London Swimming would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for all your support during 2008 and we look forward to working with you in 2009!  

 

Please note that the London Swimming Office will be closed from Wednesday 24^th December until Monday 5^th January.

 

London Swimming would like to say congratulations to Leonie Buck who won Regional Sports Personality of the Year and Dervis Konuralp who won Regional Volunteer at the Disability Sport England Sports Awards earlier this week.

 

The National Swimming League London Final took place on Saturday 13^th December in the outer London Borough of Norwich. Four teams from the ASA London Region made the trek through the wind, rain and sleet to swim in final in the 50m UEA pool in Norwich.

A very close fought battle, especially between the top four clubs, saw Ipswich emerge as Champions with 318 points, Hatfield 2^nd with 300, Camden Swiss Cottage - the top London Team -  3rd on 289 and Ealing 4^th with 250. Romford (214) Wandsworth (157) filled the next 2 places.

Full report available at http://www.londonswimming.org/news/article/display/474

 

The Divison 2 final took place at Southbury Road.  It was won by UEA City of Norwich, with 382, then came four London Teams, Greenwich Borough Mariners 2^nd on 314, Edmonton Phoenix 3^rd on 230, Bexley 4^th on 303 followed by Seven Islands on 193.   The first four are now promoted to Division 1.

 

The asa are running a series of Land Work and Core Stability CPDs for teachers and coaches.  The cost of the course is only £5, however we appreciate that the courses are being held outside of London.  We are assured that the asa will be running courses closer to London next year, however, the dates and venue details are yet to be released. 

See link for details and application form http://www.londonswimming.org/news/article/display/473

 

ASA National Short Course Championships last week we suggested that theASA National Short Course Championships were to be held during the first weekend in December 2009. We should have indicated that they were only being considered around that time, discussions are taking place and as yet no final date has been set.

 

Do you want to improve your technique? Or improve the quality of your sessions?
London Swimming are offering a range of master classes which are between 3-5 hours in length these will cover a mix of technical elements. Dates are 20, 21, & 22 February 2009 St. Pauls School, London, SW13 9JT, further details and booking at http://www.londonswimming.org/news/article/display/405

 

British Championships 2009 will take place March 16 – 20 at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.

 

Masters News - Starting January 2009 there should be regular articles on masters athletes and masters news on the FINA website. Please go to

 

Last week Mark Griggs (EO) continued to review the modules of the e-learning project and began work with Jo Calvino on building a national teaching plan CPD master class, where a candidate could attend a number of NTPS in one weekend.

For more information on courses, dates and venues, to download booking forms, or details of funding opportunities please visit www.londonswimming.org

 

This week Jo Calvino (Aquatic Programme Development Co-ordinator) caught up with Ben Campion to discuss the master class programme for 2009 and the financial structure around the programme.  Jo has also been working on some pilot CPD weekends and confirming bookings for some disability master classes due to run next February and March.  Towards the end of the week Jo organised a Diving session to promote adult diving master classes for Time Out magazine as well as a synchro session for the London Lite newspaper, and is booking up plenty of meetings to start in the New Year.

This week Janna Callan (RDO) met with staff from GLL that deliver the Barnet Copthall Swimming Club training programme and is confident that the club will accredit to Swim21 early next year. 

Next week Janna will be ensuring all her admin is up to date ready to start the New Year. 

 

Last week was the final week of free swimming lessons for Islington adults and Annabel Kehoe (EDS – Islington) would like to firstly congratulate all those adults who plucked up the courage to don their brand new cosies and go swimming (most of them for the very first time) in the dark, cold depths of winter. Due to the huge success of the offer, the Everyday Swim project will be running another promotion beginning in February. Again, adults will be offered the opportunity to attend ten swimming lessons for £10. Also during the week, Annabel met with Aquaterra Leisure management to discuss all things swimming for the New Year.

 

This week Jemma Konuralp (Swim21 Quality coordinator) has been catching up on her admin so that everything is in order for a busy start in the New Year.  For the next two weeks she is on annual leave.

 

This week Bastien Wallace (Project Manager Barking & Dagenham) saw the conclusion of preparations to re-start the Barking & Dagenham& Redbridge Swimming Group for children with disabilities and their families. Also the first taster sessions for Adult & Child classes ran in Barking & Dagenham pools and the design of the Monitoring & Evaluation for the Project was confirmed. Members of Sheffield Hallam’s staff toured the Leisure Centres in preparation for the beginning of their research work with the project.

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