Ensuring our region is a place where clubs, athletes and volunteers can flourish
Freda Streeter from Nutfield, Surrey, has received an MBE for services to Open Water Swimming.
The swimmer and coach, who was inducted as an Honour Coach into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2005, has dedicated her life to outdoor swimming. She has trained many aspiring English Channel swimmers including her daughter, Alison Streeter MBE, who swam has swum the English Channel a record breaking 43 times.
In 2008 Freda was made a Honorary Vice President of Surrey ASA.
easyfundraising – Swim England have teamed up with easyfundraising (UK’s biggest retail fundraising site) to give aquatic clubs access to an unlimited source of free funding: the club receives a donation when members and their families shop online. Over 600 swimming clubs have already signed up to easyfundraising and have raised over £200k between them! Sign up your club at http://swimming.easyfundraising.org.uk and then log into easyfundraising every time you shop online via a computer, tablet or mobile device.
Please click here to see a case study from Bracknell & Wokingham SC
On the back of her recent National Silver Open water performance and her European Gold at the Aquathlon Championships in Bratislava in May, East Grinstead swimmer Chloe Pollard travelled to Penticton, Canada for the International Triathlon Union World Championships as part of the Great Britain Team.
In an early morning race start, Chloe dominated the 1km swim, in a time of 00:13:48, emerging on the beach 1 minute ahead of the field showing her swimming pedigree before hitting the road for the 5km run (00:20:58). In a race that played out to the line, Chloe took the Under 23 World Aquathlon title in a time of 00:35:34 ahead of Canada and Australia.
Picture shows Chloe Pollard coming out of the swim at Lake Okanagan, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. (Friday 25th August.
Full results of the ITU Multisports World Championships are available at https://penticton2017.com/results/.
This years Swim England South East Annual Council Meeting will be held on Saturday 16th September at Holiday Inn Guildford.
To complement the Annual Council Meeting this year we will be running a development morning for club personnel. This will include a choice of workshops:
For full details and a copy of the booking form please click here.
Full details about the Annual Council Meeting can be found here.
On Sunday 18th June, 31 selected athletes took part in the regional open water camp for 12 – 16 year olds. The day started with an open water pool skills session at ACS School in Cobham, we then moved on to the Ferris Meadow Lake in Shepperton for a race day workshop followed by a lake training session and finishing with a race. The weather was glorious, athletes and coaches came away from the day with lots of information shared by Head Coach Marc Foster and Regional Open Water Manager Keith Barber. Thank-you to our Team Managers Terry Norris and Liz Rowley and the following coaches for supporting the day;
Please see here for a list of selected athletes; OW camp selections 2017 – final
The Regional Management Board welcomes nominations for the Harold Fern and A H Turner Awards. Any nomination should be accompanied by a supporting letter and CV for the nominee. The criteria is as follows:
The Award is given to the individual or organisation making the most outstanding contribution to aquatics at club, county, regional, national or international level.
In selecting the winner of the Award each year, the Sport Governing Board will give consideration to the following:
Please send any nominations across to bryony.gibbs@southeastswimming.org no later than 12pm on Thursday 6th July.
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The ASA are committed to helping clubs teach, develop and nuture swimmers in the UK. As part of this commitment the ASA have partnered with Easyfundraising – the UK’s biggest online shopping fundraising site. This will enable clubs to generate free funding every time club members and their friends and family shop online!
How easyfundraising can benefit clubs:
Access to a free and unlimited funding source to invest in equipment, facilities, transport, coaching and more!
Exclusive resources and materials to help you get the whole club in support.
Exclusive access to a fundraising coach to give you help and advice over the phone.
With Christmas coming this is a great time to get started.
Every Club secretary has been sent out details of how to register their club – please contact them for further information.
The ASA Level 2 courses for Coaching Open Water are now online and live for bookings.
Courses in the South are as follows:
Day 1:- 10th December 2016
Pyramids Leisure Centre, EX1 2LA
Day 2:- 13th May 2017
Bude Sea Pool, EX23 3AW
Day 1:- 25th March 2017
Trowbridge Sports Centre, BA14 0DN
Day 2:- 11th June 2017
Vobster Quay, Radstock, BA3 5SD
Day 1:- 09th April 2017
Mountbatten Centre, PO2 9QA
Day 2:- 24th June 2017
Chichester Watersports, PO18 0NX
Bookings close two weeks before the course start date. For more information or to book please visit www.theiosonline.com
Our vision is a nation swimming
And our role is to effectively lead, orchestrate and deliver initiatives that will encourage individuals across the country to use the water in the way that works best for them.
In the process of developing our new ASA 2017-21 strategy, we recognise that to achieve our vision we need to create an inspirational organisational brand. One that is meaningful to our colleagues and the general public, and with which our members, stakeholders and commercial partners are proud to be associated.
And this is where we would like to ask for your help..
Values are at the heart of a great brand and a successful organisation.
We’d like your input to define our values and bring them to life, shaping how we work and how we look going forward. We’d appreciate your thoughts and will be able to share the results in due course.
Closing Date: 5.00pm Friday 30 September 2016
Thank you for your support.
Interim CEOJane M. Nickerson
ASA
A calm sea and warm sunshine greeted the competitors to the historic Southsea 2 km pier to pier race on Sunday in the final event of the ASA South East Region Open Water Championship series.
Chloe Pollard from Eastbourne Swimming Club needed to cross the line in 5th place to retain her title as the Woman’s Champion. Chloe did not disappoint and in an exceptionally fast race crossed the line first with a time of 23 min. 29 sec. to retain the Championship.
London Marathon in partnership with British Swimming and the ASA are putting on a mass participation open water swim and the British Open water championships. It will be held in the Serpentine on 24th (participation) and 25th (Championships) September 2016. It is expected there will be 4,000 participants on the Saturday and the Sunday will have all age groups, Masters and an Elite event. For more information please click here, or visit the website: https://www.swimserpentine.co.uk/
