September 2013

Barnes Swimming Club Championship

Dear Parents and Swimmers,

We are planning to run the Barnes Swimming Club Championships over the weekends of the 28/29 September and the 5/6 October at St Paul’s and the 1500m will be run on 16th October at St Paul’s Girls school. Running the championships at the start of the season will ensure that all swimmers can get base times which will enable them to be entered in other open galas later in the season.

The gala is open to all members and the swimmer’s age will be their age at the 16th October. All members will be pre-entered so there will be no requirement to enter however you will be required to sign in on the day to confirm that you are there to swim. Please click on the link to see the programme and conditions.

 

Arranging the Club Championships at such short notice will be a challenge and as a club run by volunteers we need an army of helpers to make the gala run smoothly. Please let us know your availability if you are able to help with:

Timekeeping (6 needed for every session)

Judging

Whipping (getting the swimmers into the right heats at the right time)

Front of house (helping with signing in, refreshments etc)

Meet manager administration

 

Without your help the Championships won’t be able to go ahead. Please get in touch now!

 

Regards,

April Owens

 

 

April 22  2013

Change in training

Unfortunately, we have two pool late starts coming up due to waterpolo fixtures.  One is this coming Tuesday 23rd of April and the other the following Tuesday the 30th of April.  We will have access from 19.30, so will divide the time equally between the squads. County and Regional will swim from 19.30 to 20.30 and CDT and masters from 20.30 to 21.30.

 

March 28  2013

Easter Weekend sessions

We can confirm the following arrangements for the Easter weekend;

Good Friday: No change to timetable

Saturday: No change to timetable

Sunday: County, Regional and CDT – joint session from 4 to 6pm. All other sessions as normal

Easter Monday: Regional to join the CDT session 6.30 to 8.30pm. All other sessions as normal

 

March 1    2013

New Timetable

 

February 25  2013

Change in training

Due to an interschool gala, there will be no training on March 7th.  Good luck to any of our club members swimming in this gala.

 

February 10  2013

Change in training

Unfortunately due to a school event the Junior Academy session will have to be cancelled on Monday evening. The Regional  session will run from 7:00 to 9:00pm. The Masters' session will not be affected and starts as usual at 7:30pm.

Apologies for the short notice and any inconvenience that this causes.

 

February 5    2013

Change in training

All sessions are cancelled – morning and evening due to a swimming gala and water polo tournament. This includes County, Regional (both) CDT and Masters.  Sorry for the late notice, the message went astray in the changeover!

 

January 22  2013

Welcome from the new committee

Dear Members, Swimmers and Parents,

 

Thank you to all of you that came to the AGM last night to join in the discussions and vote for your new committee. It was a fantastic turnout and great to see so many involved. We would of course like to express our thanks to the past committee for all the hard work they have put in over the past year.

We have attached an updated newsletter with bullet points for those that did not see any of this information prior to the AGM.

Thank you to all those who have already kindly offered to assist with various tasks involved with running the club or our galas. We will need to collate fresh lists of all those willing to carry on helping. Details attached on the newsletter.

Finally, we will be looking afresh at the gala entry system. We will not be collecting deposits. Again, the information about this is on the letter.

We want to assure all members that we will be working to take Barnes Swimming Club forward...

Yours The Incoming Committee,

 

David, Karen, Robin, April, Kate, Krisztina, Dean, Mike and Lizzie