Results from the 2nd leg of the club champs – CLub CHampionships 26 Mar 13

Club Champs March 2013

Survey results as a pdf. Note that you can’t scroll thru the comments.  I’ve pasted them below.

At the SER masters meet at K2 this weekend Brighton Dolphins set a British and European record in the Mens 100-119yr 4 x 100m Relay. The team of Kevin Pickard, Stephen Murphy, Jon Pook and Andrew Farrell took 30s off the british record and 10s off the european record. Agonisingly 1.05s off the world record.

Other results from the weekend.

the 120yr+ 4 x 100 freestyle relay won the event outright, just 3.5s off the current british and european record for that event. Team of Kevin Pickard, Paul Allen, Shaun Challis and Andrew Farrell.

Individual results

In the 40-44yr Age Group Paul Allen won 50 & 100 freestyle and 50 back, with a silver in the 50 fly in the 35-39yr Age group Andrew Farrell in  the 50 & 200 freestyle and the 50 fly.

As if proof was needed.   Certificate for the world record the masters team achieved last year.

Brighton Dolphin SC World Record

 News Splash                    

Welcome to the Brighton Dolphin SC “News Splash” which aims to keep you up to date with diary dates, activities and information about what’s happening at the club.

Diary Dates

9 February – Junior Home Gala (swimmers selected have already been notified)

 16 to 24 February  – Half Term (swimming as normal)

 5 March – Club Championships (1st round)

 26 March – Club Championships (2^nd round)

29 March to 15 April Easter Holidays (swimming as normal except for 14^th April due to Brighton Marathon)

 21 April – invitation to Smiths SC for a junior development gala

 24 April – Brighton & Hove Schools Gala

 30 April – Club Championships (3^rd & final round)

 Welcome to the first news letter of 2013. With the continued difficulties the new car park barrier gives us and the recent snow swimming on a Tuesday evening hasn’t been very straightforward over the last few weeks. We continue to work with the management of the pool to resolve and overcome the problems of the car park. Could I remind the junior section to vacate the building as soon as possible, particularly if you come by car to allow room for the masters coming in to park for the later session.

Club Championships 2013

Please find attached the schedule for this year’s club championships. In previous years we have seen a significant decrease in the number of junior swimmers attending the second and third round of the championships. We are aware that once the summer term is upon us many juniors have other sporting commitments. We hope by moving the event to fall mainly in the spring term swimmers will be able to commit to all 3 sessions.

Littlehampton Open Meet – 5 January

Congratulations to those swimmers who competed in the open meet held at Littlehampton at the beginning of the year. Swimmers representing the club included:

Becky Fuller, Joe Foot, Seth Follen, Ateya Marshall, William Morrell, Emily Morrell and Ateya Marshall.

County Qualification

Congratulations to Becky Fuller, Emma Chrismas, Jo Chrismas and William Morrell who have secured Sussex County qualification times this year. It has been many years since a junior member from the club has achieved a county time well done to you all and thank you to Mick, Audrey, Jo, Ron, Lesley and Gary who have worked with the children  over the last 12 months to enable them to achieve their improvement.

Good luck also to Andy Farrell, Shaun Challis, Mat Lambert, Jon Pook and Chris Tait from our Masters section who are also competing at the County Championships over the coming weeks.

Pauline

(Director of Swimming)

www.bdsc.co.uk

Active Sussex are relaunching their Active & Health Workplace Initiative with a new name and a brand new, interactive website.

The Active Sussex Workplace Health website is now live, it is an interactive website for companies and people working in Sussex, with events, fantastic special offers for members…oh and fun online challenges to get you motivated, with great prizes up for grabs!

Current special offers include discounts on holidays, physiotherapists, massage, personal training, and more…  We will be adding more offers all the time.

The first challenge of 2013 will be a healthy eating challenge, all you have to do is sign up and tell us how you are getting on, tell us if you managed to get your 5-a-day, did you make a healthy food swap, share your favourite healthy recipe.  There are lots of great prizes up for grabs for you and your team simply for taking part.

The website also has a mobile web app, making it really easy to use on your smart phone – you can log your 5-a-day and win prizes on the move!  If you have an iPhone you can even save the site as an icon on your phone making it really easy to access.
Join now and tell your colleagues, your friends and your family members who work in Sussex.

Active Solutions will still be managing the programme so if you have any question please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Hi everyone,

We’ve got a course running at Triangle Leisure Centre (West Sussex) with very low numbers.

It’s a Level 1 Teaching Aquatics course.

The dates of the course are as follows: 11th, 18th, 25th January, 1st & 18th February 2013 (all Fridays)

The times of the course are 9:00am – 5:00pm (everyday).

Diary Dates

Christmas Pool Closure – the pool will be closed from Monday 17^th  until Thursday 20^th December so there will be no swimming on Tuesday 18^th. There will also be no swimming on Sunday 23^rd and Sunday 30^th December, the first session after Christmas will therefore be on Sunday 6^th January and Tuesday 8^th January.

Tuesday 25^th December and Tuesday 1^st January are of course Bank Holidays so the pool will be closed.

Surrenden Training – the last training session at Surrenden will be held on Thursday 13^th December and will resume on 10^th January

Pool closed Sunday 13^th January – due to the annual Brighton SC competition

Home gala at the Prince Regent – Saturday evening, 9 February.

Smiths SC gala (Eastbourne) – Sunday 21^st April

Merry Christmas to you all!

Pauline

(Director of Swimming)

www.bdsc.co.uk