Jun12
Written by David Begg. Posted in Uncategorized
12th June
Competitions and Club Kit
From the start of next season, on 1 September 2015, we will be competing at all competitions as Seaclose Swimming Club, Isle of Wight instead of a mixture of Seaclose and Isle of Wight Swim Team as we currently do. All swimmers will need to be re-registered with the ASA and an annual renewal form is attached, as we will need to capture swimmer’s current details in order to do this. Please down load the below letter for the full information:
Squads
Jun10
Written by David Begg. Posted in Uncategorized
Great turn out for 2nd round of the Rother League.
A huge team of swimmers turned out for the second round of the Rother League at Basingstoke on Saturday 7th June. This round was the relays round and there were some excellent performances on the night where Isle of Wight Swim Team finished fourth overall and also took an individual ward in the only individual event, the 100 IM for under 14 girls.
Every swimmer can be proud of their performances on the night and the competition produced some very close racing especially considering that the age categories meant many of our swimmers were swimming up at least one year. Notable swims on the night that were worth an extra mention were the boys open team of Aiden, Alex, Michael and James who produced a fantastic time of 49.70 sec in the 4 x 1 freestyle relay, the U16 girls team of Beth, Abi M , Megan and Amber who were pipped on the touch into second place in the 4 x 1 Medley relay and Michael and Tom in the U16 2 x 2 breaststroke relay. In the only individual event of the night, the U 14 100 IM, Abi L took the girls title for the Isle of Wight in a new personal best time of 1.11.25 sec.
Big thanks to Gav for the organisation and to the parents who also travelled and helped with the timekeeping and whipping on the night.
May29
Written by David Begg. Posted in Uncategorized
Please find attached the gala sheet for round 2 of the Rother league gala which is on the 6th June and (pending confirmation) is at Basingstoke again.
The age groups are slightly different to Round 1 so different swimmers and this Gala is all relays.
We will need to provide officials / timekeepers so if you could let me know if you/your children can attend but also if you would be able to come and officiate / timekeep.
Round 2 Team Sheet 2015
May26
Written by David Begg. Posted in Uncategorized
The annual Hampshire County Development Meet is a great chance for all swimmers who did not attend the Hampshire County Championships.
•Ages as at 31st December 2015. All swimmers must be at least 9 years of age on 11th July 2015.
•Strokes: 50m, 100m, 200m all strokes + 100m Ind Medley
•Team events: 4x50m Freestyle, medley (mixed). Age groups 9/10, 11/12, 13/14. Only swimmers who have entered individual events may compete in teams. One team per club.
•Overall best club trophy, based on the position of the best swimmer from each club in each event.
•Swimmers who entered the 2015 County Championships may not enter the same stroke/distance.
•Swimmers who entered the 200 IM may not enter the 100m IM.
•Swimmers must not on the day of entry have swum faster than the limit times in any licensed meet or any other competition defined as an open competition under ASA law.
Entry fees: Individual event £5.
Closing date for entries. Friday 5th June 2015 to Val :
openmeets@seaclosesc.co.uk
More Details on the Hampshire website
http://swimmeets.org/calendar/showevent.php?id=231
May18
Written by David Begg. Posted in Uncategorized
South East Regional Championships Success for Megan.
Three weekends of regional swimming championships began at the K2 in Crawley last weekend with the Age Group Championships. With the new ASA rule changes qualifying has been much tougher this year and in order to gain qualification your times had to be ranked in the top 19 swimmers in the region. There were two swimmers from Isle of Wight Swim Team, Megan King and Abigail Lacey, and four swimmers from West Wight Swimming Club, Grace Poynter, Joseph Franks, Louis Herbert and Eric Tasca.
Megan King was the only medallist from the weekend and swam a fantastic personal best in the 14 year olds 50m Backstroke in a time of 32.25sec to gain a silver medal in her first ever regional championships. Megan also made the final in the 50m Freestyle event finishing seventh overall and achieving a new personal best in the heats of 28.95 sec. Megan will hopefully be carrying this form through to the Island Games as she is the youngest selected member of the team.
Also making finals and along the way gaining new personal bests were Joseph Franks and Louis Herbert in the 14 year old boys’ category. Both made the final of the 50m Butterfly and Louis pipped Joseph to record a new personal best time of 29.84 sec to finish sixth while Joseph finished seventh in a new personal best time of 29.91 sec. Louis also competed in the 100m Butterfly event finishing 12th in a new personal best time of 1.08.94sec whilst Joseph competed in the 50m Backstroke event and finished 18th.
Also competing in the boys 14 year old category was Eric Tasca in the 50m Breaststroke who has had a fantastic season to qualify for his first ever South East Regional Championships and once again gained a personal best time of 36.44 sec to finish 14th overall.
In the 13 years category both Grace Poynter and Abigail Lacey competed, with Abigail the busiest swimmer over the weekend. Abi made finals in the 200m freestyle, 50m Freestyle and 200m Backstroke events with her best finish 6th in the 50m Freestyle event in a new personal best time of 29.95 sec. Grace competed in the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke events with her best result being 11th in the 100m event.
The championships continue next weekend at the Mountbatten centre in Portsmouth for the Relay and distance events and then return to Crawley the following weekend for the youth events.
May07
Written by David Begg. Posted in Uncategorized
7th May
Coaches get a taste of their own Medicine.
Congratulations to Gav and Ian on taking part in yet another Tough Mudder event at Henley-on Thames on Saturday.
Taking a rest from putting the swimmers through their paces both of them took part in an event which is known for some very serious challenges and as you can see from the picture, it is more than just a few chin ups and a run round the field.
As you can see the new ‘lighter weight’ Gav led the way, with Ian following on.
Apr28
Written by David Begg. Posted in Uncategorized
27th April
Records continue to fall at final weekend of Isle of Wight Championships
The 2015 Isle of Wight Swimming Championships concluded with the second and final weekend at Medina Leisure Centre with the 100m and 200m Freestyle and 100m Butterfly events. The Championships have been have been a huge success for both Seaclose and West Wight Swimming Clubs with 8 new championships records set and from 266 entries a total of 133 personal best performances.
A further four records were broken this weekend with Abigail Lacey, 13, leading the way in 13-14 year age group and breaking both the 100m and 200m records. Abi broke Lottie James’ 2014 record in the 100m freestyle by recording a new record time of 1min 01.94 sec and to follow this she broke a 15 year old record in the 200m freestyle, previously held by K Eldridge , when she recorded a championship best time of 2 min 13.97 sec. This gave Abi three new records for the championship and tied her with Lottie James for the most records broken over the two weekends.
Also in record breaking form were two West Wight Swimming Club Island Games Team Members, Sam Tinson-Wood and Annalise Jerram. Sam in the 19 and over section broke his own record from last year of 53.80 when he recorded a new 100m Freestyle record of 53.21 sec in the fastest time of the championships. Annalise had a very close race with her sister Bethany in the 100m Butterfly but pipped her on the touch to take gold and a new championship time of 1.09.47 sec in the 19 year and over category, previously held by Rosie Gard.
There were many outstanding performances over the two weekends but special mentions should go to Mia Stillwell of Seaclose Swimming Club who in the 10 year old category took all six gold medals available as did James Stirling of Seaclose Swimming Club in the 17-18 years category.
The overall points trophy for performances over the two weekends for top individual performer in each age group were as follows:
Girls Boys
10 Year Olds Mia Stillwell SSC / Harry Poynter WWSC
11-12 Year Olds Grace Bolland SSC / Frank Morrison SSC
13-14 Year Olds Abigail Lacey SSC / Louis Herbert WWSC
15-16 Year Olds Lelayna Blacklock SSC / Jake Williams WWSC
17-18 Year Olds Emily Kral SSC / James Stirling SSC
19 year and over Annalise Jerram WWSC / Dan Jones WWSC
The swimmers now move onto the South East Regional championships which start May 15th and the Island Games squad members continue their training for the event in Jersey at the end of June.
Apr19
Written by sscAdmin. Posted in Uncategorized
Results from session 1 and session 2 of the 2015 Isle of Wight Champs are now available – download below.
2015 Isle of Wight Champs – Session 1 Results
2015 Isle of Wight Champs – Session 2 Results
Mar30
Written by David Begg. Posted in Uncategorized
30th March
Zac’s Success achieves invite to GB Squad.
Zac Lacey 14, competed at The Down Syndrome European Swimming Championships at The Quays in Southampton over the weekend of 28th and 29th of March. The event had representatives from Scotland, Ireland, Estonia, Spain, Sweden, Russia and Brazil.
The Isle of Swim Team Member had a very successful weekend swimming in five individual events and also competing in the relay event. Zac can now say he is European Champion at the 25m Backstroke event when he produced the fastest time of the day for the event in a new personal best time of 21.22 sec. Zac then went onto produce a personal best in the 100m individual medley (1 min 50.41 sec).
Zac was also selected to swim in the England junior relay team (200m freestyle relay) which did extremely well as the only under 16 team to make the final and the four swimmers did exceptionally well to finish fifth against more established international teams.
Zac’s performance over the weekend was recognised by the Great Britain Down Syndrome Swimming Team coach and Zac has been invited to attend a Great Britain Training Camp in Batley, Yorkshire at the end of April which will hopefully be the start of bigger things to come.
Mar30
Written by David Begg. Posted in Uncategorized
23rd March
Invitational Meet goes ‘Well(s)’
A young IW Swim Team attended the Hants and South Coast League Invitational Meet at Woking Swimming Club on Saturday 21st March. The meet was for 11 years and under and the team was Mia Stillwell, Elysia Blacklock, Lottie Van der Helstraete, Mia Curtis, Lucy Kral, Holly Moody, Harry Elliott, Josh Begg, Sean Joyce, and the Wells brothers Solomon and Gabe.
Coach Gavin Muncaster said ‘everyone swam exceptionally well and all those that attended achieved at least 1 personal best on the night’.
Special Mentions should go to Solomon Wells in the 11 years boys section who swam personal bests in all three of his races and finished 1st in the 50m backstroke in a time of 40.44 sec and fifth in the 100m Individual Medley in a time of 1 min 31.81 sec. Brother Gabe (9 years category) also finished 2nd in the 50m Butterfly in a new personal best time of 1 min 0.46 sec and 4th in the 50m freestyle in a time of 46.35 sec. For the Girls Mia Stillwell in the 9 years age category finished 3rd in the 50m Backstroke event in a new personal best time of 45.76 sec.
Congratulations to all that attended and for ensuring the future looks bright for the IW Swim Team.
