Membership Renewal

Just a reminder that you have until the 28th February to renew your club membership.


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Land Training

Russel Pink has organised two land training sessions on Wednesdays, the 6th and 13th March at 7.00p.m until 7.55p.m in the
Leisure Centre Sports Hall.
These will be for swimmers that swim in the second and third sessions on Wednesday night only.
If successful we will endeavour to organise other sessions so that all can have a go.
Each session will be £1.00 per swimmer  to cover the cost of hiring the facility.  Please try and attend if you can, as Russel is keen for this to be a regular  thing.


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Volunteering in The Gambia – January 2013

I’d like to thank everyone at Kimberley Swimming Club who sponsored me at the end of last year to raise funds towards my visit to The Gambia, to teach sport in schools. The money raised went towards buying equipment such as footballs, tennis balls, football kit and multi-sports equipment. The children and staff at all the local schools we went to truly appreciated the kit that was given. Just one football will really help benefit the children and bring happiness across the whole school. Once you saw the children’s faces light up from the kit we gave them and the tears of joy in the eyes of the headteachers, made you appreciate what we had back home, as they don’t have the luxury of having electricity, electronic devices, health care like we do or the amount of transport options we have like buses or trams, they just didn’t have that. I had a great time visiting the schools and the local villages, meeting the chiefs beforehand to gain permission to walk around their village, it was truly an experience.
Please see some of my photo’s below.

Thank you Rebecca Barsby.

Notts ASA County Champs

The Notts ASA County Championships started this weekend with the youth section of the championships.  Ben Barsby and Lauren Gill competing for Kimberley.
Ben swam in the 50m Back coming 5th in the final, the 100m Fly (9th), 50m Fly (8th) and 50m Free (7th)  whilst Lauren swam in the 100m Free (8th) 50m Fly (18th) 50m Free (10th) 200m Free (7th) 100m I/M (9th) and finished 2nd in the 50m Back, 3rd in the 100m Back and 3rd again in the 200m Back.

Well done to Both.

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Charly makes the Nationals

Congratulations from all at Kimberley go to Charly Neilson who has recently achieved a National Qualifying Time for 200m Breaststroke.
Swimming in the ASA Central Zone Competition for Nova on the weekend of the 26th/27th January she achieved the times in the heats coming in 6th place in a time of 2.49.60 and making the final where she also came 6th place.

Well done Charly!!


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Sports Centre League 09/02/2013

On Saturday we competed in the first round of the Sports Centre League and secured our first win of the year.
Big well done to all the swimmers.

Kimberley 204
Sutton 193
Portland 179
Sherwood 156
Mansfield 129
Hucknall 60

Special mentions to Jack Brown, Callum Williamson, Aiden Williamson, Gemma Calder, Tyler Meads x 2, Jade Calder x 2, Tanisha Howell, Bradley Francis and Greg Brown for their p.bs and to
Mollie Wright ( x3 ) Gemma Calder, Lauren Gill, Charly Neilson, Jade Calder for their individual first places,  the 9yr relay team of Josh Skinner, Eleanor Aboutorab, Jimi Knowles and Lauren Shipley for winning both their events and to
nearly everyone for a brilliant cannon relay win.


Sports Centre League Rnd 1

Alan

J.C Dobb round two 02/02/2013

On Saturday we made the short trip to Hucknall for the second round of the J.C Dobb competition
and once again finished second ,this time by just two points

Special mentions to Anya Deegan on her first gala and a first place and to all those
that got a p.b, speeding ticket and first place   Too many to mention!!

Well done to all the swimmers.

After two rounds we currently lead the competition, but it is very close, Sutton just one point behind and Radford 21 points.

J.C Dobb Rnd Two

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