January 2015 Newsletter

South East Winter Regional Championships
& South Zonal Championships
 
Rebecca Hoadley, our Ladies Club Champion, has become the first 4Shires swimmer to qualify and compete in the South East Region Winter Championships at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth. Whilst Felicity Darwent has become the first 4Shires swimmer to qualify and compete in the South Zonal Championships held at the London Aquatic Centre.
 
I really regret not being able to see Rebecca swim but we had a large team competing at the same time at a Maxwell Meet. Rebecca set three outstanding new PBs in all her events, 50 Freestyle, 100 Individual Medley and 50 Butterfly finishing very respectably in what are highly competitive events.
 
I was lucky enough to be present when Fe produced a remarkable PB in 100 Backstroke breaking her 50m PB on the way. By doing so she improved her standing from 80^th qualifier to 27^th out of 84 entrants and 14^th in her age group.
 
These were all brilliant swims, I hope we can build on their successes and get more 4 Shires swimmers to qualify for these prestigious events in the future.
 
Congratulations to them both.
Bring on the Counties at next weekend
 
A very proud
Kim
 

Mid County Report 2015
 
A very good start to the Counties giving us our best results ever, so far.
 
Individuals 
We had 7 Girls in 800 Fs, 3 in 400 IM & 4 in 400 Fs
Resulting in 9 PBs
Medal Winners     Fe Darwent 3^rd 400 IM & 3^rd 400 Fs, Evie Sanders 5^th 400 IM & Rebecca Hoadley 6^th 400 IM & 5^th 400 Fs.
Notable results
Eloise Upton 10^th 400 Fs, Megan Stockford 18^th 400 Fs. 800 Fs Rebecca Hoadley 14^th, Fe Darwent 21^st, Megan Stockford 54^th, Eloise Upton 62^nd,  Emily Alsop 67^th, Kate Edgerton 68^th & Kirsty Pearson 69^th.

Relays
19 Girls & 8 boys
Boys 11-12 Med, 18^th from 24, 1 DQ, 11-12 Fs 17^th from 23.
Girls 11-12 Med, 25^th from 28, 1 DQ, 11-12 Fs 20^th & 24^th from 30
Girls 13-14 Med, 11^th from 28, 1 DQ,  7^th & 26^th from 28
3 avoidable  DQs – learning for the future.
 
And finally......
So you think Coaching is easy!
1 swimmer forgetting all her kit, costume, goggles, hat etc (Thank you Kath & Mel) 1 swimmer stubbed her already damaged big toe causing it to bleed and delay the relay (thank you to our own Dr Catherine Lawrence who patched her up but missed her own Ellie swimming),
2 swimmers goggles came off at the start.
Despite all this we’ve had a lot of outstanding swims which gave other clubs a surprise and made me really proud
 Kim

On Wednesday 21st January 4Shires facilitated at the Chipping Norton School Partnership Gala an event where the primary schools in the CN catchment are invited to compete  against each other Here is Kim's report.......

Overall a good competition, probably the most competitive ever.Thank you CN Partnership and in particular Jo Philips.
 

It was Great to see so many 4 Shires hats and costumes!

Thank you to the following from 4Shires SC for giving up their time and helping out. Kath the organiser, John, Rachel, Sarah Holland, Rosa Holland, Sarah C, Heidi, Debbie, Jo, Nina, Bill & Barbara. With Sam & Emily who were there with CN school.

A special thanks to Aaron & Megan our two Club Captains, who apart from spotting talent, also gave a short chat to over 100 children, Parents, Teachers and Coaches about the Club. Well done.

30 potential swimmers have been selected and hopefully all will come for trials and join us in the coming weeks.

Kim