Ards Swimming Club

Entries for the Bloomfield Ulster Open Championships to be held 2-4 December at Bangor LC and the Irish SC National Championships to be held 16-18 December at Lisburn will be taken by Gillian Scott on Sunday 20 November.  Swimmers need to check with their coaches about their entry choices.  Entries and payment for both events will be taken by Gillian at Sunday a.m. training.

Important notice for all Club secretaries and Club coaches.

The Board of Swim Ulster have reviewed the operation of our galas and have introduced the following requirements to improve our galas. These arrangements will reduce the waiting time at galas and will assist clubs, swimmers and parents in making their plans for each gala.

For the 2011-12 season, all Swim Ulster galas will follow the following format.

Closing dates will be strictly enforced. Entries must be received by 3pm on the closing date day. For example, the first SU gala is the Development meet 1, on 23rd October in Cookstown. The closing date for this gala is 6th October. All clubs must submit their entries for this gala by 3pm on 6th October. No entries will be accepted after this date.

Also, no changes to entries will be accepted after the closing date. That is, if a club enters a swimmer for an event, then that is the entry that will stand, the club cannot switch swimmers from one event to another.

Entries on the day will not be accepted.

Withdrawals must be made to the gala organiser by 3pm on the day previous to the event. That is, if a swimmer wishes to withdraw from an event scheduled for a Friday, the withdrawal must be made by 3pm on Thursday, if the event is on Saturday, the withdrawal must be made by 3pm on Friday, if the event is on Sunday, the withdrawal must be made by 3pm on Saturday.

If a swimmer withdraws by the set deadline, then the original entry fee must still be paid but no fine will be imposed. If a swimmer does not withdraw in time, then this will be a ‘No Show’ and a £5 fine will be imposed, in addition to the original entry fee.
Clubs will be provided with contact details of the relevant person to contact with details of withdrawals for each gala.

Gala Entry fees must be received in the Swim Ulster office by the Saturday the week before each gala. For example, Development meet 1 is on 23rd October. Gala entry fees must be received in the SU office by Saturday 15th October. When clubs submit their entries for this gala, closing date 6th October, the club’s own HyTek programme will generate an entry fee report. Swim Ulster, on receipt of entries, will produce invoices for the entry fees on 7th October, and will email these to the club gala secretaries on 7th October. The entry fees must be paid and received in the SU office by Saturday, 15th October. Late payment will make the entries invalid and the entries will not be accepted. Clubs should advise the SU office if they wish other club personnel to receive the emailed invoice directly.

Start sheets will be available for purchase before each session of a gala. Start sheets will cost £1 each ie £1 per session. Each club will be allocated 2 free start sheets for each session. Clubs must nominate 2 coaches to receive the free start sheets.

In summary
• Closing dates will be strictly enforced
• No entries on the day
• No changes made to entries after 3pm on the closing date day
• Withdrawals must be made by 3pm on the day before the scheduled swim
• Fines will be imposed for no shows – ie where proper withdrawals have not been made
• Gala entry fees must be paid by the Saturday the week before each gala eg Gala date Sunday 23rd October, fees paid by Saturday 15th October.
No exceptions will be made, so please advise all relevant club personnel of these arrangements. To avoid any difficulties, clubs should carefully consider their entries for each gala well in advance, only enter those swimmers who are sure to attend and be prepared to pay for gala entries by the cut-off date for each gala.

Gerry Cappa
Business Manager
Swim Ulster Ltd

It was another successful Open on Saturday 21st May. Two records were broken the first in session 1: Girls 9&U 25 Fly by Rebecca Reid (Bangor) in 16.35. The second in session 3: Girls 11 50 Back  by Danielle Hill (Larne) in 32.86. Congratulations to both swimmers on those amazing times!

To view the rest of the results <click here>

Party Time

The annual barbecue will be held on SATURDAY 11th June at Ards Rugby Club starting at 2pm finishing at 5pm.

Please bring water guns and plenty of spare clothes. No catapults allowed. The outside water tap must be used to fill water guns – they cannot be filled inside the building.

We also plan to hold a number of games such as football, hockey, rounders and some parents vs kids relays. Please bring hockey stick if you want to play hockey.

Food will be served from 3pm

Many Thanks

Ards Committee

Go to the Photo Gallery page to view photo’s from the Age Group Championships

Title: City of Derry Masters
Location: Londonderry
Date: 2011-01-29

See attached file for more info: codmasters2011

Check out the news pages of our new sponsor Printproject for the AquaSprint League.

We are looking for someone to keep the website updated. The person will need to be computer literate, but full training on how the website works can be given. Anyone interested contact Graeme Balfour

On Saturday 18th September the Ulster Minor Schools 1, 2 & 3 gala was held at Bangor Leisure Centre.

At their first gala of the season Ards swimmers were on top form bringing home a grand total of 4 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals. Ards swimmers were amongst the finalists in an impressive 19 of the 26 individual finals. In 2 of the finals half of the finalists were from Ards while in 5 other finals a third of the finalists were from Ards.

There were a few Ards swimmers that just missed qualifying for their finals but none the less swam brilliantly and did extremely well; Luke Graham, Megan McGongile, Georgia Gallen, Jake Dunbar and Zoe Baird.

Congratulations goes to all of our finalists; Anna O’Neill, Rebecca Burroughs, Louis Blackstock, Andrew White, Samantha Brown, Coby Cheetham, Eve Corry and Atlanta Fisher.

Further congratulations go to our medal winners; Sarah Moorcroft, Erin McConnell and Luke Rodgers for winning bronze, Oliver Creaney for wining silver and bronze and Finlay Stafford and Luke Balfour for winning silver.

Finally special mention however goes to Patrick Johnston and Jack Megarry. Patrick took gold in both the backstroke and butterfly while Jack took gold in both the backstroke and the freestyle.

Fantastic achievement by everyone!

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