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Back in the heady days that were the end of 2020, during covid lockdowns and cancelled Christmas pans, we undertook review of the club as it stood then and where we wanted it to go in the future. The result was the creation of a club development plan, covering the next 2 years (2021-2022). For the last year (and a month), it has been guiding the activity of the committee and coaching team to keep the club moving forwards. As we move into 2022 and the past the half way...
Starting from March 31st, we will now be training on Thursday's at Canons Leisure Centre from 6-7pm. This session will be for our Orange and Gold groups and allows us to offer more time in the pool for our swimmers which is what they want. We look forward to the beneifts this will have for our swimmers. This will now see us complete the vision for our training timetable and squad restructure process that started with the changes brought in back in September. While we are continuing to strive to...
The competition on Saturday, was a massive success and congratulations go to the swimmers on the Blue team who came away as the winners. Thanks to everyone who came down to support the kids and especially to those parents who helped out on the day. All the swimmers who took part seemed to enjoy it and really got into the spirit of things, showing excellent support for each other. A special mention goes out to our 2 gala Most Valuable Players, Peter and Evie, who impressed the coaches with their...
We are proud to announce our very first club captains and vice captains: Captains - Prince and Emilia C Vice Captains - Melanine and Mia M All of them have demonstrated the sort of dedication and maturity in their approach to training and all club activities that we hope for from all our swimmers. We are confident they will make excellent role models for younger swimmers and ambassadors for the club.
The club has updated it's constitution for this year, so please visit the policies page on our website to read the updated version. The main changes are updated club membership names, in line with recent changes brought in by Swim England and the introduction of a 1 month notice period for all membership cancellations. The notice period has been introduced to ensure all cancellation requests can be dealt with effectively. We also wish to ensure there are no issues with people cancelling at the end of a month and us...
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Ahead of our upcoming competitions, a few people mentioned having difficulty finding swimwear. If you are finding it difficult looking for swimwear, it is worth looking at the following sites as they offer a wider range of choice than the larger online sports retailers: https://www.allensswimwear.co.uk/ https://www.proswimwear.co.uk/ https://www.mailsports.co.uk/swimwear As a reminder, the club's official colour is royal blue (see above) but anything close to this is fine.
Training for all groups will continue as normal during half term. The club will stop for 2 weeks over Christmas, from December 20th to January 2nd. The last day of training before the Christmas break will be Sunday 19th December and the first day after will be Friday 7th January.
We are having a club meeting on Friday 22nd October at 6pm. This will be run mainly as a Q & A session where parents can ask questions about all aspects of the club along with our future plans. If you have any question you'd like answered at the meeting, please submit them by email by Wednesday 20th October. Doing this will help us answer as many questions as we can during the meeting.
We're pleased to announce that we have been accepted into a local swimming league, the Pentagon League. This will see us taking part in galas five times a year alongside four other local clubs, offering our swimmers the regular opportunities in competitions we have been working hard to find. The other clubs in the league are: Wimbledon Dolphins Battersea Jacks Streatham Merton Swordfish The league was suspended during covid and is yet to confirm a date for it's resumption. Previously they ran four galas in the first half of the...
