Welcome to Wantage White
Horses Swimming Club
- 18/7/10: On 17th July WWHSC welcomed 2 British swimmers
hoping to compete at the Commonwealth games later this year. Ian Hulme
(butterfly) and Michael Jamieson (breastroke) spent 3 hours giving 40
swimmers from the club tips on these 2 technical strokes. Full report here:
- 14/7/10: Results
from 50m club championships
- 9/7/10: Press report about the 2nd round of mini-league here
- 9/7/10: Results from Cardiff L1 meet (2/3 July):
- Harry James (13-14 yr old) (3rd 200 Breast,
7th 400 IM)
- Emily Nisbet (10-11 yr old) (PBs 400 Free
and 100 Free). Emily was placed top 6 out of the 10 year olds in all 5
of her races - well done!
- 9/7/10: Results from Abingdon L3 meet (4th July):
- Speeding
tickets: Ellia Black (50 Fly, 100 IM), Daniel Jenkins (50
Back), Louise Jenkins (50 Back, 100IM)
- Gold:
Ellia Black (50 Back), Daniel Jenkins (100 IM), Louise Jenkins (50
Free)
- Silver:
Daniel Jenkins (50 Free, 50 Fly), Kristian Soderstrom (100 Breast, 100
IM), Niamh Thomson (50 Fly, 100 IM)
- Bronze:
Murran Harvey (100 Fly), Louise Jenkins (50 Fly), Elliot
Rennie (200 IM), Kristian Soderstrom (100 Back)
- 4th:
Toby Barnard (200 IM), Ellia Black (50 Free), Murran harvey
(100
Back), Elliot Rennie (100 Back, 100 Breast), Kristian Soderstrom (100
Fly)
- 5th: Toby Barnard (100 IM, 100 Free), Murran
Harvey (100 IM, 100 Free), Elliot Rennie (100 IM)
- 6th: Katie McDonagh( 50 Breast), Kristian
Soderstrom (100 Free), Ellie Wilson (50 Fly)
- 5/7/10: A fantastic 2nd place in the second round of the
mini-league - well done to everyone involved (coaches and swimmers).
The 3rd and final round will be on 11th September. Results from the
first round are now available here.
- 2/7/10: Pictures from the bbq on news page
- At the same time some of our newer and younger swimmers
were competing at the Witney L4 Open Meet. There were some great PBs
and they came home with a good collection of trophies. Report here,
full results to follow.
- Results from 25m
Club Championships here
(14/6/10)
- Club records updated (12/6/10)
- The first weekend of Regional Championships (29/30 May) saw
2 bronze medals for Wantage:
- Harry James 200m Breast ( 2:42.66 - PB LC)
- Todd Giles 1500m Freestyle (19:45.05 - PB LC)
- All
4 Wantage qualifiers (Harry, Todd, Matthew Senior and Emily Nisbet
(11th in 400m Free)) swam well against tough competition from 82 other
clubs. Full results here
- The
children were all inspired by Craig Gibbons' visit on 23rd May. He will
be running a Swim Clinic at Stowe school on 11th July. See his
website for details.
- We are
delighted to ann2ounce that Craig Gibbons will be visiting the club
during our normal training sessions on Sunday 23rd May. Great Britain
swimmer Craig has
launched his own swim clinics which are intended to provide swimmers of
the BAGCAT age (of any ability) the opportunity to learn from the best
and be taught skills which will enable tham to improve. At these
clinics:
- Craig will be present the whole day to
give demonstrations and advice on what it takes to reach the highest
level. He will also share the knowledge that has been taught to him to
enable him to swim at World and European Championships for Great
Britain. Craig’s current coach; GB Coach Kevin Brooks will also be at
the camps providing the coaching during each session.
- The day will educate the swimmers and
parents on the basics of nutrition and how it has a huge impact on
their performances. It will also cover stroke technique and efficiency,
drills, skills and land training work; to improve flexibility, core
stability and injury prevention.
- Craig has kindly offered Wantage
Swimming Club a £10 discount. For more information please visit www.craiggibbons.co.uk.
- Please see
notes about the coaching and swimming time changes
, the new
lane order and the code of conduct and discipline.
- Information
about competing for blue and yellow squad
- Added
link to website which lets you
convert between long and short course times on the swimmers
page.
- Calendar
updated with January open meets and dates for county championships.
Qualifying times for counties can be found here.
- New page for officials with link to the
workbooks on the ASA page (1/12/09)
Interested in joining?
Look at the Join
Us page to find out more about the club and how to join
News
Go to the news page
for all the latest news and to download previous newsletters.
The March 2009 newsletter is now available.
Check here
for photos from the Swimskills day in February.
Calendar
In the calendar
you'll find dates of club events as well as local galas and
championships
Swimmers
Click here
for training session times
Look at the swimmers
page for information on swimming terminology and competition procedure.
You'll also find results from recent meets and the club records.
Parents
For those
new to the club a parent has written a Survival
Guide to Competitive Swimming.
Officials
A new page
here for
those aiming to qualify as officials.
Sponsors and Partners
See the sponsors
page for details of our swimmer's sponsors.
Useful links
Oxon and North Bucks county
website
South East Region website
British swimming ASA homepage
ISIS swimming homepage