The Isle of Wight Championships will take place on Saturday 20th / Sunday 21st July.
Closing dates for entries are Sunday 14th July.
Seaclose Swimmers download the 2019 Isle of Champs Entry Form and return by the 14th July.
Minimum age group for the Isle of Wight Champs is 10 years – swimmers born 2009 or earlier.
This Monday 20th there is a great opportunity for some of our swimmers-
Simon Capon is coming to Medina to deliver another Sports Psychology Session to the Island Games team and Seaclose Senior / presenior swimmers on Monday 7.45 – 9 p.m. We encourage as many of the senior or pre-senior swimmers to attend. There is no charge but I do need to know numbers please.
Please get in touch if you are available. This is such a great opportunity.
Over the early May Hank holiday weekend there are no lessons on Saturday or Sunday morning (4th / 5th)
There is no squad training on Saturday morning (4th). Other sessions on as normal.
Rother League Round 1 is on the 27th April at Guildford.
Please click here to download the team sheet and confirm if you can / can’t attend ASAP.
We need to take at least a Judge and Timekeeper to officiate if you can help please let us know.
Lessons
There are no lessons over the Easter weekend (20th/21st) April.
Squads
The following squad sessions will NOT be taking place over the easter weekend:
Thursday am, 18th April
Friday pm, 19th April (Good Friday)
Saturday 20th April
Sunday 21st April
Tuesday am 23rd April
Training returns on Tuesday evening, 23rd April.
We are pleased to announce that the annual Seaclose Awards Evening is going to take place Wednesday 27th February at the Riverside Centre in Newport. Arrive from 6pm for a 6.30pm start. Food will be served (as in previous years) then awards will be given out.
Tickets prices will be £10 for adults and swimmers go free. Any volunteers also go free bit still let Rosie know you wish to attend.
Anyone interested in attending this please email me at rosiegard@ymail.com by 20th Feb so that I can give the venue the numbers for food.
This is a great evening every year so it’ll be good to get as many of you there as possible.
Email or questions you have.
Thursday 28th Feb morning training will be cancelled due to this event
Looking forward to hearing from you.
As a reminder morning training starts again on Thursday 3rd Jan. Evening training starts next week once the school term has started. The first evening session is Sunday Jan 6th.
The final lesson for this block this year is the 15/16 December, returning on the weekend of 5/6 January.
We have secured two lanes of long course training on the 6th October, 24th November and 22nd December at Portsmouth. Training time on each day will be 7.25pm-8.45pm.
Sessions will be open for Pre-Senior, Senior and Masters swimmers initially with Juniors of there is space to.
The club is covering the cost of the pool hire and if attending swimmers will need to make their own way to the pool.
If you want to attend please confirm with Val.
The club are arranging sessions where possible whilst Medina Leisure centre is closed.
To be able to run sessions we need to confirm availability of coaches, lifeguards and available pool time. We are able to confirm the sessions below and will add more where possible. With limited availability all squads can attend all sessions below.
West Wight swimming club have kindly agreed we can attend some of their sessions – if you do attend please remember to listen to the coaches an that you may be sharing a lane with more people than normal.
Saturday 22nd September at The Heights. 6.30-8.00am.
Saturday 29th September at The Heights. 6.30-8.00am.
Saturday 6th October at The Heights. 7.00-8.30am. (Provisional in the case Medina Leisure centre is not back open)
Tuesday evenings through the closure. 6.30pm to 8.30pm at West Wight Leisure Centre.
Friday 21st September at West Wight Leisure Centre 6.30-8.30pm.
Friday 28th September at West Wight Leisure Centre 6.30-8.30pm.
Additionally
For Senior and Pre-Senior Swimmers Ryde Swimming Club have sessions on Wednesday evenings at 8-9pm, and Fridays 7.30-8.30pm. Swimmers will need to pay £2 per session if attending please.
Some Sunday evening sessions will be running – this is waiting on confirmation of pool times before we can confirm.
Round 3 of the Rother League has been confirmed for Saturday 15th September.
Team sheet can be downloaded here – Round 3 Team Sheet 2018.
We need to take officials as well as swimmers / coaches so if you can referee or timekeep please let us know.
Confirmation of attendance to coaches@seaclosesc.co.uk please.