Middlesborough Junior Christmas Gala

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:

The Girls’ Teams shone, winning medals in 5 out of 6 races, including nail-biting finishes!!  They literally swam out of their skins!

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

12th/13th &14th December 2009 – Swansea International Pool

City of Sunderland ASC programme was represented in Swansea by two British Record holders Eleni Papdoplous (17) competing in the S10 class and Matthew Wyile (13) S9 class. Both swimmers had an outstanding meet which saw Eleni defend her National Championships titles from 2008 in the 200m Individual Medley and 100m Butterfly she followed this with silver in the 100m Breastroke and 100m Freestyle both in new lifetime bests for long course competition

Rising star Matthew coached by Val Wilson put together a series of impressive performances showing talent across all strokes and distances. Matthew claimed his first medals at a National level in the 200m Individual Medley and the 50m FS he narrowly missed a medal claiming 4th spot at in the 400m FS as well as two 5th places in the 100FS and 100m BK

On behalf of the coaching team at City of Sunderland ASC a huge well done to both swimmers on the amazing medal tally at a National level.      

12th & 13th December 2009 – Louisa Pool Stanley Co Durham

A strong squad of swimmers representing City of Sunderland ASC took on teams from across the North East and Yorkshire at host club Derwentside ASC’s home pool.

In what was a hectic weekends racing city’s swimmers shone throughout the meet powering there way to 14Gold 21Silver 18Bronze and another 99Top 10 finishes.

The event also gave the opportunity for our relay squads to have some race practice with the Men’s 6 x 50m Freestyle Teams finishing 2nd and 5th respectively. Sunderland showed great depth in providing 3 teams in the Women’s 6 X 50m Freestyle event finishing in 2nd 7th and 9th places.

As well as the medal winners there was some excellent performances that didn’t claim medals with swimmers from across the programme making huge strides forward with massive new lifetime best swims 70% of the swims across the weekend claimed either a medal or a top ten finish.

 The Coaching team witnessed an excellent weekends racing from all swimmers who are moving towards the Christmas period where swimmers can reflect on the first phase of the season wilst preparing to make a big splsh in 2010.

Congratulations to Matthew Wylie (Olympic Hopefuls 3 and coached by Val Wilson) who has once again broke the British 400 Medley record.

Matthew has been on a record breaking spree since October:

• 200 Butterfly at the N&D autumn series
• 800 Freestyle at the Chester-le-Street meet
• 400 Medley at the N&D autumn series
• 400 Medley at the Wear Valley meet

Matthew is really pleased with his records – ‘when I realised I had gotten my first British record I was over the moon. When I beat my own record in the 800 Freestyle it was amazing’.

Keep up the great work Matthew!

All the best to A Squad member Josh Crowther who is representing England at the World School Games. The Games is a multi sport competition (similar to the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics) which is held every 3 years. Josh is part of a 24 strong England swim team which is racing at Qatar.

Josh is competing in the 400 and 200 metre freestyle. Josh has enjoyed a great season so far in winning the 200 metres freestyle and the 50 backstroke at the recent NER Senior Championships. His 50 backstroke was a new Northumberland and Durham senior record.

The competition is the biggest international sport event for schools in the world.

Sunderland Aquatic Centre 28th & 29th November

A large squad of 24 swimmers representing the City of Sunderland Age Group programme excelled over the weekend of the 28th & 29th November 2009. The squad powered there way to 2 Gold 12 Silver 11 Bronze medals and 13 New Club Records with every swimmer achieving personal best times.

Congratulations to every swimmer who competed at the Championships. On behalf of the programme at City of Sunderland we would like to congratulate the swimmers on the following outstanding results:

These results highlight with hard work a great skill set and determination anything is possible this is an excellent start to the swimming calendar for 2009. Keep up the hard work for the coming months as we look to further improve performances into 2010.  

18 December 09
Boxing Day Dip
See above for the latest

16 December 09
Xmas Training
The club xmas training plan has been updated. See the link above.

13 December 09
Derwentside Xmas Cracker
Results here

13 December 09
Middlesbrough Junior Xmas Gala
Results here

9 December 09
Leeds Xmas cracker
Updated Draft programme and rejections here

9 December 09
Easyfundraising Update

For your all your online Christmas shopping, click on the easy fundraising link use City of Sunderland Amateur Swimming Club as your cause and help your club raise funds.  There are hundreds of stores including Asda, Sainsburys, M&S, Argos to name a few. Book your hotels late rooms, premier travel inn, Hilton and many more.  Tell your friends, family and work colleagues:)

4 December 09
Middlesbrough Junior Xmas Meet
Documents available -cover letter, Warm Up,
accepted entries

3 December 09
Fee Increase 2009

A Reminder to parents to adjust standing order's with fee changes - these were due from November there are quite a few who haven't!  You do not need a new form if you already pay by standing order just inform your bank of the new payment. 

If you pay by another method i.e. cash/cheque there will be a £5.00 fee per transaction (from January 2010)

letter, standing order form

27 November 09
ASANER SC Champs-28-29th Nov
Results here

24 November 09
Northumberland & Durham Swimming
Championships 2010
The follwing documents are now available

BAGCATS, Distance (800 & 1500)
Open Long Cources, Qualifying times

22 November 09
Newcastle Shrimp Meet
Gala results here

22 November 09
Derwentside Xmas Cracker
Accepted and Rejected entries here

17 November 09
FINA Swimwear Rules
Regulations valid for swimwear to be used from January 1st, 2010 . View here

17 November 09
Skill Development
The session on Friday 20th November is cancelled.

15 November 09
Graded series - Weekend 3
Results are here

09 November 09
NER Senior Junior - Durham
Results here

18 October 09
National County Team Championships
Results from the gala here, website

11 October 09
BOSSS Results
Results from the 2nd BOSSS Open here
acrobat results


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