Blyth Lifeguard & Swimming Club

We started the year with a trip to Sunderland for City of Sunderlad ASC long course meet. Saturday saw 14 swimmers competing in 29 swims. This was the first time for some of our swimmers in a 50m pool.
We completed Saturday with 14 new long course Pb’s. The day started well with a long course PB for Holly Mitchell in 100m back, and continued well for Erika and Kelsey Paris-Hills, Jade Currie, Rebecca Douglas, Bethaney Little, Holly Mitchell and Rachel Carroll in the 50m Fly. Matthew Douglas swam well in the 50m Back gaining his first long course PB. Ryan Cummings, Andrew Riley and Daniel Murray continued the trend with good pb’s in the afternoon session. Well done everyone, keep up the good work.

Judith

Although we only had a small group of young swimmers on the Sunday ( 7 swimmers in the morning and 8 in the afternoon ) we had a very successful day.

Emily Price swam the 200m fc in a time of 2.37.52 finishing 20th in her age group
And in the 200m IM a 2.56.12 also finishing 20th in her age group. Although these were not P.Bs she took a lot from the competition.

Matthew Douglas had an exceptional meet with 100% P.Bs he swam a 39.95 in the 50m bc knocking off 4 seconds and finishing 8th, a 45.94 in the 50m br knocking off .3 and finishing 7th and finally swimming a 1.21.68 in the 100m fc knocking 2 seconds off and finishing 17th.

Kelsey Paris-Hills was another swimmer who got all P.Bs in her 50m fc she swam a 49.05 taking 3 seconds off her time and fishing 32nd and in her 50m bc she got a 57.91 taking another 2 seconds off and finishing 37th

Erin Kutyla managed to get P.Bs in her two swims. In the 50m bc 53.94 she took off 4 seconds and finished 29th and in the 50m fc she got a 46.48 and knocked off 5 seconds finishing in 31st place.

Alice Ilderton also got 100% P.Bs knocking 2 seconds off her 50m bc with a time of 50.33 finishing 23rd and had a fantastic 50m fc time beating the estimated by 5 seconds with a 40.99 finishing 23rd

Jade Curry had two very good swims with two P.Bs in the 50m bc taking off two seconds and achieving a time off 49.10 finishing 21st and had a good race in her 50m fc knocking off 1 second with a time of 41.28 and finishing 14th.

Rebecca Douglas also managed to get 100% P.Bs knocking off 3 seconds in her 50m bc giving her a time of 40.37 and finishing 11th. Rebecca also knocked off 2 seconds in her 50m fc with a time of 36.62 and finished 18th.

Callum Gilroy had a good 100m fc knocking off 5 seconds and giving him a time of 1.30.35 finishing 20th.

And finally Beth Hutchinson managed to knock off one second in her 50m fc with a new time of 37.62 finishing 22nd and in her 100m br got a time of 1.52.27 and finished 27th.

Amy

FULL RESULTS ARE AT http://www.cityofsunderlandasc.co.uk/webpages/index.htm

STARTER PACK DRAFT 2 12 Jan 2012

Hi

Attached to this is a DRAFT information pack for people in or wanting to join the Competitive Section at Blyth Lifeguard and Swimming Club.

It is only a draft at this stage because we want to know what you think about it before we publish it and put it on the website.

Please have a look at it and see what you think. Feel free to express your thoughts about it especially if there is anything in it that you don’t like, or anything that you think should be changed but especially if you think that there is anything that could or should be added.

We are having a parents meeting at 630pm on Thursday the 26th of january 2012 at the Sports Centre in the room at the left of the pool balcony and you are welcome to tell us what you think then or you can just send a reply to this e mail if you so wish. Or you can feel free to speak to a coach about it if you so wish.

This information pack is for you, we have tried to include in it what we (the coaches) think but in the end it should be the information that you want so feel free to help us develop this into a useful resource.

The Coaching Team

THE BARRACUDAS BROADSHEET
Issue January 2012

BLYTH LIFEGUARD AND SWIMMING CLUB – COMPETITIVE SECTION NEWSLETTER

This is just a brief newsletter to let you know what is happening within the Competitive Section.

Parents Meeting – We are going to hold a Parents (and swimmers) meeting at 6.30pm on Thursday the 26th of January 2012 at the Sports Centre in the room above the pool. This will be an open meeting with no specific agenda. It will be your chance to come along and ask the coaching team any questions that you have or make any suggestions that you feel would be helpful.

Information Pack – we are in the process of putting together an information pack principally for swimmers joining the section but it will be available for all Competitive Section members. If you have any suggestions about what you would like to see in that pack tell a coach or drop us a line at the Competitive Section e mail address which is blsc.competitive@yahoo.co.uk

Dive Starts – We are going to start teaching dive starts for competitions on Saturday Mornings between 8am and 9am. If you are interested please speak to Brian or Judith.

Durham Gala – There is a gala on the notice board which we should remind you is at the bottom of the stairs at the very left of the balcony. If you are interested you need to get your entries in by this Thursday (12th January) If you are not sure if or what you should enter speak to your coach.

E mail addresses – We are trying to use as many means of communicating information to you as we can. E mail is definitely one of the most efficient. If you do not already receive e mails from the section please give your e mail address to one of the coaches or send it to blsc.competitive@yahoo.co.uk

The Coaching Team

Pool Lifeguard Course January 2012

Some proposals for amendments to the Club Constitution were forwarded to the Executive Committee for consideration at the recent Annual General Meeting. Those proposals were not considered at that meeting and in order to redress that error the Executive are calling a Special General Meeting at 7pm on Thursday the 5th of January 2012 at Blyth Sports Centre in the room at the end of the balcony.
You are welcome to attend this meeting and Members of the Club aged 16 and over are able to vote on the proposals.

HELP NEEDED!!!! At the Asda Blyth Bag Pack – this is one of the biggest fund raising events the club holds and help is required all day from 10 am if you are able to help please turn up in Club uniform from 10 am on Wednesday 21/12/11 Thank you

HI TICKETS FOR THE FAMILY DISCO ON WEDNESDAY 28/12/11 £2.50 ON SALE UNTIL FRIDAY 16TH DECEMBER 2011, WE NEED CONFIRMED NUMBERS NO PAYING ON THE DOOR!

AGM Officers Reports 2011

Keiran Little swam in the North East Region Disability Championships at Freemans Quay pool in Durham City on the afternoon of Sunday the 11th of December 2011. In his last competition of 2011 he started with a 2 second personal best on his 100m Breaststroke which earned him a 4th place. in his next race he swam a 21 second personal best in the 200m freestyle and got a silver medal. In his final race he swam an 11 second personal best in the 100m backstroke and got a bronze medal. An excellent finish to the year by an ever improving swimmer who has knocked lumps out of his times all year. Well done Keiran.
Coaches Zoe Bell and Brian Dawson

An excellent Gala with some truly terrific swims by our swimmers. We had 46 top 6 places and exactly 100 personal best times. A great way to end the year and the full results are here.
Well done to all concerned.
The Coaching Team

Blyth Xmas Cracker 2011 – RESULTS