SHREWSBURY ASC OPEN MEET - Just four swimmers attended this open meet held on Saturday 3rd April at the Quarry pool in Shrewsbury, Rob Wenlock, Richard Grindrod, Jack Booth and Ed Saxon. Between them they entered 10 events and came away with 1 gold medal (Richard Grindrod 200 back), 2 silvers (Richard Grindrod 50 freestyle and Jack Booth 50 fly) and 1 bronze (Ed Saxon 100 fly).   Ed and Richard both attaining two new PBs each.  Many thanks to Anne Saxon who kindly went on poolside as Team Manager for the day.  Well done to you all.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dan Scriven who has achieved his 100m breast National Time this morning at the Welsh Nationals in Swansea with a time of 1:11.00 - well done Dan!  Dan went into the final in 5th place but won Gold with an improved time of 1:10.34 with an impressive 31.6 for his first 50m.

SPORT RELIEF - well done to Jo Coombes, Benita Guy, Holly Guy, Abby Guy, Frances Derricutt, Katie Slawson and Ffion Brannan who all ran 3 miles today for Sport Relief and Emily Swinnerton who ran a mile.  Well done all of you.
 
CONGRATULATIONS TO Ffion Brannan, Rhiannon Morris and Connor Bentley who have all just successfully completed and passed this Competitive Start Award (Shallow and deep end).  If you wish to order your certificate and badge please sign up on the notice board and let Debbie have £2.
 
NEW SQUAD - well done to Joe Stone, Toby Parkes, Saphina Tongue and Charlotte Lea who are all moving up to Porpoises - keep up the hard work guys!!

COUNTIES RESULTS – well done to the 14 swimmers who qualified for counties and worked exceptionally hard over the two weekends.  Between the swimmers they achieved at least 50 PBs (to be verified) and 15 medals, 24 placings (in the top 6) and Dan Scriven achieved 4 MDQTs – full details shown below.  Thank you to all who helped on poolside, Louise Scriven who supported the swimmers throughout the two weekends and Team Manager Sarah Thomas and pool helper Liz Deakin for their time given over the busy weekends.  The PB chart will be updated shortly to include all times achieved since January 2010.      DG. 

Sprint Night Results are available here

Meets targeted by the Coaches for Club swimmers
City of Birmingham Open 2nd to 5th April (all swimmers)

Shrewsbury open 4th April (younger swimmers)

Haden Hill 9th May - all

Boldmere Water Carnival - 3rd and 4th July - all younger swimmers

CRUSADER GALA REPORT - Saturday evening saw the second round of division 3 of the Crusader League, although the first actual gala due to the one at Crewe having been postponed.  We had a very "new" team with the following swimmers attending their first gala representing Market Drayton: Joe Stone, Eloise Lamb, James Parton, Connor Bentley, Jack Healy, Lewis Danks, Saphina Tongue, Sam Mabbutt and Frances Derricutt.
 
We had some fabulous swims and came away with 17 new PBs, Joe Stone knocked an amazing 7 seconds off his 50 free time - well done Joe!  Dan Scriven came in first in the men's open 100IM, Ed Saxon in the boys U12 fly, the boys U12 freestyle relay also came first with Ed Saxon, Toby Cordova, Harry Riley and Alfie Thomas working excellently as a team.  Emma Scriven 1st in 12u girls breaststroke, Caroline Saxon in the ladies open freestyle, Dan Scriven in the men's open breaststroke and the men's open relay team consisting of Dan Scriven, Jack Booth, Richard Grindrod and Rob Wenlock came shooting home first by a clear 3 seconds.
 
Overall we came 4th with a score of 183, which considering we had 4 declared relay teams for which we would not receive any points, we did very well indeed.  Thank you to all who helped to organize the gala and all those who helped out on the night.  Without this help we would not be able to host a gala, thanks also to the Captains and Vice Captains for keeping the team motivated throughout the evening.
 
COUNTY SWIMMING GALA -    Ed Saxon swam for Shropshire in the inter county gala held at Fenton over the last weekend in January. His events were 4 x 50 medley relay where he swam the fly leg and the individual 50 fly, both in the 11 year age group. The relay was first and he gained a pb swimming 36.94.  He went on to swim another pb in the individual race with 36.86. This ranks him no. 1 for 50 fly in the county for 11 year old boys.

Presentation Evening Pictures - go to Gallery and click 'Medals for 2009' on the side bar. Thanks to Don Refern for taking these on the night.

SWIMATHON - there will be no squad training on Tuesday 13th April as the annual Swimathon will be going on in the pool.

LAND TRAINING - the new land training groups come into effect on Tuesday 2nd February 5.30pm - 6.30pm - if you have not yet picked up your January newsletter with full details please ask for your copy from the coaches. There will be NO land training on Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th February but there will be training during half term.

CRUSADER TEAM - the new team list is now on the notice board, please see if you have been selected to swim and tick off your name with regards to availability. This gala will be at our home pool in MD on Saturday 6th February and the warm up starts at 6pm with a gala start of 6.30pm. Swimmers need to be at the pool by 5.45pm at the latest.

POOL HELPERS QUALIFICATION - well done to Richard Grindrod who has successfully completed his ASA Pool Helpers Award.

PRESENTATION EVENING - Thank you to all who helped to organize and coordinate the evening last Saturday 23rd January. It was a super night with the medals from club championships and the annual trophy awards being presented to the swimmers. Many thanks to Don Redfern who took on the role of photographer and there is now a display book on the notice board with the pictures from the evening. Copies of these can be bought on CD. If you would like a copy please let Debbie have £1 in an envelope with the swimmers name on and she will get you a copy done. The awards were as follows:

CRUSADER GALA - Saturday 16th January at Crewe.  The team list is now up on the board, please tick off your availability so Louise can finalize the team.
 
PRESENTATION EVENING TICKETS - they are selling fast now and we have only a dozen left.  If you still would like tickets but have not caught up with Debbie please email or give her a ring so she can put some up for you.  Don't miss out on this lovely evening where we celebrate the success of the swimmers over the past year.  7.15pm arrival for a 7.30pm prompt start.  Awards, followed by food and then the disco.
 
2010 COUNTY ENTRIES - all forms have now been submitted to county and this year we have 14 swimmers (just over a third of our club members) who have qualified for events and a total of 77 individual entries.  Well done to all who worked hard to achieve qualifying times this  year.  There will be a rota for help on poolside during the two weekends so if you re able to help please sign up on the notice board or let Louise Scriven know your availability.
 
SHREWSBURY GALA - 3rd APRIL 2010 - we will be targeting this gala on 3rd April. Please check out the web site at Shrewsbury swimming club or pick up entry forms from the club notice board.