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Herts ASA County Age Groups & Championships

Download changes to Qualifying times V2 - 14/7/10

Notable Changes to next years County Age Groups & Championships

1) Times must be achieved at Level, 2, 3, 4 meets from 1st May 2010

2) No long course converted times

3) Dates are Friday March 4th (long distance), Saturday 5th (3 sessions), Sunday 6th (2 sessions), 19th, (3 sessions) and 20th (2 sessions) Age as at 20th March 2011

4) If you have a 200m time where applicable qualify for 50m event in the same stroke automatically the same applies to 200m Ind. Medley automatically qualify for the 100m Ind. Medley where appropriate. If you do not have 200m times but have the 50m times and 100m times you can still enter.

5) Concession for 2011 competition - 9 year olds at 20th March will be able to enter without a ranking time, but will only be considered if there is sufficient room to accommodate them, those with licensed meet times will have precedence. ‘Rising’ nine year olds will still be able to obtain times in closed licensed meets, i.e. Club champs.

6) There will be one entry for an event as in an ‘Open Meet’ and the age groups etc., will be extracted from the overall entry. This will ensure that the top fastest swimmers will be in the Championship Final and each of the age group finals as appropriate. No finals for events in excess of 200m, nor for Youths.

7) Entry fees will be £6.00 and £8.00 Long distance events.

8) Time trials can be used for 400m, 800m 1500m Freestyle and 400m Ind. Medley for 2011 only.

9) Long distance events on the Friday evening will have limited entries to a maximum of 4 heats of each event. There will be a maximum of 1 heat of 800m for boys and 1 heat of 1500m for girls.

Herts ASA County Age Group & Championships QT V2

Development Meet

1) Sunday 21st November

2) Licensed at Level 4

3) Purely 200m event

4) Gold medals for winners of the event, Congratulations for achieving County Qualifying times certificate, for those who exceed that time are subsequently disqualified (speeding tickets)

5) Swimmers cannot enter any event they already have a county QT for or that they have previously swam at the Development Meet (i.e. 9 year old 50m free last year cannot swim 10 year old 50 free this year) or at previous County Championships

6) 2011 County QT’s form the upper limit on entry times

7) Individual entry fee to be £5.00

BSSC Disco

I would like to thank Sue McGarry, Joyce Barton, Caroline Pryor, Sarah Gunn, Anne Connolly and Amy who all gave up their time to help make the BSSC disco a great success.

All of our young swimmers had a great time and we raised almost £300 for club funds.

Well done everyone.

Veneta

Sheffield City Swimming Club Annual B Grade Open Meet

After last years successful trip to Sheffield Bishop's Stortford S.C is once again organising a trip to Sheffield on 27th November 2010 to take part in the Sheffield City Swimming Club Annual B Grade Open Meet. There are qualifying times for this meet, this means the swimmer must not be faster than the upper time or slower than the lower limit time, The meet is being held at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Ponds Forge is largest Olympic sized swimming pool in the country it's also one of the finest pools in the world. Taking part in this competition will be a great opportunity to swim at a world class sporting facility, the times achieved will be able to be viewed on the asa Nationals Rankings Database.

Unlike the pool at Bishop's Stortford College which is 25m long by 14.5m wide Ponds Forge is 50m long and 25m wide nearly three times the size of the college it also has a spectators gallery that runs down both sides of the pool with a maximum capacity of 2,600, the pool also feature the largest video scoreboard installed in a swimming pool in this country allowing full colour video to be shown and the swimmers full name and club during the race. Ponds Forge also features a large leisure pool known as Surf City the leisure pool features a central pool with a wave machine there's also a flowing circuit that goes around the outside of the central pool which has a reasonably strong current and if that isn't enough there's two large water slides.

The age groups are split into six groups: 10 Yrs, 11 Yrs, 12 Yrs, 13 Yrs, 14 Yrs and 15/Over

The events are 50m and 100m, 10/11 50m all strokes and 12/Over 100m all stroke + 50m Freestyle there is no 100m IM.

Like most meets there's an entry fee of £4.00 per event we believe this is really good value for money.

I'm sure some of you are thinking that's a really long way to go for an open meet, the great news is you don't need to drive there yourself the club is organising a coach to take you there if numbers permit, now because of the three hour travel time we will need to leave on Friday evening around 5:00pm this mean staying in a hotel for the night. As this will be such a great experience for swimmers and parents we encourage parents to attend, if this isn't possible swimmers can still attend but will be sharing a room with other swimmers in groups of three, swimmers that have parents coming with them we ask where possible they share a room, all though you don't need to travel on the coach or stay in the same hotel as the club we recommend you do to encourage team spirit.

The cost per head for this great opportunity is going to be around £60 this doesn't include entry fees. At the moment we are looking for people to show interest, if you are interested in taking part please reply to this email and let us know if the swimmer will be going on their own or with a parent, if a parent is attending how many and also could you tell us if you will travel on the coach and stay in the hotel with the rest of the club or will you sort out you own transport and accommodation. After the competition ends on the Saturday we might be able to drop into a restaurant on the way back and get something to eat if time permits. We need to have an idea on the number of people interested by the end of June so we can get the entries in by the end of July for anyone that doesn’t have the qualifying times at present remember Club Champs is taking place in July.

Your coaches will be speaking to the swimmers about this meet in the coming weeks to explain the benefits of taking part in such a great competition.

For more information or to let us know you are interested in going please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Regards
Graham Spratt
Bishop's Stortford S.C

New Head Coach

Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club has appointed Kristof Michaliszyn as the new head coach to develop a top class swimming program at county, regional, national and international level with effect from the 1st February.

Club chairperson Veneta Aldous commented "Kristof is the quality coach that we have been looking for with the right blend of experience both as a swimmer himself and developing swimmers from a young age through a layered coaching programme, eventually becoming international champions. We are committed to make Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club one of the top clubs in the east of England and produce a quality aquatic competitive swimming programme for our community. I believe Kristof will help us achieve this’.

Kristof is a former Polish national team member and Butterfly champion in 1975. Following his swimming career, Kristof entered coaching as an age group development coach before moving to Canada, where he worked under one of the most renowned coaches in the world Paul Bergen at Etobic Swim Club in the age group development and senior programme.

Kristof then became assistant head coach at the Canadian Dolphins swim club under Canadian national coach Tom Johnson, where he worked with Canadian champions, world and Olympic contenders.

In 1986 Kristof moved to California where he worked as head coach and developed swimmers from California Champions to United States Swimming Junior National Champion and National Championship contenders. Kristof also coached a para-Olympic champion and world record holder. Whilst in the US he worked with top coaches like Mark Shubert, David Marsh and Larry Liebowitz. More recently, Kristof has worked with Norwegian champions and Olympic medallist Sara Nordenstam.

Until his appointment to the Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club, Kristof has been helping to develop the age group programme at his home club in Poland as well as working with the Polish national coach Mirek Drozd and world champions , M. Sawrymowicz, P. Stanczyk, Junior World Champions M. Matczak, M. Hreniak and European Champion K. Baranowska.

Head Coach

I am delighted to announce that we have appointed Jim Monk’s successor.

The new Head Coach with effect from February the 1st is Kristof Michaliszyn.

Kristof originates from Poland but has for the last 25 years spent most of his time coaching in Canada and the USA. Not only is he a very experienced coach he was also a swimmer with the distinction of being The Polish National Butterfly Champion in 1975.

Whilst he will be starting with the club on the 1st of February it is intended that his first week here will be spent getting to know the coaches and swimmers. He will then commence coaching the Senior and National Squads.

Kristof is relocating from Poland to take this position so I am sure you will join me in giving him a warm welcome.

Veneta Aldous
Chairperson

Presentation evening

We held our annual Presentation Evening recently, and we're grateful to Tom Lee (01279 508821) for providing these photos. Please contact Tom if you would like any copies of the pictures.

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Angela says goodbye

After about 13 years with Blue Squad as life guard, Angela Pudsey-Dawson has decided it's time to leave.

Thank you, Angela, for all your help, and very best wishes from everyone at BSSC!