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Week starting 12th August

Sunday

Feel Good Centre

Aquavision swimmers Land 3pm-4pm, water 4:15pm-5:15pm

Tuesday: 

Waltham Forest College

Aquavision Swimmers

Water 6pm-7pm

Land 7:15pm-8:15pm (only 14 spaces for land available so please ensure you email [email protected] to secure your place).

Wednesday:

Feel Good Centre

For Aquavision and London Squad Swimmers.

Land 7pm-8pm

Water 8:15-9:15pm

Due to snow and difficult traffic conditions, today’s swimming is cancelled.

First and foremost, well done to everyone who competed in the Nationals this year, you should all be very proud of yourselves.

We did incredibly well winning four medals:

• Anna Sagoo and Dilan Velani won Gold for the 13-15 mixed duet category.
• Milan Kadrok  and Hadi Khairul also won a Gold for the 12 and under mixed duet category
• Florence Ford and Lily Halasi won a Bronze Medal in the 12 and under duet category
• The 12 and under team also won a Bronze Medal for their competitive team swim

Alex Weir & Christina Maciejewski  were able to swim their duet in 15-18 category and the 13-15 competitive team came 6th place out of 17 with a very respectable routine score of 59.5333.

We also are very excited that three of our girls: Rosie Rallings, Carla  Pietrafesa and Lily Halasi have been invited to trial for England.

Thank you to all the volunteers (parents and team mates), who dedicated their time to ensuring that the competition ran smoothly (from coaching and team managing to helping with hair and assisting with the running of the event).

Arrived at Gloucester for 2017 Nationals. Good luck to all the girls and boys this weekend.

A huge thank you to every one who attended the recent Figure Grading events. We had some great results: Natalie Gilbert achieved a bronze in Grade 1 figures; Grade 2 bronze successes were also achieved by Annabella Sangiorgio, Hannah Ogunniyi, Jessica Howard, Shamaieh Nanton and Genevieve O-Dell; Anagnese Pietrafesa achieved a silver in Grade 3 figures; Thiri Thein and Megan Parker achieved a silver and Antonia Markus and Anna Sagoo achieved a bronze in Grade 4 figures and Alicia Day achieved a bronze in Grade 5 figures.

We are organising our Aquavision Annual Awards Evening on Friday, 20th October at Orford House, Orford Road, E17.

We would appreciate it if you could email Ford Ford to let him know whether you are coming so that we can organise food for the evening. Paul’s email address is [email protected]

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Closed Auction Prizes 2017 – RE-AUCTION

We are starting to plan our teams for competitions in 2017

From this week until the end of half term we will be selecting team squad, solos and duets for 2017

We are aware that some swimmers are away over half term and we will be selecting squads based on how swimmers have preformed since the start of 2017.

Over half term there will be opportunities to do team training as part of the camps 10:30 to 14:00

Monday 13th, Tuesday 14th, Friday 17th Feb – all swimmers 13 to 15 yrs  – aiming for the 13 to 15 competitive squad (aiming for grade 3 by December 2017) – Training will include London Squad Swimmers

Wednesday 15th Feb – all swimmers under 12 – aiming for the under 12 competitive squad (aiming for grade 2 by December 2017) – training will include London Squad Swimmers

Wednesday 15th Feb – 13 to 18 yrs- skill 1 and above – combination teams (There will be 2 teams)

Thursday 16th – 13 to 18 yrs – skill 1 and above – combination teams (There will be 2 teams)

Sunday 19th – all swimmers under 12 – up to skill 2 – combination team

There will still be skills and private training 08:00 to 10:00 Monday to Friday, Forest Pool

land 3pm to 4:30pm and 10:30 t0 11:30 college pool.

Monday to Friday, all swimmers welcome.  12:00 to 14:00 college for General Training if team is not training.

We are also aiming to do skill assessments on all swimmers who want to do grades over the next two months.

Your camp cost will be charged depending on the hours done.  08:00 to 10:00 camp is £15 – includes assessment.

team training camp is £20

Day camp 10:30 to 14:30 is £30 or you can do 08:00 to 14:00 for £30.

If it is not your team training day and you still want to attend then there will still be skill training available

Privates and small groups available with Jenny Gray

There has been a lot of notices about training in Feb, particularly as we have a lot of activity at the weekends.  The notices that have been sent have been summarised below.  It is very important that the swimmers support the development of our coaching team and book into the first two weekends in Feb as the course can’t run without swimmers.

Secondly note there is no normal training at the college during half term.  Lesson swimmers have been offered additional sessions and there is training for squads during this week, so check the list below

The half term camp is very quiet at the moment and we need to make final arrangements for coaches so please do not leave your booking any longer.  Closing date will be 5th Feb for half term training.  Solos, duets and privates will be available throughout half term week.

Private sessions for Feb will be available to book from 2nd February and will be posted on the website.

Skill assessments – We have done some assessments over the last few weeks and have a list of swimmers wanting to be assessed.  These swimmers will be given priority if they are assessed as ready to do a grading.  We do have a limited number of assessors and will have to be selective on who we send to grading’s in the initial months.  Closing date to book assessment will be 5th Feb.

All club swimmers who have missed there sessions on Saturday due to level 1 coaching can attend the feel good training on the  5th and 12 th March to ensure they have no loss in pool time available for training.  land 2:45pm to 3:45pm and water 4pm to 6pm