Further details will follow but the provisional dates for this years events are:
Rother League Galas
Saturday 9th June, Saturday 23rd June, Saturday 15th September (final round tbc)
Isle of Wight Champs
Sunday 8th and Sunday 15th July
Club Champs
Sunday 28th October, Saturday 3rd November, Sunday 4th, Tuesday 6th, Friday 9th and Sunday 11th November
Isle of Wight Sprints
Sunday 9th and Sunday 16th December
Over the easter period there will be no swimming on the following dates:
No lessons on easter weekend – 31st March or 1st April. Lessons are on as normal the following weekend, 7th/8th April.
There will be NO squad sessions from Good Friday (30th) through to Friday 6th inclusive. Squads will start again as normal on Saturday 7th April.
This includes morning and evening sessions.
Happy Christmas from everyone at the swimming club.
Have a good break and see you for training / lessons after Christmas.
The Annual Awards night is Friday 12th January – keep the date free! Full details to follow shortly.
There last lessons for the year will be on the 16/17 December. No lessons on the 23/24th or 30/31st December. Lessons begin again on 6/7th January
The last session of squads before Christmas will be on Thursday 21st December.
Normal sessions begin again on Wednesday 3rd January.
Update – following feedback / availability we will run ONE session between Christmas and New Year on Thursday 28th December only. There will be no training on the morning of the 27th.
The club will be supporting the City of Southampton Open meet which takes place on Saturday 3rd March 2018
Age groups are 9/10, 11/12, 13/14, 15+.
Events are 50m of all strokes, 100m of all strokes, 200m Free and 200IM.
The meet is a first come first served basis so if you want to enter please get all information to Val via openmeets@seaclosesc.co.uk by January 8th at the latest to give the best chance of being accepted to the meet.
Round 3 of the Rother League galas is on 25th November at Havant & Waterlooville.
View the Round 3 Team Sheet here
As always we need to take officials and timekeepers so please say if you can come.
We plan to travel by car again so if you would be willing to drive please let us know.
Confirmations by 18th November please.
First Session – Sunday 29th for 1500m swimmers. Warm up is 5.30pm. There will be no training on this evening.
This years club champs will be on the following dates / sessions. The champs will be swum with competitors from all three island clubs so we can ensure that there are enough officials and volunteers but results will be specifically for the individual clubs.
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Session |
Date |
Venue |
Races |
|
1 |
Sunday 29th October |
Medina Leisure Centre |
1500m Freestyle |
|
2 |
Saturday 4th November |
Medina Leisure Centre |
50m Back, 100m Back, 200m I.M., 50m Breast, 100m Breast |
|
3 |
Sunday 5th November |
Medina Leisure Centre |
50m Free, 100m Free, 200m Free, 50m Fly,100m Fly |
|
4 |
Tuesday 7th November |
Medina Leisure Centre |
200 Back, 100IM, 200 Fly |
|
5 |
Friday 10th November |
Medina Leisure Centre |
400IM, 400 Free |
|
6 |
Sunday 12th November |
Medina Leisure Centre |
200 Br/s, 800 Free |
Travel Details
We will be travelling by car on the 5pm Fishbourne Ferry, returning on the 10pm Fishbourne ferry.
If you haven’t confirmed attendance please do so ASAP.
The team sheet for round 2 of the Rother League can be downloaded here.
This gala is all relays so lots of swims for everyone.
Please confirm if you can or can’t attend ASAP.
We will travel by cars therefore if you are willing to drive please let us know and how many people you can fit in your car. The club will cover all ferry costs.
We have to take officials so will need a judge and a timekeeper at least. If you can do either of these jobs please let us know.
Send all confirmations to coaches@seaclosesc.co.uk
This is a great fun gala with all relays giving everyone plenty of chance to swim and to do something a bit different to normal galas.
Thank you
The club will be supporting the following open meets this season:
Littlehampton County Qualifier L3 24th Sept £5 per event
http://www.littlehamptonswimmingclub.com/competitions/open-meets/county_qualifier/
James Moreno Open L2 30th Sept £6.50 per event
http://www.cossc.org/index.php/openmeets-14
[Updated] Rushmoor L3 SC Meet 22nd Oct (Meet has changed to a level 3 meet on the 22nd Only
http://www.rushmoorroyals.org.uk/rrsc_open-meets
Entries for the Littlehampton and James Moreno have to be with Val by 4th September at the latest – send them to openmeets@seaclosesc.co.uk
Rother League round 2 is on the 23rd September and a team sheet will be available at the start of September.
As we get near the end of the school term ready for the summer break some confirmed dates for your diary:
The last weekend of lessons is this week (8th/9th July).
Lessons will start again on the 2nd / 3rd September. As we have had a bit of a disrupted block of lessons this time we will contact everyone to confirm their / groups times for the new swimming year as we towards the end of the summer holidays.
Squads will continue through to July 23rd. The pool closes for a week on the 24th July so we cannot train any longer than this date.
We are hoping to run some Wednesday morning sessions in last 3 weeks of August but will confirm this as soon as we have the pool booked.