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Swimming Club News
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Written by Stewart Carline
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 Congratulations to Wrekin College Swimming Clubs very own Paige Norry-Addison (Aged 13) who has been selected to attend the ASA England Talent Development Programme and will attend training camps during September and December 2011 at Coventry Leisure Centre along with all the other top swimmers from within the West Midlands Region.
The camp will be predominately skill based and be a positive experience for the swimmers. The ASA Talent Development Programme envisage the camp to be a stepping stone for these swimmers to move forward with there swimming careers, and hopefully onto podium success.
Thousands of children go through the ASA's club structure every year but only a handful ever progress to national squads. The ASA has a development pathway to ensure that once a child's talent is identified it is nurtured to help them reach their full potential.
As a sport it can take 10 years to produce a champion so in most cases a youngster will be 'spotted' within their club environment and nurtured within their club.
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Competition News
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Written by Andy Nicoll
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 Over the two weekends of the 4th & 5th and 11th & 12th June 2011, Wrekin College Swimming Club BAGCAT squad attended the Midlands Age Group Championships held at the 50M international pool in the City of Coventry.
First Weekend - 4th & 5th July 2011
Rachel Reilly was delighted with her swimmers performances over the first weekend of the Midland Bagcat Championships. The results speak for themselves with swimmers achieving personal best times and medal places. Of the twelve swimmers competing seven finished within the top eight positions; Paige Norry-Addison (Aged 12) gained her first National Qualifying Time (NQT) for 100m Butterfly; Holly Barnett (Aged 13), Luke Smith (Aged 10) and Macauley Carline (Aged 14) all qualified for the finals.
Congratulations also to Holly Townson (Aged 10), Luke Smith, Paige Norry-Addison and Holly Barnett who all won bronze medals.
Charlie Percox (Aged 11), Jon Mills (Aged 11), Jacob Blakemore (Aged 11) and Connie Sanders (Aged 11) also swam and gained new personal best times (PBs).
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Swimming Club News
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Written by Andy Nicoll
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 Alexandra Harris (Aged 13) made swimming history becoming the first girl from a Shropshire club to qualify for the British Gas British Championships - no mean feat for a 13 year old who only started swimming two years ago.
Alex qualified in four events but only competed in three. It is a daunting and serious competition with none of the light atmosphere of the Bagcats or National youth events. Depsite not swimming her best, Alex gained a huge amount of experience; as one of the youngest swimmers in the competition she had the opportunity to compete with some of the UK's most elite swimmers including Rebecca Adlington and Fran Halsall.
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Written by Stewart Carline
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 On the 4th - 5th December Wrekin College Swimming Club braved the cold weather and headed to the Stafford Apex 2010 Long Distance Open Meet held at the Stafford Leisure Centre.
The weekend started with young Luke Smith (Aged 9) in fantastic form winning Silver in the first event which was the 400M Freestyle. Congratulations to Maddy Tracey (Aged 15) who gained her first National Qualifying Time (NQT) of 2011 in the 400m Individual Medley event with a time of 4:57.76 and also securing the Gold. In total Maddy won 4 Gold and 1 Silver.
Our most successful swimmer was Alexandra Harris (Aged 13) who won an incredible 7 Gold and 1 Silver and was also crowned Top 12 & Over Girl at the event ~ an amazing achievement ~ Well Done.
Other notable swims over the weekend was Megan Carline (Aged 12) who won Silver in the 400m Freestyle event and also gained her second NQT of 2011 with a time of 4:38.48.
Overall it was another successful weekend of swimming for Wrekin College Swimming Club who managed to notch up 94 Personal Bests (PB), 54 Medals, 47 Midland District Qualifying Times (MDQT) and 2 National Qualifying Times (NQT).
To top of the weekend, at the end of the proceedings Wrekin College Swimming Club were also awarded the Top Club Trophy, beating other much larger and more established clubs and proving why we are the Top Club in the area.
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Written by Andy Nicoll
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In only their second year of competing Wrekin College Swimming Club swimmers proved they are, once again, at the top of the league. The girls performed exceptionally well, winning every age category, except the 14-year age group where the club did not enter a swimmer.
Such is the talent in the Club that five swimmers alone gained 13 County records between them, 18 swimmers gained 84 Midland District qualifying times and one swimmer a National qualifying time. The overall medal tally was impressive: 77 Gold, 49 Silver and 23 Bronze.
RESULTS
1 NATIONAL QUALIFYING TIME
Maddy Tracy - 400m IM
84 MIDLAND DISTRICT QUALIFYING TIMES
13 NEW COUNTY RECORDS
Niamh Hofland - 200m/400m Freestyle
Maddy Tracy - 200m IM, 50m Backstroke and Buttefly and 200m Butterfly
Alice Cousins - 200m/400m/800m Freestyle and 400m IM
Luke Smith - 400m IM
Alex Harris - 200m Backstroke and 800m Freestyle
OVERALL AGE GROUP WINNERS
9 Year Girls: Niamh Hofland
10 Year Boys: Luke Smith
10 Year Girls: Holly Townson
11 Year Girls: Rebecca Woolley
12 Year Girls: Paige Norry-Addison
13 year Girls: Alex Harris
15 Year Girls: Maddy Tracy
16 Year Girls: Kim Donaldson
17+ Year Girls: Alice Cousins
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Written by Stewart Carline
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On the 21st - 23rd January some of the Wrekin College Swimming Club members headed to the Level 1 - City of Liverpool Winter Distance Meet held at the Liverpool Aquatics Centre.
This was our first competition after the Christmas break and Wrekin College swimmers where back in fine form. This was our first time competing in this part of the country and it was good to compete against different swimming clubs and swimmers to gain valuable experience at this higher level.
We had some great results with 45 Personal Bests (PBs) achieved, 26 Medals Won, 8 Midland District Qualifying Times (MDQT) and 1 National Qualifying Times (NQT).
One of the highlight of the weekend was Alexandra Harris (Aged 13) who gained her first National Qualifying Time (NQT) for 2011 in the 800m Freestyle event with a time of 9:25.32 winning the Silver medal. In total Alexandra won 2 Gold and 1 Silver and also gained two more British Champion Qualifying Times (BCQT) to add the other two she has already gained.
Congratulations to Jon Mills (Aged 10) who gained his first ever Midland Qualifying Time (MQT) in the 200m Backstroke event and picking up the Bronze medal.
Other notable swims over the weekend were from Luke Smith (Aged 9) who won an amazing 4 Silver mdeals and 1 Bronze, Rebecca Woolley (Aged 10) who won 2 Gold, 1 Silver and a Bronze and Holly Townson who although not in the medals swam some truly exceptional races and smashed her previous times gaining massive PB's.
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Written by Stewart Carline
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 Congratulations to Megan Carline (Aged 12), Lauren Holland (Aged 12) and Paige Norry-Addison (Aged 12) from the Wrekin College Swimming Club on being selected to attend the ASA West Midlands Beacon Medley Age Group training programme being held at Coventry during November, January and May. These swimmers were all selected in recognition for their excellent performances in the ASA National Age Group Championships held in July and August earlier in the year and is a real achievement.
The Beacon Medley programme was developed to provide training and coaching opportunities within the region, to swimmers that have the potential to reach the higher levels of swimming in the future. The aim of the camp is not only to provide swimmers with the opportunity to train in a long course pool, but also give swimmers and coaches the necessary education and tools in areas such as nutrition, injury prevention, and land based training in order to give the swimmers the very best chance to reach their goals. The camps are also designed to give an insight of what to expect on the ASA Regional Talent Development camps that also run every year.
Our Age Group Coach Rachel Reilly has also been selected to attend the programme to assist in the coaching.
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