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The Junior Captains and Vice Captains are chosen by the Assistant Head Coach, their dedication, approach to the squad training programme, attitude to their peers and to the coaches are all considered when making this difficult choice. Whilst there is no NJL this year the role of our Junior Captains and Vice Captains is still important. They help to support our coaches at other meets and act as a role model to younger swimmers. They will also be able to play a part at our open evenings.
Our Junior Captains and Vice Captains for 2020 are....
Captains: Isobel Greenall & Benji Elliott
Vice Captains: Will Payton & Serena Newell
CONGRATULATIONS!
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| We have swimmers within the club who sadly missed the opportunity to compete at the West Midlands Regional Championships this year. Pools were unfortunately closed before the end of the qualifying window, which prevented some swimmers from achieving their time, despite being so close. We would like to congratulate swimmers who have achieved this despite not being able to compete.
Isabelle Callaghan, Dan Cox, Ellie Deaner, Harvey Flint, Ellie Harsant, Holly Larkin, Cassie Lea, Lauren Maher, Andrew Morley, Lewis Morrison, Becca Morrison, Serena Newell, Will Payton, Rhys Power, Alistair Ristov, Connor Silvester, Owen Lawton and Eleanor Vickers. It is such a shame the swimmers wonβt get to compete this year - especially those that qualified for the first time. Keep chasing your goals swimmers!!!
What a fantastic achievement for them all! πππ
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| Team Sharks,
As you can all imagine I and the rest of Team Sharks are gutted about having to suspend training for the time being to make sure everyone stays safe/ healthy etc.
So this does not mean the end of the Team! We will be cancelling Land Training tonight (for the Performance Squads) so we will be 6-8 pm in the pool sessions (our last session). Please remember to follow the instructions that we have emailed out previously. So you are probably thinking what next's for us as a club? So here is what we will be doing.....
To keep the routine of our swimmers we are currently putting together activities which consist of fitness activities (done every day) fun quiz's / challenges/nutrition knowledge and mindful techniques to keep everyone on track for when we get back into the pool. This will all be done remotely of course and we want it to be as positive as possible and support everyone as much as we can. This will be done on a week by week basis.
If any swimmer has left their net bags at the centres please can these be taken home this evening and all equipment is washed and cleaned and ready for when we get back to it.
Please keep an eye on your emails as I will be emailing out soon on details to help us all.
Stay safe and healthy.
Kim Mortimer, Head Coach
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| We emailed earlier in the week with the hope to remain open with some constraints but with the advice yesterday from Swim England and the Government announcement this evening about schools, we are now taking the difficult decision to stop our training sessions until it is safe to re-open. We will monitor the advice during our period of closure and seek to re-open as soon as we can. The last training session will be Thursday evening, 19 March. As a group of trustees and coaches, we have worked so hard this week to try and do the right thing for the club and our members and to stay open as long as possible. During this period of uncertainty we hope all members and their families stay safe. We will remain in contact and we look forward to seeing you all at the pool as soon as possible. | |
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| Great job to all swimmers who made the Counties, and Congratulations to the following swimmers who got medals! What an eventful 3 weekends of the Champs.
Hannah Penny, Ellie Harsant, Ella Vickers and Isabelle Callaghan β Bronze, Womens 400m Medley Team Leah Bowen, Holly Larkin, Rebecca Morrison, Charlotte Harding β Bronze, Women 13/15 Yrs 200m Freestyle Team Holly Larkin - Bronze, Girls 14 yrs 50m Backstroke Alistair Ristov β Bronze, Boys 13 yrs 100m Breaststroke and Boys 10/13 yrs 200m Breaststroke Connor Silvester β Bronze, Boys 14 yrs 100m Breaststroke and 50m Breaststroke Isabelle Callaghan β Silver, Girls 14 yrs/Over 200m Breaststroke and 100m Breaststroke William Payton β Bronze, Boys 12 Yrs 50m Freestyle Andrew Morley β Gold, Boys 16 Yrs/Over 50m Freestyle, Bronze 50m Backstroke Serena Newell β Bronze, Girls 12 Yrs 50m Breaststroke Martha Bullock β Silver, Girls 10/11 Yrs 50m Butterfly and 100m Butterfly
And Well done to the following swimmers who made the finals:
Isobel Greenall, Cassie Lea, Jensen Dance, Jack Wood, Benji Elliott, Dan Cox, Ellie Deaner, Lauren Maher, Ellie Harsant, Ella Vickers, Lewis Morrison
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS FOR 2019 Competitive Performance Award DAN COX
Carly Robinson Award BENJI ELLIOTT
Swimmer of the Year (voted by swimmers) JAKE ASHFIELD
TOP BOY AND GIRL IN EACH SQUAD
Academy TOBY SMITH and ANNABEL STACEY
Juniors LUKE STATHAM and SOPHIA JAMES
Development OLIVER STACEY and MARTHA BULLOCK
P3 JACK WOOD and CAITLIN PRESCOTT
P2 ALISTAIR RISTOV and HOLLY LARKIN
P1 JAKE ASHFIELD and ISABELLE CALLAGHAN
SPORTSMANSHIP AWARDS
10/Under DALTON LEA
12/Under CASSIE LEA
14/Under THEO SKIRVIN
16/Under KEANA PEARCE
17/ Over ABBIE WOOTTON
Young Volunteer JOSH MITCHELL
Adult Volunteer LISA MITCHELL
And a HUGE THANK YOU to all COACHES and VOLUNTEERS!
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| Masters swimmers Ali Skirvin and Megan Grey, represented Teamsharks at the National Masters SC Champs. Great swimming by both!!!
Well done! 
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| CLUB CAPTAINSJake Ashfield and Isabelle CallaghanJake and Izzy have done a fantastic job last year and we feel that their influence and dedication to Team Sharks will continue for another year. We would like to welcome the following Vice Captains for this season 2019-2020. CLUB VICE CAPTAINS Daniel Cox and Abbie Wootton
All the above have been competing for a long time within the club at Regional and National Level and have a considerable amount of experience within the competitive environment. All have had their own challenges with illness, injury, confidence etc and therefore will be able to give advice to any member within the club. Well done all.
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| Congratulations to all swimmers who competed at the National Championships 2019 this Summer. We are so proud of you all.
National 100m Breaststroke Champion 16yrs : Dan Cox Dan also competed in the 200m Breaststroke and 50m Breaststroke coming 4th & 5th respectively
Ellie Harsant came 16th in the 15yrs 100m Breaststroke
Izzy Callaghan came 6th in the 17yrs 200m Breaststroke and 15th in the 50m Breaststroke
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| Well done to Lauren Maher, 21st in the 16yrs age group at the Irish Nationals today in the 100m Breaststroke !
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| Well done Becca, 4th in the 14yrs age group for the 1500m Freestyle at Scottish Nationals 2019
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| Well done to our Masters swimmer, Ali Skirvin who represented Team Sharks at the British Masters Long Course Championships in Wales this weekend! Ali gained Silver in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke! Ali also swam in the 50m events in each stroke /200 IM and the 100 backstroke, with 3 fifth places, a sixth, a ninth and a tenth. | |
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