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.
CITY OF SUNDERLAND WINTER MEET
27th & 28th November 2010
The City of Sunderland ASC Club held its first ever Winter Meet at the Sunderland Aquatic Centre, attracting teams from throughout the United Kingdom who battled poor weather conditions to take part in what proved to be a red hot event.
The Sunderland swimmers once again featured prominently in the medal awards with fifteen year old Kathryn Woolston – Thomas leading the way with an impressive haul of seven gold medals. Kathryn enjoyed victories in the freestyle events at 50m, 100m in a time of 59.05 and 200m in 2.08.44, the 100m backstroke (1.09.33), the butterfly at 50m (30.83) and 100m (1.06.68) and the 200m individual medley (2.25.79). Kathryn also collected a 200m butterfly silver and a 200m backstroke bronze.
Team mate Laura Dawson (17) took six gold medals in the 50m and 100m freestyle (58.42), 50m backstroke (30.75), 100m backstroke (1.05.70), 50m butterfly (28.86) and the 100m butterfly in a British trials qualifying time of 1.02.79. Fellow seventeen year old Danielle Huskisson, continued her recent impressive form with victory in the 400m individual medley with a time of 5.02.86 and followed that up with silver in the 400m freestyle and bronze in the 200m freestyle events.
Jodi Bunker won four gold medals in the eleven year age group topping the podium in the 200m individual medley in 2.45.99, the 200m breaststroke (3.10.14), and also in the butterfly at 100m (1.16.33) and 200m (2.50.52). Two girls enjoyed a hat trick of gold medals; Lucy Ellis (13) took freestyle gold’s at 200m (2.12.16) and 400m (4.39.55), together with the 400m individual medley gold medal in 5.19.30, while fourteen year old Emma Sinclair secured victories in the 200m freestyle (2.17.43), 100m backstroke (1.11.73) and 200m backstroke (2.32.17). Jodi also won three silver medals in the 100m breaststroke, 50m butterfly and 400m individual medley – in a British age group qualifying time of 5.46.03 – together with a bronze in the 200m backstroke. Lucy took silver in the 100m freestyle and bronze in the 200m individual medley and 100m backstroke, while Emma took four silver medals in 400m freestyle, 200m butterfly and individual medley at 200 and 400m, together with a bronze in the 100m freestyle.
The senior males also put in some very solid performances with the pick of the bunch being a double gold from eighteen year old Josh Crowther in the 50m backstroke (28.10) and 50m freestyle (26.41), while twenty year old Daniel Heeley posted a very fast 50m freestyle victory in a time of 24.79 and also took a silver medal in the 100m freestyle. Seventeen year olds Liam Bosomworth and Alex Richardson also collected respective bronze medals in the 50m breaststroke and 50m butterfly, while eighteen year old Jonny Carlisle took the 50m backstroke silver medal.
In the younger age groups, ten year old Joseph Pomfret had a storming race to win the 50m butterfly in a time of 36.80, while eleven year old Thomas Burns collected three gold’s in the 400m freestyle (5.23.04), 400 individual medley (6.23.25) and the 200m backstroke (2.53.10). Thomas also won 200m silver medals in the freestyle and individual medley. Fellow eleven year old James Brewerton also had a busy weekend to place a first in the 50m backstroke (38.19), second in the 100m backstroke and a trio of 200m bronze medals in the freestyle, individual medley and backstroke, together with a further bronze in the 400m freestyle event.
Thirteen year old Adam Charlton showed his versatility to win five gold medals in the 200m and 400m individual medley events with respective times of 2.30.52 and 5.12.47, the 400m freestyle in 4.35.34, 200m butterfly (2.26.88) and the 100m backstroke (1.09.74). Adam also grabbed silver medals in the 200m freestyle, 100m breaststroke, 200m backstroke and 50m butterfly, with bronze in the 100m butterfly. In the same age group, Adam Jurgens also chipped in with two well earned silver medals in the 100m freestyle and the 50m backstroke – in which team mate Jordan Henry took the bronze medal.
Regional Beacon Performance Programme member, Adam Taylor (14) won two backstroke gold medals – at 100m in 1.04.69 and 200m in 2.16.58 – together with 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly and 400m individual medley silver with a bronze in the 200m individual medley. Joe Middleton produced some consistent racing to take five silvers in the fifteen year old boys 200m and 400m freestyle, 200m and 400m medley and the 200m backstroke.
Twelve year old Laura Taylor took the 400m freestyle gold in 4.54.18 adding to silver medal success in the 200m freestyle and a bronze in the 100m freestyle. Lida Abrie won the 100m breaststroke gold in 1.26.87 with silver at the 200m distance, while fellow fourteen year old Sarah Morris took triple silver in the 50m backstroke and the 50m and 100m butterfly.
Matthew Wylie continued his recent fine form to post some excellent early season long course times. Matthew took top place in the disability S9 category in the boys 50, 100, 200 and 400 freestyle, 50, 100, 200 backstroke and the 50 butterfly. Matthew’s best British Disability points score came in the 200 freestyle with 636 points.
Thirteen year old Lucy Walton took the 200m silvers in the backstroke, butterfly and individual medley events, with a further individual medley silver at the 400m distance and bronze medals in the 200m and 400m freestyle. In the twelve year age group Jessica Thompson won the 400m freestyle silver and bronze medals in the 200m breaststroke, 200m butterfly and 400m individual medley. Ashlyn Liddle won silver medals in the 50m and 100m breaststroke and a 50m butterfly bronze, with Freya Rayner taking triple silver in the 50m and 100m backstroke and the 50m freestyle events.
Lauren Patterson (11) secured double silver in the 50m freestyle and 200m breaststroke and a double bronze in the 200m and 400m freestyle events, while fellow eleven year old Jay Whitehead took the 100m butterfly bronze. Fifteen year old Andie Hinnit also took two breaststroke silver medals in the 50m and 100m events.
The Sunderland swimmers also enjoyed success in the relay team races. The Sunderland A team consisting of Adam Jurgens, Mark Robinson, Adam Charlton and James Burns, won the gold medal in the 200m team medley, while the Sunderland B team of Jack Tallentire, Jordan Henry, Ryan Henry and Callum Reveley took the bronze medal. In the girls 200m freestyle team event, Laura Taylor, Jessica Thompson, Lucy Walton and Freya Rayner, also won the bronze medal.
Head Coach Alastair Johnson commented, ‘The coaching staff are very pleased with our first long course meet of the season. The swimmers are doing a great job across the board with some excellent results especially in the 200 and 400 metres events. A big well done to our club volunteers who made the event a great success despite the challenges of the severe winter weather’.
Newcastle Shrimp Meet Sunday 21st November 2010
The City of Sunderland ASC youngsters had a successful day at the Newcastle Shrimp Meet, held in the Newcastle City Pool, coming away with a grand total of 31 medals – 11 gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze.
The team dominated the ten year old age group events with Beth Nicholson and Matthew Walker –Smith taking four gold medals each, but both had to work hard for success with close competition coming from team mates Eve Larsen and Callum Dann.
Beth Nicholson enjoyed 100m victories in the freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and individual medley but just lost out in an exciting duel with Eve Larsen in the 100m breaststroke where Eve took gold by touching ahead by just 00.91 of a second. Eve also went on to take the 200m freestyle gold medal, silver in the butterfly and individual medley and bronze in the freestyle and backstroke all at 100m distance.
Matthew Walker – Smith also emerged victorious against team mate Callum Dann in the 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke and 100m individual medley – but only just – with all races being settled by margins of less than half a second. Matthew also took gold in the 100m breaststroke, while Callum added to his three silver medals with gold in the 200m freestyle and 100m butterfly.
Nine year old Natalya Sharp bagged four bronze medals in the 50m freestyle, backstroke and butterfly and the 100m individual medley, while elder sister Jennifer (11) took the 100m butterfly bronze medal. Jennifer later joined up with Beth Nicholson, Eve Larsen and Amy Henshaw to take team silver medals in the 200m freestyle and medley events.
Gala debutants Josh Wright and Joe Whelan, both eight, also enjoyed medal successes, with Joe taking silver in the 50m backstroke and Josh taking the bronze medal in the 50m butterfly race. Eleven year old William Robinson won a bronze medal in the 100m butterfly and later joined Matthew Walker – Smith, Callum Dann and Matthew Phillips to win silver medals in the 200m freestyle and medley team events.
Coach Craig Robertson said, “The club skill level really shone through. The hard work and dedication is seen to be paying off, with things looking to be getting better and better for the club. I’m excited to see more fantastic results being achieved throughout the season.”
Danielle Huskisson Breaks into
World Top 20
Seventeen year old City of Sunderland ASC swimmer Danielle Huskisson achieved a world top 20 ranking at the recent NER Short Course Championships held at the Sunderland Aquatic Centre. Danielle dramatically improved her 1500m freestyle time by over one minute to post a very fast 16.37.74 – ranking her as the top seventeen year old in the country and giving her a world ranking of 15th for the event.
Danielle also achieved a series of outstanding times in the other long distance events at the Championships. In the 800m freestyle she took the national number two ranking with her first sub nine minute swim of 8.43.06 and followed this up with national top ten rankings in the 400m freestyle (4.19.64) and the 400m individual medley (4.54.37).
Her coach Alastair Johnson commented ‘Danielle has made excellent strides this season. We have tweaked her stroke to make it more effective plus we have added a lot more training volume from last season. Danielle trains really hard and is very determined at all times. Our goal now is to build on this early season promise and to ensure a good transfer to the long course swim meets’.
Last season, Danielle achieved third place in the ASA Youth Championships recording a time of 17.07.79 in the girls 16 to 17 years 1500m freestyle.
N&D Graded Meet Report (Weekend 3 Middlesbrough)
City of Sunderland ASC swimmers took an impressive haul of 15 gold, 12 silver and 11 bronze medals in the third and concluding meet of the Northumberland and Durham Autumn Series, held at Middlesbrough. The club also won four age group awards for the series, with Joseph Pomfret taking the ten year old boys award with 878 points, Jennifer Sharp wining the eleven year old girls award (1437 points), Kristian Donaldson taking the 12 year old boys award (1080 points) and Laura Taylor making it a clean sweep in the twelve year old category by taking the girls award with 1676 points.
At Middlesbrough, Jennifer Sharp contributed handsomely towards her overall points total with a hat trick of gold medals. Jennifer enjoyed victories in 800m freestyle in a time of 10.56.21, the 200m backstroke (2.55.66) and 100m Individual Medley (1.22.07), but was pushed in the 800m freestyle and 200m backstroke by team mate Amy Henshaw who took silver medals for both events.
Kristian Donaldson also chipped in with a gold, silver, bronze collection to boost his points total with a victory in the 200m individual medley in 2.49.29, a silver medal in the 200m freestyle and bronze in the 100m backstroke. Further success was enjoyed by fifteen year old Joe Middleton who took gold in the 1500m freestyle, overhauling the early leader, Alex Tibbs of Newburn, midway through the race going through to win in 17.08.95. Joseph also won the 100m breaststroke by a convincing margin with a time of 1.17.50.
Sarah Morris won a golden sprint double in the 50m and 100m freestyle both in new personal best times of 30.64 and 1.05.32, while fellow fourteen year old Lida Abrie won a silver double in the 100m freestyle and 100m breaststroke. In the fourteen year old boys category William Pierce-Harrison collected three medals, winning double gold in the 100m backstroke with a time of 1.11.82 and the 100m Individual Medley in 1.11.10, together with a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke.
The club’s emerging ten year olds also got in on the act with three medals for Callum Dann who won the 50m backstroke by a wide margin in a time of 39.91 and two silver medals in the 200m backstroke and 50m butterfly. Eve Larsen was a double medal winner with taking the 800m freestyle gold medal in 11.54.63 and a silver in the 50m butterfly, while Beth Nicholson added to the club’s gold medal tally with victory in the 200m butterfly in a time of 3.14.64.
Eleven year old Thomas Burns recorded this year’s fastest national age group time with a convincing victory in the 1500m freestyle in a time of 19.49.24, while a further gold medal for the club was won by twelve year old Christina Castledine in the 200m freestyle in a time of 2.26.67. Christina also took a bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke event.
There were also medal winning performances from; William Robinson (11) who won triple bronze in the 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle and the 200m individual medley, Freya Rayner (12) took silver in the 100m individual medley and bronze in the 200m backstroke, while Gabrielle Burdess (12) won silver in the 200m breaststroke. Bronze medal success was also achieved by; Harry Richardson (12) 1500m freestyle, Jack Tallentire (13) 100m butterfly, Ashlyn Liddle (12) 200m butterfly, Annabelle Joyce (13) 200m butterfly and Stone Wallace (9) in the 200m backstroke.
Squad coach Gordon Rea said "All of the swimmers have performed well over the three weekends. For many it is their first taste of competitive swimming and hopefully a lot of them can now take the next steps to competing at full county and regional levels. Obviously the club is aiming to get as many swimmers to qualify for the next level of competition and these events have shown that we are making excellent progress in that direction."
Disability Short Course Nationals – Sheffield
Triple British Record Holder Matthew Wylie (14) of the City of Sunderland ASC, continued his excellent form at the Disability Short Course Nationals held at Sheffield. Matthew, swimming in the S9 classification events achieved personal best times in all eight of his events and took two silver medals in the 200m individual medley and 400m freestyle events and a bronze medal in the 100m individual medley.
Water Polo – National League 4
Sunderland Ladies increased their lead in Division Four of the National Water Polo League with two further victories against Polytechnic and Manchester Dolphins.
A determined Polytechnic took a first period lead of 1-3, but Sunderland hit back to edge a 4-3 lead in the second quarter. The teams continued to wrestle for the lead with Sunderland narrowly leading 8-7 at the end of the third period. However, a change of tactics and a disciplined display by Sunderland in the final period saw the points secured with a 12-7 victory.
In the game against a youthful Manchester Dolphins, Sunderland won convincingly by 24 -9, with top scorer Anna Richardson netting eight goals.
Diving - Tynemouth Trophy, Tynemouth
The City of Sunderland ASC, took a squad of 10 divers to the Tynemouth Pool, for the Tynemouth Trophy Event and returned with golden and bronze succeses.
Although this was the first competitive event for many of the divers, success was enjoyed in the girls 14 to 16 year age group with Beth Collins taking gold and team mate Alex Lindsay taking the bronze medal.
In the girls 12 to 13 group, Emily Parker finished joint tenth, Abigail Carlisle 15th, Ami Trewick 16th, Lori Corcoran 18th, Abbie Sidney 22nd and Rachel Robinson 23rd. In the boys 10 to 11 years group, Harry Jay Crann was placed seventh and Jacob Storey secured 15th place.
Overall, the City of Sunderland finished in seventh place with hosts Tynemouth winning the team trophy.
Diving Coach Steve Pattinson said, “This was a great result for all the divers today. The younger divers performed well in their first competition and the experience of the older girls brought them their rewards.”
Christmas Messages
City of Sunderland ASC are asking members to use the Christmas message board as an alternative to writing cards to one another. Could people instead make a donation to the Christmas card fund at the club desk.. All proceeds go to the club.
Club Xmas Party
Presentation Night
Raffle & Disco
Thursday 30th December
from 6.30pm - 10.30pm
The Navy Club
Roker Avenue
Shared Table
PLEASE BRING FOOD
All under 18's must be accompanied by an adult
Swimmers go free
Siblings + friends £2
Could the current holders of best boy/girl from each age group return the trophies to the club desk
enquiries to Yvonne Robinson myrobin@btinternet.com
In The News
Gala Entries Club deadlines for up and coming galas
(
to be handed in at the clubdesk )
Newburn New Year Graded Monday 13rd December 2010
(revised date)
Northumberland & Durhamgalas
Ladies 800m freestyle
Mens 1500m freestyle
Open/Youth Monday 20th December 2010 [For those swimmers competing in the distance time trials that week- the closing date is Thursday 23rd Dec]
ASA Northern Zonal Championships 2011 Monday 20th December
Durham AA Tuesday 4th January
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Your executive are standing down next year and we need to find new members to fill the posts for 2011 onwards. Members of the current exec will be available at the pool from 5pm 'til 6pm on Friday 26th November and Friday 3rd December, to discuss details with anyone who would be interested in taking a closer involvement with the running of your club. Current exec. members are more than willing to continue to assist in the short term until you are comfortable with the role. It would be nice to see a good number of volunteers - our club has no valid entity without members fulfilling exec roles
23 December 10 Distance Time Trials Well done to everyone for making the morning possible. It was definitely worth doing and it was great to see lots of parents helping out
20 December 10 Timekeeper/Judge 1 Course Training by Jan Papadopoulos at the aquatic centre on January 20th 2011 at 6pm.
All intersted parties to attend. For for more information contact Yvonne Robinson.
myrobin@btinternet.com
20 December 10 Activity Weekend in Scotland 2011 Deposits of £10 must be in by the end of January. There are still places available. For for more information contact Yvonne Robinson.
20 December 10 Boxing day dippers Could everyone meet at the Seaburn centre between 10-10.30 on The morning - dippers please wear PJs, thanks Yvonne
18 December 10 Newburn New Year Meet The meet was heavily over-subscribed so rejections have had to be made
from the slowest up in each age group in each event to ensure fairness
across age groups
13 December 10 Derwentside Xmas Cracker
Results here
10 December 10
City of Derby Meet -8/9th January 2011 Accepted entries here
10 December 10
Club Shop
New club tracksuits are now available along with swimsuits and jammers. Many other new items as well.
The club shop will also recycle swimwear and any donations are appreciated.
1 December 10
Sunderland Winter Open Results here
-contact John Lamb, Fiona Sharp or your squad manager for the code to view the photos.
Images from the graded series weekend 3 are also available with a code to view, again ask for it.
23 November 10
Newburn New Year Graded The closing dat for the club has been changed to Monday 13Dec 2010
22 November 10
Newcastle Shrimp Meet
-21st Nov 2010 Results here
15 November 10
Autumn Graded Series 2010- weekend 3
Results here
Final BAG Points here
15 November 10
Derwentside Xmas Cracker Accepted entries from the City of Sunderland here
12 November 10
National Agegroup/Youth QT 2011 National QT for Agegroup and Youth 2011 is here
5 November 10
Diving Pool
restrictions NO diving is allowed in the dive pool until further notice. This includes the NER Championships this weekend when the dive pool is being used for warm ups / cool downs.
5 November 10 British Gas ASANER Championships (25m) 2010 Results here
1 November 10 Chester-Le-Street Gala Results from the gala here
25 October 10 Autumn Graded Series - Weekend 2 Results here
Points here
16 October 10
Derwentside Xmas Cracker
- refunds In order to get the sessions down to around 3h 20m, cuts had to be made - principally in the 400IM and 200m events. There are now 3 heats
of the 400IM and at least 10 heats of each of the 200m event which had
60 or more entries. The cuts have been made simply on time.
As a gesture of goodwill, any swimmer owed refunds for 3 or more swims,
shown in red on the attached sheet, may opt to withdraw completely for a
FULL REFUND.
If any swimmer wishes to withdraw it must be before 31 October
so revised accepted/refund list can be produced.
Please let David Markham know ASAP at galas@cityofsunderlandasc.co.uk
15 October 10
Club Competition Calendar
2010/11 Hi Everyone,
Please find attached the Club Calendar for the rest of the season. Please note that dates and events are subject to change - so please keep checking the website for any calendar amendments. If your squad has been allocated a swim meet, then make sure you enter and hand in your entry form on the Club closing date which can be found in the 'entries in by' column. As always, if you have any questions on which meets or races to enter, then please speak with your squad coach.
SUMMER BREAK
Please note that in 2011, there will be a 2 week training break. There will be no coached workouts during the 2 weeks of 06 - 21 August. This will allow all the coaches to have a break, and to ensure that families can go away together and have a much deserved holiday.
The Navy Club
