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The Portland Splash |
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October 2007
NEWS Children 8 and Under. Recently, the club has noticed that young children (aged 8 years and younger) are being left unattended by a parent/carer during training sessions. This places the coaches and other club officials in a difficult position and has potential insurance and legal consequences for the club. It is therefore important that at least one parent/carer of children aged 8 or under remain on poolside during training sessions. (The seated area is fine). Fire Safety. Can all parents please ask their children to give their names to the person taking money as they arrive at training, before they go and get changed, even if their parents are following on a few minutes behind with their session fee. It is very important that we know who is on poolside in case of fire or some other emergency. If no-one has arrived to take the money, please don’t get changed until a club official is present and has taken names. Victoria Leisure Centre. For those not aware, this session on a Tuesday night, now starts at the earlier time of 7.30pm and finishes at 8.30pm. Remember Tuesday’s offers a fantastic opportunity for the under 12’s to practice their turns which will help improve competition performances. Club Championships. A reminder that the Portland Club Championships are taking place on
the 20th and 21st October at the University Pool. The majority of events
take place on the Saturday with just the 100m and 200m events taking
place on the Sunday. Cost is £1.25 per event. Forms are available to
register NOW at every swimming session. So come on and give it a go. See
if you can break a club record or achieve a personal best. Names should
be registered in advance please, so that the swimming order can be
worked out beforehand to enable the usual smooth running of things on
the night. Presentation Evening and Disco. A provisional date for the presentation of prizes for the Club Championships is Friday 30th November. Further details to follow but pencil this date in your diaries now. Splash Night. This will take place on the 21st December. All members are welcome but children under the age of 8 will need to be accompanied in the water by a parent. SWIMMERS OF THE MONTH. August Hannah Simmons and Chris Mapperley September Zoe Garton and Harvey Kay Well done all of you. NEW MEMBERS Welcome to Cameron Bowie, Jacob Davies and Rory Dalgarno who have joined us since the last newsletter. We hope that you enjoy swimming with Portland. MINI_GALA NEWS. A very successful mini-gala took place on Friday 7th September. In
total 30 children took part. On the night prizes were awarded to the
swimmers with the biggest overall improvement (based on the four
strokes) from the previous mini gala. Special mention to Asher Ehlers who was ‘king of the pool’ obtaining
the fastest overall time across the four races. He also came fourth with
a summed improvement of 25%. INTER-GALA NEWS. Arnold Jubilee Gala 8th September2007. This was a special event to mark the Anniversary of Arnold Swimming
Club. Portland fielded a young team which achieved some excellent swims
and achieved a fantastic 20 personal bests. Congratulations to Joshua
Blackburn and Harvey Kay for their first places in the 25m breaststroke
and 25m freestyle respectively. JC Dobb Autumn Competition 15th September 2007. This was the first gala of the Autumn series and was held at
Sutton-in-Ashfield. We 1. Radford - 143 Next three interclub galas are as follows. Sat 13th Oct – Notts and District League – Arnold Leisure Centre, 6pm
for 6.30pm.
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