Mollie at the Nationals

A week after turning 15, Mollie Wright competed in the National Youth Championships  on Wednesday and came 10th in the 15yr olds in the 800m Free, with a p.b and next years National Qualifying time.
Well done Mollie.

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Club Championships 2013

Club Champs Entry Details

Club Champs Entry Form

Hi Everyone

Above are all the details for the forthcoming Club Champs in October/November.

You may think this is a long way off yet but it will soon be upon us. The closing date for entries is Monday 16th September so make sure you get your entries in early if you can.

As with the fun gala, it would help if you could run off your own entry forms, though we will have to have some on the desk for those people who didn't give us an e-mail address.

If you have any queries please see me at any club session, ask at the desk or drop me a message on my own e-mail address [jean.granger@o2.co.uk].

Jean

Charly at the Nationals

Charly Neilson recorded a small p.b and next years national qualifying time whilst finishing in 18th place in the girls 100m Breaststroke on Saturday at the National Age Group Championships.
A big well done from all at KSC to Charly.

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Volunteers.

We are always needing volunteers to help out at the club in any capacity but particularly during the coming month when a lot of our teachers will be having their family holidays. Some sessions may only see one or two teachers on poolside. We do not want to cancel any sessions over the holiday period , so please help out if you can.

If you wish to help out in any way please speak to the desk people, Jean or any of the poolside 'staff'

KSC.

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KSC Club Championships 2013

The entry forms for this years club championships on the 13th October and 3rd November, will be  available at the desk at the desk soon.
ALL SQUAD and LANE 5 SWIMMERS ARE EXPECTED TO ENTER.
ALL main pool swimmers from the Improver sessions are also encouraged to enter.
The age this year will be as of the 3rd November.

This year, for the first time the champs will be licensed. What does this mean?

Licensed galas are those galas where the competitor is swimming for themselves. Each licensed Gala is given a grade, which  starts at level 4 i.e Club Championships.

The results from the club championships will be forwarded to the ASA , so it is a good opportunity for swimmers of Cat 1 classification to get their times entered onto the ASA Rankings website.

To view these rankings go to http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/results-and-rankings/rankings/


If anyone wishes to sponsor an event in the club champs please let us know.

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Charly at the Nationals

On Thursday 25th July, Charly Neilson competed in her first British Gas National Age Group Championships in the 200m Breaststroke.
She recorded a time just outside her own personal best and came in 15th place in her age group.

Well done Charly, we are all proud of you.

She competes again in the 100m Breaststroke on Saturday 27th July.

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The galas on the 20th July

On the 20th July the club competed in two galas, the JC Dobb Final Round of the the spring competition  at Hucknall and also the Broxtowe Trophy Gala at Bramcote.

In the JC Dobb We came 3rd on the night,but could have won it. The cut off times resulted in 7 races where the swimmers went too fast,
resulting in a points deduction for the team.

Whoosh!! Well done to all the swimmers.

Overall the club came second in the spring competition league

Thanks to Caroline, Lisa and Claire for standing in for Hucknall at the last moment,  also to Sharon for judging and to Alison and Maria for timekeeping.



J.C Dobb RND 3



In the Broxtowe Trophy Gala at Bramcote we came first on the night for the second year running.
The gala, joint hosted by Bramcote and ourselves involves swimmers from the Broxtowe Leisure Centres
( Bramcote and Kimberley) learn to swim scheme, and 4 local clubs.  A demonstration of synchronised swimming and flip 'n' fun
was given by the leisure centres prior to the gala then the gala commenced with Kimberley leading the way from the start.


Special mentions to Finley Bunhejee, Thomas Reeves, Adam and Lewis Rounce, Aaron Stanley, Georgina Greenhill, Jessica Reeves, Amy Sheldon and Kate Wigglesworth for competing in their first gala for the club.

Also to Tom Ellis( 9yr old)  for coming 2nd in an 11yr old race, William Francis ( 8yr old) coming 2nd in a 9yr old race ,Matthew Fearn ( 10yr)  2nd in an 11yr old race,  to Harry Stevenson and Thomas Reeves ( both 9yr old) for helping the 12/13  boys free relay to a 2nd place and to Lewis Rounce(9yr) and Robert Smith (10yr) for helping the 12/13yr boys medley to a first place.

Only 2 individual races failed to record a pb and 10 out of 13 relays were won… whoosh!!  And no dq’s!

Kimberley 201
Carlton Forum 140
Bramcote 138
Northern 117
Broxtowe Leisure Centres 86

Thanks to Dave, Aileen, Shane and Wendy for officiating, to Alison and Liz for doing the desk, to Rachel and Melisa for providing the drinks and to Phil for helping on poolside.

Broxtowe Trophy Gala

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Asa National Championships

Good luck to Charly Neilson, 13yrs competing at her first British Gas ASA Age Championships in the 100m and 200m breaststroke at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, between the  24th – 28th July and to Mollie Wright, 15yrs, competing in the 800m freestyle, at British Gas ASA Youth Championships, being held between the 30th July to the 4th of August, also at Ponds Forge.

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Borough of Barnsley Open Meet 07/07/2013

On Sunday the 7th of July a small group of Kimberley Swimming Club swimmers travelled to Sheffield’s Pond Forge, to compete in the Borough of Barnsley 6th Long Course Open Meet.

Ted Goonan-Dunne 9yrs, Jessica Shephard 9yrs, Erin Dixon 9yrs, Abbey Close 10yrs, Emily Bettridge 10yrs, Eve McGrenaghan 10yrs, Jimi Knowles 10yrs, Joseph Kingsland 10yrs, Ciaran Smith 10yrs, Katie Walker 10yrs, Florence Orme 11yrs, Caitlin Smith 11yrs, Katie Horner 12yrs, Jade Calder 13yrs, Jade Duffy 14yrs, Gemma Calder 14yrs & Ben Barsby 17yrs all competed in a number of events.

As all the events had upper cut off times set for each age group, a number of swimmers, gained exceptional personal bests and exceeded the upper cut off times to gain speeding tickets, a certificate in recognition of their achievement.

Speeding tickets went to –
Ted Goonan-Dunn – 50m back, 200m IM, 50m free & 50m breast, Jimi Knowles – 50m Back & 50m free, Erin Dixon – 50m back & 200m IM, Jessica Shephard – 50m back, Katie Walker - 50m Back, Joseph Kingsland - 100m Breast and Ben Barsby 100m back.

In addition to the speeding tickets, lots of personal bests were achieved and trophies were won by the following swimmers –

Abbey Close – 2nd 50m back
Jimi Knowles – 1st 50m fly & 3rd 100m free
Ted Goonan-Dunne – 1st 50m fly & 1st 50m breast
Jade Calder – 2nd 50m fly & 2nd 50m free
Gemma Calder – 2nd 50m fly
Joseph Kingsland – 2nd 100m free & 2nd 200m IM
Jessica Shephard – 3rd 200m IM
Ben Barsby – 1st 50m breast

  Jimi with his trophies and his speeding tickets.  Whooosh!!


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Worksop Novice Gala 06/07/2013

Saturday the 6th of July saw some younger swimmers from Kimberley Swimming Club travel to Worksop, on what was probably the hottest night this year, for the Worksop Novice gala.

The gala saw Nya Sanderson, Rachel McIntyre, Harry Stevenson, Matthew Fearn, Caitlin Stevenson and Taylor Deakin competing in their first gala – so congratulations to them.

With 25 personal bests and a number of first places on the night Kimberley came 2nd.

First places went to –

Annaleise HOWELL - 25m butterfly
Olivia BUXTON – 50m backstroke
Megan HANSON – 50m breaststroke
Alex COOKE – 50m breaststroke
Livia KINGSLAND – 50m backstroke

4x25m medley relay - Ciaran SMITH, Matthew FEARN, Alex COOKE, Robert SMITH
4x25m free relay - Annaleise HOWELL, Nya SANDERSON, Caitlin SMITH, Livia KINGSLAND
4x25m free relay - Will MOORE, Harry STEVENSON, Jack STEVENSON, Alex COOKE
4x25m medley relay - Harry STEVENSON, Jack STEVENSON, Will MOORE, Alex COOKE
4x25m free relay - Ciaran SMITH, Matthew FEARN, Robert SMITH, Alex COOKE

Points -
Leander 230
Kimberley 202
Mansfield 178
Rykneld 149
Worksop A 139
Worksop B 114


Well done to all.

Worksop Novice

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July Birthdays

Birthday wishes for July go to:
Emma and Joseph Banner (18), Finlay Billson, Thomas Butler, Ben Campbell, Kaisha Daley, Naomi Forbes, Bradley Francis, Adam Gregory, Freya Hanson, Coral Harewood-Soos, Daniel Hodgson, Josh Housley, Jessica and Jack Inquieti-Lamb, Nicola Lester, Sophie McKeown, Betsy Moore, Zahra Partridge, Heidi Pegg, Joshua Poxon, Evie Poxon, Charlotte Purdy, Ewan Ross, Liam Salisbury, Joshua Shipman, Imogen Spouge, Nathan Stevenson, Lucie Thatcher, Toby Thorpe, Laura Vernon, Sarah Whistler, Tilly Woolis and Mollie Wright. The over 18’s are Kay Mansfield(21 again), Robert Swinburne and Lisa Wright (50ish)

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