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John White (Thanet SC) awarded UK Coaching Lifetime Achievement Award

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The 2017 UK Coaching Awards took place last night. John White from Thanet SC was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.

After receiving the Award John said: “I am shocked to have been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. It’s a great honour to have even been nominated with some of the greatest coaches in the country. What a fitting end to my career, to win this just before I retire.”

The 80-year-old has dedicated his life to swimming, putting 43 years of coaching into the sport and developing three clubs in East Kent. He celebrated his birthday just four days ago and will be retiring this month following a long and successful coaching career.

John’s coaching skills have helped develop swimmers in Thanet, with many advancing to compete at all levels including international.

As well as helping swimmers to progress he has also helped to develop many coaches and volunteers. He affectionately refers to these people as “his angels”, many of whom have completed aquatic accredited qualifications and taken up paid employment in swimming across the world.

For more details please click here.

Team Manager Presenter Training

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Are you an experienced Team Manager? Would you like to become a module 1 presenter to support your club, county or region? We will be running a Team Manager Presenter day on Saturday 21st October at Guildford Spectrum. Following this course you will be able to put on your own courses at your convenience. To attend the day you will need to complete a booking form and the Team Manager specification document which can be found below.

Team Manager module 1presenter training

Team Manager- Presenter Specification – Module 1

easyfundraising

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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

Chloe Pollard takes U23 World Aquathlon title

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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/.

Annual Council Meeting and Development Morning – 16 September

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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:

  • Club Structures – Incorporation and Charity Status
  • The use of Social Media within Clubs
  • Swimming Officials Forum – FINA rules update, Training, Mentoring and Information flow

For full details and a copy of the booking form please click here.

Annual Report 2016 / 2017

Full details about the Annual Council Meeting can be found here.

Senior Coach 2017 (previously known as level 3)

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Applications for the Senior Coach 2017 course have now opened through the IoS online. Applications will remain open until 1st September 2017.

Successful applicants will be required to attend an induction weekend to formally start the programme on the 18th and 19th November and will then be expected to attend 2 further learning days during the programme.

For more information go to IOS on line.

We are recruiting a Swimming Technical Officials Regional Training and Development Co-ordinator

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Swim England South East is inviting expressions of interest for the role of Swimming Technical Officials Regional Training and Development Co-ordinator

Within the Region, training and development of officials is largely carried out within the Counties, so liaison with the County Organisers will be an important part of the work.

The Co-ordinator will report in to the Swimming Manager and be a member of the Swim England South East Swimming Group and invited to attend Swim England South East Development Group meetings. (Most meetings are run across the Internet)

The purpose, responsibilities and competencies are apply across all Regions.

Expressions of interest, covering relative experience, should be sent to the Region Office Manager [email protected] by 12th August 2017.

Swimming Coach Development Opportunities

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Regional 12 year old Camps 2017

Coach Development Opportunities

Saturday 8th July, ACS School, Cobham, Surrey

Saturday 2nd September, ACS School, Cobham, Surrey

Sunday 3rd December, K2 Leisure Centre, Crawley

We are pleased to invite coaches from around the region to attend these camps to listen to the workshops and to observe the practical sessions. If you would like to attend please complete the form below to confirm your attendance. We can offer morning, afternoon or all day depending on your subject interest, daily timetables are available on the form.

Regional 12 year old Camps 2017 Coach Development Opportunities

Regional Open Water Camp 2017

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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;

  • Craig Oliver, Bicester Blue Fins
  • Andrew Horsfall – Turner, Swansea
  • Josh Atkins, Wycombe District
  • Jo Tierney, Guildford City
  • Jason Keeler, Amersham
  • Chris Luesley, Worthing
  • Sam Chadwick, Godalming

Please see here for a list of selected athletes; OW camp selections 2017 – final