U14 Girls Inter Regional Water Polo Championships Report

The U14 Girls Inter Regional Championships took place in Walsall on 02/03 December.

The South East Water Polo girls punched above their weight to put in a second great medal winning performance in 2017, having also bronzed at Blackpool with the Under 18s in January. Please click here to see the full report from the Coach, Ewan Partridge.

Congratulations to the whole team for this great achievement!

 

Team Manager Presenter Training

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

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

Annual Council Meeting and Development Morning – 16 September

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.

Harold Fern & AH Turner Awards

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:

  • outstanding achievement in advancing the sport through competition/coaching/officiating
  • outstanding achievement in the administration of the sport
  • outstanding achievement in advising the sport

Please send any nominations across to bryony.gibbs@southeastswimming.org no later than 12pm on Thursday 6th July.

Meet the Swim South East Regional Water Polo Coaches

Saturday June 17th 2017

Time     5.30pm
Venue   Splashpoint Leisure Centre, Worthing, BN11 2EN

Swim England South East is inviting current coaches, helpers and anyone from around the region who is interested in water polo coaching or getting involved with water polo to meet the Regional Water Polo Coaches – Alastair Roberts, Ben Alcorn and Ewan Partridge.

The regional coaches will demonstrate and discuss the core skills and methods of training that will help develop our junior players.

Anyone attending the workshop is welcome to stay and observe the Regional Junior Training Session
The programme for the evening is:
17.15                     Meet time and refreshments
17.30 – 19.00      Core Skills Workshop
19.15 – 21.15        Regional Junior Training Session

There is no charge for this event but if you are interested in attending please contact Kim Collings by 10th June.

 

Congratulations to the South East Region U18 Girls Water Polo Team who won a Bronze Medal Win at U18 Inter-regionals

Huge congratulations to the South East Region Under 18 Girls Water Polo team who picked up the Bronze Medal at the Inter-regionals in Blackpool. A fantastic achievement and all the players did themselves proud.

Congratulations to Lily who won both the South East’s and the Tournament Most Valuable Player Award.

Thank you to Ewan Partridge and Jill Rogers for coaching and team managing the South East team.

For the report and full results please click here.

ASA Boys Inter Regional Under 18 Championship (2000 & younger) Woodside Leisure Centre, Watford 11/12 February 2017

The region travelled to the comparatively local venue at Watford having selected a squad of 13 after a series of training sessions that took place at Splashpoint in Worthing. In this age group we have a reasonable number of boys to select from and even though some potential squad members were unavailable for a number of reasons, we still had a difficult selection process to arrive at a final 13. A number of boys were unlucky to miss out on selection but we hope that they will have benefited from the training sessions.

The final squad was as follows; –

  1. Henry Elwell-Sutton (G/) Mid Sussex Marlins
  2. Adam Pearson, Hastings
  3. Matt O’Dell, Crawley
  4. Ben Chegwin, Hastings
  5. Charles King-Tenison, Crawley
  6. Zachary Elliott, Portsmouth
  7. Elliot Hurst, Crawley
  8. Harrison Peel, Crawley
  9. Ollie Hunt, Andover
  10. Tom Lee, Andover
  11. Jude Goddard, Andover
  12. Akos Hausknecht, Worthing
  13. Al Handyside, Basingstoke

Coach; – Ben Alcorn, Assistant Coach; – Alastair Roberts, Team Manager; – Sophie Williams.

Our final build up to Watford was not helped by pool closures at Splashpoint at very short notice and it was great shame that we never had the chance to work with the squad the week before the event.

The individual match reports are as follows; –

Match 1.

South East 1, North East `17. (H/T 1-5)

This was a really tough opening game against the team that eventually were the overall winners of the competition. We actually scored first and played well for a couple of minutes but then the opposition counter attack started to dominate the game.

We were punished on many occasions when we were unable to maintain possession under heavy pressure and the team really struggled during the second half of the match.

Scorer; – Harrison

Exclusions; – Harrison 3, Charles 2, Jude 1, Tom 1, Ollie 1, Al 1.

Match 2.

South East 1, Wales 6. (H/T 1-3)

A much better performance from the team and the defending was much improved which resulted in a much more competitive performance. The boys were still struggling to create many scoring opportunities but we did have a number of chances when we might have done better.

Scorer;- Matt

Exclusions; – Matt 2, Zach 2, Ollie 2, Adam 1.

Match 3.

South East 1, Ireland 8. (H/T 0-3)

This was another improved performance against a big and strong Ireland team who play a very uncompromising full press defence. We actually maintained possession pretty well and we were unfortunate not to score more than the one goal which was a good finish from Elliot at the end of a well worked man-up play. Although we were guilty of conceding on a number of occasions when we probably should have done better, the boys put together a much more competitive performance.

Scorer; – Elliot

Exclusions; – Tom 3, Matt 1, Akos 1, Jude 1, Harrison 1.

Match 4.

South East 3, London 9. (H/T 2-5)

Possibly our best performance against a talented London team who eventually finished as runners up and we frustrated them for long periods with a much more more competitive display. The team were beginning to create more chances in attack and the quality of our defending had also improved limiting the opposition to a relatively small number of chances. Henry produced a number of good saves and the final score probably flattered the opposition a little.

Scorers; – Adam 2, Elliot 1.

Exclusions; – Jude 3, Akos 1, Adam 1, Zach 1, Harrison 1, Elliot 1, Charles 1.

Match 5.

South East 4, Scotland 11. (H/T 2-5)

This was always going to be a tough game, not least because it was played at 8.30 on Sunday morning. The early start time was reflected in a lethargic opening when we allowed the Scotland counter attack to dominate proceedings. We did improve as the match went on and we looked better in attack scoring 4 good goals but the final score was probably a fair reflection of the difference between the teams.

Scorers; – Adam 1, Zach 1, Harrison 1, Elliot 1.

Exclusions; – Akos 2, Ben 2, Jude 1, Zach 1, Harrison 1, Charles 1.

Match 6.

South East 1, East 3, (H/T 1-0)

This was another good performance to finish and we led a strong East team at half-time after a penalty from Adam. All of the squad played well and the quality of the defending in the first half indicated the potential of the team. We ran out of steam a little as the game went on but this was still a very competitive effort from all of the boys.

Scorer; – Adam

Exclusions; – Jude 1, Zach 1, Harrison 1.

 

Overall it was obviously disappointing not to record a win but we did see a huge improvement over the course of the weekend and all of the squad gave 100%. Henry was voted by the opposition coaches our MVP which was very much deserved because he made a string of fine saves including a number of penalties.

It was a very tough weekend for the boys but I’m sure that they will have learned a great deal from the chance to play in this competition. The squad were a really good group to work with and they always tried to develop the ideas and tactics that the coach was trying to work on even when it was particularly hard going.

Squad Photo (courtesy of Sophie Williams).

Back row; – Al Handyside, Charles King-Tenison, Henry Elwell-Sutton, Matt O’Dell, Harrison Peel, Adam Pearson, Tom Lee, Ben Alcorn (coach)

Front row; – Elliot Hurst, Akos Hausknecht, Zach Elliott, Jude Goddard, Ollie Hunt, Ben Chegwin.

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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!

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ASA Strategy 2017-2021

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.

Take The Survey

Closing Date: 5.00pm Friday 30 September 2016

Thank you for your support.

Interim CEOJane M. Nickerson

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South East Region – Men’s Championships

Worthing won the South East Region Men’s Championship – results and the final table.

 

CFF79743-9690-4D2F-A562-7721706CD23ADivision 2 was won by Faversham (pictured) who will now be promoted to Division 1 for next season replacing Crawley who will replace them in Division 2 – results and the final table.

The Regional Water Polo Management Committee would like to thank all those who ran the competitions and all the officials and other volunteers who made the competitive events possible.