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As many of you are aware, that due to personal commitments, I am stepping down as chair of 4SSC at the next AGM. As this will be my last newsletter as chair, I would therefore, like to take this opportunity to thank all the coaches, swimmers, their parents, committee members and the newly formed ‘friends’ group, for all their support over the last few years. The club continues to grow and flourish, with swimmers demonstrating their talent and enthusiasm for swimming at many competitive levels, most recently including great success at Regional level too. This is something the whole club should feel incredibly proud about.
I am very confident that the club will continue to grow over the coming years, as a direct consequence of the commitment of the coaching staff and committee. However, you don’t get rid of me that easily, the Lambs will continue to swim with, and compete for the club, and I will watch from the side-lines with pride, knowing that I have partially contributed to the growth of the club and its strong position in the greater Chipping Norton community.
Thank you.
Kath
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Updates from our Head Coach … Kim
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The month started with the SER Championships at Portsmouth, Rebecca Hoadley competed in 50, 100, 200 Fs & 50 Fly whilst Fee Darwent competed in 50, 100, 200 Fs, 50, 100 Bk & 200 IM. Despite some great swims, only Fee made the finals in 50 Fs, finishing 8th. Hopefully both are also aiming for the Short Course Winter Regionals.
We then took 16 swimmers to the COSC development Meet- out of 36 swims there were 26 PBs. A great result for us.
The Gloucester Masters Meet saw two of our small band of Masters, Clive Jarvis and Sam Oliver swim in 4 & 3 events respectively. Both had good swims with Sam getting 2nd in 100 breast, 3rd in 50 breast, whilst Clive came 4th in 50 Back. Unfortunately I had entered but didn’t attend on medical advice. Not sure my life insurance covered me.
Then followed two weekends at the K2 in Crawley with Ellie Lawrence and Adam Nash swimming at the Junior SER Championships. Both swam really well. Adam competed in 100, 200 Breast & 100, 200 Fly, producing very good PBs in all.
Ellie competed in 50, 100, 200 Back & 50 Breast, Also producing PBs and coming 3rd in the final of the 50 Back. Great swims.
Fee Darwent competed at the Plymouth Leander National Qualifier Meet swimming 50 Fs, 50 Fly, 50 & 100 Back. Getting two LC PBs out of the four good swims.
Last week saw the second Club Skills/Fun night. This worked well for our development squads as it is an opportunity to practise different training techniques, the competitive start awards, stroke, turn and race skills, as well as add some fun to swimming training. The top squads had their time reduced so after an hour session we had a short compact fun bit. This night is still under trial and discussion.
Finally, Congratulations to
Eloise Upton & Michael Pearson 13/14 yrs
Abby Chapman & Louis Bushby 11/12 yrs
For being selected to attend the Oxon & North Bucks Development days.
Kim
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Senior Trainer of the Month is Laura Tolley, who joined us late on but has already qualifying times for 2017 Counties; she always works hard and has her sights on Regionals 2017.
Junior Trainer of the Month is Leah Hawtin, who is a very talented young swimmer who continues to develop. We have high hopes for her in 2017 and these can be achieved with sustained hard work and concentration.
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We are delighted to welcome the following new members:
Amy Jones, Matthew Edmonds, Ed Salmon and Jess Hester.
We hope you enjoy your swimming and make lots of new friends!
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A reminder from our Coaches & Committee:
Please would all parents note that the coaches' responsibility for all swimmers ends when they leave the pool area. Therefore would all parents/carers please ensure that they are present ready to pick up their child/ren by the end of the session. If UNAVOIDABLY delayed (ie due to breaking down), please telephone the pool centre staff and ask for a message to be passed onto the coaches so that arrangements can be made to ensure your child is supervised until you arrive to collect him/her. It is NOT the responsibility of the coaches or committee members to supervise swimmers after the session has ended. Parents are also expected to be available to collect their child prior to the end of the session should the coaches need to phone and request this for any reason such as a swimmer feeling unwell etc If this is not possible, the child concerned will be asked to change and then remain poolside until the parent arrives thus ensuring they remain under the coaches' supervision until s/he is collected. Thank you for your co-operation.
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Sainsbury's Active Kids vouchers
We would be pleased to receive any Sainsbury's vouches to enable us to exchange for some new equipment - please pass to any committee member. Thank you!
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