Atlantis Newsletter July 2011 - Atlantis Swimming Club

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DOING THINGS THE ATLANTIS WAY - BILL LOOKS AHEAD TO 2011/12 Another swimming year has flashed by & Atlantis swimmers, coaches, parents and supporters can proudly reflect on the achievements of themselves and the club. My goal has been to inspire the effort and dedication needed to develop Atlantis into a centre of swimming excellence. Hard work has produced a core of successful individuals, who can be proud of their achievements. Individuals will work harder in a team situation and a team will work harder with dedicated individuals in it. The key to success lies in the swimmers own spirit and attitude to training and racing. The motivation to be successful must come from the swimmer`s own love and enjoyment of the sport. For a swimmer training up to 3 or 4 hours a week the benefits are participation, social, fun and health. Most of our members enjoy and are happy with this level of involvement. For those Training who are doesn’t serious half about make competing you hungry! well at regional and national level, then swimming in a programme with a high performance commitment of 18-22 hours is approximately what it will take to achieve these objectives. If the club’s requests for extra pool time are successful, I am looking to introduce a programme aimed at attaining the required level of training for our swimmers who want to commit themselves to achieving these standards. Of course this programme would be developed in stages to reflect the pool time available and the progress made by our swimmers. At each step along the way swimmers would be expected to attain and maintain the training levels we are looking for. The bronze squads are a key transitional stage in our squad structure. I introduced Bronze Plus to provide competitive swimmers, who have achieved a certain level of technical proficiency, with an opportunity to see if they have the appetite and ability to handle the more intensive training that they will encounter if they aspire to progress through to our top competitive squads. At this level it is not just about swimmers achieving fast times in one-off races, it is also about demonstrating a preparedness to push themselves in every training session. There are no short-cuts in swimming or easy routes to success. Over time the level of competitive performances will only improve, if the quality of training also improves. We are still a relatively small club, but we have built a reputation for punching above our weight. If we are to maintain that standard we need our swimmers to push themselves hard during each workout, with concentration also on stroke skills to ensure they reach their full potential, and in this way to realise the pleasure and satisfaction this will bring. "Practice does not make perfect - Perfect practice makes perfect" Did you know The original Olympics swimming venues were open waters such as oceans, rivers and lakes. The Games of the 3rd Olympiad were held in St.Louis in 1904. A men’s 50 yard freestyle race was held in an artificial lake. Hungarian Zoltan Halmaj won the initial race (which measured 45.72 metres) by a foot, defeating American J. Scott Leary. However, a US judge declared Leary the winner. A brawl ensued and the race had to be re-run. After two false starts, Halmaj won by a full stroke. Chastened by the experience the 50m sprint did not reappear at an Olympics for another 80 years in Seoul! SOME OF THE AWARD WINNERS FROM THE SUMMER BBQ Kate & Ella Windle @ the World Champs in Shanghai clutching their copy of the Swimming Times. Club Captain Katy Harris receives her County Championship Trophy from Bill.
Missed out on Olympics tickets It doesn’t have to mean you miss out on cheering your favourite GB swimmers in an Olympic setting. Securing tickets for the British Gas Swimming Championships 2012 (Selection Trials) will place you in the heart of the Olympic Park at the 2,500 capacity Aquatics Centre, London, from 3-10 March 2012. Cheer on the stars of swimming as they battle it out to seal places for the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games and other key competitions. Ensure you don't miss out on the second best show in Great Britain next year. Register your interest in tickets now to avoid disappointment, and make sure you are first in the queue when they go on sale later in the year. Prices will be: Adult Heat: £6 Adult Final: £10 Adult Full event pass: £106 Concession Heat (16 and under, 60 and over): £4 Concession Final (16 and under, 60 and over): £8 Concession full event pass (16 and under, 60 and over): £80 www.swimming.org/britishswimming/ swimming/get-tickets-for-the-2012-event/ NEW 2-DAY CHRISTMAS CRACKER! Atlantis’ Christmas Cracker Open Meet has become a fixture in the Sussex and South East swimming calendar. The Committee has approved plans to make this year’s Cracker the biggest and best yet! This year’s gala is being organised by Giles Hundleby, with able lieutenants Caroline Dedman and Debbie Windle. The key changes this year are that the meet will be held over two days on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th November 2011 and will be a Level 3 Meet, rather than the previous Level 2. The thinking behind this change in format is it allows the Club to include all individual events at 50m, 100m, 200m plus 400m free and 400m IM; the qualifying times will be pitched at swimmers looking to achieve county and regional qualifying times (which is what people are mainly targeting at this time of year) and the broader range of times will make it possible for more Atlantis swimmers to take part. The Club is not abandoning the high-quality Level 2 format. The plan is to hold a Level 2 Open Meet in the Spring. A Level 2 Spring Open Meet will give our top swimmers the opportunity to achieve National Qualifying Times in their own home pool. Other features of the Christmas Cracker will be new ‘Top Gun’ medals for top boy and girl in each Age Group across all four 50m events. Visiting clubs will compete for a Top Club Trophy. Free/low cost parking will be available on both days. HELP NEEDED From next season, we want our members to share their ‘Away from the Pool’ achievements and ambitions with the rest of the club in a new section in the monthly newsletter. We have such a talented bunch of swimmers in the club, but we are sure there are many other exploits being done that other members are completely unaware of, and we would like to change this. So, if you or your children have made some notable achievements at school or in a different sports club or hobby club, then we want to hear about it. If they are taking on a sponsored event, then let us know. If they are performing on stage or playing or singing in a band, then let us know. In fact, any news that you would like to share with the rest of the club, please send to Andy Kershaw by email (andy.spurs@btinternet.com), and then an article can be put together. Obviously this will not work without your input, so please don’t hesitate to get your emails to Andy. SHOPPING FOR KIT Please remember, when shopping for new kit (goggles, jammers, swimsuits etc), if it is not Atlantis branded kit, please consider clicking on the ProSwimwear or Swimshop adverts on the club’s website. Even if you already have an account with these shops, all purchases made via our adverts earn the club a commission. Also, if you use another online swim shop, let us know via the Members Area, and we can see if we can set up a similar arrangement with them. (And by the way, if you have noticed Joe’s, Thomas’, or Andrew’s jazzy new jammers, and wondered where they got them, there are some now available on Ebay.) To all those in the Club with Birthdays in May and June July August Elliot Andrews (12) Kirsten Aimer (12) Rory Burke (8) Hayley Ashbolt (13) Katie Butcher (27) Yasmin Bagley (13) Cara Clitheroe (11) Meredith Bailey (11) Laurence Clough-Young (12) Bradley Burke (10) Aimee Davies (12) Emma Dedman (15) Matt Fulcher (16) Catherine Harding (11) Joe Harrod (15) Isobel Hooker (9) Luke Kilford (13) Beth Hundleby (14) Caitlin Moore (13) Lucy Lee (13) Jacob Popper-Smith (13) Milo Maunder (10) Katherine Rooney (13) Lauren Muir-Harginge (13) Aiden Sparling (12) Cavan Murphy (13) Jade Stocker (13) Jon Pook (23) Isabelle Storey (11) Vicky Singleton (23) Jessica Street (10) Michael White (11) Sarah True (19) Louis Winter (16) Ella Windle (13)
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