SUCCESS FOR SWIMMERS AT BOSSS OPEN

Eleven squad members from Junior Olympic 2 travelled as part of a large contingent of City of Sunderland swimmers heading into Yorkshire for the 1st Borough of Stockton Swimming Scheme Open Gala, staged at the John Charles Centre for Sport. The squad excelled taking two Bronze medals and 36 Top 10 finishes with numerous Personal Best times.

Bronze medal performances came from Alex Gunn in the 13yrs 50m FS in a new Personal Best time 29.52 JO2’s 2nd Bronze came in the 14yrs Boys 200m Butterfly with Dima Isakua coming home in a New Personal Best time of 2.36.69.

JO2 swimmers also claiming Top 10 finishes were Conor Crozior, Matthew Bell, Danny Scurr, Alex Herring, Alex Pierce-Harrison and Catlin McdaidA mention goes out to Rachel Sinclair who swam her way to a massive new lifetime best by 12 seconds in the Girls 400m FS.

All swimmers performed extremely well at what was a long hard weekends racing.

KEEP UP THE HARD WORK

Swimmers will be training with full time Community Swimming Coach Danny Thompson.

Criteria

• Swimmers would normally be between 13 and 18 years of age.
• Have advanced stroke technique and effective turns in all four strokes
• Swimmers will normally be of Regional/ County Standard.
• Must be able to perform 400 IM under ASA laws and swim 1500m continuously using competition turns
• Minimum attendance of seven or eight sessions for 13 & 14year olds
Eight or nine sessions 14+ year olds per week
• Completion of all land based sessions unless otherwise directed by Squad Coach

Aims

• To enforce the swimmers competition and training skills, ready for the intense training required in the National Squad
• To introduce swimmers to energy systems and cyclical training
• To develop core stability and basic strength through land training
• Educate swimmers on time management, healthy lifestyles and gala protocols
• To build swimmers discipline and commitment levels
• To keep a detailed log book
• Swimmers will target National Championships, North East Regional Championships, Northumberland & Durham Championships and various selected Open Meets
• There will also be trips around the United Kingdom as well as abroad for selected swimmers.

“WINNERS ARE SIMPLY PREPARED TO DO WHAT LOSERS WON’T ”

Coach: Danny Thompson, email

Squad Managers:
Bill Joyce, Ina Arbrie

Fees: £55 pm