Welcome to the City of Sunderland Amateur Swimming Club website.
We are based at the Sunderland Aquatic centre. Our mission is to be the Swimming Club of
choice for all communities in the Sunderland and surrounding area.
The Club aim to provide opportunities for Long Term Athlete Development
and encourages members to obtain qualifications in teaching and coaching,
attend other sport related courses, and for non-swimming members to
qualify as ASA Officials.
The Club is primarily a competitive club and members of all ages are
encouraged to participate in swimming or swimming related competitive
activities such as water polo, diving, triathlon and synchronized swimming.
The Club also recognise that swimming regularly is part of a healthy
lifestyle and we will provide opportunities for non-competitive, but coached
swimming sessions to be available.
Northumberland & Durham 1500m Championships 2010
Sunderland Aquatic Centre on Sunday 31st January
Once again the City of Sunderland ASC swimmers were outstanding in their home pool, in what was great days racing in one of the toughest events on the regional swimming calendar. The swimmers achieved some excellent times in this event which entails swimming 30 lengths of the 50 metre Aquatic pool.
In the girls 14 to 17 years age group; Danielle Huskinson (16 years) produced a mature and very well paced display to swim her way to the championship title in the Open women’s category, in a time of 17minutes 31.02 seconds. Silver medallist from the 2009 National Youth Championships, Alexandra Robinson also claimed a bronze; while 17year old Eleni Papadoplous claimed the British Disability Record for S10 class, to add to the host of records she bagged in 2009.
In the girls 11 to 13 years age group; Emma Sinclair (13 years) swam her way to a new lifetime best taking Silver in a time of 18 minutes 37.62 seconds. The ever improving Lucy Walton (12 years) a finalist at the 2009 National Age Group Championships claimed bronze.
The City had other impressive performances coming from Adam Taylor (13), Lucy Ellis (13), Dima Isakau (15), Rachel Sinclair (16) and Matthew Bell (16).
For the individual age groups the City of Sunderland ASC girls performed to a particularly high standard with Lucy Walton taking the gold medal for 12 year olds, while Georgina Lamb (gold), Laura Taylor (silver) and Jess Thompson (bronze) made it a clean sweep for the Sunderland girls in the 11 year old age group.
Adam Taylor claimed Bronze in the 13 year old boys category, while James Burns took the bronze for the 12 year olds.
Coach Danny Thompson said; 'well done to the athletes representing the city, many of whom have shown a considerable improvement on their previous times.'
Burns Meet 30 – 31 January 2010
Head Coach Report
We had 6 swimmers from the A Squad racing at the Burns Meet at the weekend. The Meet was of a very high standard which also incorporated the first British staged meet for swimmers on the various GB programmes and teams.
The 6 swimmers representing the City of Sunderland were Jonny Carlisle, Dan Heeley, Patrick Callan, Andy Cumberlidge, Jennifer Tatters and Kathryn Woolston-Thomas. Despite the swimmers being in mid cycle we had some solid performances.
Jonny Carlisle continued with his fine form from last year to win the 17-18 years 100 backstroke in a best time of 58.57. Jonny was just pipped for gold in the 200 backstroke to take the silver medal in an excellent 2.07.14.
Patrick Callan was our other top 10 finisher with good performances in the 100 breaststroke (9th place) and 200 breaststroke (10th place). Overall, the swim meet gave the swimmers the opportunity to improve their warm up and preparations, and to clearly establish their race plans for the rest of the season.
The next competition is the N&D Open and Youth Championships which takes place at Sunderland on 20-21 February.
Alastair Johnson
Head Coach
Newburn Graded Meet
23rd & 24th January - Louisa Centre Stanley
Newburn’s New Year Graded Gala held at the Louisa Centre Stanley is the first gala of 2010. This competition offers chances for age group swimmers to achieve N&D qualifying times and also prepare for the busy competition schedule soon approaching.
Sunderland swimmers had a fantastic weekend with many top 6 finishes and medals won as follows:
Gold;
26
Silver;
31
Bronze;
22
There were many swimmers who achieved N&D qualifying times in numerous events, too many to mention everyone. Also some swimmers gained NER qualifying times for Youth Championships at Sunderland in May and Age Group Championships at Sheffield in June a fantastic achievement, well done.
Matthew Wylie (Olympic Hopefuls) had an amazing swim in his 400 freestyle on Saturday afternoon. Matthews’s time of 5.22.49 is not only a 9 second personal best from a time achieved two weeks ago, it is also 8 seconds under the time he needed to achieve to be considered for a National Talent Programme. The time Matthew accomplished is also a S9 British Championship qualifying time.
A big positive from the weekend was to see so many talented young swimmers from Sunderland competing and winning medals, it looks good for the Diddy League but also for Sunderland Swimming Club’s future!!!
British Gas Northumberland &Durham SA
800m Freestyle Championships (50m)
Sunderland Aquatic Centre
16th January 2010
A large squad of City’s swimmers gathered at their home pool to test themselves against the best in the county over 800m Freestyle. With swimmers showing consideral improvement and 20 swimmers setting new lifetime bests.
Northumberland & Durham County Champions for Sunderland were:
Jessica Thompson
11yrs
Lucy Walton
12yrs
Adam Taylor
13yrs
Eleni Papadoplous
14/17yrs Multi Disability
Swimming there way to silver medals was:
Izzy Bozzanko
12yrs
Adam Charlton
12yrs
Emma Sinclair
13yrs
Claiming bronze was:
Laura Taylor
11yrs
Danielle Huskinson
14/17yrs
City swimmers narrowly missing a medal finishing in the Top 10 were:
Georgina Lamb
11yrs
Lucy Ellis
13yrs
Jordan Henry
12yrs
James Burns
12yrs
Annabelle Joyce
12yrs
Joe Middleton
14yrs
Jennifer Tatters
14yrs
Alex Robinson
15yrs
Matthew Bell
16yrs
There were many outstanding performances across the programme, this is a great start to the year. Let’s use the momentum to move towards a great championship for 2010.
CITY OF LEEDS MEET
19 - 20 DECEMBER 2009
Head Coach Report
We had some good performances at the Leeds Christmas Cracker Meet which attracted swimmers from all over Great Britain which made the event a very strong meet.
Well done to our medal winners:
Jonny Carlisle (2nd 100 backstroke)
Kathryn Woolston-Thomas (3rd 100 Freestyle)
Skins
Congratulations to Jonny Carlisle (50 Backstroke) and Andy Cumberlidge (50 Freestyle) who made it through to the Skins knockout. Both gave it everything with Jonny progressing to round 4 and Andy progressing to round 6. Overall, we had some solid performances, but with plenty of room for improvement.
The important thing is to learn from every race and every swim meet – so that over time we all become more professional and focussed, which in turn helps us achieve sustainable success. That wraps up the swim meets for 2009. Whatever your current competition level, whether its Graded meets, N&D, NER, National or International, then be dedicated and make it your goal to achieve the next level.
All the very best for 2010.
Regards
Alastair Johnson
(Sunderland beacon Head Coach)
Middlesborough Junior Christmas Gala
Middlesbrough Neptune Centre 13th Dec 09
A City of Sunderland Squad of 17 swimmers had an enjoyable and very successful day last Sunday (13th December) at the Middlesborough Junior Christmas Gala.
Medals in all colours and personal best times galore!
Individual medal winners were:
Swimmer
Achievements
James Brewerton
3 Gold, 1 Silver
Lauren Patterson
2 Gold, 1 Silver;
2 Bronze
Jay Whitehead
2 Gold
Andrew Markham
1 Silver, 2 Bronze
Christina Castledene
2 Bronze
Joseph Pomfret
1 Bronze
The Girls’ Teams shone, winning medals in 5 out of 6 races, including nail-biting finishes!! They literally swam out of their skins!
Team
Achievements
Beth Nicholson
Eve Larson
Elizabeth Clements Amelia Bateman
9 Years Medley Relay (Bronze)
Jay Whitehead
Lauren Patterson Jennifer Sharp Elizabeth Clements
10 years Freestyle Relay (Gold)
Jay Whitehead
Lauren Patterson Jennifer Sharp Elizabeth Clements
10 years Medley Relay (Silver)
Christina Castledene Gabby Burdiss
Hannah Costello Lauren Patterson
11 years Freestyle Relay (Gold)
Christina Castledene Gabby Burdiss
Hannah Costello
Jay Whitehead
11 years Medley Relay (Silver)
A haul of 15 Gold; 11 Silver, 11 Bronze medals – a great set of results!
Heat winners all received chocolate Santa lucky bags – a nice touch and an incentive to swim fast!
Well done everyone for giving your best on the day! Coach Val was very proud!!
Val Wilson
Annual Memberships
Would ALLparents please be advised that Club Memberships are now due.
We are holding ‘Squad’ Membership nights at the diving end of the spectator gallery:
The nights begin on Tue Feb 2nd 2010.
2 February 10 Sheffield Premier Meet- 26-28 March 10
The City of Sunderland ASC are no longer attending this meet. They are instead going to the Derventio excel
Open the following weekend. See the club calendar for details.
Any further questions, please contact your squad coach.
30 January 10 N&D Open/Youth
raffleprizes
Raffle prizes are needed for the weekend of this gala (20-21st Feb). Could anyone who wishes to donate please hand in at the club desk on a Tue or Fri night.
29 January 10 Durham AA Graded Meet The final accepted entries are here
There were no rejections for the gala.
Warm up / session time details to follow.
29 January 10
N&D Championship information Northumberland & Durham 2010 Swimming Championship Information here
29 January 10 Hello and Goodbye Alastair Johnson has arranged a
formal goodbye to Liam
and
a hello to Brian for:
Thursday 11 Feb 2010,
7.40 pm to 8.30pm
Studio 1(Swimming will finish at 7.40pm)
Please could the parents from Brian’s squad provide ‘nibbles’ for the event.
If you would like to let me know what you can bring we can try and avoid all bringing the same.
26 January 10 N&D BAGCAT entries Following the Newburn gala could you check if you have achieved BAGCAT Northumberland and Durham County Championship Time (age as on 14th March 2010) details and QT.
BAGCAT ages are 9-13 girls and 9-14 for boys. Well done if you have - please enter the championships in the normal way, closing date 29/1/10.
You may be competing in the Durham Gala 7/2/10. If you achieve a time during this gala please ensure you get your entries into: galas@cityofsunderlandasc.co.uk
by Monday 8/2/10 (entries will not be accepted under any circumstances after this date).
26 January 10 London 2012 Countdown Follow the progress towards the London 2012 Olympics from the quick links menu. Click on the coundown to visit the official site.
25 January 10 Diddy league trials Trials for this years Diddy League will take place on Sat 6th Feb, 7.30am-9.30am in the diving pool.
Any swimmer aged 9-12 on the 28th Nov 2010 is eligible to swim. Could anyone who fits this age criteria in skill development or competitive development contact Paul woodley at the pool.
25 January 10 Book Total Hits £800 Well done to Fiona Sharp who has worked tirelessly to reach the £800 mark in her book fundraising campaign. See the page here
24 January 10 Club calendar The club calendar has been updated
16 January 10 Northumberland & Durham SA 800m Freestyle Championships results
Results here
15 January 10
FINA 2010 List of Approved Swimsuits See the list here
07 January 10
Diddy League 2010
The Diddy league page now page has the fixture details for this years galas. here
04 January 10
Club Kit
Anyone wishing to order club kit can do so with the new club kit order form here
The club shop is open on Tuesday and Friday evenings 5-7pm. Anyone who wishes to contact the club shop and cannot do so on these nights can now send a message via the club shop page.
The club shop is now relocated - we are on the same side of the pool as before but at the bottom end (diving board end).
24 November 09
Northumberland & Durham Swimming
Championships 2010 The follwing documents are now available
17 November 09 FINA Swimwear Rules Regulations valid for swimwear to be used from January 1st, 2010 . View here
03 October 09
National Qualifying times 2010 The 2010 national qualifying times can be found here
23 September 09 Gala Enties The club calendar is regularly updated and all gala information is now displayed on the Club’s notice board (on the balcony above reception).
Swimmers should receive gala information and an entry form from their coach – this means your swimmer needs to be competing in this gala.
If for any reason your child will not be competing then please discuss this and any other entry queries with your child’s coach (please do not approach coaches during a training session).
Entries must be paid for (by cheque) on the night the gala is closing – this will usually be a Friday 4:30 – 6:00pm (for OH1 only – this will be the Thursday before 4:30 – 5:30pm). The desk will be open (where the club shop is, to take entries and payments.
If you are needing to hand in entries outside of this timescale then please ensure you put the fully completed gala entry form and cheque (not cash) in an envelope and pass to your squad manager, who will in turn pass to the competition secretary.
Please check the website regularly for updates/accepted/rejected/warm up times.
Your help is appreciated.
Poolside Guidance With a new season ahead, could swimmers please read up on poolside guidance here
Next Committee Meeting.. January 2010
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