Southwold Swimming Club

The first round of the Southern Junior League is on the 24th April. We are at the Littledown Centre in Bournmouth and the Gala starts at 6.00pm. We will be laying on coach transport and all swimmers are expected to travel by coach.

We are up against Ferndown, Keynsham, Frome, Melksham, Trowbridge and Poole.

We did extremely well last year finishing 5th overall. The first round this year will be a tough gala with us up against last year's winners Ferndown, who will be strengthened by swimming  jointly with Bournmouth Dolphins who were last year's 3rd placed team! Keynsham are usually very strong and usually make the Winners Final, although they just missed out on last year's Winners Final. And we must not forget the others including Trowbridge and Poole who again can field strong teams.

I will post the team after the Gloucester County Championship Team evensts on the 14th March. We need a maximum turnout on the day and we need to do some hard work between now and then to do well.

Keith

Please see the list for the County Championships "Teams" event  on the 14th March 2010. Although we can enter a number of teams in the heats only 1 team can represent the Club in any finals. The representitive teams for the finals will be selected on the day, by the coaching staff, and can be drawn from any swimmers in any of the appropriate age group teams. Swimmers with ticks next to their names have confirmed an need take no further action unless they cannot make it. Those with question marks are yet to confirm and need to make their availability known ASAP.

Keith

Well done to all the swimmers who took part in the B Grade Gala at Hutton Moor on the 13th Feb 2010.  We had a good turnout of swimmers but were a little short in the 15U and Open Girls categories. This was the first team gala for most of the swimmers this year as the Club has now pulled out of the Cotswold Series. The swimmers rose to the challenge well and special mention to Charlotte Bragg and Sophie Watson who had to swim a lot of races due to the lack of numbers in the older girl categories.

This was the first multi-club gala Southwold have organised and hosted and all seemed to run smoothly. So thanks to Richard and Jason who did a lot of the running around and to all those who helped on the day.

The gala saw some close racing and the lead changed several times with 3 teams going intothe last race with only a few points between them. However, Weston-Super-Mare declared some ineligable swimmers after the final race and their points were retrospectively adjusted.

The final points were:

Southwold - 168

Yeovil - 162

Frome - 149

Weston-Super-Mare - 126

Wells & Shepton Mallet - 108

All the Southwold results and splits are now on Team Stats Online

Keith

In a packed Gloucester pool we had an excellent first weekend of competition with a host of good PBs and a number of medals. We were extremely well represented as a club and had a large contingent of swimmers,who were very well behaved. Results from the weekend are now on line at www.gcasa-results.co.uk. Our club results are now in Team Stats Online.

There were many good swims and many top 8 places and had a number of swimmers that won medals or made the Championship finals. I have listed the main medal winners them all below and I hope I've managed to get you all. Great weekend well done everybody. 

Back to some hard training with the next weekend just over 2 weeks away!

This was a really enjoyable gala and great competition. The relay distances were short which saw some really fast, exiting and close races. In the end there were 2 separate groupings with us and Severnside Tritons (formally Thornbury & Stroud) vying for 1st/2nd place and Keynsham, Weston and Clevedon having a separate battles We started off really well and after 20 events we were in the lead, 1 point ahead of Severnside Tritons. We continued to swim to the best of our abilities but the strength in depth of the Tritons squad proved too much as they continued to edge ahead finishing 29 points ahead.

Well done to Lucy Jenkinson who broke the Club 50n Backstroke record for an 11 year old with a time of 35.57. I have also attached a sheet showing the Club 4 x 25m relay records that were broken, some of them smashed. I think think this best shows how much the whole club has improved in the last couple of years. Times from the meet are now on Team Stats Online.

Thanks to all the helpers on the night and Keynsham for organising the gala.

Keith