Summer 2023 Arrangements

The final session before our summer break will be Saturday 29th July. This will be for Squads and Lessons.

We will return fully from Saturday 2nd September for lessons and squads. Please look out for emails and updates over the summer as we are looking at our sessions to see how we can add extra capacity.

We will run a small number of sessions for Squads in the second half or August. There will be squad sessions on the following dates:

Wednesday 23rd August – 18.15-20.15 (19.45 for Junior squad)
Saturday 26th August – 07.15-09.15 (08.45 for junior squad)
Wednesday 30th August – 18.15-20.15 (19.45 for Junior squad)

You will have received an e-mail in June around updated fees for September – please ensure direct debits / payments are updated in time for September. Details of the updated Fees are here 

Thank you everyone for the on-going support of the club and charity – enjoy a well earned break over the summer weeks.

 

2023 Island Games – Why is there no Swimming?

Why is their no swimming sessions from 8th till 15th July?

This is because the International Island Games will be taking place in Guernsey and nearly all of the coaches/teachers will be at the games either as a coach or they will be watching our swimmers compete in this prestigious event.

Who is in the Isle of Wight Team?

The event is a multi-sport event with the Isle of Wight Swim Team part of the larger Isle of Wight team. The Swim Team is made up of six men and six women and for the swimmers this has been a journey that started a long time ago as they have all worked very hard for their places in the Team.

For some it will be their very first games but for others this is their second and third having competed in Gotland in 2017 and Gibraltar in 2019. The team has a mixture of youth and experience and both Val Gard as the Head Coach and Justine Stewart as the Team Manager will be looking forward to what will be a very competitive event. The Men’s team are Joe Carter, George Hayward, Rossen Martin, Harry Poynter, Ben Van Der Helstraete and Will Davidson. The Women’s team are Grace Poynter, Abi Lacey, Mia Stillwell, Nell O’Brien, Isobel Muncaster and Lucy Isaacson.

Don’t Forget as well that our Club Chairman Ben Gard is also the Secretary for the whole Isle of Wight of Team.

How can I follow the team?

You can see lots of coverage from the games at the County Press social media sites, who are the main media reporter for the Isle of Wight team although I am sure it will be on various other sites such as IW Radio, Island Echo, Vectis Radio to name a few.

The official website is guernsey2023.gg and here you can link up with the swimming results as they happen with heats in the morning and finals in the evening. The event including the swimming events will also be screened live on  Guernsey2023 – YouTube.

The Future

The next Island games will take place in 2025 in Orkney, just two years away, could it be you that is part of the team? All of the athletes started their swimming careers on the Island doing just what you all do, training hard day after day, week after week, month after month and now they will have the chance to go and compete on an international stage, could this be you one day?

Good luck to everyone at the Games, lets go Team Isle of Wight

Island Games and Summer Arrangements

On the 10th of July the Swimming Competition at the Natwest International Island Games begins in Guernsey – https://guernsey2023.gg/ 

The team will compete in this major international competition with a full programme of events over 4 days. The Swimmers will be supported by Val Gard as Coach and Justine Stewart as team manager. You can read more about the team here

As many of the swimmers and coaching staff will be attending the games we will not be able to run any sessions between Saturday 8th and Saturday 15th inclusive. We’re sorry we can’t provide squads or lessons over this period but would encourage everyone to watch the Island Games as it will be live streamed online. All of our swimmers can aspire to swimming in this event and enjoy the experience it gives you.

No swimming (lessons or squads) Saturday 8th July – Saturday 15th July. Squad training will be on Friday 7th, returning on Monday 17th

As there is no swimming in this period we will run squads and lessons through until July 30th before a short break for the summer.

When we return in the new swimming year there will be a number of competitions with Round 3 of the Rother League on 30th September, we are provisionally planning for the Isle of Wight Sprints on the weekend of 6/7 October, Arena League on 14th October and will be looking at Club champs for late 2023 as well as attending the Southampton James Moreno open meet that is normally late October.

Seaclose Swimming Successes at the South East Regional Champs

Huge congratulations to the 6 Wightlink sponsored Seaclose swimmers who, following on from their successes at the county championships at the start of the year, qualified and competed at this year’s regional championship.

The competition was extremely tough especially as it is swum over a long course pool however our swimmers excelled achieving 10 personal best times (pb) and 13 top 20 places in their respective age group. 

With a special mention to Isobel Muncaster achieving 7th place in the 400 Individual medley, Nell O’Brien 9th in 200 Freestyle and Joe Carter (swimming for Portsmouth Northsea SC at this event) 5th place in the 50 backstroke final. 

Isobel, Nell, Lucy  and Joe are now looking forward to competing at the Island Games in Guernsey with the rest of the Island Games swimmers.

Thanks to WightLink for their on-going support.

 

Mylea Gobby           50 Backstroke                   35th     LC PB

Lucy Isaacson         50 Freestyle                      20th

                               50 Butterfly                        23rd

Isobel Muncaster     100 Breaststroke               11th     PB

                               400 Individual Medley        7th       LC PB

Nell O’Brien             50 Freestyle                      12th     PB

                               100 Freestyle                    12th     LC PB

                               200 Freestyle                    9th       PB 

                               400 Freestyle                    13th     PB

Sonya Wake            50 Breaststroke                 21st     LC PB

                               100 Breaststroke               23rd     LC PB

 

Joe Carter               50 Freestyle                      16th

                               100 Freestyle                    18th

                               50 Butterfly                        20th

                               100 Butterfly                      13th

                               50 Backstroke                    5th

                               100 Backstroke                  13th     LC PB

 

 

Island Games – Fundraising Quiz Night

This summer a 12 swimmers will be representing the Isle of Wight at the Island Games in Guernsey (Home – Guernsey 2023). The team will travel with a coach and team manager and we are raising funds to help cover these costs.

As part of this the swimmers have organised a Quiz night to be help on Sunday May 7th, 7pm at Urban Saints, Westbrook Centre, Oakhill Road, Ryde. PO33 1PU

The cost is £5.00 per person with all proceeds going towards the Island Games swim team. Nibbles will be provided on the night.

There will also be a raffle. There is a small bar and tea & coffee will be available but feel free to bring your own drinks.

Teams of up to 6 people, payable on the night.

We are limited to 100 people at the venue so to help us manage the numbers please register on the link below.  https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/X9PDNMN

Download a poster for the event here.

It should be a great evening and being organised by the swimmers so please come along and support if possible. This is the bank holiday weekend for the Kings coronation so no school or work on the Monday after!

Island Games Quiz Night Fundraiser – download the poster

Christmas 2022 and Champs Arrangements

Here are the arrangements for lessons and squads whilst the 2022 Club Champs are taking place and over the Christmas season.

Lessons

Lessons will run every Saturday as normal with the final session on Saturday 17th December. On the 17th of December all lessons can from on 08:15-09:15 and we will have a fun session. Lessons will return after the summer break on Saturday 7th January 2023

Squads

During the Club Championships where ever possible the sessions will run with the following exceptions.

Saturday 26th November – Squads will be on as normal however as there are lots of races on Saturday evening if you are swimming we would recommend not attending in the morning of the 26th.

Saturday 3rd December – There will be no squad training in the morning

Saturday 10th December – Training will be on as normal

Wednesday 14th December (evening) – There will be no squad training on this day

Friday 16th December (evening) – Fun session for all squad swimmers 18:15-19:30

Saturday 17th December – There will be no squad training on this day

All other sessions will run as normal

Christmas

The final session before the Christmas break will be Wednesday 21st December. 

There will be one session between Christmas and New year on Thursday 29th December, 06.00-07.15

Normal training will return on Wednesday 4th January 2023

Club Championships 2022

Session 1 Results – 26th November Results

Fantastic swimming on day 1 with 72 PB’s set and 17 new club records.

Spectators are welcome and there will be no charge for spectators on this event. No printed programmes will be created. Entries will be on Meet Mobile. Whilst finishing times will be published on Meet Mobile placings will not reflect that there are separate results for each club.

The club championships for 2022 will take place on the following dates:

26/11/2022 (Session 1)

400 IM, 50 Back, 100 Br/s  (15.30 start)

26/11/2022 (Session 2)

50 Br/s, 100 Fly, 100 IM, 200 Back (~18.00 start)

03/12/2022 (Session 1)

400 Free, 50 Fly, 100 Back (15.30 start)

03/12/2022 (Session 2)

200 IM, 100 Free, 200 Free, 200 Fly (~18.00 start)

14/12/2022

1500 F/C

17/12/2022

50 Free, 200 Br/s, 800 Free (17.00 start)

Age Groups will be:

9-10 Years
11-12 Years
13-14 Years
15-16 Years
17-18 Years
19 Years and over.                     

Championships are open to all Junior, Pre-Senior and Senior Squad swimmers and Masters squad members. Junior squad swimmers we recommend speaking to your coach for advice on which events to enter.

We will run the championships with Ryde Swimming Club and West Wight Swimming Club and swimmers will race against each other, but results will be for each individual club. This will help us ensure we can have enough officials to run the gala according to licensing requirements.

If you are interested in helping as an official please find out more here.

Entries cost £3.50 per event.

Supporting Documents:

Schedule of Events

Promoters Rules 2022

Summer Break 2022

Summer 2022 Arrangements

Extra sessions – as the morning sessions have been popular this week and it has been great too see so many swimmers here there will be two extra sessions for squads before we break for summer. Saturday 6th at 07:45-09:15 and Thursday 11th at 06:00-07:15


As normal we will be taking a break over the summer weeks. Everyone has worked hard after our return from COVID so enjoy some rest ready for the new swimming season.

The dates / sessions will be:

Lessons

The last lesson before the summer break will be July 30th. Lessons will return on Saturday September 3rd.

Squads

Squad swimming will continue as normal until Saturday July 30th returning fully on Saturday 3rd September. There will be a small number of sessions in August as follows:

Tuesday 2nd August – 06:00 – 07:15 – all squads and masters

Thursday 4th August – 06:00 – 07:15 – all squads and masters

Extra session Saturday 6th Aug. 07.45-09.15 all squads

Tuesday 9th August – 06:00 – 07:15 – all squads and masters

Thursday 11th August 06.00-07.15 – all squads and masters

Wednesday 24th August – 18:15 – 20:15 – Junior / Pre-Senior and Senior Squads

Saturday 27th August – 07:15 – 09:15 – Junior / Pre-Senior and Senior Squads

Wednesday 31st August – 18:15 – 20:15 – Junior / Pre-Senior and Senior Squads

 

 

Isle of Wight Championships 2022

In session 1 we trialled the use of Meet Mobile – this worked well on the night and we will again be publishing results to Meet Mobile for Session 2.

Seaclose Swimming Club are pleased to be running the 2022 Isle of Wight Championships returning for the first time since 2019.

The first weekend was a great success and look forward to having swimmers back for session 2 on July 16th

As a reminder events will be swum over two weekends on the 9th and 16th July 2022.

Saturday 9th July – 100m Breaststroke, 200m Individual Medley, 100m Backstroke
Saturday 16th July – 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly

The event will start at 17.00 on each evening. Doors open at 17.00 with warm-up due to start at 17:10. 

At the moment as there are no COVID restrictions the balcony will be open for spectators with a fee for spectators of £3 per person. 

There will be a medal table in operation on the night with medals available as soon as event results are confirmed.

Download the Session 1 Results.

The provisional programme for session 2 can be downloaded here.

If you have any experience officiating or time keeping and would be available to help with the gala please let us know on coaches@seaclosesc.co.uk 

 

Easter Break 2022

Easter Break 2022

Over the Easter weekend there will be no squads or lessons. The last session before easter will be Wednesday 13th April returning Wednesday 20th June.

  • Monday 11th April – PM – Training as normal.
  • Tuesday 12th April – AM – Training as normal.
  • Wednesday 13th April – PM – Training as normal.
  • Thursday 14th April – AM – No training.
  • Friday 15th April – PM – No training.
  • Saturday 16th April – AM – No training or Lessons.
  • Monday 18th April – PM – No training.
  • Tuesday 19th April – AM – No training.
  • Wednesday 20th April – PM – Training as normal.
  • Thursday 21st April – AM – Training as normal.
  • Friday 22nd April – PM – Training as normal.
  • Saturday 23rd April – AM – Training and lessons as normal.