Thank you to Santa, all the members who bought and/or sold raffle tickets, donated prizes, brought food and everyone who helped at the Christmas Party. Quite a few committee members couldn’t make it so near to Christmas and we really missed them! The Christmas Raffle raised a magnificent total of £199.00!  Thanks to everyone who helped us to raise this amount.

The prize ticket list is attached here: Raffle 2013

Congratulations to William Newton who swam his first 3m for a certificate on 20th December.

Our new helper is Megan.Her friend Taran will start after Christmas.

We will swim on 3rd and 10th January but the pool is due to close on 13th for roof repairs.

Thank you to the Markham family for their kind donation to our club funds.

Bedworth Leisure Centre have contacted us to say the pool will be closed from 16th January for approximately 10 weeks. The new roof lining will be fitted. We will do our best to let members know and keep you updated. For more information, please see the following link, rom the Leisure Trust website: http://www.nbleisuretrust.org/roof/

The swimmer speed rankings have been updated (Dec 13)

Swimmer speed rankings Dec 13

To all gala competitors

This message has arrived form the organisers:

A reminder that registration is from 11:30am and should be in the main hall of the leisure centre.

If you know of any no shows prior to the day please let me know.

Warm up will be at 12:30pm, please try and avoid being on poolside before then as the leisure centre have lesson in the pool until then.

First event will be as close to 1pm as I can make it!!

Due to time constraints we will be running the gala without any major interval and the raft race will take place at the end prior to the presentations.

 For those who have not been before the post code for the Leisure Centre is LE100JR

Please note that I may not arrive until after 12.30pm.

If I am not there by 12.15pm please could you register yourselves at the desk.  Sheila

Club News

On 6th December Stanley Smith-Poacher and Tom Powis were awarded their club T shirts in recognition of their regular attendance.

REMINDER – No swimming next week (13th) POOL CLOSED.

Swim, Santa and raffle is on 20th December.

Bedworth Leisure Centre will be closed from 24th December until 2nd January. Therefore there will be no swimming on 27th December.

Please find below a list of relay teams for the Hinckley Gala. All those who requested relay entries have at least one and a list will be published before the day so that everyone knows what they are swimming.

In total we have a total of 16 people entered into the gala to swim on our team.

Hinckley Gala Relay Teams 2013

Relay teams 2013

We had great success at our first NASCH finals for many years. Despite the fact that Grantham Lynx failed to arrive and we had no junior girls section, our Group 8 finished 4th overall with lots of individual success.

In the Junior Section Peter Markham won a gold medal and the Kingfisher Trophy in his own 50m event. He went on to sustitute for Ashley Cambell-Barker at very short notice, quite amazingly swimming close to Ashley’s slower entry time and took a bronze medal. Thomas Slater swam an excellent race to win the NASCH Trophy and gold medal for the 100m.

In the Senior Section, Julie Ryan won bronze in the 50m, Lisa Haydon and Chris Hubbard won silver in the 25m and the Men’s Relay (Chris Lanwarne, Chris Hubbard and Mark Day) won bronze.

Mark Day won his 100m, but swam too fast and was re-positioned for “speeding” and got a pb. Tracey Slater was substituting for ‘flu victim Karen Finnegan and did well to qualify for the final swimming to Karen’s entry time.

Thanks to Pete Carey and Sheena Baird for timekeeping duties.

There are photos but I am requesting permission from the swimmers to add them to the album.

Sheila Carey

Team Manager

In Other News:

The pool will be closed on 13th December as it  is the pool staff’s night out. They are a great team of people and they deserve a Christmas celebration. We will have to decide on a date for the Christmas party – suggestions to Barbara.

Very many congratulations to Bethany Kelly on receiving her St. John Ambulance Young Achiever Award on Wednesday, 30th October. It was presented by the Princess Royal, Princess Anne. Lots of pictures on Facebook.