Sharkies Christmas Party

I would like to confirm that the Sharkies party was an absolute success, raising £254.10 profit, in the short space of 2 hours.

Special thank you’s to all those that donated party food & hamper items : The Harrisons, Williams’s, Slaters, Keebles, Siddons’s, Tudors, Pickups, Wilsons, Shentons, Trusslers, Thompson’s, Cooks, Wardles, Briscalls, Caccamos, Heads, Johnsons, Russells, Jenkins’s, Courtneys, Blacks and the Willmotts.

Santa did a very good job handing out chocolates and taking Christmas wishes.

Also thank you to everyone who helped on the various stalls, and in the pool.

North Mids are underway

Our swimmers had a great morning at the North Mids. held at Macclesfield. In the 100m Backstroke, Cameron Slater had a fantastic swim and took 7 seconds off his best time to win his heat. In the Boys 50m Backstroke, Josh Wilson, Mark Peart, and Oliver Wilson all had PB’s and Club Captain Sam Peart was impressive shaving 0.7 seconds off his PB.

Our girls were equally impressive and in the 50m Freestyle, there were PB’s for Club Captain Sarah Peart, for Steph Bell and Emily Jevons and both Katie Griffin and Eva Pickup won their heats also with PB’s, Katie taking nearly 4 seconds off her Best Time. Great swims by everybody Emily Williams had a great swim in the 100m IM with a personal best finishing second in her age group and taking home a silver medal.

In the afternoon session, both Josh Wilson and Sam Siddons had great swims in the 50M Freestyle. Josh swam a PB and finished fourth in his age group and Sam has finally broken 30 seconds which has been on the cards for the last few months. Well done to all our swimmers on the first day of these important championships

The North Mids continue next week and we look forward to more fantastic swims.

20th January 2012

..North Midlands continued

Our swimmers had a great second weekend at the North Mids.

Emily Williams went home with three silver medals and two bronze medals and had big improvements and PB's in a number of her swims. Well done Emily.

Eva Pickup had some excellent swims in the 200m Breaststroke, 50m Breaststroke, 50m Fly and 50m backstroke.. Oliver Shenton took 9 seconds off his PB in the 100m Butterfly and Josh Wilson took 11 seconds off his PB in the 100m IM. Both Oliver and Josh also went on to improve their times in the 50m Butterfly with Josh having a great swim in the 50m Backstroke. In this event Cameron Slater and Mark Peart also had PB's with Cameron winning his heat swimming in fine style. Mark had a great swim in the very tough 200m Butterfly.

Katie Griffin and Rachel Slater improved their times in the 50m Breastroke and Emily Jeavons improved her time in the 50m backstroke. Katie also went on to take 4 seconds off her best time in the 50m Butterfly.

In the 100m Freestyle our Sharks swimmers performed with great credit with PB's for Oliver Shenton, Sam Siddons and Dan Stone who took a second off his PB.

In the 200m Freestyle, all our entered swimmers improved their times with great swims from Josh, Mark, Sam Siddons and Sam Peart.and one of the highlights of the weekend was the race between Club captain Sam Peart and Dan Stone in the 100m Breaststroke. Both Swimmers had impressive PB's with Dan just nicking the race.

It was great to see so many swimmers taking part in these major championships. Sharks had fifteen swimmers entering a number of the races and overall they had numerous Personal bests. Well done to all the swimmers who took part and to Head Coach Carolyn Cowburn, Dave Trussler, Helen Wilson and Helen Williams who all supported the swimmers poolside over the two weekends .

2nd February 2012

Loads of awards, eating, and partying, at our 2011 Presentation evening and AGM

The evening kicked off with our youngest swimmers, our Sharkies who have turned into a thriving learn to swim section of our club. Many of our Sharkies were there to receive awards from their championships.

Following the youngsters we jumped to our older award winners, this time our new time-keepers were awarded their certificates. The recipients included some of our older swimmers as well as parents.

The evening took a more serious timbre for a short while when the business of the AGM was attended to and our new committee was voted in. Many thanks to the out-going committee and a big welcome to the new members of the committee. There are further links to the minutes , and the full committee.

The new team captains were announced; Congratulations to Sam Peart and Sarah Peart

Now for the highlight of the evening when our Sharks swimmers were presented with their awards for the club championship swims as well as the club trophies being awarded

• John Foskett Trophy 'No pain, No gain': Sam Peart
• Sandy Foskett Trophy: Alisha Meakin
• Henderson Trophy: Tom Tudor
• Audrey Wadilove Trophy: Jessica Riley
• Hesketh Trophy: Ralph Pickup
• Bottomley Trophy: Charlotte Keeble
• Joines Trophy: Joshua Wilson

Oliver Shenton Won The October CDM

Awarded for the best attendance during October.

Remember the best way to improve your performance is to practice as often as possible.

A note from Carolyn Please read

Dave has been a coach with us for many years bringing his wealth of swimming experience to the club. He has been very popular with our swimmers and parents alike. We wish you well with your future

Peak and Plain Celebration

Many of our swimmers came away with medals for finishing first at the Peak And Plain celebration gala. George Johnson, Sam Rowlinson, Abi Rowlinson, Sam Peart, James Bottomley, Tom Tudor, Tim Tudor, Emily Jevons to name but a few!

Mini-meet success 2011

Swimmers up to the age of 12 took part in Mini-meets held at Stockport. Sharks walked away with 6 of the medals.Full Mini Meet report