Jun28
Written by sscAdmin. Posted in Calendar, News
On the 10th of July the Swimming Competition at the Natwest International Island Games begins in Guernsey – https://guernsey2023.gg/
The team will compete in this major international competition with a full programme of events over 4 days. The Swimmers will be supported by Val Gard as Coach and Justine Stewart as team manager. You can read more about the team here
As many of the swimmers and coaching staff will be attending the games we will not be able to run any sessions between Saturday 8th and Saturday 15th inclusive. We’re sorry we can’t provide squads or lessons over this period but would encourage everyone to watch the Island Games as it will be live streamed online. All of our swimmers can aspire to swimming in this event and enjoy the experience it gives you.
No swimming (lessons or squads) Saturday 8th July – Saturday 15th July. Squad training will be on Friday 7th, returning on Monday 17th
As there is no swimming in this period we will run squads and lessons through until July 30th before a short break for the summer.
When we return in the new swimming year there will be a number of competitions with Round 3 of the Rother League on 30th September, we are provisionally planning for the Isle of Wight Sprints on the weekend of 6/7 October, Arena League on 14th October and will be looking at Club champs for late 2023 as well as attending the Southampton James Moreno open meet that is normally late October.
May18
Written by sscAdmin. Posted in News
Huge congratulations to the 6 Wightlink sponsored Seaclose swimmers who, following on from their successes at the county championships at the start of the year, qualified and competed at this year’s regional championship.
The competition was extremely tough especially as it is swum over a long course pool however our swimmers excelled achieving 10 personal best times (pb) and 13 top 20 places in their respective age group.
With a special mention to Isobel Muncaster achieving 7th place in the 400 Individual medley, Nell O’Brien 9th in 200 Freestyle and Joe Carter (swimming for Portsmouth Northsea SC at this event) 5th place in the 50 backstroke final.
Isobel, Nell, Lucy and Joe are now looking forward to competing at the Island Games in Guernsey with the rest of the Island Games swimmers.
Thanks to WightLink for their on-going support.
Mylea Gobby 50 Backstroke 35th LC PB
Lucy Isaacson 50 Freestyle 20th
50 Butterfly 23rd
Isobel Muncaster 100 Breaststroke 11th PB
400 Individual Medley 7th LC PB
Nell O’Brien 50 Freestyle 12th PB
100 Freestyle 12th LC PB
200 Freestyle 9th PB
400 Freestyle 13th PB
Sonya Wake 50 Breaststroke 21st LC PB
100 Breaststroke 23rd LC PB
Joe Carter 50 Freestyle 16th
100 Freestyle 18th
50 Butterfly 20th
100 Butterfly 13th
50 Backstroke 5th
100 Backstroke 13th LC PB
Feb17
Written by sscAdmin. Posted in Calendar, Events, News
This summer a 12 swimmers will be representing the Isle of Wight at the Island Games in Guernsey (Home – Guernsey 2023). The team will travel with a coach and team manager and we are raising funds to help cover these costs.
As part of this the swimmers have organised a Quiz night to be help on Sunday May 7th, 7pm at Urban Saints, Westbrook Centre, Oakhill Road, Ryde. PO33 1PU
The cost is £5.00 per person with all proceeds going towards the Island Games swim team. Nibbles will be provided on the night.
There will also be a raffle. There is a small bar and tea & coffee will be available but feel free to bring your own drinks.
Teams of up to 6 people, payable on the night.
We are limited to 100 people at the venue so to help us manage the numbers please register on the link below. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/X9PDNMN
Download a poster for the event here.
It should be a great evening and being organised by the swimmers so please come along and support if possible. This is the bank holiday weekend for the Kings coronation so no school or work on the Monday after!
Island Games Quiz Night Fundraiser – download the poster
Jan05
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We hope you all had a good christmas and new year break. Just a reminder squad training begins 4th Jan with all sessions back to normal from then onwards.
Lessons start again on Saturday 7th Jan.
Nov23
Written by sscAdmin. Posted in Calendar, News
Here are the arrangements for lessons and squads whilst the 2022 Club Champs are taking place and over the Christmas season.
Lessons
Lessons will run every Saturday as normal with the final session on Saturday 17th December. On the 17th of December all lessons can from on 08:15-09:15 and we will have a fun session. Lessons will return after the summer break on Saturday 7th January 2023
Squads
During the Club Championships where ever possible the sessions will run with the following exceptions.
Saturday 26th November – Squads will be on as normal however as there are lots of races on Saturday evening if you are swimming we would recommend not attending in the morning of the 26th.
Saturday 3rd December – There will be no squad training in the morning
Saturday 10th December – Training will be on as normal
Wednesday 14th December (evening) – There will be no squad training on this day
Friday 16th December (evening) – Fun session for all squad swimmers 18:15-19:30
Saturday 17th December – There will be no squad training on this day
All other sessions will run as normal
Christmas
The final session before the Christmas break will be Wednesday 21st December.
There will be one session between Christmas and New year on Thursday 29th December, 06.00-07.15
Normal training will return on Wednesday 4th January 2023
Oct30
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Session 1 Results – 26th November Results
Fantastic swimming on day 1 with 72 PB’s set and 17 new club records.
Spectators are welcome and there will be no charge for spectators on this event. No printed programmes will be created. Entries will be on Meet Mobile. Whilst finishing times will be published on Meet Mobile placings will not reflect that there are separate results for each club.
The club championships for 2022 will take place on the following dates:
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26/11/2022 (Session 1)
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400 IM, 50 Back, 100 Br/s (15.30 start)
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26/11/2022 (Session 2)
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50 Br/s, 100 Fly, 100 IM, 200 Back (~18.00 start)
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03/12/2022 (Session 1)
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400 Free, 50 Fly, 100 Back (15.30 start)
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03/12/2022 (Session 2)
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200 IM, 100 Free, 200 Free, 200 Fly (~18.00 start)
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14/12/2022
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1500 F/C
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17/12/2022
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50 Free, 200 Br/s, 800 Free (17.00 start)
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Age Groups will be:
9-10 Years
11-12 Years
13-14 Years
15-16 Years
17-18 Years
19 Years and over.
Championships are open to all Junior, Pre-Senior and Senior Squad swimmers and Masters squad members. Junior squad swimmers we recommend speaking to your coach for advice on which events to enter.
We will run the championships with Ryde Swimming Club and West Wight Swimming Club and swimmers will race against each other, but results will be for each individual club. This will help us ensure we can have enough officials to run the gala according to licensing requirements.
If you are interested in helping as an official please find out more here.
Entries cost £3.50 per event.
Supporting Documents:
Schedule of Events
Promoters Rules 2022
Jul25
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Summer 2022 Arrangements
Extra sessions – as the morning sessions have been popular this week and it has been great too see so many swimmers here there will be two extra sessions for squads before we break for summer. Saturday 6th at 07:45-09:15 and Thursday 11th at 06:00-07:15
As normal we will be taking a break over the summer weeks. Everyone has worked hard after our return from COVID so enjoy some rest ready for the new swimming season.
The dates / sessions will be:
Lessons
The last lesson before the summer break will be July 30th. Lessons will return on Saturday September 3rd.
Squads
Squad swimming will continue as normal until Saturday July 30th returning fully on Saturday 3rd September. There will be a small number of sessions in August as follows:
Tuesday 2nd August – 06:00 – 07:15 – all squads and masters
Thursday 4th August – 06:00 – 07:15 – all squads and masters
Extra session Saturday 6th Aug. 07.45-09.15 all squads
Tuesday 9th August – 06:00 – 07:15 – all squads and masters
Thursday 11th August 06.00-07.15 – all squads and masters
Wednesday 24th August – 18:15 – 20:15 – Junior / Pre-Senior and Senior Squads
Saturday 27th August – 07:15 – 09:15 – Junior / Pre-Senior and Senior Squads
Wednesday 31st August – 18:15 – 20:15 – Junior / Pre-Senior and Senior Squads
May25
Written by sscAdmin. Posted in Calendar, Events, News
In session 1 we trialled the use of Meet Mobile – this worked well on the night and we will again be publishing results to Meet Mobile for Session 2.
Seaclose Swimming Club are pleased to be running the 2022 Isle of Wight Championships returning for the first time since 2019.
The first weekend was a great success and look forward to having swimmers back for session 2 on July 16th
As a reminder events will be swum over two weekends on the 9th and 16th July 2022.
Saturday 9th July – 100m Breaststroke, 200m Individual Medley, 100m Backstroke
Saturday 16th July – 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly
The event will start at 17.00 on each evening. Doors open at 17.00 with warm-up due to start at 17:10.
At the moment as there are no COVID restrictions the balcony will be open for spectators with a fee for spectators of £3 per person.
There will be a medal table in operation on the night with medals available as soon as event results are confirmed.
Download the Session 1 Results.
The provisional programme for session 2 can be downloaded here.
If you have any experience officiating or time keeping and would be available to help with the gala please let us know on coaches@seaclosesc.co.uk
Apr10
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Easter Break 2022
Over the Easter weekend there will be no squads or lessons. The last session before easter will be Wednesday 13th April returning Wednesday 20th June.
- Monday 11th April – PM – Training as normal.
- Tuesday 12th April – AM – Training as normal.
- Wednesday 13th April – PM – Training as normal.
- Thursday 14th April – AM – No training.
- Friday 15th April – PM – No training.
- Saturday 16th April – AM – No training or Lessons.
- Monday 18th April – PM – No training.
- Tuesday 19th April – AM – No training.
- Wednesday 20th April – PM – Training as normal.
- Thursday 21st April – AM – Training as normal.
- Friday 22nd April – PM – Training as normal.
- Saturday 23rd April – AM – Training and lessons as normal.
Mar19
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Over recent weeks Seaclose Swimming club has competed in the Southampton Spring Open Meet, and the Portsmouth Northsea Spring Invitational Novice Meet.
In the Southampton Spring meet, held over the weekend of the 5th and 6th of March nineteen swimmers competed over a full programme of swimming events. There were fantastic results with every swimmer getting personal best times, and a total of 88 personal best times achieved across the club.
Multiple medals were won by swimmers including Tom Brailsford (4 Bronze, 1 Silver and 1 Gold), Conrad Brown (1 Bronze), Harry Sheppard (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze), Ben Van der Helstraete, in his first ever swimming competition (2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze), Isabelle Bounds (2 Silver, 3 Bronze), Inara Ford (4 Gold, 3 Silver and the overall points trophy for her age group), Georgie Gobby (1 Gold, 5 Silver), Mylea Gobby (1 Silver, 3 Bronze), Isobel Muncaster (2 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze), Nell O’Brien (2 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze), Bella Pilcher (1 Bronze), Mia Stillwell (1 Bronze),
The event was a great success with fantastic swims from everyone who took part.
The Portsmouth Northsea Spring Invitational Novice Meet took place on the 13th March with 17 swimmers taking part, with four swimmers taking part in their first ever swimming competition. Across the swimmers there were 44 personal best times set with Luca Guerrini and Harry Macdonald both taking over 10 seconds off their best times for 50m Freestyle.
Once again the swimmers achieved a great haul of medals with Isabelle Bounds winning 4 Gold and 1 Silver medal, Tom Brailsford with a clean sweep of 5 Gold medals, Mia Curtis, 3 Gold medals, Tilly Everett 1 Bronze medal, Inara Ford 1 Silver and 3 Bronze medals, Mattie Johnson won 2 Silver and 2 Bronze, Ben Van der Helstraete 4 Gold medals and Chloe Walker winning 1 Bronze medal. There were strong swims from all swimmers including Cora Muncaster, Maya and Skye Priede, Ayla-Belle Bedocs and Jasper and Elsie Jenkinson, and Freddie Lyon.
In total Seaclose swimmers winning 16 Gold Medals and 7 Bronze medals rounding off a successful set of competitions for Seaclose Swimming Club. Well done to all swimmers.
