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.
Middlesbrough's 9th Annual Open Meet 7th - 9th May 2010
Eleni Papadopoulos in action
Image courtesy of Event Photography North east
The City of Sunderland ASC team took part in the recent Middlesbrough 9th Annual Open Meet held at the Neptune Pool, Middlesbrough.
Top performer for Sunderland was thirteen year old Adam Taylor who took an outstanding eight gold medals in the 100, 200 and 400 metres freestyle, 100 and 200 metres backstroke, 100 and 200 metres butterfly and the 200 metres individual medley. Eighteen year old Joshua Crowther also took an impressive seven gold medals in the 100, 200 and 400 freestyle, 100 and 200 backstroke and the 100 and 200 butterfly, while ten year old Thomas Burns took gold in the 400 metres freestyle, two silvers in the 200 metre freestyle and backstroke and a bronze medal in the 100 metres freestyle.
For the girls, fifteen year old Kathryn Woolston–Thomas won five gold medals in the 100 and 200 metres freestyle, 100 and 200 metres backstroke and 100 metres butterfly events, while seventeen year old Laura Dawson took four gold in the 100 and 200 metres backstroke, 100 metres butterfly and 200 metres individual medley adding to her two silver medals from the 100 and 200 metres freestyle events. Fifteen year old Alexandra Robinson also struck gold in the 100 and 200 breaststroke and the 400 freestyle events and silver in the 100 and 200 freestyle, 200 butterfly and 200 individual medley events.
Further gold medal success was achieved by the girls with ten year old Jodi Bunker winning the 100 and 200 breaststroke events adding to her two silvers in the 200 butterfly and individual medley and three bronze in the 100 and 200 backstroke and the 100 butterfly events. Twelve year old Lucy Walton also took two gold in the 200 and 400 metres freestyle to add to her haul of six silver medals from the 100 and 200 metres butterfly, 100 and 200 meters backstroke, 100 metres freestyle and 200 metres individual medley races. Thirteen year old Emma Sinclair won gold medals in the 200 metres backstroke and butterfly, with four silver medals in the 100 backstroke and butterfly and the 200 individual medley and 400 freestyle and a bronze medal in the 200 freestyle. Eleven year old Georgina Lamb took gold in the 400 metres freestyle, with three silver in the 100 and 200 breaststroke and the 200 freestyle and four bronze in the 100 and 200 butterfly, 100 freestyle and 200 individual medley, while seventeen year old Danielle Huskisson won gold, silver and bronze in the 400 freestyle, 200 backstroke and 200 freestyle events.
The team also took an impressive number of silver and bronze medals with; Adam Charlton (12) taking five silver, Jessica Thompson (11) four silver, Liam Bosworth (17) two silver two bronze, Joseph Middleton (15) one silver, two bronze, Daniel Heeley (20) two silver, Isabella Bosanko (12) one silver, one bronze, Wills Pierce-Harrison (13) two bronze, Alex Richardson (17) two bronze, Mathew Bell (16) one silver, Charlotte Mould (16) one silver, with Laura Taylor (11), James Burns (12), Adam Jurgens (13), Lucy Ellis (13), Alex Pierce-Harrison (14), Andie Hinitt (14), Dima Isakau (15), Rachel Sinclair (16), Lorna Breeze (17) and Connor Crozier (17) all winning one bronze medal each.
ASA NER Youth and Senior Championships 1st-2nd May 2010
The Sunderland Aquatic Centre was the venue for the prestigious British Gas Amateur Swimming Association (North East Region), Youth and Senior Long Course Championships, where despite strong opposition from the regions elite, the host City of Sunderland ASC team, won an impressive haul of medals.
In the Men’s 50 metre Butterfly Final Joshua Crowther (18) took the gold medal in a time of 26.11 seconds impressively building upon his time of 26.23 seconds in the heats. Joshua also took two silver medals, narrowly missing first place finishes in the Men’s 50 metre Freestyle Final where he was pipped by Paul Robinson (22) of the City of Newcastle and in the Men’s 50 metre Backstroke Final where Danny Maitland (23) of York City took the gold by just half a second. Joshua also had an excellent swim in the Men’s 100 metre Freestyle Final where he took fourth place in 54.16 seconds, while team mate Daniel Heeley (20), took seventh spot in a time of 54.43 seconds.
In the women’s events, fifteen year old Kathryn Woolston-Thomas took first place in a field of 87 competitors in the 100m Freestyle Heats, in a time of 59.33 seconds, but in the final Kathryn was touched into second place by Anne Bochmann of the City of Leeds by the narrowest of margins - just 0.2 of a second – with Kathryn taking the silver medal in an impressive time of 58.83 seconds. Kathryn and team mate Lorna Breeze (17) also reached the final of the 50 metre Butterfly where strong performances achieved respective times of 30.89 and 31.21 seconds. Kathryn also took fifth spot in the 50 metre Freestyle Final in a time of 27.67 seconds.
Further appearances in the championship finals were achieved by fifteen year old Alexandra Robinson who took sixth spot in the Women’s 400 metre Individual Medley, seventeen year old Danielle Huskisson eighth in the 200 metre Backstroke and fifteen year old Amy Brown was tenth in the 50 metre Breaststroke, while twenty year old Daniel Heeley also took ninth place in the men’s 50 metre Freestyle.
The Sunderland ‘A’ team of Danielle Huskisson, Alexandra Robinson, Lorna Breeze and Kathryn Woolston-Thomas, took fifth place in the 400 metres Team Medley Final in a time of 4.44.75, with the City of Leeds taking the title in 4.26.32.
In the Multi Disability Events, seventeen year old Eleni Papadopoulos took two gold medals in the Women’s 100 metre Backstroke and 400 metre Freestyle events in respective times of 1.23.10 and 5.34.66; while thirteen year old Matthew Wylie took gold in the 200 metre Freestyle in 2.40.29, with silver medal successes in the 50 metre Freestyle, 100 metre Freestyle, 400 metre Freestyle and 50 metre Backstroke events.
Coach Danny Thompson said, 'In what was a difficult meet for the City's swimmers, as they are currently training hard for the National Championships in July and August, we had some very encouraging results for this stage of the season.They can move into there next cycle of training with confidence high.'
Officials roles for the weekend here
Support roles over the weekend here
City of Sunderland 2nd Open Meet
Fantastic Raffle Prize
2 Tickets for Leona Lewis at
Metro Radio Arena on
the 24th June
Tickets £2.00 to be drawn on Sunday 30th May
City of Sunderland ASC
Long Course
Non-National Qualifier
July 17th-18th 2010 Gala information here
Entry file available here
28 May 10
Sunderland 2nd Open
Roles and responsibilities for the weekend
Officials roles for the weekend here
Support roles over the weekend here
25 May 10
No Bank Holiday Monday Training No training on Monday 31st May - all squads
25 May 10
Derwentside Graded 12-13th June Accepted entries here- no rejections
Sessions are all under two and a half hours so morning warmups have been
moved to 9:00 for 10:00 start.
afternoon warmups are 1:00 for 2:00 start.
24 May10 Diddy League Team
There will be a joint training session on Monday 7th June between 6.15 -7-15 pm fro all swimmers who have represented the club in the rounds of this years diddy league.
Any further questions contact Gordon Rea - poolside or
gordon.rea@cityofsunderlandasc.co.uk
or Joanne Thompson -
mob- 07984926486
20 May 10 Sunderland Open - Rafflie Prizes Required
Childrens tombola prizes, i.e sweets, smellies, colouring books, pens etc
Adults alcohol, chocolates etc
please hand into club shop - Sam or Vicky
15 May 10 Thursday AM Training
Thursday am training resumes again for the squads that attend from Thu May 20th.
15 May 10 Tynemouth Spring Gala
Sunderland Results here
Full gala results here
9 May 10 Middlesbrough Open
Gala results here
Final points totals here
29 April 10 ASANER Youth & Senior Championships 2010
Results here
29 April 10 Orders for club tracksuits The
deadline is May 30th, see Sam or Vicky at clubdesk to place an order.
19 April 10 Agegroup NER T-shirts
Anyone wanting polo shirts printed for the NER’s please see Sam Burdess at the club shop or Joanne Thompson ASAP. Poolside Guidance please read up on poolside guidance here
Next Committee Meeting.. June 2010
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