Welcome to the Autumn edition of the ASC newsletter.
	Summer has come and gone very fast again this year and the Club has been undergoing lots of change since the new head coaches have been in place. The Summer is normally a quiet time of the season but attendance and commitment during the summer holidays has been excellent and this has continued into Autumn.
	Club Championships 2011
	The Club Championships have been an excellent success with 143 swimmers taking part which is up massively on last year where 104 swimmers competed. The Club Championships are for all swimmers in the Club including those in the small pool and this years ‘Splash and Dash’ was started by the local MP Vernon Coaker who is pictured below with many of our younger stars of the future, Development Head Coach, Tony Parker and Coach, Ian Tomlin. Swimmers pictured from left to right, proudly displaying their medals are— Niran Muthuswamy, Callum Neal, Joseph Blakey, Joel Davison, Oliver Bedrock, Thomas Blakey, Max Walker, Jesse Richards, Clemmie Chung, Francesca Gratton-Fisher.
	During the Club Championship we had a staggering 506 personal best times and 19 Club records set by Ellie Blakey, Nathan Roome, Ellie Davison, Henry Osborne, Eloise Towsey, Joseph Blackmore and Luke Archer. Of the 19 Club Records a staggering 9 were set by Ellie Blakey! Well done Ellie and all the other swimmers who competed in this years Championship. Can all swimmers who won trophies in last year’s gala’s please start to return them to the club ready for this year’s winners.
	Presentation Evening
			This years Club Championship trophies presentation will take place on Friday 2nd December at Arnold Working Mens Club from 7.30pm with tickets being available at the Club desk priced at adults £2, children/OAP’s £1 and swimmers FREE. Admission on the night will be by ticket only as we have restrictions on the capacity at Arnold Working Mens Club. Due to the large increase in the number of swimmers competing in this years championship and the fact that the presentation evening is a Friday rather than a Wednesday we are anticipating a lot of interest in the evening so please get your tickets early. Please note that swimmers, who are admitted free will also require a ticket to gain admission.
	Nottingham NOVA Centurion Squad Selection
	Congratulations to Maisie Chung and Emily Keen who have both joined the Nottingham Nova Development Squad following recent trials. They will be joining their Club colleagues Luke Archer, Hannah Davies and Georgia Bramley in the Development Squad.
	Mansfield Major Oak Open Meet
	All the best to Grace Perry, Megan Perry, Alex Driver, Katherine Driver, Maisie Chung, Eleanor Hudswell, Hannah Davies, Emily Keen, Robyn Galloway, Emelia Osborne, Georgia Bramley, Regan Jordan, Mitchell Jordan, James Dwyer, Natalie Bacon, Hannah Drewett, Kirsten Gilding, Abby Walton, Luke Archer, Bethany Archer, Nathan Roome, Flynn Asher, Charlotte Kelly, Sahana Muthuswamy, Kiran Watkins and Rohan Watkins who will be representing the Club at the Major Oak Open Meeting at WaterMeadows on 19th/20th November. This is probably the best attendance we’ve had as a Club at this Open Meeting which is one of the few local Open Meetings that incorporates 200m events in all 4 strokes. A big thanks to parents, swimmers and coaches for supporting this. We will have coaches on poolside to support our swimmers and hopefully generate a really great atmosphere and some great swims.
	Club Kit
	The new club kit is available now to ALL of our swimmers and includes the following items: Polo Shirts Hoddies Poolside Shorts Woolly Hats New Arnold SC Swim Caps New Arnold SC Kit Bags These are on sale through the club, please take a look at the information on the website, or at the desk. We have a number of items kept at the desk for swimmers to try on to help in the choice of size. Order forms can be printed off the website or collected from the club desk.
	Open Meets
	The Club are looking to encourage more swimmers to compete in Open Meetings where swimmers compete in their chosen events against swimmers from other swimming clubs often from outside the Region. April Hudswell has kindly agreed to work with other members of the Club to co-ordinate this. Open meetings and swimmers will be identified and the Club will provide details of the events, dates, location, entry forms, cost of each event and cut-off times (if applicable) to swimmers/parents. Completed entry forms and the cost for entry should then be returned to the Club desk. Cheques should be made payable to Arnold Swimming Club. For further information please speak to April, David Osborne, David Fortescue, Martin Marrow, Michelle Parker or Jim Shelton. We will would like to remind all swimmers that it is important to let David Fortescue know if you have set a Personal Best time or Club Record in an Open Meeting so that our records can be updated.
	Coaches Corner
	It is important that when you come training you come to train and when you are in the pool you listen to your coaches, they are experienced in swimming knowledge and are there to make you better swimmers, we are not a debating society, we do not negotiate what we want to do when we are training, we get into the pool and give 100% in terms of technique, concentration, commitment for the time that we are training. The sets that are written by Dave Palmer and Tony Parker are designed for and aimed at improving stamina, technique and speed, you will NOT get faster unless you work hard, we wouldn’t be writing these sets if we didn’t believe in you.
	Hydration
	The ideal situation regarding hydration is as follows. Whilst travelling to training you should be sipping water or diluted juice, this will ensure that you arrive for training hydrated and ready for action. Whilst training you should at every opportunity (usually whilst you are waiting for the next part of the set to start) be sipping/drinking your preferred drink, this can water, diluted juice or some swimmers prefer water with a little bit of salt in, this helps to replenish salts in your body that are lost when you sweat in training, whatever your preferred drink is you should have at least ONE LITRE of it on poolside whilst training, if you train at Southglade, especially on a Friday night, because we cannot guarantee the quality of the water, it is important that you have sufficient drink to cover that session. The coaches will be checking your water bottles. After training, it is quite easy to forget to drink but again you should be sipping so that when you go to bed you are fully hydrated and you get a good night’s sleep. When at gala’s/ open meets it is important that you have enough of the right drink to see you through to the end of the competition. REMEMBER – you can self diagnose if you are hydrated or not, the clearer your wee the more hydrated you are, which is good.
	Nutrition
	Eating the right things is just as important as drinking the right stuff. I am sure that most of you will have had your tea before training and I am sure that burger and chips are not on the menu every night and that all parents are conscious of the 5 a day, but it is what we eat when at galas that I want to highlight. Anything that contains jelly, especially jelly is ok, this is because it will give you a sugar rush and help your energy stores for racing, fruit bars, mini flapjacks, Jaffa cakes, snack bars are just as good, bananas are brain food, they do not immediately help your energy systems but because of the potassium levels in them they help stimulate your brain and will help you think about your race, so a combination of bananas chunks and a couple of Jaffa cakes about 10 minutes before you race should be an ideal combination.
	Dear Santa, Christmas is coming and I have been a good swimmer this year, I have trained really hard (most of the time) and listened to my coach (most of the time), for Christmas I would like five out of the following six please:- Goggles that don’t mysteriously tighten or loosen during training causing me to stop during the important main set (and a second pair just in case). A kickboard of my very own that appears on poolside at the beginning of each session and is ready to use rather than relying on kickboards that have been used by other people who have decided that leaving teeth marks in them is fun. A self filling bottle that will hold at least a LITRE rather than the one I bring to training that is the size of a thimble. A pair of fins that grow with my feet so that when we use fins in swimming I don’t have to say to my coach “Mine don’t fit me” A tape measure that measures at least 5 metres so that when my coach asks me to streamline from each turn to at least five metres I will remember how far it is. A picture of my coach who is my inspiration for training well and doing things right. Hope the elf’s and Rudolph are ok, do you want some more of daddy’s whiskey on Christmas Eve like previous years? Love and kisses. A Winner XXXX
	Arnold & Mansfield Swimming Clubs first ACORN Open Meet
	The Committees of Arnold and Mansfield Swimming clubs have been working hard over the last few months exploring the idea of running a joint open meet. Mansfield Swimming Club currently run a very successful Open Meet in the Major Oak and in working together Arnold Swimming Club can learn from Mansfield Swimming Clubs experience. The first ACORN Open Meet is the out come of these ideas. The meet will take place on Sunday 13th May 2012 at Hucknall Leisure Centre. Further information is available on our website
	Land Training
	In recent weeks the club has introduced a Land Training session on a Friday at Southglade Leisure Centre from 7-7.30pm. This is becoming popular among swimmers and is aimed at improving the overall fitness levels of the Swimmers.
	Dates for your Diary
	Mansfield Major Oak - 19th/20th November - Water Meadows Swimming Centre Presentation Evening/Disco - 2nd December - Arnold Working Men's Club National Swimming League - 10th December - TBA (Round 3) Sports Centre League - 17th December - Newark (FINAL) Notts ASA Youth County Championships - 17th/18th December - Beechdale Swimming Centre
	Swimmers of the Month
	September 1st Session Louie Truswell 2nd Session Ben Hewitt October 1st Session Ben Brown 2nd Session Katherine Driver
	Arnold Swimming Club would like to wish the following swimmers a very Happy Birthday.
	December
	Henry Osborne, Samuel Kellam, Amelie Brown, Gabriel Hutton, Mimi Blackmore, Eve Danquah, Samantha Wardle, Emelia Osborne, Hannah Drewett, Harry Martin, Jorge Phenix-Coyne
	January
	Finlay Owen, Ethan Bird, Ellie Davison, Isabella Garaway, Jack Bannister, Oliver Poulter, James Dwyer, Rebecca Dames, Johannes Van Baalen, Charlotte Kelly, Francesca Hay, Megan Perry, Ben Hewitt, Samuel Munday
	February
	Lewis Marrow, Harrison Walker, Louis Jamson, Jennifer Brown, Ellie Blakey, Isobel Collier, Daniel Metcalfe, Emily Metcalfe, Bethany Proctor, Eloise Gittins, Sam Newton, Thomas Hewitt, Matthew Tomlin, Amy Tribbick, Adriano Staiano
	Happy Birthday to you all from all at Arnold Swimming Club.
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