Most of you will be aware that Arnold Swimming Club has been working towards gaining Swim21 Accreditation for quite a while now. And the Committee is pleased to announced that on May 15th, we received news that the national board had made the decision to grant us with the accreditation. What is Swim21? Swim21 is the ASA's Club Development model - a planning tool, based on the principles of Long Term Athlete Development, enabling clubs to help athletes, teachers, coaches and administrators to achieve their full potential. It focuses particularly on the needs of athletes - striving to provide them with the best possible support and environment. Swim21 Accreditation is a 'Quality mark'. It recognises nationally and regionally the clubs that are committed to providing safe, effective and quality services for the benefit of their members. Clubs work steadily towards the attainment of a series of outcomes all of which are seen as essential if the right level of support is to be provided at each stage of an athlete's development. Swim21 Accreditation is available to ASA clubs of all aquatic disciplines that are positioned at one or more of the four levels of: Teaching Skill Development Competitive Development Performance The ASA has a commitment to achieving its equity targets throughout the sport. Swim 21 is no different and the Association is keen to support clubs in the shared objective of widening the participation base and hence the performance of the sport as a whole. What does that mean for Arnold? It means that Arnold have been recognised and awarded the Teaching and Skill Development accreditation, in doing so it proves that we as a club have the structure and abilities to provide safe, effective and quality services for swimmers and coaches! Skill Development is the highest accreditation we can achieve given the pool time and coaching level! Any other benefits? As a swim21 club we are able to keep pool time and look for more time in other areas as we should now be shown a preference above other clubs without swim21! Also any course’s our couches go on will be offered at a reduced rate! Look out for these logo’s on our web site and paperwork from now on!!!
	AGM Report
	On April 9th Arnold held its AGM to discuss ideas and views about the club and also give parents and swimmers an update of different issues within the club. Below are some extracted pieces of information from the full report which can be found on Arnold Swimming Club’s Website. Fee increase. Each year costs for the club increase as pool hire and other expenses increase. This year to cover the costs our treasure has proposed that the membership fees increase along with monthly swimming subs. Full details can be found on the Club Desk and also on the Clubs Website. New Committee. Every year the club appoints new committee members, this is done by an election process held at the AGM. The positions available this year are shown below with the results. Chairman Jim Shelton Fixtures Secretary Dave Holland Membership Secretary David Fortescue Team Manager Mick Gilding Captains The Senior Club Captains for the 2008-2009 Gala season are: Boys Girls James Shelton Rosaria Cracolici Peter Hopkins (Vice) Sascha McLaren (Vice) Annual Gala Changes To fall inline with the County Championships that are held in February and March of each year, it has been decided to make some fundamental changes to Arnold Swimming Club’s Annual Gala Championships. The Clubs Annual Gala will now move to the Autumn/Winter from summer. Galas to include 200m events in all strokes for swimmers who are 9 yrs old or above at the date of the next years counties. Dates for the next Annual Galas will be 4th Oct at ALC, 22/29th Nov 2008 at Hucknall LC, We are having to use Hucknall as Arnold gets booked up in advance. The 21st June and 5th July will now be used as time trials. The presentation evening will now be in December rather than July. It goes without saying that the Annual Galas are for all swimmers in the Club. A sub-committee will be formed to discuss the exact details of the Annual galas. The splash and dash will still take place as well as the coaches’ challenge.
	Biathlon Achievement
	Recently Matthew Tomlin has taken part in the British Schools Biathlon Championships. To take part in this event Matthew competed in the Central England competition back in October 2007 where he came 5th. The British Schools Biathlon Championships took place on Sunday 24th February at Bath University where Matthew was amongst 50 other Qualifiers from all over Britain. The event comprised of a 50m swim and 1000m run. Overall Matthew finished 38th and not only is this a great achievement for Matthew but also for Nottinghamshire, as Matthew was the only competitor from Nottingham. A huge Congratulations to Matthew on this achievement and we wish him the best of luck for his future success.
	Website Changes
			Over the next few months Arnold Swimming Clubs website is being developed. This is to give all of you better access and ease of use. During these changes there may be sections of the website that become unavailable and some that do not respond as usual. Please bare with us during this time and we hope that these developments will not cause too much disruption for our users.
	Have your say
	Do you want to have something mentioned in the swimming club’s newsletter or on the website? Do you have an announcement to make? Then please contact us either by email or speak to the Newsletter Editor, David Fortescue, on poolside on training nights. We will do our best to get your article into the newsletter if it is appropriate. Some things to consider: We will only publish items that are appropriate to swimming or the club. The newsletter is only published every 3 months.
	Results
	League Galas Minor Galas Round 3 - 2 teams, both claiming 5th place. 13 1st places, 20 PB times and 5 Club Records. A very impressive finish to the 2008 Spring Minor Gala Leagues from our younger swimmers. Even though our swimmers were up against some very strong competition, they proved that they can still put out an impressive performance.
	Spring Competition Round 3 - Claimed 1st place. 21 1st places, 15 PB times and 3 Club Records. Following on from a strong start, our older swimmers finished the 2008 Spring Competition with an outstanding performance, winning this final. County Championships The county Championships are now finished and what a great achievement for all of Arnold Swimming Club’s swimmers who took part. Claiming a staggering 143 PB Times and 32 Club records form just under 200 swims. Our 12 year old girls also claimed 1st place in both of the relay events that they entered which is not only a great achievement for our swimmers but for the Club as a whole. Lets hope that we can build on this success and gain even more next year.
			Open Meets City Of Derby 3 Swimmers - Amy Tribbick, Kiran Watkins, Rohan Watkins. 12 Swims Claiming 6 PB Times. British International Long Course Disability Championships 2 Swimmers - Jacob Parker, Andrew Zawadzki. 9 Swims with 7 Finals, claiming 8 PB Times.
	Rykneld Open 1 Swimmer - Bethany Archer. 5 Swims, Claiming PB Times in all. Trophy Galas Dolphins Trophy Gala A great performance by all of our swimmers up against some tough opponents, claiming 6th place with 2 1st places, 11 PB Times set and 2 Club Records. Gladys Hull Cup Arnolds Home gala with 2 teams claiming 2nd and 6th places. Claiming 13 1st places, 35 PB Times set and 3 Club Records. Ashfield Cup An outstanding night from Arnold Claiming 2nd place overall claiming a total of 3 1st places, 17 PB Times and a Club Record.
	Upcoming Events.
	7/8th June - Midland Age Group Championships - Coventry 14/15th June - Midland Age Group Championships - Coventry 21st June - Arnold’s Time Trials (1) - Arnold 28th June - Falcon Festival of Sport Invite* - Hucknall                  - CABSC Invite* - Watermeadows 29th June - Notts Northern Open Meet - Beechdale 5th July - Arnold’s Time Trials (2) - Arnold 9th July - Swimming Club Disco - Working Mens 12th July - Notts A.S.A. Time Trials - Beechdale 24-29th July - National Bagcat Championships - Ponds Forge 30th August - Dukeries Open - Ponds Forge
	For further events and Results of all Galas involving Arnold Swimming Club, please visit our website, detailed below. * Invite only, not confirmed that Arnold is attending.
	Swimshop is Europe’s largest specialist mail order company for swimwear and swimming accessories, established in 1980. Arnold Swimming Club has been purchasing items for our swimmers through Swimshop for many years now. You can purchase many Swimming related items from the Swimshop’s website (link found on our website). Arnold Swimming Club also sells some Club branded kit direct from our club desk that cannot be bought elsewhere. For more information about either Arnold Swimming Club merchandise or information about Swimshop please ask at the Club Desk.
	Arnold Swimming Club would like to wish the following swimmers a very Happy Birthday.
	James Large 2nd Jun Sam Price 11th Jul Jordan Berrington 2nd Jun Roisin Murphy 11th Jul Harvey Grear 3ed Jun Danielle Fallon 14th Jul Bethanie McMahon 4th Jun Jake Nurse 18th Jul Callum Townsend 5th Jun Connor Hopkins 20th Jul Thomas Aucott 6th Jun Grace Lievesly 21st Jul William Pearson 6th Jun Matthew Rodgers 22nd Jul Jack Fisher 6th Jun Joseph Dames 23rd Jul Ella Rose Poyzer 7th Jun Chelsi Greentree 24th Jul Seamus Parr 8th Jun Saher Hama 26th Jul Rosaria Cracolici 9th Jun Oliver Pearson 27th Jul Abby Walton 13th Jun Abigail Ellis 30th Jul Georgia Bramley 16th Jun Emma Henderson 31st Jul Benjamin Hallam 16th Jun Liam Brown 1st Aug Geena Johnson 17th Jun Lyndsay Balsom 9th Aug Libby Atherton 19th Jun Kirsten Gilding 10th Aug Chelsie Nicholson 21st Jun Matthew Fowler 10th Aug Jordan Nicholson 21st Jun David Staiano 10th Aug Kimberley Fallon 21st Jun Shannon McMahon 12th Aug James Hudson 22nd Jun Ellie Norton 14th Aug George Partridge 23rd Jun Laura Shelton 17th Aug Peter Solis 28th Jun Megan Austin 17th Aug David Bond 30th Jun Adam Galtress 19th Aug Matthew Yon 3rd Jul Michael Smith 19th Aug Josh Bramley 4th Jul James Holder 20th Aug Philip Isherwood 6th Jul Niamh Morritt 22nd Aug Ellie Hopkins 7th Jul Kiran Watkins 26th Aug Natalie Crawford 8th Jul Eleanor Bramley 27th Aug Liam Smith 10th Jul Joshua Hopkins 30th Aug
	Happy Birthday to you all from all at Arnold Swimming Club.
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