Newbury District Swimming Club

Newbury District Open Meet 2010

I am pleased to announce that our 2010 Open Meet takes place on Saturday 19th June, at Northcroft Leisure Centre.

Meet pack is now available download

For any enquiries please submit via online enquiry form

NDSC Annual Celebration January 30th

The Annual Celebration will take place on Saturday 30th January at Shaw Social Club

Food & Disco provided. Licenced Bar available.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Tickets are available via your squad rep.

Paul's Solent swim

After two cancellations due to bad weather the Solent Swim was on for Sunday 27th September. We took RIB's to Hampstead ledge on the Isle of Wight and then swam to Lymington accross the Solent. In a straight line it was approximately 5k/3.2 miles but once I lost sight of the lead canoeist navgation was poor at best!

It was a beautiful day, conditions could not have been better with temperatures of 20c, blue skies and relatively calm waters as 45 of us ran into the water for the start. The swim was not technically a race but the first swimmers were out in 1:17 (they had both recently raced in Lake Geneva over 21 miles os this was a short race for them!)...I dragged myself across in 10th place in 1:38 and then enjoyed watching the sunset from the beach. A few hardy souls did make the attempt without wetsuits - about 3 made it and one ended up in hospital with hypothermia so it obvioulsy was not that warm without a wetsuit.

Will I be back next year for more? Right now I think not but ask me again at the beginning of the open water season!


Paul Broomfield

Masters Corner

Again a while since the last update and a lot has happened since I sent an update out.

Firstly the move to swimming at Hungerford has gone extremely well. We now have a warm(!) pool, four lanes and sunlight. The move has also helped encourage more swimmers and we now have a squad with more than 30 members and a regular Monday night squad of more around 20 swimmers. For those who have not yet made the trip out to Hungerford it is well worth while - swimming in the evening is so much more sociable than early mornings. If you are put off travelling from Thatcham etc then I live in East Thatcham and I only leave 10 mins earlier than when we swam at St Barts. If anyone would like a lift please let myself or Chris know.

Curry Night
Having a regular squad on Monday those pub goers of us have decided to start a more social get together. This Monday (20 July) we will be having a curry night at the local watering hole after swimming. Simple fare costing about £5 per person and for the sake of the chef we have been asked to all agree on chicken, beef or veg. If you are interested let Chris and myself know either in advance or before we start the session on Monday.

Summer Swimming
The larger squad has also enabled us to book the pool throughout the summer - so we will continue standard times Monday night at Hungerford. The usual format is that we also have 2 lanes at Northcroft on Thursday night (7:30pm-9:00pm) but this will be confirmed at the main swimming club committee meeting this Friday.

Competition Update
This past weekend was the club split medley - 50m sprints of each stroke. We had a good squad of Masters: Liz Pudney, Marcus van Heerden, Ross Jarvis, Dave Milburn, Chris Glover and myself with some excellent and surprising results. Well done to all for taking part (full results at http://www.ndsc.co.uk/admin/downloads/downloads/FullResults2009.pdf) and I hope it has spurred you all on to some competitions in the Autumn.

The next external Master competition we usually do is the Berks & South Bucks Open Masters Meet at Maidenhead. The date of this event is listed as 28 Nov 2009 but no entry details yet. I missed last year so I'm really looking forward to going this year and it would be good if we have enough people attending to enter a few relay teams.

Mike Friday

Bournemouth Pier to Pier

As I am part of the Masters squad we have in the past entered the Bournemouth pier to pier swim.
Which entail swimming between Boscombe and Bournemouth piers an distance of around 1.4 miles.
This year was no different and two masters and one A squad member entered. Paul Broomfield an avid long distance swimmer, Chris Glover the Masters squad coach and Lily Glover.
The day was windy and over cast but this did not detract the 1000 competitors from entering the water which was 20 degrees a tad chilly and need less to say very choppy!!!
Wet suits and hat donned off we set to cover this distance in seas that were not forgiving and tossed and rolled you about!!!
Well the distance was covered by Paul in a time of 34 mins and a bit, Lily followed in 35 and myself a few seconds later!!
It was by no means an easy swim and I felt sea sick!!! Lily showed immense courage and strength to complete this!! And yes Paul you beat me!!!!

Paul also went onto to complete another long distance event on the 6th September swimming a distance of 4km off Brownsea Island. This he completed in a time 57:39 well done to him a great achievement.
Another swim he has also lined up is a swim from Lymington to the Isle of Wight but its all down to the tides and has been cancelled once already!!

2008-9 All Time Club Record Breakers

A staggering 43 Club records were broken during the 2008-9 season, making one of the most successful seasons for quite some time.

Zara Ryan almost single handedly re-wrote the record books, setting 14 new records, and has already started on the 11 year-old category!

Other highlights were 10 year-old James McFadzen breaking two records that were almost as old as himself, the 100m breatstroke set in 1999 and 50m breast set in 2000.

Dave Milburn broke his own record he set 10 years ago in 100m breaststroke during the National League at end of last year (which also bettered his British Record, but cannot claim it as it was manually timed.

Congratulations to all record breakers. Full list is published on downloads page click here. This lists all record breakers, as some were broken more than once during the season. NOTE: these are Short Course records only.

Aman Shah wins Screwfix Sportsperson of the Month

Aman Shah has won the August Screwfix sponsored Sportsperson of the Month Award in NWN.

He was selected for his stunning achievements, especially getting to the 200m back final at the Nationals in Sheffield. See full feature in this weeks NWN.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

National Qualifiers 2009

Newbury District Swimming Club will have three swimmers competing at the National Swimming Championships which take place at Ponds Forge, Sheffield over the next couple of weeks. Zara Ryan and Lily Glover take part in the National Age Group Championships this week 22nd July to 26th July. Lily goes in the 200m Backstroke on Wednesday and Zara in the 200m Butterfly on Thursday. It is the first time that either swimmer have qualified for the Nationals.

Whereas Aman Shah will take part in the National Youth Championships which take place next week, starting on 28th July at the same venue. This year, Aman has extended the number of events he will take part in to four. Following on from his appearance at the GB Championships in March, Aman takes an improved time into the 200m Backstroke event. This year he will also take part in the 100m Backstroke, 800m freestyle, and for the first time in the 400m I.M.

Congratulations to all three, and we wish them all the very best of luck. You can follow their results via the ASA web site Live Results

Open Meet 2009

Full details are now available for the Newbury Graded Open Meet, which takes place on Saturday 20th June 2009.

download meet pack

I am pleased to announce that all entries have been accepted. A full list is available here for download

If you spot any errors or discrepancies, please contact me via email: neville@glanvilleweb.co.uk

New Coach Required

The club are seeking a new coach, please submit your application as soon as possiible.

For full details click here

Presentation Evening 2009

The presentation Evening to celebrate 2008 will take place at Thatcham Memorial Hall on 17th January 2009, starting at 6:30pm.

For directions click here

For a list of the trophies up for grabs, and last years winners see this document click here Note: there are some new trophies this year, for example we have expanded the BAGCATS section to reward 2nd and 3rd places, this way more of the younger swimmers will get recognised.

Tickets will be available either from me or your squad rep.

2008 Club Annual General Meeting

The Club AGM will take place at Northcroft at 6:30pm on December 4th , we welcome everyone involved with the club to attend to hear how the club are progressing. Your views and input are encouraged.

The club are actively seeking additional members to the committee to fill the following roles: Welfare Officer – Male and Press Secretary.

In addition, we are always looking for volunteers, e.g. to help at Open Meet, during Club Champs, Fund Raising, etc. Don’t be shy, here’s your opportunity to get involved with the club. If you have any skills that you believe the club could utilize in any way, or are just keen to be involved, please contact Teresa Glanville via Tel: 01635 37003 or teresa@glanvilleweb.co.uk

National League Round 2 Draw

The draw has been announced for Round 2 of the National League which takes place this coming Saturday November 8th at Bognor Regis. The teams in our gala are Havant and Waterlooville, Bognor Regis, Chesham, Basingstoke Bluefins A and Hamble Aquatics.

Full details and Round 1 results along with League Table can be found at click here

We are in Division 1 West sitting well placed in seventh position after R1.

Nominate your Senior Captains for 2008/9 Season

If you are a swimming member aged 12 or above, this is your chance to nominate your Senior Club Captains for this season. Forms are available for download from here

Please return forms to Teresa Glanville by Thursday 2nd Oct.

River Race and BBQ ***NEW DATE***

We are able to announce a new date for the BBQ and River Race. It is Sunday 27th July, let's keep our fingers crossed for good weather this time. If you are unable to attend, and you purchased tickets last time, refunds are available. Talk your squad rep.

A Social Trip to Basingstoke Aquadrome - Saturday 26th April 2008

We met at Pelican Lane and boarded a Weaveaway coach bound for Basingstoke Aquadrome. I’d never been there before!! “A deprived child”!!! Teresa checked us all on to the coach.
40+ of the swimming club, All very excited we chatted amongst ourselves, oldies to back little ones to the front, munching our way through goodies until we arrived at the pool.

It’s one of the coolest places to have fun. There are 3 flumes; unfortunately the green space bowl was not working but we all enjoyed the “Master Blaster” where you sit on a rubber tube and scream as the flume takes you around the pool in a roller coaster effect. There was a 20metre pool for those club members who didn’t want a ride on one of the adrenalin pumping flumes.

Swimming in the rushing rapids knocked seconds off all our pb’s without any of the hard work. For those who needed to relax you could sit in the Spa Pool or take the more sedate ride on the Yellow Peril.

Sadly all good things come to an end and at 17.15 we were all out of the water for refreshments by the café. It was great fun we all had an opportunity to get to know each other and went home tired out.

A big thankyou to Teresa for all the organising and let’s hope there is another social event soon.

Newbury Open Meet 2008

Many thanks to everyone for helping the meet run smoothly and making our Open Meet a success. Congratulations to Top Girl winner Rebecca O'Brien of Amersham and Top Boy Winner - Daryl Payne of Newbury.

The full results of our Open Meet 2008 are now available from here

We hope to see you all again next year!

If anyone would like the results in HyTek format, please let me know. neville@glanvilleweb.co.uk

South East Region Youth and BAGCATS Championships

The ASA South East Region Youth Championships will be held at Aldershot over weekend of 4th/5th May along with 1500m event on 10th May, and the ASA South East Region BAGCAT Championships will be held at K2, Crawley in June. Details on the programme are now available on the ASASER website. click here

Further information and qualification times for the Youth Championships can be found here Final Closing Date for entries is April 14th, but please contact Stephanie or Donella for forms and NDSC closing date for entries.

We will have six swimmers competing, their accepted entries can be viewed on the ASA SER web site click here

For information on the ASASER BAGCATS Championships which will be held over two separate weekends 31st May - 1st June and 14th - 15th June, including program and qualification times click here Final Closing Date for entries is May12th, but again please contact Stephanie or Donella for forms and NDSC closing date for entries.

BSB County Championships - Accepted Entries

The full list of accepted entries has been published on the BSB County web site. check your entries online at here

Club Annual General Meeting

Unfortunately, not enough members turned up to enable the originally scheduled meeting to go ahead. A new date has now been set for Thursday 10th January, this will now take place ahead of senior squad training at 6:30pm, so hopefully this time we will get a full quorum (and more) including swimmers over aged 16 or over. Hear how the club is doing, and it's your opportunity to air your views, and provide your input into how the club is run.

Venue (tbc) at the Northcroft leisure Centre. Discuss with your squad rep for more information, or give me a call (see contact pages)

Club Championships R4 & R5

The final two rounds of the Club Championships will take place during December. However, Round 5 will be first because we had to change the date to 9th December as the original date clashed with the Plymouth Open Meet. This will be the 800m and 1500m freestyle.

Then on Thursday 13th December Round 4 featuring the 400m freestyle will take place.

These two events will then decide who gets the long distance trophies, and finalises some of the BAGCAT shield winners as well.

Entry forms are available for download at click here

Senior Club Captain Nominations 2007/8

The nominees are all in the for Senior Club Captains for this season 2007/8. Voting takes place at the Round 3 of the Club Champs on Sunday evening 4th November.

The nominees are (listed in alphabetical order):

Girls: Giverny Barrett, Emily Herbert and Georgia Marriott
Boys: Charlie Davies, Jacob Glanville, David Martin and Miles Warren

To vote you need to be 12 at 1st Sept 2007. Please see Teresa Glanville at poolside during the evening to vote.

2009 BSB County Championships Announced

The dates have been announced for the Berks & South Bucks County Championships. They will be held predominantly at the Maidenhead Magnet Pools on the following Saturdays, 28th Feb, 14th March, and 28th March, but with a key change this year, the distance events 800m and 1500m free will be held at the Aldershot Garrison Pool on Sat 21st March.

You can view the entry conditions and procedure document at the BSB web site click here . This document contains all the information about the event schedule and qualification times. For general info about the Championships simply visit the BSBASA web site click here

NOTE: The schedule is very different from last year.

Newbury are scheduled to provide Front of House staff (door and raffle) for sessions 4 and 5 on 14th March and Poolside (whips, runners and medals) during session 8 on 28th March. Volunteers, please make yourself known.

Club Championships 2007

Round One of the 2007 Club Championships will take place at Northcroft on Sunday 7th October. This is the first of 5 evenings where the overall winners of various club trophies will be settled. Make sure you get your entry in, and on time. Closing date is Monday 1st October, please hand in to squad rep, or send them to me directly. Get entry form

Round Two takes place the following weekend on Sunday 14th Oct, forms also now available for download Get entry form

Volunteer helpers will be required on the night to perform a variety of tasks, please contact Teresa Glanville on 01635 37003 to offer your assistance, and to discuss which role would suit best.

PARENTS: for those of you new to the club, and just so you are warned, there will be an entrance fee of £2:00 per adult spectator on the night, programme 50p

Speedo League Round 1 Draw

The draw has been made for Round One of this years Speedo League.

Round 1 will take place at Havant & Waterlooville on Saturday 13th October. We are in Gala 2 and have been drawn against Alton & District, Amersham, Basingstoke, Chesham, Havant & Waterlooville, Jersey and Tilehurst. This will be a tough gala as all teams except Jersey and Tilehurst (newly promoted) finished above us in the league last year. But something to rise to!!

This year there are only two galas, but still 3 rounds, as there only 17 teams in Division 1 West.

The team has been announced - click here to view

For more info check out the Speedo League web site click here

25 All Time Club Records broken during 2006-7 Season

An amazing total of 25 All Time club records were broken during last season. The girls claimed a total of 18 whilst the boys got 7.

Lily Glover set an incredible 7 new records, two of which had stood since 1996. Her record tally included 10 & under girls 50m Free, 50m Fly, 100m Fly, 200m Fly, 100m I.M. & 200m I.M. also the 11 year old girls 50m Fly.

Melisa Mason claimed five records, as she set a new mark for the 15year old girls 200m Fly & 100m I.M as well as new marks for 16 & over girls 100m & 200m Fly. Her latest 200m Fly time is also new Open age group record.

Lucy Singleton claimed four as she set new records for the 14 year old girls 100m I.M, 100m & 200m Back. The 100m Back is also new Open age group record too.

Jafer Shah broke a record that was set in the year after he was born defining a new mark for the 10 & under boys 200m Fly, he also broke his own record for the 10 & under 200m I.M.

Charlie Davies also claiming two, for the 13year old boys 100m Back and the 100m I.M.

The other record breakers with one each were Jessica Francis (12 yrs 100m I.M); Samantha Walker (16yrs & Over 100m I.M.); Aman Shah (13yrs 200m Back); Stephen Tucker (15yrs 100m I.M) and Daryl Payne (Open Boys 400m I.M.)

I look forward to many more being broken during 2007-8 season. Good luck to you all for next season, which is looming fast.

For more details on the above records (Click Here)

To view the All Time Club records (Click Here)

ASA Nationals 2007

Good luck to Lucy Singleton, our sole representative at the ASA National Youth Championships which started today (27th July). Lucy takes part in the 100m Backstroke, the heats take place on Sunday 29th July.

You can follow her progress by checking on the live results page ( Click Here)

Newbury Graded Open Meet 16th June 2007

Details of our Open Meet are available directly from our website. ( Click Here to download)

The full results are now available for download. ( Click Here)

Some quick facts:

A total of 20 records were broken at the meet.
and 36 speeding tickets were issued. Well done to all of you.

Club Records

I expect you have all been wondering when the club records might be updated! Well, I have finally managed to find a little time to complete the task. This has involved recovering data from a number of sources, as you may recall that the previous system crashed and much of the data was lost.

Firstly I have updated the Club Championships records, and was astounded to discover that no fewer than 20 records were broken during the Club Championships at the end of 2006. Well done to all the record breakers. The full list will be published shortly on the downloads page.

I have also finally managed to complete the task of updating the All Time Club Records, and since the last list was produced in July 2005, an amazing total of 30 records have fallen since upto the end of last season (31 July 2006). Congratulations to all the new record holders.

I will endeavour to keep the system upto date more frequently. But be patient a little longer, Derek only got the data tonight, so will upload the data to web site soon.

Berkshire and South Bucks County Times now available

BSB have now made the 2007 County Times available on their web site. Check against these tables to see whether you have a County time, don't forget age as on or before 24th March 2007( Click Here for further information) and select Championships from the menu

Full event details now available from BSB web site, use link above.

Submit your forms to your coach or Stephanie Shah/Donella Francis. PLEASE MAKE YOUR CHEQUES PAYABLE TO NDSC. We will submit all entries as a Club Entry pack. You will still be able to make last minute entires for those extra events at the Windsor Meet.

National Age Group and Youth Championships at Ponds Forge Sheffield

11 year old Zoe Hester takes Gold in the 100m backstroke in a new

National Record Time of: 1:10.13s

Eight Newbury swimmers travelled up to the Ponds Forge International pool at Sheffield last week. Three swimmers - Rebecca Harris, Zoe Hester and Chris Ferguson were competing in the age group championships from Sunday to Wednesday. Emma Harris, Daniel Hester, Marc Garlick Thomas Barton and Luke Wakefield were all competing in the youth championships from Thursday through to the following Sunday.

Zoe began her campaign in promising fashion by qualifying 9th for the 100m freestyle final in a PB of 1:06.42s. This was followed in the same evening by the final of the 200m backstroke in which she took a superb bronze medal in a PB of 2:36.95s. Great stuff!! - but the best was yet to come. In the heats of the 100m backstroke the following day Zoe stormed out in a 34s 50m split and held on down the second length to finish in 1:11.31 - a new PB and a new national record by over a second. With this as a prelude everyone was full of anticipation for the final that evening - and we weren't disappointed!! Zoe turned at the 50m mark in 33.98s - faster than the heats, but only fractionally in front of the opposition. But down the second length Zoe powered away to finish 2m ahead lowering her record to 1:10.13s. She also came 12th in the 200m freestyle in a PB of 2:25.26s to complete a very successful four days of swimming

Chris Ferguson was also on form qualifying as first reserve for the 100m freestyle in a new PB of 1.02.10s. He also sliced 10s off his PB in the 400m freestyle to finish in 4.49.86 and a 4s PB in the 200m freestyle to give him 15th place in a time of 2.16.12s. To complete a set of impressive PBs Chris recorded a time of 2:39.95s in the 200m medley to put him in 26th position. Rebecca Harris had a solid swim in the 400m freestyle in a time of 5.09.52.

In the youth section the boys 100m freestyle team of Marc Garlick, Daniel Hester, Tom Barton and Luke Wakefield finished 15th in a time of 3.46.93, 2s faster than their southern counties qualifying time and missing the final by 2 seconds. Emma harris got to the semi finals of girls 16/17yo 100m freestyle in a PB of 1.00.32. Emma also recorded a 29.01 in the 50m freestyle and 2:15.01 in the 200m freestyle. Daniel Hester made the semi finals of the boys 15/16 yr 100m freestyle in a PB of 55.27.

Our goal this year was for Newbury swimmers to go to the nationals not just to make up the numbers ( grab the tee shirt and go home) but to compete for semi finals, final placings - and maybe medals. I think those goals have been achieved - in a big way!!! Well done to everyone who took part

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