team’s Finals tally.

With many swimmers entering the Open (17+yr) age group for the first time the Championships provided an additional challenge. Un- phased, our Open swimmers produced solid performances through heats and finals with 17+yr final swims for Madeleine Aldam- Gates

(9th 50 Free), Rhiannon Bowen (2nd 200 Free, 6th 100 Free, 6th 100 Fly), Mark Edmundson (3rd 200 Back), Ethan McNeil (6th 400 IM, 8th 200 Fly), Peter Mould (9th 200 Breast) and Alex Sharman (7th 200 Fly).

In addition to the individual events, Team Bath AS also produced an impressive set of relay performances which added to the 17+yr line up with some Age Group swimmers making up the 14/16 teams and appearing in Plymouth for the first time. An unfortunate accident for Mark Edmundson during the event sadly meant a premature end to his Championships and the 17+yr Medley Relay Team’s race, but the spirit and determination meant our teams still produced impressive swims with the majority pulling off individual unofficial PBs to do their best for the Team.

Impressive Results from Age Group Swimmers at 2019 SW Summer Regional Championships

Team Bath AS swimmers aged 11-14 competed over three May weekends in Bristol, Millfield and Plymouth in the 2019 Swim England South West Age Group Regional Championships. The nineteen Age-Group swimmers produced an impressive set of results with 83% of heat swims resulting in personal best times and the team winning a total of 40 finals places. Seventy percent of our finalists then went on to produce a further time improvement in their second swim, with 14 podium places across the Championships for the Age Group Swimmers.

Championship Gold Medal performances came from Max Adams (200 Fly), Olly Watts (800 Free, Plymouth), Rue Fowler (200 IM) and Lucy Stevens (200Fly); with Max Adams winning three further Silver Medals (200 Free, 100 Free, 50 Free). Our Bronze medal winners were Oliver Saunders (200 IM), Molly Watts (200 Back), Olly Watts (50 Breast), Rue Fowler (200 Back, 200 Free) and Max Adams (100 Fly).

Well Done to All Team Bath AS Age Group Regional Finalists:

Max Adams 200 Free (2nd), 50 Back (6th), 200 Fly (1st), 100 Fly (3rd), 100 Free (2nd), 50 Free (2nd) Tommy Criddle 800 Free (10th) Rue Fowler 200 IM (1st), 400 Free (7th), 100 Free (3rd), 50 Breast (9th), 100 Back (4th), 200 Free (3rd), 200 Back (3rd) Camille Gillett 100 Free (7th), 50 Back (7th) Charlotte Lang 200 IM (6th), 100 Free (6th), 50 Free (7th), 100 Fly (8th) Margot Lewy-Pierre 400 Free (10th) Jo Martindale 50 Back (10th), 1500 Free (4th), 400 Free (7th) Molly Morris 1500 Free (4th) Oliver Saunders 200 IM (3rd), 400 IM (4th), 800 Free (8th), 50 Fly (8th), 200 Fly (8th) Lucy Stevens 100 Breast (8th), 200 Fly (1st), 100 Back (8th), 50 Fly (5th), 50 Back (7th), 100 Fly (6th) Molly Watts 200 Back (3rd), 200 IM (7th), 100 Back (4th), 50 Back (4th), 100 Fly (7th) Olly Watts 800 Free (1st), 200 Free (4th), 50 Fly (5th), 50 Breast (3rd), 200 Molly Watts wins her first Fly (4th), 100 Breast (5th), 100 Free (5th), 50 Free (4th) Regional Medal – Bronze Elliot Wood 200 Fly (6th) 11/12yr 200 Backstroke.

Onwards & Upwards The Focus on Development continues… The Team Bath AS focus on training and development for swimmers and the wider community goes from strength to strength as our regular program of successful clinics and courses continue. Our fourth Age Group Development Clinic ‘Ready to Race’ with Chris Alderton (to be held on 6 July) sold out within a day of launch and follows on from the sell out success of the previous Clinics hosted by Development Coach Liam Willcox. Liam’s latest Clinic ‘Improve Your Starts’ on 15 June saw over 20 swimmers aged 10-13 focus on the start, underwater and breakout phase of racing in the University of Bath’s 50m pool with Liam also taking his training expertise wider afield delivering a bespoke session for the Paragon School in Bath. If you’d be interested in arranging a bespoke training session for swimmers at your school – contact [email protected] With the continued focus on training Team Bath AS hosted 16 candidates from across the region for the blended learning Swim England Swimming Assistant (Coaching) course. Full of enthusiasm the candidates from a range of local Clubs arrived for the course on Friday 14 June with tutor Steve Greenfield ahead of a full weekend of training to complete the face to face modules of the course. Attending from Team Bath AS were 3 volunteers – Somerset Young Volunteer of the Year 3rd place winner Peter Mould, Team Physiologist Eva Piatrikova and Academy Poolside Assistant Jess Rogers (Norton Radstock). Team Bath AS delegates were supported with funding from Somerset ASA and the region using the Swim England SW bursary scheme and Swim Mark vouchers. Team Bash AS gained Approved Training Centre status last year after helping to run Level 1 and 2 courses for several years previously. The Club hosted the course which was organised by Swim England South West Development Officer, Stephanie Gadd in association with the Institute of Swimming. Many thanks to Chris Alderton, Head Coach and Liam Willcox, Lead Development Coach for presenting the sessions and all our Performance Swimmers who were fantastic as usual and assisted the process. Team Bath AS look forward to welcoming even more candidates for the Swim England Coaching Swimming course in September.

Patrons: Sharron Davies MBE, Stephanie Millward MBE

COMING SOON…

TEAM BATH AS PRE-SEASON FOCUS CLINICS at the University of Bath 50m Pool

A SERIES OF SKILLS DAYS FOR COMPETITIVE SWIMMERS (9-16 years) With Head Coach, Chris Alderton and Lead Development Coach Liam Willcox

Save the Dates

Saturday 24 August Sunday 25 August Monday 26 August Tuesday 27 August

Clinics will be available to purchase as single days or a complete package. Places Limited – First come, first served. Further details available very soon. Swimmers 9-16 years should be able to cope with a 2 hour pool session, have competed during this season at L3 competitions or above and be current ASA Cat. 2 members.

Register your interest NOW. Email [email protected]

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Results - Team Bath AS Pre-National Meet - June 29/30 2019

Age Group Results Max Adams Silver 100 Free, 100 Fly; Bronze 50 Free Rhiannon Bowen Silver 200 Fly; Bronze 50 Free, 200 Free, 100 Free Katie Butcher Silver 50 Back; Bronze 100 Back Lydia Crawford Silver 200 Fly; Bronze 100 Fly Mark Edmundson Gold 200 Back, 50 Fly; Silver 100 Back, 50 Back Rue Fowler Gold 200 Free, 100 Free, 50 Fly; Silver 200 Back, 200 IM Camille Gillett Silver 50 Back; Bronze 400 Free Lucas Lawman Gold 400 IM, Silver 200 IM Margot Lewy-Pierre Silver 400 Free, 200 Free Laura McNab Gold 50 Free, 100 Free Great to see Matt Hardick (above) Ethan McNeil Bronze 400 IM competing again after a year of injury. Imogen Rafferty Silver 400 IM Finlay Saunders Gold 50 Back, 200 Back; Silver 100 Back; Bronze 50 Fly Alex Sharman Silver 200 Fly; Bronze 100 Fly Niamh Ward Gold 200 Back, 100 Back; Silver 50 Back Olly Watts Silver 100 Breast

Finals Results (15/under & 16/over) Max Adams 200 Free (8th), 200 Fly (6th), 100 Fly (4th ) Maddi Aldam-Gates 50 Free (6th), 50 Breast (4th) Rhiannon Bowen 200 Fly (1st), 100 Fly (4th), 50 Free (4th), 200 Free (1st), 100 Free (3rd) Arthur Bown-Mazzoni 200 Free (14th), 100 Back (13th) rd th Katie Butcher 50 Back (3 ), 100 Back (7 ) Liliana Cookson 100 Fly (9th), 100 Free (10th), 50 Fly (8th) Lydia Crawford 200 Fly (2nd), 100 Fly (4th) Mark Edmundson 100 Back (2nd), 50 Fly (2nd), 50 Back (2nd), 200 Back (1st) Rue Fowler 200 Back (4th), 200 Free (5th), 50 Fly (5th) Isaac Grothier 100 Fly (10th), 50 Free (10th) Matt Hardick 50 Breast (5th) Dylan Hood 200 Breast (7th), 200 IM (7th) Lucas Lawman 200 Free (4th), 200 IM (2nd), 100 Breast (12th) Margot Lewy-Pierre 200 Free (8th) Misty Marshall-Welling 200 Free (5th), 100 Free (4th) Laura McNab 50 Free (1st), 100 Free (1st) Ethan McNeil 200 Breast (5th), 100 Fly (11th), 200 IM (9th) Peter Mould 50 Breast (13th) Imogen Rafferty 100 Free (11th), 50 Fly (9th) Finlay Saunders 100 Back (2nd), 50 Fly (4th), 50 Back (3rd), 200 Back (1st) Alex Sharman 200 Fly (2nd), 100 Fly (4th) Niamh Ward 50 Back (5th), 200 Back (1st), 100 Back (1st) Megan Watts 50 Fly (10th) Olly Watts 200 Free (7th), 100 Breast (8th)

Coffee with.... The Coach

We met up with our Development Coach and Team Fashionista, Liam Willcox to find out just what makes him tick….

Coffee? Mine’s a Matcha Frappuccino, sweetened, but hold the cream!

What would be your 5 word intro? Shoes say lots about you!

What’s your top Swimming achievement? When I was in learn to swim at Wells, I swam my first mile and finished so far ahead of the other kids that by the time everyone else had finished swimming, I was in the café halfway through eating my fishy whales and chips!

What’s the thing you’re most proud of? Being able to help people achieve their goals and seeing the results! And… taking my shoe collection from 70 down to 30 or 35 pairs….. or maybe it’s 40!

Lots of our swimmers already know you have a thing for shoes - what else do you do away from the pool? Fine dining and a long stroll in the park! (that’s Liam for shopping and skateboarding!)

If you could only take one pair of shoes with you - which ones would you choose? (long pause while thinking, then asks…) ‘Can I have two? ‘Three?’ ….. (long pause again…..) ‘It would have to be – Adidas Ultra Boost EQT Pusha-T and Nike x Sacai LDwaffle’

What’s your...

Claim to fame/Shameless name drop? When I was officiating at Sports Relief at the London Aquatic Centre I was sat in the Green Room chilling with Freddie Flintoff (who was handing out the Quality Street), Seb Coe, Olly Murs and Helen Skelton – I even got a hug from Helen Skelton!

Dinner with anyone - table for 4 - who would you invite? ‘Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Virgil Abloh …. And I’d also have to have Tyler, the Creator; - that’s four - I’ll sit on a stool!’

What would you eat? Salt and Pepper Squid and a side of Nachos

Guilty pleasure? Making a Murderer on Neflix (and believing I can solve the crime!)

Who’s your biggest professional inspiration? Everyone who has helped me on my journey and given up their time to help me achieve my goals.

If you could have 10 minutes with any sports person who would it be? P.J. Tucker (basketball) and Conor McGregor (boxer) – to see their clothes and shoe collections.

And finally...

Your view on socks and sliders? Only on a comfy day and only if single-branded

And… What would the Liam shoe-aholic alternative be? Anything with Boost…(and Crocs….joking!)