Extra Swimming Time at Woolston from March 17th

Hi Everybody

We have managed to secures extra pool time for our Friday sessions at

Woolston pool, as of the 17th March the session will be extended for the

each lane as below.

  • Lanes 1 & 2 session will continue at 1 hour.
  • Lanes 3 & 4 session will be extended to 1 & 1/2 Hours, with the option to stop for 2 with agreement from a coach.
  • Lanes 5 & 6 session will be extended to 2 Hours,

We hope all the swimmers will be able to make the most of this extra

time, the sessions will be concentrating on stroke improvement and

turns.

 

Presentation Evening Celebrates Success

Presentation Evening Celebrates Team Success

The Warrington Swimming and Water Polo Club held its annual presentation evening on November 19th at Padgate Community Centre. Over 70 trophies were handed out to winners of the Swimming Club championships with ten new record times.

 

The swim team also celebrated winning the Merseyside and District Division 3 swimming championships and promotion to the Division 2 league. Club captain is shown here with the Merseyside trophy, alongside swimmer of the year award winners

 

 

On the water polo side the senior men’s team had that afternoon won the Liverpool and District Grade1 tournament, and at the same event our 16u side won the Liverpool and District and Cheshire County trophies. This team had already won the Bolton and District league and Knockout competitions, being undefeated all season so each of the players were able to collect four medals each. The 14u team won the Cheshire County trophy as well. For more details of Water Polo Results click here.

For further photos of presentation eveing click here

 

Dates for your diaries

 

Dates for your Diaries  
Club Championships
Entries had to be  received by Sunday 18th September
Saturday 8th  October   2016 at 4.15pm Orford Jubilee Hub
Saturday15th October  2016 at 4.15pm Orford Jubilee Hub
Cheshire Water Polo Tournament
Saturday 22nd October 2016 at Orford Jubilee Hub commencing at 4.15pm
There is an entrance fee to both club championships and the Water Polo Tournament.
Presentation Evening
Saturday19th November 2016 further details to be advised it will be held at Padgate Community Centre Station Road Padgate
Annual General Meeting  
Sunday 20th November 2016 commencing at 9.30pm at Orford Jubilee Hub
50m Training
Session 2 Saturday 12th November 4.45 – 6.45 pm
Session 3 Saturday 3rd December 4.45 – 6.45 pm
Session 4 Saturday 14th January 4.45 – 6.45 pm
Session 5 Saturday 11th February 4.45 – 6.45 pm
Session 6 Saturday 18th March 4.45 – 6.45 pm
Session 7 Saturday 22nd April 4.45 – 6.45 pm
Session 8 Saturday 13th  May 4.45 – 6.45 pm
Session 9 Saturday 10th June 4.45 – 6.45 pm

Merseyside and District Junior swimming league dates
Woodchurch Sunday, 30th October, 2016 - hosting at Europa Pools w/u 12:30
Warrington Saturday,18th February 2017 - hosting at Orford Jubilee Hub w/u 4:30 pm
Penguins  Sunday, 11th March 2017 - Liverpool Penguin hosting at venue & w/u tbc
Formby    Sunday 26th March 2017 - Formby hosting at Formby Pool, w/u 4:30 pm
Dates for other galas in 2017 will be advised in January when the fixture meetings are held
ATTENTION
We have been asked by the Centre Management at Orford Jubilee Hub can swimmers and Water Polo Players please use the Group changing Rooms door marked A is Girls and door marked B is Boys at all sessions and please leave the Ladies and Gents changing rooms free .
TROPHIES CAN ALL CLUB TROPHIES BE RETURNED TO M APPLEBY BETWEEN TUESDAY 4TH OCTOBER AND FRIDAY 14TH OCTOBER THANK YOU 
 
ANYONE WISHING TO ENTER PERCY MASON ON 3RD 4TH DECEMBER MUST HAVE FORMS BACK BY TUESDAY 4TH OCTOBER TO MR P DAWSON. For entry forms click here. For programme of events click here, for entry times click here. For promoter conditions click here.

 

 

Channel swim completed

Rob Waterhouse and Adam Farini were part of a six man relay team from Warrington Dolphins that crossed the channel.

“We landed on French soil at 5:50 this morning (28th June) after

13hrs39m of swimming in ‘interesting’ conditions. Adam Farini touched

France for the team … a great achievement for him.”

The water temperature was 15degrees ish, and they swam overnight setting off at 4pm from England.

Please like Love Swimming the Channel if you are on Facebook

We have a just giving page for the RNLI.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Channelrelay2016?

Thank you to everyone for your kind words, donations, encouragement during

training and for your support, it means a lot for us.

Well done to you both.


Success in Merseyside Swimming League

Merseyside and District Junior Swimming League 2015-16

Warrington Win Merseyside Division 3 Swimming League

Warrington Swimming and Water Polo Club had a brilliant start to the competition, winning the home leg and then increasing on the second. In the third, we had a number of our best swimmers unable to compete for one reason or another which left it to the last gala to determine the eventual league winners.

The final gala was very exciting with a number of close races, with four where there was less than an arm length in it. We were hampered by only having one open age swimmer. The 14/15’s were asked to step up and they did, winning one of their races against some serious competition. Bootle & North Liverpool pulled out all the stops, but it was not good enough with Warrington winning by the narrow margin of 600 points to 592 points. There was good team spirit all round and the closeness of the end result meant that every swimmer counted. Congratulations to all that took part.

DIVISION 3

CLUB

                                        Gala 1   Gala 2   Gala 3   Gala 4   TOTAL

Warrington                          179        160       115      146        600

Runcorn                              110        124       106        86        426

Bridgefield                           104        124       143       131       508

Bootle & Nth L’pool               145        129       151       167       592

 


Dive Clinics

Just a reminder that the last dive clinic is on Friday 29th 7.30pm at Sankey.

It has been such a great success that we have extended the training to accommodate this activity.
Thanks to everybody who has attended, we would just like to confirm the following
There will still be swimming available during this Friday night session.
There are plenty of spaces left for the session for anybody wishing to come even if you haven’t confirmed.
We would encourage everybody to attend and you can still come if you didn’t make the first sessions.
Thanks

Ian Wilson

Christmas Break

Dear Members

The Christmas break from the Club will be as follows:

Water Polo will finish on Saturday 19th December  2015 and return to normal session from the  5th January 2016.

Swimming will finish as from Sunday 20th December 2015 and return to normal sessions on Tuesday 5th January 2016

Can we also advise that at the present time Mr Ian Wilson will be Acting Swimming Head Coach.

May i take this opportunity to wish one and all a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to another successful year.

Maureen Appleby

Hon Secretary

Stroke Clinics

The regional swimming management group have organised STROKE CLINICS to take place in February 2016.

The venue is Accrington Academy

The Coach delivering the sessions is Fred Furniss

6th February      -              Butterfly and Breaststroke

20th February     -              Backstroke and Freestyle

The cost for each day is £10.00 per swimmer (parents and coaches are free)

The stroke clinics are geared for the swimmers but this time we have the capacity for parents to listen to the presentations and also watch their child swim.  We are also asking if 1 coach per club is interested in attending for their development then they will also have the added involvement with the pool session.

Numbers are limited so will be on a first come first serve basis.

Flyer

Booking Form

Percy Mason Meet Results

Quick run down from the Percy Mason meet at the weekend. All the swimmers did really well and everyone had PB’s and no DQ’s. Really good team spirit with everyone supporting their team mates.

Medal winners were:
Joseph Weston 6
Megan Dawson 3
Jessica Critchlow 1
Nyah Jack 1
Seb Taylor 1

Special mentions to Nyah, who achieved a county time in the 50 free.

Best swim was Lucy, whose goggles broke at the start of her 200IM and still took 16s off her PB.

Charlotte had four PB’s in all her four races, Olivia PB’s in all five races.

Unluckiest swimmer was Amy, who took seven seconds off her PB in the 50 butterfly, but was pipped to a medal by Jessica (0.22s)!

Well done everyone who took part.

Click on the links for full results

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