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You will be advised via your Squad Rep closer to the time if your squad is attending a particular event.
Report by Coach Nesworthy
(Photos to follow)
Six swimmers from my Youth Senior Performance Group qualified for this year’s top-class 3-day Scottish short course championships.
The event was held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool Edinburgh from the 8th to the 10th December and there were some great performances.
Sarah March and Zoe Price
Leading up to this event, both girls had put in some long, Intense, hard and specific breaststroke sets in both the training tank and the gym. This paid off and it resulted in them producing quality performances throughout all of the 6 races in which they competed.
Sarah and Zoe are developing into Breaststroke specialists producing 100% LTB’s and ALL TIME CLUB RECORDS in the 50,100,200m Breaststroke events.
Sarah Wright
Sarah had the busiest race program of all of the GAW swimmers, sompeting in nine events. She produced consistent performances throughout the 3-day competition working on specific race strategies.
She had LTB swims in both the 50 Free with 27.97 and 50 Back with 30.79. These were all-time club records!
Sarah’s other excellent LTB performance of the competition came in the 200 Free with 2.10.72. Holly Whites 13-year-old record of 2.07.62 is on the horizon as Sarah’s next performance target.
Adam Morkot
Despite being on a modified training program, Adam qualified for his most ever five Scottish Nationals events.
Adam produced a LTB performance in the 100m IM with 1.05.61 and was close to all his PBs in the 50m, 100m and 200m Butterfly events. The 200 being his closest with a time of 2.15.24 just 0.83 secs of his LTB
Sam Pashley
A consistently hard work ethic in training sessions and some great competition performances enabled Sam Pashley to achieve his goal of qualifying at these championships for the first time.
As the youngest member of the group, Sam the lined up in heat 1 of the 400 Freestyle and despite misjudging his opening 100m pace, he still produced a solid performance of 4.26.00. Just 2 seconds away from his LTB. A good experience for the next time!!
NDSA Championships
3rd & 4th February and 9th, 10th & 11th February 2018
Sunderland Aquatic Centre
NDSA Championships 2018 Meet Information
NDSA 2018 Programme v2
NDSA Championships 2018 Final Club Information – weekend 1
NDSA Championships 2018 Final Club Information Weekend 2
NDSA Championships 2018 Information
Entry £7
Submitted Entries:
Event is for those who meet the qualifying times only
Entries slower than the Qualifying Times will be rejected.
The Promoters reserve the right to reject entries in order to comply with licensing rules relating to session length.
For those hoping to get qualifying times at Sunderland, entries will not be uploaded to check before final submission. All entries must be in by the closing date to allow them to be collated and submitted early on 17th.
Swimmers must be, or have applied for registration with the A.S.A. and may only enter events in their own age group.
The Swim Time Converter – provided by http://www.pullbuoy.co.uk/ is a useful tool and can be used to convert swimmers’ PB times from long course to short course and vice versa.
The attending coach(s) and supporting poolside helper(s) are listed below:-
Coaches – Ken Nesworthy, Paul Armstrong, Sue Thorpe, Tom Maddison
Helper(s) – Jill Barrett
It is the responsibility of the swimmer/parent to notify the coach/poolside helper of any issues in advance of the sessions. This includes withdrawals and requests to attend after the official warm up per session.
Training schedule for 2017 available here as a PDF Christmas Training 2017v3
Squad by squad details below
Academy and Learn to Swim – no training over the Christmas break
Performance Youth Senior
| Date | Time | Venue | Coach/Staff |
| SATURDAY 23 | 07:00-08:30 | GLC | TM |
| WEDNESDAY 27 | 15:00-17:00 | GLC | KN |
| THURSDAY 28 | 05:30-07:00 | GLC | KN |
| SATURDAY 30 | 10:00-12:00 | SAC | KN |
Performance Age Group
| Date | Time | Venue | Coach/Staff |
| SATURDAY 23 | 07:00-08:30 | GLC | TM |
| WEDNESDAY 27 | 10:00-12:00 | GLC | PA |
| THURSDAY 28 | 05:30-07:00 | GLC | KN |
| SATURDAY 30 | 10:00-12:00 | SAC | PA |
Potential Youth Senior
| Date | Time | Venue | Coach/Staff |
| SATURDAY 23 | 07:00-08:30 | GLC | ST |
| WEDNESDAY 27 | 09:00-11:00 | Dunston | ST |
| THURSDAY 28 | 09:00-11:00 | Dunston | ST |
| FRIDAY 29 | 09:00-10:30 | Dunston | ST |
| SATURDAY 30 | 07:00-8:30 | GLC | ST |
Potential Age Group
| Date | Time | Venue | Coach/Staff |
| SATURDAY 23 | 07:00-08:30 | GLC | ST |
| WEDNESDAY 27 | 09:30-11:00 | Dunston | ST |
| THURSDAY 28 | 09:00-11:00 | Dunston | ST |
| FRIDAY 29 | 09:00-10:30 | Dunston | ST |
| SATURDAY 30 | 07:00-08:30 | GLC | ? |
Competitive Development
| Date | Time | Venue | Coach/Staff |
| THURSDAY 28 | 09:30-11.00 | Birtley | TM |
| FRIDAY 29 | 09:30-11.00 | Birtley | TM |
Masters
| Date | Time | Venue | Coach/Staff |
| SATURDAY 23 | 08:00-09:30 | Dunston | MC |
| WEDNESDAY 27 | 14:00-15:30 | Dunston | TBC |
| SATURDAY 30 | 08:00-09:30 | Dunston | MC |
Saturday 27th / Sunday 28th January 2018
Ponds Forge, Sheaf St, Sheffield S1 2BP
Gala info:
2018-Burns-Meet-conditions
2018-Burns-Meet-programme-of-events
Further meeting information and draft programme available on their website http://www.burnsmeet.org.uk
£7.00 per event
Accepted Entries
Event is for Performance Age Group Only, Coach will provide suggested swims
Subject to upper qualifying times. 2018-Burns-Meet-qualifying-times
Entries closed
Swimmers must be, or have applied for registration with the A.S.A. and may only enter events in their own age group.
The Swim Time Converter – provided by http://www.pullbuoy.co.uk/ is a useful tool and can be used to convert swimmers’ PB times from long course to short course and vice versa.
The attending coach(s) and supporting poolside helper(s) are listed below:-
Coach(s) – TBC
Helper(s) – TBC
It is the responsibility of the swimmer/parent to notify the coach/poolside helper of any issues in advance of the sessions. This includes withdrawals and requests to attend after the official warm up per session.
We’re introducing a new method for purchasing “plain”, unpersonalised GAW swim hats.
There will be a permanent swim hat item in the Gawbook.org.uk shop, here
When you purchase one (or more hats) via gawbook, you will receive an email receipt, which you can forward to the squad rep to redeem your hat(s).
Personalised hats will be ordered at various time during the year, more info here
Saturday 6th / Sunday 7th January 2018
Billingham Forum Leisure Centre, The Causeway, Billingham, Stockton-On- Tees, TS23 2LJ
Gala info: New-Year-Meet-2018
For both days the timetable will be:
Submitted entries:
Accepted Entries:
£5.00 per event
Event is for Performance Youth/Senior only, Coach will provide suggested swims
Subject to upper qualifying times.
Enter online here http://www.gawbook.org.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=115
Entries close 22:00 1st December prompt!
Swimmers must be, or have applied for registration with the A.S.A. and may only enter events in their own age group.
The Swim Time Converter – provided by http://www.pullbuoy.co.uk/ is a useful tool and can be used to convert swimmers’ PB times from long course to short course and vice versa.
The attending coach(s) and supporting poolside helper(s) are listed below:-
It is the responsibility of the swimmer/parent to notify the coach/poolside helper of any issues in advance of the sessions. This includes withdrawals and requests to attend after the official warm up per session.
New Club Kit
The club is pleased to announce a new look and supplier for GAW kit.
Ordering will be direct through the EV2 website and the shop will go live on Wednesday 1st November and close on Friday 10th at midday, this will ensure we have it ready for Christmas.
EV2 charge £5+VAT for next day postage for individual orders, or you can select a bulk delivery which will be sent to the club and distributed via the squad reps in time for Christmas. This is only a short window of opportunity, but this is to ensure that we get pre-Christmas delivery, however the shop will open again in the New Year with additional stock items such as rain jackets, beanie hats etc.
More info here https://www.gawswim.org.uk/swim-shop/gaw-swim-kit/
Adam Parker is stepping down from the role as Club Treasurer.
The club is very grateful for his efforts over the past 8 months.
The role briefly comprises:
To produce and manage club accounts and monitor finances and present financial reports to auditors, executive committee and club committee as required. Additionally, financial reports, accounts and bank statements will be required during the application for grants and funding.
A full role description is available here Job Description 20161228-GAWSwim-Club_Treasurer
The club Christmas Party is booked!
28th December 2017 at Blaydon Rugby Club 7.00-11.00 p.m.
Tickets available from your squad reps
Huge good luck to our diddy league team today at Tynemouth. Enjoy it! A photo from the archives… #TeamGAW pic.twitter.com/ojkvRowHyy
