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Club Champs Last Chance Entries
As you should all be aware today is the last chance to get your entries in for the 2010 Club Championships.
We are aware that some of you are having a few difficulties on-line and with this in mind, if you want to enter the 2010 Club Championships and con not do this on-line, please send your entry by email to clubchamps@arnoldswimmingclub.org.uk
In the email we need to know the following details:
However, This email MUST reach us by midnight tonight.
If you are attending either of the sessions at Arnold or Southglade tonight and have a paper entry. Please pass it DIRECTLY to David Fortescue. He will be at Arnold until 7:30pm and the will make his way to Southglade and will be there until the end of the session.
Splash and Dash Entries along with Team Entries for the Coaches challenge will be accepted until Friday 10th September. Please collect forms from the club desk.
Jacob at the UK Schools Games
As most of Arnolds Swimmers will be taking to the pool this weekend at Hucknall in our home gala. Jacob Parker will be taking the plunge in Sunderland in the Sainsbury's UK Schools Games 2010 representing the Central England Team.
Jacob will take part in the 50m Freestyle, 50m Butterfly and the 100m Butterfly events against other school aged swimmers from around the UK.
Good Luck Jacob.
To track Jacobs results from the Games please see the UK Schools Games website.
Sasha at the Commonwealth
As the final selections have been made and released, The ASA and British Swimming have announced the confirmed list of swimmers that they will be taking to Delhi, India for the Commonwealth Games from the 3rd to the 14th October this year.
Amongst the listed is Arnold's Sasha Matthews. Sasha has been selected with other swimmers from across the UK with the likes of Liam Tancock, Katherine Wyld, Elizabeth Simmonds, Jo Jackson, Ellen Gandy and Rebecca Adlington to name a few.
Arnold would like to wish Sasha and the whole British Swimming Team the best of luck for the games.
form more information please see the British Swimming Website. When we get official announcements of any results we will also let you know on here in the news pages.
New Gala Season
Well, we hope that you have all had an enjoyable summer and are ready and raring to go with the Autumn season of swimming and competitions.
The first half of 2010 saw some amazing swims by our swimmers over numerous galas at all levels. The Club saw 70 Club Records broken and you, the swimmers claiming over 650 PB's!!
The Final part of this year will see Arnold competing in quite a few galas from the Minor Gala League, the Sports Centre League, Notts and District League and the National ARENA Swimming League. Of course we can not forget our Annual Club Championships (Entries close this Friday!!).
The season kicks off with our own trophy gala at Hucknall this weekend. We have two teams attending this gala and should be a good night. Following on from this we have our Sports Centre League team competing at Sutton on the 11th and then our youngsters in the Minor Gala League at Retford on the 18th.
Hopefully we can get many more PB Times and Club Records in this final part of the year.
Look out for "David's Sad Swimming Facts" in the 2010 Club Round Up at the end of the year for a full breakdown on how we have done as a club in 2010.
For more information about upcomming gala fixtures, please see the fixtures page.
As a general point we would like to remind ALL swimmers that if you take part in a competition that is not a League gala or a Trophy Gala, please let us know so we can track your success and award you any PB's that you should be getting. Even if you swim and do not manage to break a PB Time, still let us know as we like to know how everyone is getting on, and you may even get a mention on the website! If you do not let us know then we can't give you the PB Times on the website.
If you wish to enter any Open competitions and are unsure on how to do so, or if they require electronic entry and you are unsure on how to use the software to do this. Please speak to David Fortescue or Nic Rotton at the club who will be able to help.
Calling All Parents.
From time to time with the different swimming Leagues, we are asked to travel long distances to take part in these galas. We are aware that travelling these distances can become difficult and we will do our best to accommodate you where we can. If you need transport to any gala then please speak to one of the committee at the club who will be able to help. Some of our volunteers at the galas usually travel long distances just to help out and can sometimes have spare seats in their cars that they are more than happy to help people get to the galas.
When running galas we also require volunteer support in all forms, from announcing to recording, and timekeeping to stewarding officials. If you are attending a gala and would like to help out, please speak to a committee member or part of our coaching staff who will be able to help out. With this in mind we are in need of a lot of volunteers for our Club Championships. If you are able to help out in any way please speak to a committee member on the club desk as soon as you can. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. Without volunteers we would not be able to do what we do.
Club Championships - Skins
There have been a few comments made over the last few weeks with regards to the Skins Event on the last night of the Club Championships, mainly about the rules and who will be able to take part.
We have now removed the Rules from the website as we are looking at revising these ready for the event to hopefully allow more of you to be able to qualify for this event.
Once the rules have been revised we will put them back on the website and let you all know.
Club Championship Entries
It seems that most of you are now really thinking about the Club Championships for 2010 and what you are entering.
We would like to remind you that the closing date for ALL entries is midnight on Friday 3rd September. That is less than 2 weeks away!! Please note that NO late entries will be accepted.
For those of you that have already entered you would have received a confirmation email of your entry and then a further acceptance email. Please note that this does NOT guarantee your entry is fully accepted. Your entry will only be fully confirmed once you pay the entry fee due at the club desk. If you have entered and not yet paid, then please do so as soon as possible of your entry will not count.
Calling ALL Parents.
If you are available to help out at any of the championships then we would like to hear from you. There are many ways in which you can help and without your help and support we would not be able to run these championships. If you can help please speak to one of the committee who will be able to supply you with more details, or complete a volunteers form and hand it into us at the club desk.
Bank Holiday Swimming
Please note that Monday 30th August is a Bank Holiday, and therefore will be no training on Monday evening at Arnold.
Training is still taking place on Sunday 29th and will resume as normal from Tuesday 31st.
Members Sign-Up
If you are wishing to access the members area of our website you MUST be a swimming member of the club.
Please click on the members link on the top of any page and then use the "Sign-Up" feature to get an account. Once you submit your application we will confirm you are a member and then your account will be set up. If you are not a swimming member of the club then your application will be rejected.
If you have already had access to the members area before, and cannot log in, then please use the forgotten password link to reset your password. If you try and sign up again then your application will be rejected.
If you have any difficulties with the signing up process, forgotten password process or the members area and signing in process in any way, then please contact us and we will be happy to help.
As a general reminder, your user-name will be your first name, followed by a full stop, followed by your surname.
for example: John Smith will be john.smith
Please note that this is NOT case sensitive but your password is!
Aquaforce Volunteer Award
Congratulations to David Fortescue for winning the Notts ASA 2010 Aquaforce Volunteer Award for outstanding contribution by an 18 - 25 year old. The Award recognises the invaluable contribution that volunteers make to aquatic sport at all levels and David is not only heavily involved in Arnold SC but also in supporting other swimming clubs in Nottinghamshire.
David has now been nominated for the East Midlands Volunteer Award which the winners will be announced at the East Midlands AGM at Loughborough on September 11th - Good luck to David from all at Arnold SC.
County Qualifying Times
Please note that the Notts ASA County Championship Qualifying times have been changed.
An updated list can be found here. The results sheets in the members area will NOT be updated to reflect these new times, however, all future results will be based on these times. Your PB times data will be updated to reflect these changes later this week.
Club Champs On-Line Entry
All Swimmers,
There has been a small bug over the last 2 days restricting access to on-line entry for the club championships.
The problem was causing you to be re-directed back to the login page when you clicked to go onto the entry page.
This has now been fixed and you should be able to enter again.
Committee/Poolside Announcement
Jim Shelton is standing down as Chairman at the next Committee Meeting on 14th September. Jims decision has been taken solely as a result of his current employment situation.
The Club are very pleased to announce the appointment of David Osborne as Treasurer and Tony Parker as Assistant Head Coach.
David succeeds Peter Watkins as Treasurer and Tony succeeds Bill Hopkins as Assistant Head Coach.
The Club would like thank Peter, Bill and Jim for the many years service they have given to the Club in fulfilling the above roles and many others during their time at the club.
Jim will remain on the Committee and Bill will continue to support the Club and the County by officiating at Galas. Peter will be standing down from the Committee and concentrating on the early morning and evening journeys to Nova with his children, although will still remain as a member of Arnold Swimming Club.
Time Trials - Round Up
As most of you should be aware, Arnold Swimming Club have recently held some 200m Time Trials. These were open to ALL members of the club and were run under ASA Laws and therefore were eligible for PB Times, Club Records and County Qualifying Times.
Although the Time Trials got off to a rocky start with the first session being cancelled due to an incident in the pool, the remaining sessions were a big success.
With a total of 50 swimmers taking part over the 3 sessions swimming in the 200m Back, Breast, Fly, Free and IM races, you managed to set 8 new club records and gain 115 Personal Best Times.
A huge congratulations goes out to all of the swimmers involved.
Arnold Swimming Club would also like to extend its thanks out to all of our parents and helpers who made the time trials possible.
A big thank you also comes from Teresa Kelly to all of the swimmers for being extremely well behaved during the time trials and the support and encouragement to fellow swimmers was second to none. Please can we keep this up for the upcoming gala season.
Full results can be found in the members area or the SportSystems Results service can be found here
Club Championship Entry
Notice to All Swimmers:
Club Championship Entry opened on the 1st July. Please make sure you enter the Club Championships.
When entering, if you do not have a PB Time automatically inserted in to your event that you wish to swim then please put your estimated time in. Please note that silly times will be rejected.
Enter on-line! click here.
If you have any questions please ask your coach or the club officials. We have also set up an "F.A.Q." page to help answer some of the more common questions. Please click here.
200m Time Trials - IMPORTANT
Thanks to everyone for signing up to the 200m Time Trials.
Please see the list below for who is swimming which events and when.
It is important that you are at Arnold for the WARM UP. If you do not turn up for the warm up then you will be taken out of the event and will NOT be put back in.
200m Breaststroke and 200m Freestyle:
These events will take place on Friday (23rd July) and the warm up begins at 7:00pm.
Breaststroke Swimmers:
Abbie MARROW, Alexander DRIVER, Andrew GOMERSALL, Ben HEWITT, Bethany ARCHER, Bethany COOPER, Chantelle CLIFF, Charlotte KELLY, Eleanor HUDSWELL, Ella MANSELL, Emelia OSBORNE, Emily KEEN, Emma DAVIES, Flynn ASHER, Georgia BRAMLEY, Grace BERRINGTON, Grace PERRY, Hannah DAVIES, Hannah DREWETT, Hannah ROTTON, Jack GITTINS, James DWYER, Jamie BURTON, Jordan FRETWELL, Joseph DAMES, Josh BRAMLEY, Julia LAMPORT, Laura SHELTON, Luke ARCHER, Maisie CHUNG, Matthew GOMERSALL, Matthew HUDSWELL, Megan PERRY, Michael SMITH, Natalie BACON, Philip ISHERWOOD, Rebecca DAMES, Regan JORDAN, Robyn GALLOWAY, Samuel FROST, Victoria KELLY, William HAMILTON
Freestyle Swimmers:
Abbie MARROW, Alexander DRIVER, Amy TRIBBICK, Andrew GOMERSALL, Ben HEWITT, Benjamin HEATH, Bethany ARCHER, Bethany COOPER, Chantelle CLIFF, Charlotte KELLY, Eleanor HUDSWELL, Ella MANSELL, Emelia OSBORNE, Emily KEEN, Emma DAVIES, Flynn ASHER, Georgia BRAMLEY, Grace BERRINGTON, Grace PERRY, Hannah DAVIES, Hannah DREWETT, Holly REDFERN, Jack GITTINS, Jacob PARKER, James DWYER, Jamie BURTON, Jordan FRETWELL, Joseph DAMES, Josh BRAMLEY, Julia LAMPORT, Katherine DRIVER, Kyle WALTON, Luke ARCHER, Luke MANSELL, Maisie CHUNG, Mark HIGGINS, Matthew GOMERSALL, Matthew HUDSWELL, Maxwell DAVIES, Megan PERRY, Natalie BACON, Niamh MORRITT, Philip ISHERWOOD, Rachel BROWN, Rebecca DAMES, Regan JORDAN, Robyn GALLOWAY, Samuel FROST, Thomas HAMILTON, Thomas HEWITT, Victoria KELLY, William HAMILTON
200m Butterfly and 200m IM:
These events will take place on Sunday (25th July) and the warm up begins at 5:00pm.
Butterfly Swimmers:
Alexander DRIVER, Bethany ARCHER, Chantelle CLIFF, Eleanor HUDSWELL, Grace BERRINGTON, Jacob PARKER, Josh BRAMLEY, Julia LAMPORT, Laura SHELTON, Matthew HUDSWELL, Natalie BACON, Regan JORDAN, Robyn GALLOWAY, Samuel FROST
IM Swimmers:
Abbie MARROW, Alexander DRIVER, Amy TRIBBICK, Andrew GOMERSALL, Ben HEWITT, Benjamin HEATH, Bethany ARCHER, Chantelle CLIFF, Charlotte KELLY, Christopher BROWN, Eleanor HUDSWELL, Ella MANSELL, Emily KEEN, Emma DAVIES, Flynn ASHER, Georgia BRAMLEY, Grace BERRINGTON, Hannah DAVIES, Hannah DREWETT, Hannah ROTTON, Holly REDFERN, Jacob PARKER, James DWYER, Jamie BURTON, Joseph DAMES, Josh BRAMLEY, Julia LAMPORT, Katherine DRIVER, Kyle WALTON, Laura SHELTON, Luke ARCHER, Luke MANSELL, Maisie CHUNG, Matthew GOMERSALL, Matthew HUDSWELL, Maxwell DAVIES, Megan PERRY, Natalie BACON, Niamh MORRITT, Rachel BROWN, Rebecca DAMES, Regan JORDAN, Robyn GALLOWAY, Samuel FROST, Thomas HAMILTON, Thomas HEWITT, Victoria KELLY, William HAMILTON
Thanks to all of our helpers who have offered to help out. If you have offered to help out please report to the IT Desk at the deep end of the pool near the Fire Exit, before the start of the warm up. If you would like to help out please come and see us at the IT desk before the warm up.
Session Cancelled
Due to an accident in the pool we have had to cancel all of tonights sessions.
August training - Friday/Sunday
Training at Arnold on Fridays in August will be from 7-8pm only and will be run as a widths session.
Additionally, the session at Arnold on Sundays will run from 6-7pm only and will be run as lengths. All swimmers who swim in the main pool length sessions are welcome to attend the Sunday session.
Notts ASA Summer Gala
All,
If you have entered the Notts ASA Summer Gala then please see the Notts ASA website for the draft programme and timings. Please be on poolside for the start of the warm up of any session you are participating in.
All entries have been accepted from Arnold.
200m Freestyle - RESCHEDULED
We have rescheduled the 200m Freestyle event to be on Friday 23rd July. This is the same night as the 200m Breaststroke event and we will run the Breaststroke event followed by the Freestyle.
As the date has now changed can you please confirm that you are available to attend the 200m event if you have already entered. If you have not yet entered and would like to then please see David down at the club by Tuesday 20th July at the latest so we can get you entered in.
Swimmers Currently entered into the 200m Freestyle:
Abbie MARROW, Alexander DRIVER, Amy TRIBBICK, Andrew GOMERSALL, Ben HEWITT, Benjamin HEATH, Bethany ARCHER, Chantelle CLIFF, Charlotte KELLY, Eleanor HUDSWELL, Ella MANSELL, Emelia OSBORNE, Emily KEEN, Emma DAVIES, Flynn ASHER, Georgia BRAMLEY, Grace BERRINGTON, Grace PERRY, Hannah DAVIES, Hannah DREWETT, Holly REDFERN, James DWYER, Jamie BURTON, Jordan FRETWELL, Joseph DAMES, Josh BRAMLEY, Julia LAMPORT, Katherine DRIVER, Kyle WALTON, Laura SHELTON, Luke ARCHER, Luke MANSELL, Maisie CHUNG, Matthew GOMERSALL, Matthew HUDSWELL, Maxwell DAVIES, Megan PERRY, Niamh MORRITT, Oskar KEEBLE, Philip ISHERWOOD, Rachel BROWN, Bethany COOPER, Rebecca DAMES, Robyn GALLOWAY, Samuel FROST, Sascha MCLAREN, Thomas HAMILTON, Thomas HEWITT, Victoria KELLY, William HAMILTON
Summer Disco REMINDER
Don't forget you tickets for the Arnold Swimming Club Summer Disco.
They are on sale from the Club Desk.
The Disco is to be held again at the Arnold Working Mens Club on Front Street, Arnold (a minute walk from the pool).
Start time is 7:30 pm on Wednesday 7th July.
Tickets are £1 for swimmers and £1.50 for Parents.
Nott's ASA Summer Gala
Final Call for ALL entries for the Nott's ASA Summer Gala.
We will not be able to accept any more entries after Tuesday nights Training Session at Arnold.
Development League Round 2
Congratulations to all the swimmers who competed in the second round of Development League at Bramcote LC. Swimmers achieved a total of 39 personal best times, 4 Club Records and 12 first places. Well done to Philip Isherwood, Ella Mageira and Charlotte Kelly for setting Club Records and also gaining 1st places along with Thomas Hamilton, Joshua Mageira, Matthew Hudswell and Benjamin Heath.
Congratulations to all of Arnold's swimmers in both rounds of the 2010 Development League. With your hard work Arnold gained 1363 points over the two galas putting us in 9th place in the league!
Results can be found in the members section.
200m Backstroke Time Trial
Congratulations to everyone who competed in the 200m Backstroke Time Trials tonight.
Results are in the Members Area. 23 PB Times were set and 3 Club Records.
Thanks to everyone who helped out at the event.
General Reminder
Swimmers are reminded that they must turn up for the START of the warm up or they will not be able to swim. We prepare the heats during the Warm Up and if you do not let us know you are here for the warm up you will be taken out of the event to reduce the number of empty lanes.
The next Time Trial date is Friday 23rd of July for the Breaststroke. This will be at Arnold and the Warm Up is at 7pm.
We are still re-arranging the 200m Freestyle event and will let you all know the new date as soon as we can.
200m Backstroke Event
Notice to all swimmers:
If you are NOT taking part in the 200m Backstroke event at Arnold tonight please remember that there is NO training at Arnold.
If you would still like to take part in the event but have not submitted an entry from then please turn up for the warm up at 5pm and report to David Fortescue at the IT desk (Fire Exit at the Deep End).
Swimmers wishing to take their bags onto poolside are permitted to do so but they must be left in the spectators area next to the small pool.
Parents:
If you have offered to help then when you arrive please report to the Deep end of the pool next to the IT Desk before the start of the warm up and sign yourself in (There will be a sheet pinned up).
City of Derby Open
Two of our "Old Boys" took part in the City of Derby Open meet today.
James Shelton competed in the 100m Buttfly, 100m Freestyle and the 100m IM whilst Adriano Staiano competed in the 100m Breaststroke, 100m Freestyle and the 100m IM.
Adriano claimed 3rd and 4th Places overall while James not only claimed 2nd place in the IM and Freestyle but WON the 100m Butterfly event.
Congratulations lads.
200m Freestyle - CANCELLED
Due to an accident in the pool we have had to cancel tonight's 200m Freestyle Time Trial.
We will arrange another date for this to take place on soon and let you all know.
Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.
200m Freestyle Event
Notice to all swimmers:
If you are NOT taking part in the 200m Freestyle event at Arnold tonight please remember that there is NO training at either Arnold OR Southglade.
If you would still like to take part in the event but have not submitted an entry from then please turn up for the warm up at 7pm and report to David Fortescue at the IT desk (Fire Exit at the Deep End).
Swimmers wishing to take their bags onto poolside are permitted to do so but they must be left in the spectators area next to the small pool.
Parents:
If you have offered to help then when you arrive please report to the Deep end of the pool next to the IT Desk before the start of the warm up and sign yourself in (There will be a sheet pinned up).
Summer Disco
Don't forget you tickets for the Arnold Swimming Club Summer Disco.
They are on sale from the Club Desk and also will be avaliable at the Time Trials this week.
The Disco is to be held again at the Arnold Working Mens Club on Front Street, Arnold (a minute walk from the pool).
Start time is 7:30 pm on Wednesday 7th July.
Tickets are £1 for swimmers and £1.50 for Parents.
2010 Club Championships
Notice to All Members.
The Club Championships are being held this year over 4 weekends and 5 competitions. 3 out of our 5 sessions will be held at Hucknall Leisure Centre on a Sunday rather than the traditional Saturday. For the sessions at Hucknall we will also have a first for Arnold Swimming Club, we will have the electronic timing system set up!!
This years gala's will take place on Sunday 28th November (Hucknall), Saturday 2nd October (Arnold), Sunday 3rd October (Hucknall), Sunday 31st October (Arnold) and Sunday 7th November (Hucknall).
There is some new events in this years gala structure including a 400m Freestyle event and a Medley Skins!
As well as new events we are also piloting our brand new on-line entry system for these. The idea behind using this on-line entry system is to cut down on the amount of paper that the club produces. We are hoping that you find this entry system easy to use.
In a way to further reduce the clubs paper usage we will only be printing a few copies of the gala rules to have down at the club. Please do not take these copies from the club. If you would like a copy then please download an electronic copy from the members area.
Please read the rules of the competition fully and also follow your coaches recommendations BEFORE you submit your entry.
Closing date for ALL entries is Friday 3rd September. No late entries will be accepted.
Calling ALL Parents.
If you are available to help out at any of the championships then we would like to hear from you. There are many ways in which you can help and without your help and support we would not be able to run these championships. If you can help please speak to one of the committee who will be able to supply you with more details.
Please click here to login to the members area and view all of the information.
Notts ASA Summer Gala
This is a final call for entries for the Notts ASA Summer Gala.
Entry for Arnold Swimming Club Swimmers is on Tuesday 6th July.
Please hand your forms back to David Fortescue with Full payment before Tuesday. David will be at both of the Time Trials this weekend.
If you do not get your forms back to David before Tuesday you WILL NOT be entered.
200m Time Trials - Swimmers
We have now processed the entries that have come in for the 200m Time Trials that start this Friday at Arnold.
Swimmers that have entered this weekends Time Trials will need to be at Arnold Leisure Centre prompt at the start of the sessions for a Warm Up. Warm Ups will be for a maximum of 30 minutes. Your Warm Up lane will be assigned to you when you arrive at the event.
Upon arriving at Arnold please report to Teresa Kelly or Carol Bramley on poolside as we need to take a regiser to see who is at the event. If you have entered an event and do not turn up for the warm up you will be withdrawn from the event.
Friday Swimmers: 200m Freestyle - 7pm Warm Up
Abbie MARROW, Alexander DRIVER, Amy TRIBBICK, Andrew GOMERSALL, Ben HEWITT, Benjamin HEATH, Bethany ARCHER, Chantelle CLIFF, Charlotte KELLY, Eleanor HUDSWELL, Ella MANSELL, Emelia OSBORNE, Emily KEEN, Emma DAVIES, Flynn ASHER, Georgia BRAMLEY, Grace BERRINGTON, Grace PERRY, Hannah DAVIES, Hannah DREWETT, Holly REDFERN, James DWYER, Jamie BURTON, Jordan FRETWELL, Joseph DAMES, Josh BRAMLEY, Julia LAMPORT, Katherine DRIVER, Kyle WALTON, Laura SHELTON, Luke ARCHER, Luke MANSELL, Maisie CHUNG, Matthew GOMERSALL, Matthew HUDSWELL, Maxwell DAVIES, Megan PERRY, Niamh MORRITT, Oskar KEEBLE, Philip ISHERWOOD, Rachel BROWN, Rebecca DAMES, Robyn GALLOWAY, Samuel FROST, Sascha MCLAREN, Thomas HAMILTON, Thomas HEWITT, Victoria KELLY, William HAMILTON
Sunday Swimmers: 200m Backstroke - 5pm Warm Up
Abbie MARROW, Chantelle CLIFF, Maisie CHUNG, Eleanor HUDSWELL, Victoria KELLY, Christopher BROWN, Emelia OSBORNE, Jordan FRETWELL, James DWYER, Samuel FROST, Andrew GOMERSALL, Charlotte KELLY, Maxwell DAVIES, Luke ARCHER, Megan PERRY, Holly REDFERN, Matthew GOMERSALL, Julia LAMPORT, Oskar KEEBLE, Hannah DAVIES, Robyn GALLOWAY, Rachel BROWN, Philip ISHERWOOD, Georgia BRAMLEY, Matthew HUDSWELL, Benjamin HEATH, Laura SHELTON, Niamh MORRITT, Alexander DRIVER, Emma DAVIES, Bethany ARCHER, Katherine DRIVER, Regan JORDAN, Sascha MCLAREN, Ben HEWITT, Josh BRAMLEY, Kyle WALTON, Natalie BACON
If your name is not on the list then you have not been entered into the event, however if you wish to be entered into the event please speak to David Fortescue at any point upto the start of the Warm Up. After the start of the warm up we will not be able to accept any more entries.
200m Time Trials - Deadline
Entry for the 200m Time Trials Closes today. Please check back later tonight for an update on the Entries and timings for each of the Time Trial Nights.
Nottingham Northern Open Meet
A huge Congratulations to our 6 swimmers, Beth Archer, Georgia Bramley, Becky Dames, Luke Archer, Joseph Dames and Josh Bramley, who took part in the Notts Notrhern Junior Open Meet today.
An Amazing 21 PB times were set between these six swimmers and getting in to 7 Finals and almost 8 with Beth Archer having to swim in a swim off to try and get into a final which unfortunately she did not make.
A huge thanks also goes to Carol Bramley and Karen Dames for acting as the Arnold coaches on poolside. Thanks for your help and support and not to mention the encouragement you gave to our swimmers.
Results can be found in the members area.
PB Times
It was discussed at this years AGM and also at committee meetings since then that Arnold Swimming Club will be recording ALL PB Times for our swimmers if you are representing Arnold or not.
In the past swimmers could only claim a PB time if they had swum the time in a competition for Arnold, or as an Arnold Swimmer at any Open Meets.
As it was rightly pointed out, a Personal Best time is Personal to you as a swimmer, therefore has no regard whether you swim for Arnold, Nova, GB or any other organisation.
You will now be able to claim PB times for any competition you swim.
RULES:
Please note that we will not be accepting any times that are before 1st June 2010.
Forms will be available for you to fill in from the club desk from Monday. These need to be completed in full and returned to the Club Desk or to David Fortescue as soon as possible.
We will be setting up an on-line submission form but this is currently being tested and we hope to have it finished before the end of September.
If you are claiming more PB's than there is room for on the entry form then please use multiple forms.
Although we have kept a record of everyone's PB times in the past we will only continue to automatically recognise PB's when you swim for Arnold in league galas for Arnold or in the County Championships. If you swim in ANY open meets or in and competition for another club then we need you to let us know by using these forms. If you swim in an Open meet as an Arnold swimmer then there is no need to fill in a form but we do need you to contact the club through the contact form (please send these to either "Results" or "General").
200m Time Trials
This is a general reminder to ALL swimmers.
You should be entering as many of the time trials as you can. We have extended the closing date for entries until Tuesday 29th June as the dates of the events have moved. Please ignore the closing date on the entry forms.
There will not be any training on the nights of these Time Trials.
Events:
Friday 2nd July - Freestyle
Sunday 4th July - Backstroke
Friday 23rd July - Breaststroke
Sunday 25th July - Butterfly
Sunday 25th July - IM
If you have not got a PB time for an event yet then simply tick the event or enter "No Time" and we will enter you. As long as we get the required poolside support then the times WILL count as PB times and possibly even Club Records!!
Entry forms can be collected from the Club Desk and should be returned to David Fortescue before Tuesday 29th June.
2011 Counties - Dates
Provisional Dates for the 2011 County championships have now bee released.
Please see the 2011 Fixtures List for more details. (click here)
Andy Welsh Gala
We have just received news today that the Andy Welsh Memorial Gala due to take place this Saturday has been cancelled.
This gala will be rescheduled later in they year hopefully but has had to be temporarily cancelled.
Arnold Swimming Club and Falcon Swimming Club (the host club) would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Final Results from Jacob
Yesterday saw Jacobs final swims in Germany in the 400m Freestyle and the 100m Backstroke.
Jacob swam his 400m Freestyle Heat in a time of 4:53.57 giving him 2nd place for his age group. Jacob's final swim of the competition was the 100m Backstroke where he managed to come 2nd in his age group in an impressive time of 1:13.06.
Huge Congratulations to Jacob. See you at training later!!
ASC - Fun Night
Arnold Swimming Club hosted a fun night at Water Meadows Leisure Centre in Mansfield on Saturday night. Event though we hired the entire complex for the use of Arnold Swimming Club we were limited to 100 places.
From those people that went it was an enjoyable night of just pure messing around and relaxing, which makes a change to the usual Saturday nights that we have when we get together at a swimming pool.
Everyone got on well with each other, but the usual Saturday night competition was still racing through some of us as we set up a small competition to see who could record the fastest time down the yellow slide. This was won by Kyle Walton who set a time of 6.35 seconds!! However, the competitive nature of Chris Brown was not happy with this so, to try and beat Kyle's time, went to get changed into his "Fast Skins". Unfortunately when Chris got out of the changing rooms the Pool Staff shut the slides. Better Luck next time Chris.
With the senior swimmers looking after the younger swimmers, and when the waves came on, those younger swimmers saving the parents from drowning, a great night was had by all, finally letting their hair down after a tough few moths of intense training and set of competitions. A HUGE Thanks goes out to Teresa Kelly who organised the entire evening.
Hopefully we will have a similar event in the near future.
More From Germany
Jacob Parker has again swum in the International German Open in Berlin today.
Jacob swam in the 100m Freestyle and the 200m Backstroke. In the 100m Freesyle Jacob topped his age with a time of 59.04 and got put through to the Junior finals to be held in the afternoon. Following this Jacob managed to come 8th overall for the 200m Backstroke with an impressive time of 2:35.58.
In the afternoon, Jacob swam the 100m Freestyle Final, shaving 0.14 seconds off his heat time to claim the Silver medal!!
Congratulations Jacob!
Jacob in Germany
We have just heard that Jacob Parker who is currently swimming for Team GB in Germany has just swum in the 200m Freestyle Heats and has gone through to the Senior Mens B Final as the youngest swimmer!
Jacob won his age group by just under 7 seconds from fellow GB Team mate Jack Thomas!!
Jacob swum his final against other top Disability swimmers from around the world including Fellow GB Team mate Anthony Stephens. Looking at the times that all of the swimmers gained from the heats Jacob was lying in fourth place but was a great contender for any of the medals.
Jacob swam his final in a time of 2:14.01 which with the Disability points this put Jacob 3rd!
Live results can be found here (Although they are in German!).
Congratulations Jacob.
Jacobs Swims:
18/6 - 200m Free
19/6 - 100m Free
19/6 - 200m Back
20/6 - 400m Free
20/6 - 100m Back
Club Kit Orders
We will be processing and sending off our current Club Kit order on Friday 25th June. Anyone wishing to order any kit, can you please complete a form and hand it in to the club desk with full payment no later than Friday 25th June.
Website Maintenance
From time to time, we make changes to our club website.
This is a general notice to let you know that on Wednesday 30th June 2010, the website will be temporarily unavailable as we will be making some upgrades to our site.
Our Web-master has been working hard behind the scenes to make improvements on how the website works and we feel it is time to put these changes in place.
These changes will also kick off the start of the 2010 Club Championships. Entry for this years Championships will open on 1st July with our NEW on-line entry.
This is a big step forward for the club to be able to provide this service and we hope that you will find it easier to use this new feature compared to the traditional paper-based forms.
Please note that we may have some teething problems with this new feature although it has gone through 2 months of testing. Please bare with us if there are any issues.
More information regarding the Club Championships will be released on the 1st July.
If you do experience any issues whilst on the website, either with the club championships entry or the website in general, then please contact David Fortescue with the details.
Session Cancelled
We have just been informed by Arnold Leisure Centre that they have had to cancel ALL swimming at Arnold Leisure Centre for tonight. Therefore our Club Training for those invited swimmers has been cancelled.
This is due to an accident in the pool.
Mobile Phones and Cameras
This is a general reminder to ALL swimmers are Parents.
Mobile Phones and Cameras are NOT to be used either on poolside or in changing rooms.
There have been some reported incidents involving the use of mobile phones and cameras in the changing rooms.
If you are found to be using a mobile phone or camera in that changing rooms or on poolside, either in training sessions or at swimming galas, you may face disciplinary action from the club.
This rule is NOT a club rule. This is enforced by the different Leisure Centres that we use, And is in accordance with the Child Protection Act.
200m Time Trials/Notts ASA Summer Gala
Time Trials:
This is a general reminder to all swimmers that the closing date for entries for the time trials is this Friday (18th June 2010). Please get your entry forms back to the Club or David Fortescue ASAP.
Event Dates:
Friday 2nd July - Freestyle
Sunday 4th July - Backstroke
Friday 23rd July - Breaststroke
Sunday 25th July - Butterfly
Sunday 25th July - I.M.
Parents, If you are able to help out at these events then please speak to someone at the club and let us know which dates you can help on. We are in need of any help but mainly time keepers. Without your support we will not be able to run these time trials under ASA Laws and therefore the times gained by swimmers will not be acceptable for PB Times, Club Records or County Qualifying Times.
Notts ASA Summer Gala:
For those swimmers who are still wanting to enter this gala then please have your entry forms back to David Fortescue no later than Tuesday 6th July 2010. When you hand in your entry form please make full payment, any cheques must be made payable to Arnold Swimming Club.
If you require an entry form, please collect one from the club desk or David Fortescue.
Sam Hynd Trophy Gala
Thank you to all the parents and swimmers who escaped the World Cup euphoria to attend the Sam Hynd Trophy Gala at Sutton this weekend, Although we did manage to get the match on a laptop during the gala. On the night we finished 5th with one first place gained by Adriano Staiano, 15PB's and a speeding ticket for swimming too fast gained by Ben Hewitt in the butterfly - well done Ben! Nice to be told that you are going too quick!!
A really big well done to Maisie Chung who only joined the Club recently and gained a County Qualifying Time in her first gala just 2 days before her 10th birthday! Congratulations also go to Grace Berrington who set a Personal Pest Time and represented the Club for the first time and to all the other swimmers many of whom have not competed in many galas.
Results will be in the Members area soon.
Bill Hopkins
It is with great regret that we have to inform you that after more than 17 years at Arnold Swimming Club, Bill Hopkins, Granddad to the Kids, has decided that it has come to that time in his life that he is retiring from coaching swimming at the Club.
Bill will be taking some much deserved rest away from the club after a continuous 17 years of poolside support.
Bill's poolside career started when his son, Peter, became a member of Arnold Swimming Club. On one of the club nights, the clubs coaches were running low and he was asked if he could help out on poolside. Since then we have very rarely had a session at Arnold without Bill as a coach.
Throughout the years Bill has seen many coaches come and go from the club and has been there to support them all. He has helped hundreds of children come through the club from non-swimmers to world class athletes. Not only has Bill helped coaches and swimmers but has been a mentor to our officials.
Bill will still continue to help out officiate at swimming competitions for the club and other clubs although we will not see him on club nights at Arnold coaching.
We would like to wish Bill all the happiness in his retirement from the club, but we hope to have you around the club in the years to come.
200m Time Trials
Notice to all swimmers:
Please note that since the entry forms were printed and handed out for the 200m Time Trials the dates have been revised.
The new dates are as follows:
Friday 2nd July
Sunday 4th July
Friday 23rd July
Sunday 25th July
Arnold Swimming Club would like to apologise for any inconvenience these changes may have caused.
Development League Round 1
Congratulations to all the swimmers who competed in the first round of Development League at Hucknall LC. Swimmers achieved a total of 43 PB Times, 6 Club Records and a staggering 19 first places. The most amazing statistic from this gala was that EVERY swimmer who competed in an individual event gained at least 1 PB Time. Well done to Benjamin Heath, Ella Mageira, Joseph Dames and Bethany Archer who set Club Records and also to Emily Keen, Julia Lamport and Charlie Wood who represented the Club for the first time.
The Club would also like to extend it's thanks to all the officials and poolside helpers who supported the Club on the night as we were co-hosting this Gala.
Results can be found in the members section.
Newsletter - Summer
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Pool Rescheduling
Following on from discussions between Arnold LC and Arnold SC, the Club are proposing the following changes to the pool sessions. We will have a 2hr session at Arnold LC on Sundays from 5 - 7pm which takes effect from Sunday 13th June. The change to the Tuesday session takes effect from 25th May. The last Sunday session at Nottingham University will be 6th June.
Although, all the other session times remain the same we have been asked by the Head of Leisure at Gedling Borough Council to consider moving the Thursday sessions from the current 7.00pm - 9.00pm to 7.15pm - 9.15pm. As such the club has started consultation with parents and have organised a book on the front desk for any parents wishing to make comments on this proposal.
The times stated below may include set up and take down time as agreed with the respective Leisure Centres.
Monday - 1st session in the main pool will be 45 minutes and will be widths concentrating on technique. The session will run from 7 - 7.45pm. The 8 - 9pm session will remain unchanged as lengths. Swimmers invited to both sessions will remain unchanged. Small pool session will also remain unchanged.
Tuesday - This session will continue to run from 7 - 8pm and will be strictly by invitation only as we only have 4 lanes. Swimmers invited to this session have already been contacted. This session will be reviewed in early September.
Wednesday - (Portland LC 8 - 9pm) Any swimmer attending the 8 - 9pm session on Monday or Thursday will be invited to this session with a maximum number of 32 swimmers being accommodated. Criteria may be applied if the number exceeds 32 swimmers although the Club does not anticipate this.
Thursday - 1st and 2nd sessions in the main pool will remain unchanged and be lengths with swimmers invited to both sessions remaining unchanged. Small pool session will also remain unchanged.
Friday - (Southglade LC 8 - 9.30pm) Attendance will be by invitation only as at present. Senior swimmers not invited are welcome to attend the 8 - 9pm session at Arnold. The Arnold 7 - 8pm will be run similar to the Monday session namely widths.
Sunday - (5 - 7pm) - Both sessions will be run as per the Thursday session as lengths. When the Club train at Loughborough, this session will only run from 6 - 7pm as the Club cannot guarantee to provide poolside support at two venues. This will be for the earlier session swimmers although at present we don't know what attendance will be like at the Sunday sessions and there is a possibility that swimmers who are not invited to Loughborough may attend this session. Swimmers who are invited to train at Loughborough will not be invited to this session as an alternative. The Loughborough dates for the remainder of 2010 are 11th July, 19th Sept, 24th Oct and 14th Nov (can be found on the fixtures list) when the Sunday sessions will therefore run 6 - 7pm as stated above.
Nova A/B - when these swimmers train with us in August they are very welcome to attend the above sessions apart from the Tuesday night session at Arnold LC which is by invitation to previously named swimmers.
David and James on ASA Youth Forum
The ASA are always looking for fresh ideas and new volunteers to help out in all aspects of Aquatic Sport. This can be from helping to coach, behind the scenes doing administrative work to becoming an official at competitions.
Recently the ASA have decided to get some new programmes together to help encourage younger people to get involved in volunteering in sport. The current target is to get young volunteers actively involved in sports volunteering and trained up ready for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
As most of you will know, two of our senior swimmers, David Fortescue and James shelton, have been involved with Arnold Swimming Club for a many years and both do a lot of volunteering not just within the Club but with other Swimming Clubs around Nottinghamshire and its neighbouring cities.
From this David and James have been selected by the ASA to join 7 other people from around the country to spearhead its new "ASA Youth Forum" which will look at the different ways young volunteers are involved in sport and put together initiatives to get more young volunteers involved in sport and aiming to have as many young volunteers helping out at the Olympic and Paralympic games in 2012.
Sport relies heavily on volunteers and without them we would not be able to run clubs and competitions that we have all come to be part of. On behalf of Arnold Swimming Club we would like to Thank ALL of our volunteers and a huge congratulations for David Fortescue and James Shelton for there selection by the ASA to take part in this new initiative.
If you would like to help out and volunteer in any way then please speak to one of the committee who would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have or to get you involved and helping out in some way.
Dolphins Trophy
On the night we finished 2nd in the Dolphins Trophy Gala at Hucknall gaining 14 personal best times and 1 Club Record, with the latter gained by Jacob Parker in the 100m butterfly. We had three individual first places with 2 from Jacob Parker and 1 from Josh Bramley. There were some fantastic relay performances with team first places for the boys 10, 13, 15 and Open relays and the girls 11 and 15 year old relays.
Congratulations also go to Mark Higgins who represented the Club for the first time.
Results can be found in the Members section.
Training Fee Changes
This is a gentle reminder to all members that the new training prices are due to take effect from the start of June. That means that any standing orders that are due to be paid at the end of May will need to be altered as these are the payments for June. New fees can be found on the "Joining and Fees" page to the left.
Also if you have not yet renewed your membership then this is due before June 1st. Failure to renew your membership may result in you not being able to swim.
Congratulations Philip
Huge congratulations to Philip Isherwood who has completed his Bronze Level 1 Rookie Lifeguard course.
Over the last few months Philip has been taking training for his Rookie Lifeguard Qualification at Hucknall L.C.
On the 8th May 2010 Philip took his practical examination which he passed and is now officially a Rookie Lifeguard.
Arnold Swimming club would like to congratulate Philip on this achievement but hope that we will not need to put his new skills into use at any time at the club.
Notts ASA Summer Gala
The Notts ASA Summer Gala is due to take place on Sunday 18th July at Beechdale Pool.
This gala is run as an Open meet and costs 3.50 per event swum with a maximum of 4 events per swimmer. The events are 100m and 200m of all four srokes plus I.M. There is also a 400m Freestyle event but this is restricted to 5 heats and entry will be based on submitted entry times.
If you would like more information and an entry form then please contact David Fortescue. All Entry Forms must be returned with full payment to David no later than Tuesday 6th July.
Further Selections for Jacob
We have just received news today that Jacob Parker has also been selected to swim in the UK Schools Games again in Sunderland between 2nd and 5th September 2010.
Jacob for Team GB - Disability
Following on from our recent news article, we have again received notification today that another one of Arnold SC's swimmers have been selected to swim for Team GB!!
Jacob Parker has been invited to join the disability team over in Germany between the 17th and 20th June this year and take part in the International Swimming Championships being held in Berlin.
Congratulations Jacob and from Arnold Swimming Club we wish you all the best.
Monthly Fees
This is a general reminder to all swimmers and parents that the monthly fees are changing. Please see the "Joining and Fees" page for more details.
These changes are taking effect from the start of June so please amend your standing orders that are due to be paid out on 28th May.
If you have any questions or queries then please contact and of the ASC committee.
Membership Renewals
It's that time again that we need all of our members to renew their membership with the club.
Forms can be collected from the desk at Arnold. If you are unable to make it to Arnold please contact the membership secretary via the contact page who will then make arrangements to get your forms to you.
Your forms will need to be back with us with full payment no later than Monday 31st May.
If you have any queries relating to the Membership Renewals please speak to the Membership Secretary, David Fortescue, or our Chairman, Jim Shelton.
Bank Holiday
This is just a general reminder to all swimmers that there will be no training on Sunday (2nd May) or Monday (3rd May) as it is a Bank Holiday. Sessions will be back to normal from Tuesday (4th May).
Sports Centre League - Round 2
Excellent night in the 2nd round of the Sports Centre League at Hucknall with Arnold finishing in 1st place with 17 first places and 15 personal best (PB) times.
It was an eventful evening in which we started the Gala in lane 5 and finished up in lane 1 due to problems with the starting blocks in lane 5 - thanks to the vigilant and ever dependable referees Malcolm Swinburn and Alan Urch for sorting this out.
There were some excellent PB's with Hannah Rotton, James Dwyer, Sam Munday, Joshua Mageira, Bethany Archer, Matt Hudswell, Charlotte and Victoria Kelly taking 4 seconds or more off their previous PB's.
Individual 1st places were gained by Emma Davies, Josh Bramley, Jacob Parker, Ella Mageira, Chris Brown, Amy Tribbick, Bethany Archer and Charlotte Kelly.
As always an excellent team performance secured the victory. This also puts us at the top of the division. Well done to all.
Results can be found in the Members section.
AGM Minutes
The 2010 AGM minutes have now been published. Please check on the archive page for the download.
Rachel Martin to swim for team GB Open Water!
Following on from the success of the British Swimming Championships at the end of last month we were informed that Rachel Martin and Sasha Matthews had been selected to swim for Team GB in different competitions.
We have just received news that Rachel Martin has now been selected to swim for Team GB again!! However, this time she will be swimming with the Open Water Team. Rachel's first swim with the team will be in the LEN cup in the 10km race in France between 11th and 18th June. After swimming in French waters Rachel will be flying back to the UK to swim on the 19th in Ipswich in the Great East Swim. Not bad for someone who hates seaweed!!
Good Luck Rachel
Reeves Trophy Gala
On the night we finished 6th in the Reeves Trophy Gala at Hucknall. The focus of this Gala was to give the swimmers who train hard every week and had not competed in the County Championships a chance of competing.
On the night we gained 21 personal best times and 1 Club Record. We had two first places both gained by Jack Simpson-Hallas in the 25m Butterfly and 25m Freestyle with the latter being a Club Record. We had two individual 2nd places gained by Ella Poyzer and Sascha McLaren and 2 2nd place relay teams, gained by the 9 years and under Medley Relay team, namely Robyn Galloway, Rachel Brown, Georgia Bramley and Hannah Davies and the 12 years and under Freestyle Relay team, namely Rachel Brown, Robyn Galloway, Megan Solis and Chantelle Cliff. Well done to Adriano Staiano who at the ripe old age of 21, gained a PB in the 50m breaststroke!
Congratulations also go to Oskar Keeble who represented the Club for the first time - well done Oskar!
Results can be found in the Members section.
Gladys Hull Cup
It is with greatest regret that we have to inform you that the 2010 Gladys Hull Cup has now been cancelled. This has been due to lack of clubs being able to attend the event.
We hope to move the date of the gala next year to hopefully be able to open the gala up to more clubs.
Website Maintenance
Arnold Swimming Club's website will be having some maintenance on Sunday 18th April. We will try and keep the time the website will be unavailable to a minimum but we are expecting the work to take around 2 hours and should be starting at around 10am.
Asthma Sufferers
If you are an Asthma sufferer, Please can you remember to bring your inhaler to ALL training sessions and Gala Competitions.
As a swimmer it is your responsibility to remember to bring your inhalers onto poolside for every training session or gala competition. Please make sure that your inhaler is clearly marked with your name so we can identify whos is whos in the case of an emergency.
Annual General Meeting
General Reminder that Arnold Swimming Club's AGM will be taking place this Wednesday in the bar area at Arnold Leisure Centre.
Start time is 7:30pm
All are welcome.
Rachel and Sasha - Team GB
Following on from the British Swimming Championships and the success from both Rachel Martin and Sasha Matthews we have received confirmation that both Rachel and Sasha have been selected to swim for Team GB!!
Sasha will represent Team GB at European L/C champs in Hungary and will represent England at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Rachel will represent Team GB at European Juniors in Helsinki.
This is great news for both of Arnold's swimmers. Arnold Swimming Club wish you both the best of luck!
British Swimming Champs
Again Both Sasha Matthews and Rachel Martin have been swimming against Britain's best in the 400m Freestyle event in the British Swimming Championships in Sheffield.
Overall in the heats Rachel managed to finish 21st in a brilliant time of 4:21.99. Sasha finished the heats in 4:16.09 which put her in 7th place.
This saw Sasha go though to the Final later in the evening up against Jazmin Carlin and Rebecca Adlington. Sasha pushed hard and finished the final in 3rd place!!
British Swimming Champs
Another great day at the British Swimming Championships today with Rachel Marting swimming in the 50m Freestyle event. Swimming agains swimmers such as Francesca Halsall and Jess Sylvester, Rachel managed to get an overall placeing of 23rd with an amazing 50m time of 27:38!
The Evening session also saw Sasha Matthews in the Final of the Womens 800m Freestyle event against Rebecca Adlington and Jazmin Carlin. Sasha was fighting all the way through the event with closest rival Jazmin Carlin. It apeared that Jazmin would beat Sasha, and up until the last 150m that was the case. Sasha started to catch Jazmin and with just 3 lengths to go Sasha managed to just pull infront of Jazmin. Sasha managed to stay just infrom of Jazmin all the way to the end of the race where she finished in a time of 8:34.50 which claimed her the silver medal in 2nd Place.
Congratulations to both of you.
ASA Forms
Can everyone please collect their ASA forms from the club desk.
For those of you who have already got them can they please be filled in and returned back to the desk or to David Fortescue as soon as possible.
British Swimming Champs
Live from the poolside:
The Womens 800m Freestyle heat 3 has just finished where both Sasha Matthews and Rachel Martin were competing against each other and Double Olympic Champion Rebecca Adlington.
Rachel finished the heat in 6th place in a time of 8:56.08 with Sasha (on her 19th Birthday) finishing the heat in 2nd place with a time of 8:45.31 with only Rebecca Adlington finishing the heat in front of her.
After all 4 of the heats of the Womens 800m freestyle had finished saw the final placings displayed with Rachel finishing overall in an amazing 17th place and Sasha in 5th place. This will put Sasha into the final which is due to take place tomorrow evening.
Congratulations to both of you and Happy Birthday Sasha!!
British Gas Swimming Championships 2010
Sasha Matthews and Rachel Martin have taken part in the first day of the 2010 Open at Ponds Forge, Sheffield today, swimming in the Womens Open 200m Freestyle event.
Swimming against rivals Jo Jackson and Jazmin Carlin in the heats, Sasha managed to claim an overall 5th place behind Double Olympic Gold medalist Rebecca Adlington and Jo Jackson whilst fellow Arnold swimmer Rachel Martin claimed a commendable overall 23rd placing.
This put Sasha into lane 2 of the final. A tough final saw Sasha finish 6th place in a time of 2:00.45 with less than 3 seconds behind winner Rebecca Adlington.
Well done Sasha and Rachel!!!
Minor Gala Spring League - Finals
The 'A' team finished third with 210 points in the final round of the Minor Gala at Hucknall with 8 first places gained by Grace Perry, Alex Driver, Abby Walton, Ella Mageira, Kiran Watkins and the Boys 11yrs and under relay team, namely Alex Driver, Flynn Asher, Joshua Mageira and Benjamin Heath.
The B team finished 5th in the Minor Gala at Worksop with 114 points. Unfortunately, the team were compromised by many swimmers not being available this weekend. Despite this a big well done is extended to all the swimmers who competed and a big thank to all the Officials for their support in particular Teresa Kelly and Ian Hewett, who was Team Managing for the first time and at very short notice.
The Club would also like to extend it's thanks to the Senior Swimmers who were helping poolside at both Galas. You are all a credit to the Club!
Results can be found in the Members section.
Annual General Meeting Agenda - Final
ARNOLD SWIMMING CLUB - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
7th APRIL 2010 AT ARNOLD LEISURE CENTRE IN THE BAR AREA 7:30pm
FINAL AGENDA
1. Apologies for Absence.
2. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 8th April 2009.
3. Matters Arising.
4. To receive the Financial report and Balance Sheet.
5. To fix the Annual Subscription and Training Charges for 2010/11.
6. Head Coach Report.
7. To receive the reports from the Section Secretaries:
Child Welfare Officer.
Membership Secretary.
8. To receive Chairman's Report.
9. To elect the Committee Members of Arnold Swimming Club.
10. To appoint the Club captains and vice-captains.
11. To appoint the Junior Club Captains.
12. To transfer the Badges Secretary to a non-Committee role.
13. Proposed Amendments to the Clubs Constitution.
14. Annual Galas 2010.
15. How long are the swimming sessions?
16. Pool re-scheduling.
We hope to see you all there.
County Championships 2010
The 2010 Nottinghamshire British Gas County Championships got off to a tricky start on the 13th February with Technical difficulties with the Electronic timing systems. However, our swimmers showed just how well they can perform.
The County Championships took place this year over 7 days, spread out over 5 weekends over various pools in Nottingham. With 36 of our swimmers taking part, collectivly there were 140 PB Times set and 38 Club Records broken. Some of our swimmers swam in the County Championships for the first time and we had 2 swimmers get through the individual heats and into the finals. Congratulations to Rachel Martin who won her final in the Girls 100m Butterfly and also to our 14 year old ladies 4x50m Freestyle County Relay Team who also won their final.
A big mention also needs to go to our Mens 12 year olds 4x50m Medley Relay team who took just under 14 seconds off the current Club Record.
A huge thank you to all of our officials who helped out, whether it be on the poolside chaperoning swimmers, officiating around the pool or on the computers. A huge thankyou also needs to go to Flynn Asher and his parents who, after a drop out of one swimmer in our relay team was given just 2 hours notice that Flynn was needed at the relay gala. Not only did Flynn agree to come along and help out at the last minute but he got to the pool ready and raring to go and helped the 10 year old Mens 4x50m Medley Team claim a Club Record!
A huge congratulations to all of our swimmers how took part this year covering an amazing 45,150m worth of swimming!!
Our County Swimmers this year:
Abby Walton, Alex Driver, Amy Tribbick, Benjamin Heath, Bethany Archer, Christopher Brown, Danielle Fallon, David Staiano, Eleanor Hudswell, Emelia Osborne, Emma Davies, Flynn Asher, 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.
Results from all of the sessions can be found in the members area.
A Huge Congratulations to you all!
Cancelled Training Sessions
Please note that the following session has been cancelled due to Arnold swimming Club's AGM taking place.
Wednesday 7th April - Portland
Also due to the Easter Bank Holidays We have cancelled the following sessions:
Friday 2nd April - Southglade
Friday 2nd April - Arnold
Sunday 4th April - Nottm Uni
Monday 5th April - Arnold
County Champs - Relay Teams
Swimmers who have been invited to swim in the County Relay teams are reminded that the warm up is at 8:30am at Beechdale Swimming Centre. No matter which relay you are in you MUST be there for the warm up so we know you are taking part. Failure to attend the warm up will result in the relay team being withdrawn from the gala.
Swimmers are: Abby Walton, Emelia Osborne, Emma Davies, Geena Johnson, Georgia Bramley, Grace Perry, Katherine Driver, Rebecca Dames, Regan Jordan, Alex Driver, Benjamin Heath, Christeopher Brown, David Staiano, Jack Simpson-Hallas, Jacob Parker, Jorge Phenix-Coyne, Joseph Dames, Joshua Magiera, Kiran Watkins, Kyle Walton, Matthew Gomersall, Matthew Hudswell, Mitchell Jordan, Rohan Watkins.
GOOD LUCK!!
Website Outage
We would like to apologise for the interruption of the website over the past couple of days.
This was totally out of our control and was down to our hosts LCN. LCN took all of the websites down at 11:30pm on Saturday night to perform a mass upgrade to all of there hosting packages. The upgrades were due to be completed in the early hours of Sunday morning however a few things went wrong which caused our site to become unavailable for the entirety of Sunday.
We are now back up and running again so hopefully there will not be any more interruptions.
If you find that the website is down for more than an hour then please view our twitter site here. If there are major issues we will update on here to let you all know.
Again we would like to apologise for the interruption.
County Champs - 1500m
There will be a slight delay in the posting of the results to the website as we are running some maintenance behind the scenes which is preventing us from publishing them.
They should be published early tomorrow.
DSE Success for Jacob Parker
On the 5th and 6th of March, Disability Sports England (DSE) held their junior swimming championships at ponds forge in Sheffield. Jacob Parker from Arnold Swimming Club won 7 gold medals and 2 silver medals. The gold medals were won in the 50m and 100m Freestyle, 50m and 100m Butterfly and the 100m Individual Medley. 2 golds were won in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay and the 4x100m Medley Relay.
A fantastic weekend for Jacob and the NOVA Disability Squad.
Jacob was representing the East Midlands team who finished 3rd over all in the championship. Jacob would like to thank Rob Clarke (Arnold), Bill Hopkins (Arnold) and Dave Palmer (NOVA) who support him all the time and to all those people at Arnold who continue to surrport him. Thanks must also go to Jacobs biggest Supporters, his Mum and Dad.
After the competition had finished Jacob was announced as the top S14 boy swimmer of the competition. Jacob has also won a place this weekend on the S14 fast track world class program being held in Manchester by British Swimming, a three day event covering pool sessions and swimmer and coach workshops. Rob Clarke will be attending this event with Jacob as his home clubs coach. We hope you have a great weekend!
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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.
