Sharks Swimming Club

"Outstanding" Awards

Renee and Heather were invited to a celebratary lunch in July where they were presented with Aquaforce Volunteer awards.

Praise for Phil

Phil took part in a national cadets competition where he was awarded National Senior Boys champion: full report

Sheffield Teaspoon gala

The teaspoon gala was held on Sunday 20th September. Head coach Carolyn Cowburn was in attendance all day, encouraging the swimmers along. She would like to thank everyone who attended and made such a great day.

full report   teaspoon times

5th at the Cheetham Lambert gala

Well done to everyone who took part in the Cheetham Lambert Gala on Saturday 4th April at Macclesfield pool. Some good swims , and quite a few 1st, 2nd and 3rd certificates collected by the club

Cheshire County Champs

Well swum everybody! We had a good number of swimmers at the champs this year and was the first time for many of our younger swimmers. Results for the Cheshire County Champs are available on the results page

Satellite open

We had lots of swimmers at the Satellite open. All our swimmers got PBS, many got to the finals and one got a medal. Well done all the swimmers. Well done Coaches and thanks for all their input. The results are out now.

Awarded Swim 21 accreditation!

We are delighted to announce that the club was awarded the Swim 21 accreditation in March. Our new head coach Carolyn Cowburn joined us at the same time so was able to receive the certificate from ASA representative Nik Turnbull at our MMU pool.

The Chronicle was there to mark the occasion, you can see more of there report above under press releases. A huge Thank You goes to the committee and especially Mark and Ian for all the work they put into make this Swim 21 possible.

North Mids 2009

Sandbach Sharks saw a record number of swimmers, 18, competing this year in the North Mids. Some of our younger swimmers had never competed in an open event before.

We had some good results with Max and Emily Jevons taking 1st and 3rd place in the 1500m freestyle. Our club captain Tom Bottomley set a good example by getting two 3rds, a 4th and a 5th. Alex Joines also got a 4th and two 5ths in his events.

There were several other top 10 finishes for Verity Porter, Jonathan Chatten, Max Jevons and Emily Jevons.

Many of our other swimmers produced personal bests.

A big thank you goes to Dave and Anthony for there four day marathon at Macclesfield pool advising and cheering on the swimmers.

Sharks given lesson from Olympic stars

Our swimmers had a fantastic time when the 3 olympic swimmers came to give them some of their expert swimming advice. On Sunday 19th January Kerri-Ann Payne, James Goddard and David Carry took our swimmers in a 2 hour swimming session. The children were entranced by them and listened spell bound to their advice. There was an question answer session followed by a swimming session where each olympian coached and swam with a lane of swimmers.

You can listen to the radio interview on Focal FM by downloading the file here: Radio Interview (CD Audio track 1kb)

Big thanks to Apple Web Offset and WBB minerals

Our sincere thanks goes to Apple Web Offset, Warrington, who have recently donated £500 to the club. WBB minerals have also generously donated £250 to the club.

Exciting results at the Cheshire County Champs 2008

Golds, Silvers and Bronzes were brought home by our swimmers at the recent county champs. Tom B was thrilled with his achievement of 2nd in his age group! Alex, Tom B, James, Matt, Emma R, Emily, Max, Eleanor, Thomas S had great swims at the Cheshire County champs, many knocking chunks off their Personal Best times and achieving some great GB points.

Swimmers results   Bag Cat points . For all gala results see the Results page.

Well done Tom and Alex for getting to the finals and some great times! It was Eleanor's turn at the North West Age Group champs

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