Dec04
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We will be taking a short break over Christmas 2023 with the following arrangements.
Lessons
The last lessons before Christmas will be Saturday 16th December
Lessons will start again on Saturday 6th January 2024
Squads
The final squad session before Christmas will be Wednesday 20th December
Squad sessions will start back on Wednesday 3rd Jan 2024.
We will run two sessions over the Christmas period – Thursday 28th December, 06.00-07.15 and Saturday 30th December 07:45-09:15.
Also – due to club champs there will be no training on the following dates:
Friday 8th December
Friday 15th December
Monday 18th December
Christmas Fun Night
We are holding a Christmas fun night on Saturday 16th December from 17.00 – 18.30. All squad and lessons swimmers and families are welcome to come to this.
Jan05
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We hope you all had a good christmas and new year break. Just a reminder squad training begins 4th Jan with all sessions back to normal from then onwards.
Lessons start again on Saturday 7th Jan.
Mar19
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Over recent weeks Seaclose Swimming club has competed in the Southampton Spring Open Meet, and the Portsmouth Northsea Spring Invitational Novice Meet.
In the Southampton Spring meet, held over the weekend of the 5th and 6th of March nineteen swimmers competed over a full programme of swimming events. There were fantastic results with every swimmer getting personal best times, and a total of 88 personal best times achieved across the club.
Multiple medals were won by swimmers including Tom Brailsford (4 Bronze, 1 Silver and 1 Gold), Conrad Brown (1 Bronze), Harry Sheppard (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze), Ben Van der Helstraete, in his first ever swimming competition (2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze), Isabelle Bounds (2 Silver, 3 Bronze), Inara Ford (4 Gold, 3 Silver and the overall points trophy for her age group), Georgie Gobby (1 Gold, 5 Silver), Mylea Gobby (1 Silver, 3 Bronze), Isobel Muncaster (2 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze), Nell O’Brien (2 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze), Bella Pilcher (1 Bronze), Mia Stillwell (1 Bronze),
The event was a great success with fantastic swims from everyone who took part.
The Portsmouth Northsea Spring Invitational Novice Meet took place on the 13th March with 17 swimmers taking part, with four swimmers taking part in their first ever swimming competition. Across the swimmers there were 44 personal best times set with Luca Guerrini and Harry Macdonald both taking over 10 seconds off their best times for 50m Freestyle.
Once again the swimmers achieved a great haul of medals with Isabelle Bounds winning 4 Gold and 1 Silver medal, Tom Brailsford with a clean sweep of 5 Gold medals, Mia Curtis, 3 Gold medals, Tilly Everett 1 Bronze medal, Inara Ford 1 Silver and 3 Bronze medals, Mattie Johnson won 2 Silver and 2 Bronze, Ben Van der Helstraete 4 Gold medals and Chloe Walker winning 1 Bronze medal. There were strong swims from all swimmers including Cora Muncaster, Maya and Skye Priede, Ayla-Belle Bedocs and Jasper and Elsie Jenkinson, and Freddie Lyon.
In total Seaclose swimmers winning 16 Gold Medals and 7 Bronze medals rounding off a successful set of competitions for Seaclose Swimming Club. Well done to all swimmers.
Nov18
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Entries are open for the 2018 Isle of Wight Sprints.
Dates of the sprints are Sundays 9th and 16th of December.
Download the entry form here:
2018 IW Sprints Entry Form (pdf)
2018 IW Sprints Entry Form (MS Word doc)
Closing date for entries is Sunday 2nd December – No late entries will be accepted.
Oct25
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As a reminder for everyone the Club Champs begin on Sunday evening (28th October).
These are being run over the next couple of weeks. We have tried to avoid disruption to sessions as much as possible – however there will be no training on the following nights when the pool is being used for the champs:
- Sunday 28th October
- Sunday 4th November
- Tuesday 6th November
- Friday 9th November
- Sunday 11th November
Additionally as there are events on Saturday 3rd November and Sunday 4th November there will be no squad session on the morning on Saturday 3rd November.
Oct07
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The 2018 Club Championships will take place between 28th October and 11th November.
Download the Squads Entry Form here.
Entries for some events are available for swimmers in levels 6 and 7 of lessons, for 8 year olds and over.
Download the Lessons Entry Form here.
Closing date for entries is Sunday 21st October. Payment electronically with the entry please.
Jul23
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New records set at IW Swimming Championships.
The last two weekends have seen a busy schedule of events for Isle of Wight Swimmers as the Isle of Wight swimming Championships took place at Medina Leisure Centre. The championships are contested over in age groups from age 10 and for all four strokes over 100 metres along with 200m Freestyle and 200m Individual Medley.
Abigail Lacey (15-16 Age Group) lead the way with four new Isle of Wight Championship Records from her six events. Abi became the first ever female in Isle of Wight Championships history to break the 1 minute barrier in the 100m Freestyle event when she broke Elizabeth Kreuz’s record from 2000 which Abi lowered from 1 min 00.60 sec to record a new time of 59.40 sec. Abi also set new records in 200m Individual Medley breaking Lottie James 2015 record in a time of 2 min 27.76 secs, 200m Freestyle breaking Rosie Gard’s 2005 record in a time of 2 min 08.90 secs and 100m Butterfly breaking C Franklins 1994 record in a time of 1 min 05.46 sec. Abi also collected gold medals in the 100m Backstroke and Breaststroke events to collect maximum points in the overall points trophy.
Each swimmer collects points for their event finishes with a top swimmer in each age group collecting the points trophy.
Mens Winners
10 Years – Max Poynter – West Wight SC
11-12 Years – George Hayward – Seaclose SC
13-14 Years – Joe Carter – Ryde SC
15-16 Years – Jacob Jenner – Ryde SC
17-18 Years – James Dziuba – Ryde SC
19 and Over – Rhys Hunt – West Wight SC
Ladies Winners
10 Years – Amelie Jones – Ryde SC
11-12 Years – Jessica Case-Hunter – West Wight SC
13-14 Years – Mia Stillwell – Seaclose SC
15-16 Years – Abigail Lacey – Seaclose SC
17-18 Years – Lelayna Blacklock/Megan King – Seaclose SC
19 and Over – Jenny Ball – Ryde SC
The swimmers will now wind down their seasons with Grace Poynter, Abigail Lacey and Megan King off to British and National Championships. Then swimmers will begin their efforts for the 2018/19 season in September with Island Games qualification a focus for many.
Jul15
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Results for the 2018 Isle of Wight Champs can be downloaded below.
Well done all swimmers and thank you to all the officials and volunteers that made the event possible.
IW Champs 2018 Full Results
IW Champs 2018 Points Trophy Winners
Jun18
Written by sscAdmin. Posted in News, Uncategorized
Whilst the Isle of Wight Festival is on this coming weekend Medina Leisure centre will be closed.
The last session before the festival will be on Thursday am (21st) and starts again on Tuesday (26th)
There will be no training Friday night, and no squads or lessons on Saturday or Sunday.
On Thursday morning the festival traffic arrangements will be in place so you can only get to the pool from the Wootton direction – https://www.iow.gov.uk/documentlibrary/download/isle-of-wight-festival-traffic-plan-map-2018
May28
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The team sheet for round 1 of the Rother League is available here:
Round 1 Team Sheet 2018
We have to take a timekeeper and an official so that the gala can happen, if you can help please let us know.
We will be driving, via Red Funnel as the gala is in the new pool at Eastleigh. If you can drive and will take anyone else in the car let us know.
Thank you.
