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News
All of the latest news from Arnold Swimming Club.
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Annual General Meeting
The Clubs AGM is due to take place in the Bar upstairs at Arnold Leisure Centre on Wednesday 7th April at 7:30pm.
The agenda for this is now on the notice board at the Arnold Leisure Centre. All Swimmers and Parents are welcome to attend. Any issues that you would like to raise must be submitted to the Club Secretary (Rebecca Archer) no later than 24th March 2010.
Sports Centre League
Excellent night as hosts in the 1st round of the Sports Centre League in finishing 2nd only 1 point behind Sutton after winning yet another very exciting Cannon. On the night we gained 11 first places, 22 Personal Best times and 1 Club Record. The Club Record was gained by Jacob Parker, who is the 1st boy in the Club to go under 29 seconds for 50m butterfly - well done big lad!
Personal Best times were gained by the majority of the swimmers with Philip Isherwood, Katherine Driver, Josh Bramley, Charlotte Kelly, and Matt Hudswell taking over 2 seconds off their previous PB's. Well done also to 9 year olds Eleanor Hudswell, Benjamin Heath and Jack Simpson-Hallas for excellent swims in the 11 year old age group.
Arnold SC would like to thank everyone at the Club and the ever reliable Malcolm Swinburn from Kimberley SC for helping us to host the gala.
Results can be found in the Members section.
County Championships 2010
The Nottinghamshire British Gas County Championships 2010 kick off this Saturday with 37 Arnold Swimmers competing in 236 Individual events and 14 Relay events. The County Championships are taking place this year over 5 weekends between February 13th and March 21st.
Arnold's Swimmers are:
Abby Walton, Alex Driver, Amy Tribbick, Benjamin Heath, Bethany Archer, Christopher Brown, Danielle Fallon, David Staiano, Eleanor Hudswell, Ellie Batey, Emelia Osborne, Emma Davies, Geena Johnson, Georgia Bramley, Grace Perry, Hannah Drewett, Hannah Rotton, Jack Simpson-Hallas, Jacob Parker, Jorge Phenix-Coyne, Joseph Dames, Josh Bramley, Joshua Magiera, Katherine Driver, Kiran Watkins, Kyle Walton, Luke Mansell, Matthew Gomersall, Matthew Hudswell, Mitchell Jordan, Natalie Bacon, Rachel Martin, Rebecca Dames, Regan Jordan, Rohan Watkins, Sascha McLaren, Sasha Matthews.
Estimated Start and Warm Up Times:
Sat 13th - Session 1 - Beechdale - Warm Up 08:15am - Start 09:00am
Sat 13th - Session 2 - Beechdale - Warm Up 01:00pm - Start 01:45pm
Sat 13th - Session 3 - Beechdale - Warm Up 05:15pm - Start 06:00pm
Sun 14th - Session 4 - Beechdale - Warm Up 09:15am - Start 10:00am
Sun 14th - Session 5 - Beechdale - Warm Up 01:45pm - Start 02:30pm
Sat 27th - Session 6 - Water Meadows - Warm Up 08:15am - Start 09:00am
Sat 27th - Session 7 - Water Meadows - Warm Up 12:30pm - Start 01:15pm
Sat 27th - Session 8 - Water Meadows - Warm Up 04:30pm - Start 05:15pm
Sat 6th - Session 9 - Worksop - Warm Up 04:30pm - Start 05:00pm
Sat 13th - Session 10 - Retford - Warm Up 04:30pm - Start 05:00pm
Sat 20th - Session 11 - Water Meadows - Warm Up 08:15am - Start 09:00am
Sat 20th - Session 12 - Water Meadows - Warm Up 12:30pm - Start 01:15pm
Sun 21st - Session 13 - Beechdale - Warm Up 08:30am - Start 09:30am
Any withdrawals MUST be notified to either David Fortescue (0772 532 0970), Nic Rotton (0790 969 0190) or David Rush (0798 913 8510) no later than 15 minutes before the start of the WARM UP session.
Arnold Swimming Club would like to wish All of our swimmers taking part the best of luck. A huge thank you to our 2010 County Sponsors, Total Sports.
Spring Competition Round 2
Well done to all the swimmers who represented the Club in yet another tough draw in the 2nd round of the Spring Competition. It was always going to be tough particularly as we struggled with availability of 8/9 year old boys and swam 2 events for no points. However, we did finish 4th with 137 points one point ahead of Carlton Forum.
On the night we gained four 1st places with Geena Johnson winning the Butterfly and IM and Rachel Martin winning the backstroke. First place was also gained by the 14 year old girls freestyle relay where Abby Walton and Regan Jordan teamed up with Geena and Rachel to win. Geena also gained a Club Record in the IM which was a fantastic achievement after illness deprived her of competing in the last round. Well done again to our 9 years and under relay girls namely Georgia Bramley, Robyn Galloway, Rachel Brown and Hannah Davies who had two 2nd places to go with the 2 second places in the last round.
Whilst we are unlikely to get into the A final, it would be a fantastic achievement if we could get into the B final and win it and with the current squad of swimmers we are certainly capable of doing that! Let's all look forward to the final round on the 8th May!
Results can be found in the Members section.
Nottinghamshire Sports Awards
Tonight sees the return of the Nottinghamshire Sports Award ceremony. The evening will see different sports personalities from accross Nottinghamshire, that have been nominated for numerous awards, contending for the title of Nottinghamshire's Sportsperson of the year 2010.
The 2010 awards will see the return of last years winner and double Olympic Gold Medalist Rebecca Adlington.
2010 has seen over 200 nominations accross the county be whittled down to a shortlist of upto five nominations for each of the twelve categories.
Some of the Categories are, Disabled Sportsperson of the year, Junior Disabled Spoortsperson of the year, Coach of the year and Community Coach of the year.
From Arnold Swimming Club we have two candidates in the line up. These are, Jacob Parker and Graham Davies. Jacob has been nominated for the junior disabled sportsperson of the year. Jacob is in the line up for this award along with two other swimmers and 2 wheelchair basketball players. Graham Davies has been nominated for the community Coach of the year along with a few other coaches from rugby and cricket clubs in the county.
There are extra awards to recognise the valuable contributions to sport in the County, Teams, Volunteers and the Nott's Sports club of the Year.
Good luck to all of the nominees from across Nottinghamshire.
NASL Final League Table
Following our exciting final round win at Aylesbury in December we have just received confirmation of the West Midlands Division 2 League Table. The club has finished a creditable 11th out of 24 teams which included teams from the City of Hereford, Wolverhampton, Luton, Braunstone and the City of Coventry to name but a few.
In the 3 seasons Arnold SC have now competed in the NSL we have finished as Swim-off Finalists, gained promotion from Division 3 and now consolidated our potition in Division 2. In comparison to other teams who have much larger squads of swimmers this is a fantastic achievement. The NASL remains the premier event in the country for swimming clubs, congratulations to everyone, swimmers, helpers and supporters, who have all contributed to the club's success in this competition.
Minor Gala League 2nd Round
The A team finished third with 202 points in the second round of the Minor Gala at Arnold with 7 first places gained by Grace Perry, Jack Simpson-Hallas, Alex Driver, Abby Walton, Hannah Drewett and Kiran Watkins. Many of these swimmers also gained PB's as did Josh Bramley, Bethany Archer, Joseph Dames, Regan Jordan and Ella Rotton.
The B team finished 5th in the Minor Gala at Bramcote with 140 points. Although there were no first places, there were second places for Matthew Gomersall, Chloe Harrison, Eleanor Hudswell and the 10years and under boys relay team namely Matthew Gomersall, Jamie Burton, James Dwyer and Flynn Asher. There was also an amazing 20 Personal Best times. A big well done to Flynn Asher for gaining a County Qualifying time in only his 3rd gala for the Club and also to Matthew Gomersall and Eleanor Hudswell who also gained CQT's.
Well done to all swimmers for their excellent swims. Results can be found in the Members section.
County Champs
It has bee announced that this years County Championships have now been sponsored by British Gas.
With this announcement the enteries have also been published. Please can you check that all of the races you wanted to enter, you have been entered for. Click Here.
6 years of .co.uk Ending
Please be aware that if you are still using the www.arnoldswimmingclub.co.uk website address that you will no longer be able to access the site this way after the 10th February. After 6 years of having a .co.uk and a .org.uk website address the Arnold Swimming Club Committee have decided that we have no need to have both and we are just going to have the one website address. If you have the website saved as a bookmark or a favourite then please make sure that it is for our www.arnoldswimmingclub.org.uk address.
If you are unsure about this then please speak to our Webmaster, David Fortescue, at any time around poolside either at training sessions or at swimming galas.
Spring Competition
Well done to all the swimmers who represented the Club in a very tough draw in the 1st round of the Spring Competition. There was very little between the top 4 Clubs after the first round of swims and eventually we finished 4th only 5 points behind CABSC. On the night we gained 7 first places, 9 Personal Bests and 3 Club Records. 14 year old Rachel Martin won all 3 of her individual events in the Open age group, Kiran Watkins added another 2 victories to go with his 3 first places last Saturday and Alex Driver also added a 1st place in the backstroke to go with his victory in the freestyle last weekend.
Particularly pleasing was the excellent performances of our 9 years and under relay swimmers with Luke Archer, Flynn Asher, Jack Simpson-Hallas and Matthew Fallon finishing 1st and 2nd in their relays and the girls Georgia Bramley, Robyn Galloway, Rachel Brown and Hannah Davies finishing 2nd in both their relay events.
Welcome and congratulations to Matthew Fallon and Jorge Phenix-Coyne who represented the Club for the first time.
Let's hope for an easier draw in Round 2 on the 6th February.
Results can be found in the Members section.
Website Maintenance
Over the next couple of weeks we will be performing some essential website maintenance. Hopefully this should not affect many visitor to the website but some visitors may find the website running slower than usual or it may become unavailable for short periods of time.
Arnold Swimming Club would like to apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. During this time if you need some vital information then please contact our webmaster who will be more than happy to help.
Leander Open Meet Thanks
A huge THANK YOU to all of the Officials from Arnold Swimming Club who came along and helped out at the Leander Open Meet at Beechdale Baths this weekend. Without your support the Open Meet would have been very difficult to run. Thank You
Louise Lambert
Nottingham Leander S.C.
Minor Gala League - 1st Round
A good start to the season in the 1st round of the Spring Minor Gala with the A and B Teams competing against each other at Hucknall. The A team finished 3rd with 173 points and the B team a creditable 6th with 75 points.
In the A team there were 4 1st places with Kiran Watkins winning all 3 of his individual events and Alex Driver winning the 50m Freestyle. There was a hat full of 2nd and 3rd places and 14 Personal Best times. In the B team there were 17 Personal Best Times Set. Congratulations to Sahana Muthuswamy, Flynn Asher, Ellie Batty and Jordan Fretwell who represented the Club for the first time. Onwards and upwards for the next round on 30th January!(Venues to be confirmed soon)
Well done to all swimmers for their excellent swims. Results will be available in the Members section soon.
Club Swimming Hats
It is great to announce that through Sponsorship, we are now in the position to reward swimmers who represent the club at the following Inter Club Galas with a new club cap free of charge.
- National Swimming League
- Spring Competition
- Minor Gala League
- Sports Centre League
- Notts & District League
The idea behind this is two fold, firstly to bring unity to the squad of swimmers representing the Club and secondly to display a strong club togetherness through the one Club Cap.
We ask that you now wear the club cap with pride when competing in the Gala you have been selected for, and for any other Gala's, Open meets, Counties you are swimming in as an Arnold swimmer. We do not want you to swim in any other Cap while representing the Club.
To ensure fairness we will issue these free caps to those who wear caps when competing and will expect you to sign for them at the Club desk. Unfortunately we will only be able to issue 1 free cap per swimmer per season; however you can still purchase caps from the club desk.
Please use your old style caps Blue or Black for training along with any other caps types/designs and keep your yellow cap for competitions. The best way to ensure it stays in good condition is to wash it out in cold tap water when it has been used and then to dry it with a towel.
Many of you have already purchased official club kit which you wear both on poolside and to and from events, everyone looks fantastic and part of the team which is the whole point of "One" kit for all.
Sutton Pool - Directions
Alot of people have asked us for directions to Sutton for this weekends gala. If you click on the maps link at the top of this page it gives a list of pools that Arnold competes at. on here there is a live map from Google, directions (taken from google) and the full address and phone number for the pool.
Please note that there are multiple routs to may of the pools listed here but from previous experience the route listed is the best way from Arnold Leisure Centre to the pool you select.
The directions to Lammas Leisure Centre will be updated soon as google has shown us a quicker route since the information was loaded into our database.
The directions that have now been ideentified are:
- Start - Arnold Leisure Centre
- Head north on High St toward Cross St
- Turn right at Cross St
- At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Church St
- Turn left at Red Hill Rd
- Turn right at A60/Mansfield Rd
- Continue to follow A60
- Go through 1 roundabout
- Turn Left at A617
- Follow to the end and turn right at A38/Kings Mill Road East
- At the Traffic Lights Turn left onto Mansfield Road
- Keep following this road until you get to ASDA on your left
- At the roundabout take the third exit and the pool is on the right
- Lammas Leisure Centre is on the right
- (12.8 mi - about 24 mins)
Loughborough Training (50m)
The following Sunday sessions have been booked for training in a 50m pool at Loughborough for 2010. We have booked 1 lane for 1.5 hours and 2 lanes for 1hr except for July and October where we have booked 1 lane for 1.5 hours and 1 lane for 1hr. We are allowed a maximum of 12 swimmers per lane; as such this session will be by invitation only. All sessions start at 3pm prompt, please be on poolside at 2.45pm. Depending on space around poolside we will do a 10 minute land based warm up, please bring a t-shirt with you just in case.
Swimmers must train hard, regularly attend a minimum of 3 sessions per week and be available for Galas to be considered for these sessions. Dates are 17th January, 21st February, 28th March, 25th April, 16th May, 11th July, 19th September, 24th October, and 14th November.
