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| Arena League Team Dec 2009 |
NATIONAL ARENA LEAGUE 12 DECEMBER 2009
Anaconda
Swimming Club secured its place in the top flight of the National Arena League on Saturday, with a storming set of performances
at Southbury Leisure Centre. Club captain Leo Kirby led from the front, winning the open backstroke event, and scooping the
silver medal spot in the open 200m individual medley with a personal best time of 2.20.80. It was a great night for the older swimmers, powering to victory in both the men's and women's open freestyle
relays, with Brett McLean also winning the fly and breast stroke races, against teams from London and the surrounding counties.
The 15/U boys ripped up the club record books yet again. The superb quartet
of Dominic McLoughlin, Andrew Boadi, Joe Grubb and John Rivers won the freestyle relay in 1.48.77. John continued his scintillating
run of form, smashing another club record to win the 100m freestyle in 57.75, while Dominic produced record-breaking swims
in the 100m back and fly events, adding to his rich haul of club bests. The 15/U boys also seized second place in the medley
relay, with Padraig Lynch swimming the final lengths in a fine 28.22. The
15/U girls all contributed vital points to the scoreboard, with Lauren Speirs, Harley Greer, Chelcie Coyne and Kathleen Bartha
taking the bronze medal place in the medley relay, and - joined by Morgan Mockler - Lauren, Harley and Kathleen sped to silver
in the freestyle relay. Morgan also scooped a strong second place in the 13/U breast stroke event, and Jake Usher can be proud
of two personal best backstroke times. The 10-11 year old Anacondas all
proved their great potential, with Ethan Harrington racing home first in the backstroke, and Aimee-Rose Nahal producing great
swims for second spot in the butterfly, and third in the backstroke. Maisie Parker and Redi Qosja both scored highly commendable
thirds in the freestyle, and the young relay teams - which also included Iona Ocak, Megan Thompson, Fred Celul and Fred Goudie
- never finished lower than third. On the poolside, club coach Michele
Davies added to the strong team spirit with transfer tattoos for the swimmers, featuring the new club logo with a prowling
snake - possibly a warning to other clubs to watch out when the Anacondas hit the water.
Anaconda
Swimming Club - Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of Anaconda
Swimming Club will be held onFriday 13 November 2009 at
19.00 at IRB (Ironmonger Row Baths), London EC1
Anaconda Swimming Club is
run on a voluntary basis by a small committee who are elected. The Committee needs your help. Please come to the AGM and find
out how you can help the club.
All parents/guardians of swimming members of Anaconda
and all adult swimming members (aged 18+) of Anaconda are entitled to vote. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be provided.
AGENDA
1.
To appoint a chair for the meeting
2. To
receive the report and accounts for the year 2008
3. To elect a Chair,
a Secretary, a Treasurer and other members of the Management Committee
click here to download nomination form
Anaconda Swimming Club
at Holloway School Pool
Swimming Lessons and Club training
Free assessments Thurs 1 October, Saturday 3
October, Sunday 4 October and Wednesday 7 October.
Introductory offer for new members before end of October - 2
months free membership of Anaconda Swimming Club.
Venue
Holloway School Pool
28 Carleton Road
N7
0EQ
For more information email your name, childs name, age of
child, address, telephone number and email address to:
holloway@anacondaswimmingclub.org.uk
click here to download form
THE
LONDON SWIMMING
WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009
| Venue | Barnet Copthall,Great North Way, Hendon NW4 1PS | | Date | Saturday
7th and Sunday 8th November 2009 | | Age | Based on your age on 8th November 2009 | | Qualifying times | You will need to have achieved their challenging qualifying times at an ASA Level 1, 2 or 3 licensed meet
since 1st January 2009. | | Awards | Medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed swimmers in Junior Category and Open
Category (17 and over) | | Costs | Entry fees of £6 per event are payable in advanceOther costs include travel, parking and entry for spectators | | Furtherinformation and entry forms | · London Swimming’s website http://www.londonswimming.org/news/article/display/638 ·
Ask your swimming coach ·
Call Imelda (Dominic’s
mum) on 020 7359 2125 |
Return your
completed form and entry fees to Anaconda by Thursday 24th September Late entries cannot be accepted |
Italy 2009
Watch this space!
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| Squad Italy 2009 |
IMPRESSIVE 43 MEDALS FOR ANACONDA
44 junior swimmers from Anaconda stormed home with a haul of 43 medals from the Edmonton Phoenix Winter Sprint competition
last Saturday at Southbury Road.
Morgan Mockler (11) and Freddie Cornwell (10) scored perfect victories across each of the four strokes in their age
groups, bringing the total of gold medals to eight for Anaconda. Mockler’s time of 34.19 set an outstanding record in
the 50m backstroke, whilst her times for butterfly (33.83), breaststroke (40.64) and freestyle (32.41) hold excellent prospects
for the Middlesex Championships to be held next month. Meanwhile Cornwell gave another show stopping performance to break
his own backstroke record with 36.44 whilst swimming impressive times to take gold in butterfly (35.07); breaststroke (45.43)
and freestyle (33.62).
Excellent silver medals were awarded to first-timer Fred Goudie (9), Aimee-Rose Nahal (10) and Ethan Harrington (10)
whilst Naomi Jeffs (10) collected four bronze, Fred Celul collected three, and one bronze apiece went to ten-year olds Nahal,
Megan Thompson, Maisie Parker and Emily Hepden, eleven year old Mario Robec and twelve year old Caitriona Wastell making a
total of thirteen bronze for the junior team.
Seventeen new competitors from Anaconda were introduced to the gala, with impressive performances particularly from
Marcos Manolopous (9), Isis Hudson (11) and Redi Qosja (10).
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| Anaconda Bagcat Team |
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BRILLIANT BAGCAT BOYS!
Anaconda’s Freddie Cornwell has scooped a
BRITISH AGE GROUP (BAGCAT) award from his first splash at the Ponds Forge international pool in
Sheffield last weekend. Olympic swimmer Melanie Marshall was on hand to present the award after the ten year old speedster
took double-gold in the 100m and 200m backstroke, also winning silver in the 200m butterfly in a nationally-ranked level one
meet hosted by City of Derby. In a debut entrance to long-course (Olympic pool) swimming, Freddie also
achieved a top age-group ranking for his three 50m events and re-wrote the club record book to amass a total of 1773 points,
well ahead of his nearest rival from Wear Valley, with 1600. |
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In the thirteen year old age-group, Dominic McLoughlin swam eight events to claim a hotly contested
second place BAGCAT award with 2621 points just behind James Clark of Swindon with 2679. Dom took first ranking in 50m backstroke
and butterfly, setting a huge club record and personal best time of 30.53 seconds in the fly. Meanwhile, Brett McLean contested
finals for four open men’s events, winning silver for 50m breaststroke in 31.77, bronze for 100m
breaststroke in 1.11.57, and setting a personal best time in the 100m long course butterfly with 1.01.70.
Other star performers were eleven year old Morgan
Mockler, who scored a second-place ranking in the 50m backstroke (36.07); Leo Kirby (16) with two personal best times of 27.24
in the 50m freestyle and 30.59 in the fly; Wayne Lock for the 50m breaststroke (33.53) and Dixie McLean in 200m individual
medley (2.46.70) and 100m breaststroke (1.27.70). |
ANACONDA CLIMB HIGH IN NATIONAL LEAGUE
Woodside, Watford
3rd & Final
Round - 13th December 2008
Personal Best times and Club records flowed last Saturday as Anaconda reached its highest position ever in the
National League! Competing in the final round at Watford, the rising swim-team inched out five clubs from the league, finishing
overall in 11th place from 24 contenders in Division One.
The under 13’s boys team won the highest honours with six outright wins and smashing four club records
in the process. Freddie Cornwell (10) astounded the crowd with his record-breaking 34.95 in the 50m butterfly, setting a time
currently ranked as 4th in the country!
Dominic McLoughlin (13) won both the 100m freestyle and backstroke events and gained a new record of 27.35 in
the relay lead-off, whilst Joe Grubb (13) swam a fabulous personal best time of 1.23.59 to win the 100m breaststroke. With
team-mates Andrew Boadi and Padraig Lynch swimming well under best times in butterfly and freestyle, the U/13 boys set two
cracking records in the relays and proved unbeatable in both medley and freestyle events.
Not to be outdone, the U/13 girls team of Jodie Sees, Lauren Spiers, Kathleen Bartha and Harley Greer took out
the club record with an excellent lead-off from Sees to add to her personal best swim in the 100m butterfly.
Success was also had in the Under 15’s division, with McLoughlin teaming up with breaststroke maestro
John Rivers and Clissold partners Daniel Melville and Gabriel Cramer, to smash records in both relays.
The final record went to the Open men’s team in the most exciting finish of the evening, when McLoughlin
& Rivers joined Leo Kirby, William Larner, Brett McLean and coach Wayne Lock to lead the race until the final leg when
they were sensationally overpowered by Watford.
Other outstanding swims with personal best times were recorded by, Naomi Jeffs, Chelcie
Coyne, Ronnie Grubb, Clare Walton, Megan Thompson, Cramer, Bartha and Spiers.
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| John Rivers |
ANACONDA CLIMB HIGH IN NATIONAL LEAGUE
Woodside, Watford
Tide flowing firmly in Rivers' favour
Middlesex
County SC Championships
Southbury
Road, Enfeild
6th & 7th December 2008
John Rivers and Brett McLean are the new Middlesex Champions for Anaconda, following the
short course County competitions last weekend at Southbury Road, Enfield.
The winning duo excelled in the Breaststroke events and won gold over the 50m distance
with McLean taking out the Open Men’s title in a new club record time of 30.99. Rivers also smashed the club record;
his superb new time of 33.40 seconds collected 2 gold medals for the U/14 and U/16 age groups and also earned a bronze for
the Open-age rankings. On day two of the competition, the fearsome fourteen year old returned to claim a silver medal in the
100m Breaststroke (1.14.93) and bronze in the 50m Freestyle (27.18), bringing his total county medal tally to seven medals
including two silvers in the team events with Dominic McLoughlin, Joe Grubb and Padraig Lynch.
Altogether the Anaconda team bagged 17 medals and set 17 club records along the way!
Thirteen year old McLoughlin set a storming 6 club records whilst snatching a bronze medal
amongst the fourteen year old in the 50m backstroke (33.08).
Four individual medals went to Clare Walton (silver in the U/14 50m breaststroke, bronze
in the U/16 breaststroke, U/14 Backstroke and 100m Individual medley) adding to her relay record and bronze medal with
team-mates Kathleen Bartha (13), Lauren Speirs (13), Harley Greer (13) and Morgan Mockler (11).
Mockler had an outstanding debut at county level, setting two records in the backstroke
and individual medley and showing the highest ranking of any eleven year old in each of her events. Combined with her unbeaten
record this season in the National League, Mockler will need to wait until February to become champion within her age-group.
Other highlights of the competition for Anaconda were Leo Kirby setting four records in
the 100m & 200m Freestyle and backstroke events and the silver medal triumph in the Men’s medley relay with Kirby
joining McLean, McLoughlin and head-coach Wayne Lock to smash the old record with their time of 4.18.21.
There were two fabulous relay legs timed at 30.44 for Kathleen Bartha and 31.08
for Lauren Speirs which helped set the record / win the bronze medals and Padraig Lynch also swum an excellent 39.16 for 50m
Breaststroke but was unfortunate to be DQ'd at the start.
Anaconda medal tally:
Gold (3)
Brett McLean Open 50m Brst (30.99) Record
John Rivers U/14 Breast (33.40) Record
John Rivers U/16 Breast (33.40) Record
Silver (5)
John Rivers U/14 100m Brst 1.14.93 / 1.17.16
Clare Walton U/14 50m Brst 39.37 / 39.33
Men's Open 4 x 100m Medley Relay (4.18.21) Record
Boys 14/U 4 x 50m medley relay (2.10.92)
Boys 14/U 4 x 50m F/S relay (1.56.96)
Bronze (9)
John Rivers Open 50m Brst (33.40)
John Rivers U/14 50m F/S (27.18)
Clare Walton U/14 100m IM (1.15.15)
Clare Walton U/16 50m Breast 39.37 / 39.33
Clare Walton U/14 50m Back (34.64)
Dominic McLoughlin U/14 50m Back (33.08)
Brett McLean Open 100m IM (1.04.80)
Brett McLean Open 100m Fly (1.01.76)
Girls 14/U F/S relay (2.04.02)
17 New Club Records:
Dominic
McLoughlin (6) 200m F/S 2.12.95; 50m Breast 36.69; 100m IM 1.09.57; 200m IM 2.30.52; 50m Fly 30.83; 50m F/S 27.40
Leo
Kirby (4) 100m F/S 58.04; 200m F/S 2.12.59;
100m Back 1.06.00; 200m Back 2.26.70
Morgan
Mockler (2) 100m Back 1.19.79; 100m IM 1.21.04 John Rivers (1) 50m Breast 33.40
Brett
McLean (1) 50m Breast 30.99
Freddie
Cornwell (1) 37.48
U/16 Girls 4x50m Medley Relay 2.20.15
(Clare 34.78; Harley 40.86; Morgan 34.07; Kathleen 30.44)
Open Men's 4x100m Medley Relay 4.18.21
(Leo 1.07.06; Brett 1.08.52; Wayne 1.03.09; Dominic 59.54)
Morgan
just narrowly missed the record for 100m F/S with her super-fast time of 1.10.16.
There were plenty of other Personal Best times over the weekend, so well done to all of the following
swimmers:
Joe
Grubb - 400m IM 6.03.88 and 100m IM 1.17.61; Padraig Lynch - 100m Free 1.08.81 and 100m IM 1.20.04; Lauren Speirs - 100m Back
1.18.48; 50m Fly 36.17; 50m Free 32.31 and 100m IM 1.19.85;
Harley
Greer - 200m Breast 3.17.39 and 100m IM 1.22.09;
Kathleen
Bartha - 100m IM 1.19.13;
also 3 more PB’s for Leo Kirby - 100m Fly 1.07.34; 50m Fly 30.12 50m Free
27.29.
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| Star Performers Joe Grubb, Kathleen Bartha and Jessie Baker |
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| Star Swimmers Harley and Fred |
Narrow Miss for Jim Savoury Trophy
Southbury Road, Enfeild
22nd November 2008
Anaconda narrowly missed winning the Jim Savoury Trophy after some outstanding individual
and relay swims at Southbury Road, Enfield last Saturday. The super swimmers scored 13 first places and broke 7 club records
on their way to second place behind Edmonton Phoenix, with only one race separating the gala between first and second place.
Individual event winners were: U/12 category - Fred Celul (50m Backstroke); U/14, - Lauren
Spiers (50m Butterfly) & Kathleen Bartha (100m Freestyle); U/16 - Clare Walton (100m Backstroke) & John Rivers (100m
Butterfly); Open Age – Wayne Lock (100m Breaststroke) & Brett McLean (100m Butterfly and Individual Medley).
McLean smashed the Club record in both individual events along with Rivers who produced
an excellent butterfly swim of 1.06.87 to knock over a second off the previous mark. Ten year old Freddie Cornwell set yet
another record in the 50m Butterfly (35.97) achieving a superb second place against older boys in the age-group whilst Leo
Kirby (16) broke the seven year old mark with his time of 58.68 in the 100m Freestyle.
Clare Walton (1.14.26) and Dom McLoughlin (1.10.41) continued their sensational form this
season by both breaking records in the 100m Individual Medley.
Relay winners on the night also included Andrew Bartha, Ronnie Grubb, Jodie Sees, Harley
Greer, Joe Grubb, Tomas Sitek, Andrew Boadi and Padraig Lynch whilst Steve Jones set two personal best times and the Open
Mens’ Team of Kirby, McLean, Lock and Rivers won the final event in record-breaking time (48.58).
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| Record Breakers ClareWalton and Dominic McLoughlin |
Records Tumble in National League
1st Division
National League
Woodside,
Watford
8th November
08
A further
fourteen records and twenty personal best times were set by Anaconda Swimmers during the second round of the National Swimming
League in Watford last weekend.
The first
division team was in top form with swimmers Morgan Mockler (11) and Dominic McLoughlin (13) leading the way with outright
wins in the backstroke, butterfly and freestyle events.
Young challenger
Freddie Cornwell (ten) broke two records competing in the 10-11 years age group for butterfly and freestyle, whilst John Rivers
(14) also set two new marks, including the 100m freestyle (58.62) and 100m breaststroke (1.14.39). There were outstanding
swims by Jessie Baker (14), Joe Grubb (13), Kathleen Bartha (13) and Ronnie Grubb (ten) who all broke personal best standards
in the age-group events.
Brother
and sister duo Brett & Dixie McLean returned to represent Anaconda in the Open age division, with Brett fighting Ipswich
to the final touch in the breaststroke (Record 1.07.33) and also smashing the 100m butterfly mark in a new time of 1.00.60.
Clare Walton
(14) had a dream run in the backstroke events, her time of 1.12.53 finally broke the Open Record of 1.13.00 set 23 years
ago in 1985! Walton’s 50m time of 33.85 also set a new age-group and Open Record, whilst the men’s backstroke
record was destroyed by Anaconda Masters swimmer Calvin Biss in a time of 1.03.38.
Four more
standards were set in the relay events with Coach Wayne Lock, Leo Kirby, Daniel Melville, Gabriel, Jodie Sees, Lauren Spiers
and Harley Greer joining the record ranks.
The previous
weekend had yielded further success for the club when it sent two full teams to the John Watson Trophy Gala at Park Road and
fetched the trophy as well as second place from local rivals Haringey and Bethnal Green. Anaconda is now awaiting the draw
for the 3rd and final round of the National League to be held on 13th December.
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Anaconda is celebrating victory
over five 1st Division teams at the
University of Hertfordshire pool last weekend. The speed-stars
returned from their first outing in this year’s National Speedo League with an unprecedented bonanza of 18 new club
records and 30 personal best swims from the 50-event programme. Last year’s national finalist Hatfield took out the
first round, followed by Romford Town whilst Anaconda took a surprise 3rd place ahead of
the best teams from Watford, Enfield, Runnymede, Saxon Crown and Sutton & Cheam.
Dominic McLoughlin (13) set a phenomenal 8 club records in the one evening including four individual
marks in the 50m & 100m freestyle and 50m & 100m backstroke events. Dom
accomplished a convincing sub-minute win (59.51) in the boy’s freestyle whilst Morgan Mockler (11) won the 10-11 years
girl’s backstroke and set three records across three strokes (freestyle, backstroke and butterfly) at the shorter 50m
distance.
Clare Walton (14) broke the individual record for 100m backstroke (1.13.01) and smashed three more
in the relays along with team-mates Jessie Baker (14), Samara Williams (14), Julia Taylor (15), Veronika Kussa (Open), Rhianne
Thomas (Open) & Kathleen Bartha (13). Bartha had already swum a supreme anchoring
leg to set a new record in the 13/U freestyle relay with Harley Greer (13), Jodie Sees (13) and Lauren Spiers (13) whilst
the 13/U and 15/U boys teams of McLoughlin, Joe Grubb (13), Andrew Boadi (13), Padraig Lynch (12), John Rivers (14), Gabriel
Cramer (14), and Daniel Melville (15) set three further records in the relays.
Anaconda’s remaining individual record of the evening was set by ten year old Freddie Cornwell who lowered
his own time to take 2nd place in the 11/U butterfly whilst Leo Kirby (16) swam a huge
personal best in the backstroke to come within tenths of the Open Age Record with his time of 1.06.64.
The super-strong team also boasted rare appearances from Rhianne Thomas, Andrew Boadi, Brett McLean
and Veronika Kussa who had returned from university, boarding school, masters swimming and lifeguarding to compete for Anaconda
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Eric Eady Trophy Gala - 6th September 2008
Flying Start to Anaconda Season
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Anaconda Swimmers
set 19 personal best times and three club records on Saturday evening in their first outing for the new season. Competing
for a pre-Speedo programme at Southbury Road, Anaconda edged out rivals Edmonton Phoenix, Cheshunt and Ware to finish a second
in the Eric Eady Trophy, behind 1st division team Hoddesdon.
Fourteen year
old John Rivers won three of his four races, including setting new records for the 50m Freestyle (26.36) and 100m Butterfly
(1.08.89), whilst Freddy Cornwell (10) set a new mark for the 50m Butterfly (37.17). Excellent times were recorded by Lauren
Spiers (13) and Aimee Rose Nahal (10) in the 50m backstroke; Jodie Sees (13) and Joe Grubb (13) in the 100m Breaststroke;
and Fred Celul (10) and Padraig Lynch (13) in the Freestyle, whilst senior swimmers
Jessie Baker (14), Ines Whitworth (14), Samara Williams (14), Clare Walton (14), Steve Jones (15) and Leo Kirby (16) each
recorded improved times in preparation for Speedo League swims commencing next month.
Anaconda won
no less than seven relay events at the competition, showing promising depth across all age groups. Medley Relays were won
by the Under 11 girls team of Nahal, Naomi Jeffs, Iona Ocak and Morgan Mockler; Under 11 boys: Celul, Cornwell, Ronnie Grubb,
and Ethan Harrington; Under 13 girls, Spiers, Sees, Harley Greer and Kathleen Bartha; Under 13 Boys, Lynch, Grubb, Tomas Sitek
and Dominic McLoughlin; and Under 15 Boys, Rivers, Grubb, McLoughlin and Jones whilst the Under 13 and Under 15 Boys teams
backed up by also winning the Freestyle relay double.
SPORTS ISLINGTON GRANT AWARDS
Four Anaconda swimmers
have received Sports Islington Grant Awards in recognition of their participation and achievement at County and Regional competitions
over the past year. Dominic McLoughlin (13), John Rivers (14), Clare Walton (14)
and Leo Kirby (15) will each receive a grant for training & equipment costs towards high level competitions in 2008-09.
Barnet Copthall Open Sprint Gala – 6th July
08
Anaconda Bag the Medals to End Season on High
Anaconda
swimmers bagged 16 medals at the Barnet Copthall Swim Meet to end the summer season on a high.
Freddie
Cornwell scooped the awards winning seven individual medals including four golds for the backstroke and butterfly doubles
at 50m and 100m distances. The nine year old speed star also won two silvers in the 50m & 100m freestyle and a
third place in the 50m breaststroke. The old club record was smashed in the 200m
individual medley (3.15.88) when Freddie won an unexpected berth in the “Skins”
swim-off competition and survived until the third round against two older age groups.
Morgan Mockler (11), Tomas Sitek (12), Kathleen Bartha (13) and Clare Walton (14) were
the other star performers winning two medals apiece in a tough meet which featured
county and national swimmers. Mockler is swimming from strength to strength in
each gala, recording her first sub-3 minute time in the 200 Individual medley, whilst Sitek and Andrew Bartha (10) achieved
huge personal best times in their events, with Bartha slicing off two seconds to win bronze in the 50m freestyle (36.73).
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CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNE 2008 - AWARD PRESENTATION FOR ANACONDA
Councillor Ruth Polling, executive member for Leisure
and Tourism dropped into Anaconda last week to congratulate the club on recent achievements and to present the awards to top
swimmers from the annual 100m Club Championships.
There were twelve main awards, and swimmers were
required to race 4 x 100m in each age group over four strokes (Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Freestyle) before becoming
eligible for Top 3 Girl or Boy or Most Improved Girls (3) or Boys (3). Perfect pool performers with four gold medals each
were Fred Cornwell (9); Verity Hayes (10); Morgan Mockler (11); Dominic McLoughlin (13); Mei Corbett (14); John Rivers (14);
Clare Walton (Open) and Wayne Lock (Open).
Flying Fred Cornwell smashed two club records
in the 100m backstroke (1.23.82) and 100m freestyle (1.16.56) and won the Top Boy trophy in a hot contest ahead of Fred Celul
who had also broken the backstroke record (1.26.05) and McLoughlin who broke the same record in the 13 year age group (1.12.06).
Record-breaker Morgan Mockler (11) won the Top Girl
trophy after aggregating a massive minus 13.83 seconds under the county times over the four strokes. Clare Walton (14), who
moved up this year to the Open age category, was awarded second top girl with an aggregate of minus 4.25 seconds, followed
by Mei Corbett, in the 1994 division (plus 10.08 seconds).
The Most Improved Girl Awards were won by Megan
Thompson (10) followed by Verity Hayes (10) and Morgan Mockler (11) with the Fred Cornwell doubling up with the Boys trophy
followed by John Rivers (14) and Fred Celul (10).
Individual gold medal winners from the competition
also included Fred Goudie (9); Redi Qosja (9); Emily Hepden (9); Andrew Bartha (9); Ronnie Grubb (9); Holly Harbour (12);
Lauren Spiers (12); Jake Usher (12); Sam Dixon (12); Kathleen Bartha (13) and Harley Greer (13). |
COUNCILLOR RUTH POLLING WITH AWARD WINNERS.
Back Row from left: Clare
Walton (Open); Michele Davies (Coach); Cllr Ruth Polling; Dominic McLoughlin (13)
Front Row from left: Megan Thompson (10); Verity Hayes
(10); Morgan Mockler (11); Fred Cornwell (9); Fred Celul (10).
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| NATIONAL SPEEDO TEAM DEC 2008 |
Middlesex
County
Autumn Development Meet
Anaconda were on blistering form yet
again at Middlesex County Autumn Development Meet, coming home with 15 gold, silver and bronze medals, 25 best times and 3
club records.
Dominic McLoughlin led the way once
again with club records in 200m backstroke, 200m I.M and 100m fly, taking gold in the 100m breaststroke. Other gold medallists were Poppy Bedwell in the 200m fly, Harley Greer in the 200m freestyle and Ethan
Harrington, whose gold in the 200m backstroke added to excellent personal best times in all his events. Fred Celul celebrated a silver in 400m freestyle and bronze in 200m breaststroke. Ben Bedwell’s excellent form earned him silver medals in the 200m I.M. and the 100 backstroke. Jodie Sees had two great swims in the 100m freestyle and 200m breaststroke.
Anaconda’s younger swimmers
were not to be outdone, most of them swimming in their first ever gala. Redi
Qosja got a brilliant silver in the 50m fly, with bronze in the 200m backstroke. There
were other excellent first swims by Isis Hudson, Katie Fitzgerald and Killian Fitzgerald.
London Region Winter Championships
Anaconda’s senior squad swimmers
enjoyed success at the London Region Winter Championships in Crook Log, Kent. Brett McLean led the way with a silver medal for 200m breaststroke and bronze for 100m breaststroke. Against a competitive open age-group, there were strong performances by John Rivers
and personal best times for Clare Walton (100m backstroke), Leo Kirby (50m and 200m freestyle) and Dominic McLoughlin (50m
and 100m freestyle).
DOUBLE TRIUMPH FOR ANACONDA 27/09/08
Anaconda has achieved the unrivalled glory of winning
2 Club Trophies on the same night! Last Saturday evening, the squads split between the Millbank Trophy Gala at Park Road Pool
and the North London Graded League in Feltham, returning to Cally Pool the clear Champions of both events.
Overall our swimmers recorded an astonishing 62
Personal Best Times, achieved 28 first places and set 7 new club records in this sensational start to the new season. Leo
Kirby (16) 59.23 and John Rivers (14) 58.70 set the scene at Park Road, both breaking he coveted minute barrier for the first
time in 100m Freestyle and Rivers smashing the club record by almost two seconds in the process. Other club records were set
by Morgan Mockler (11) in the 50m Butterfly (34.45) and 25m Backstroke (16.84); Clare Walton (14) in the 15 years and Open
Women’s 25m Backstroke (16.35); Dom McLoughlin (13) in the 50m Backstroke (33.64) and Freddy Cornwell (10) in the 50m
Butterfly with 37.16.
In his first ever gala, Sam Newmarch (11) was the
swimming star of Feltham with 4 personal best times from four events including a 3.5 second improvement in the 50m freestyle.
The most improved swimmer at the meet was Gil Potter (14) for his swim in the 100m Breaststroke (1.28.20) whilst the accolade
at Park Road went to Megan Thompson (10) with a flying freestyle time of 37.39 to earn a berth in the upcoming senior Speedo
team.
In all, nine relay teams swam to victory whilst
other individual event winners were: Jodie Sees (13) 50m Backstroke and 50m Butterfly; Iona Davey (14) 50m Freestyle; Laura
Minoli (12) 25m Freestyle; Peter Yates (11) 50m Breaststroke; Harley Greer (13) 50m Breaststroke; Verity Hayes (10) 50m Breaststroke;
Aimee-Rose Nahal (10) 50m Backstroke; Padraig Lynch (12) 50m Breaststroke; Kathleen Bartha (13) 100m Freestyle; Poppy Bedwell
(10) 50m Butterfly and Mei Corbett (14) in the 50m Breaststroke.
Sobell Leisure
Centre
Consultation Dates: 30 May 2008 to 30 June 2008
Islington Council wants to hear your views on ideas to improve the
Sobell Leisure Centre, Kinloch Park and the surrounding open space.
Sobell is one of Islington's largest and most popular leisure centres,
but the building and its facilities are now in a serious state of disrepair. The redevelopment project gives a unique opportunity
to secure the future of the centre as part of Islington's 2012 Olympic legacy.
Among the benefits it could deliver for Islington is a 25 metre
, 8 lane pool with spectator gallery.
From Friday 30 May to Monday 30 June Islington Council are consulting
with local people and centre users to find out what they think of the ideas for the site.
Click here and register your support for a new 25 metre, 8 lane pool.
http://www.islington.gov.uk/Council/CouncilNews/Consultation/feedbackfinder2/consultations/2008/sobell_leisure.asp
FREDDIE FLIES FOR ANACONDA
Freddie Cornwall broke two new Anaconda records at Braintree, Essex at the
end of APRIL as he helped the club climb to third place in the Junior Speedo League. The 9 year old speedster took first place
in the 25m freestyle (15.95) taking .21 of a second off the record which had stood for 22 years. He followed this up with
a clear win and record in the 25m butterfly, setting a new mark of 17.42.
The 9 years old swimmers were in outstanding
form - Iona Ocak won the girls 25m freestyle in a new personal best time of 18.85; Olivia Howe won the girls 25m breaststroke
in in 23.51 and the 9 year old girls freestyle relay of Ocak, Howe, Olivia Warwick and Maisie Parker also took a convincing
win in an overall time of 1.16.07.
Jake Usher (11) was the 5th winner for Anaconda in the 50m freestyle (34.45) and
there were also some excellent second places from Verity Hayes (10), Thomas Dwyer (10), Nina Morris-Evans (10), Fred Celul
(10), Morgan Mockler, Maisie Parker (9), Padraig Lynch (12), Aimee-Rose Nahal (10), Joshua Steimert (10).
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"4 London Clubs achieved Swim 21 accreditation at the latest
panel to bring the national tally to 271. Clubs that achieve Swim 21 status are nationally recognised as committed to providing
safe, effective and quality services for the benefit of their members. They also work to ensure their athletes, club officials,
volunteers, teachers and coaches are able to reach their full potential within the sport.
The Successful Clubs were :
Teddington SC (Skill Development)
Acton SC (Skill Development)
Anaconda
SC (Teaching)
Feltham SC (Teaching" | | |
Swim21 is the model the ASA use's, in conjuction with Sport England,
for club development. In order for a club to become accredited with Swim21, it must first complete an Audit, followed by an
Action Plan and finally, collect evidence to prove the club has met certain critirea set by the ASA. Once accredited, the
club must continue to improve and develop and yearly Action Plans and Validations must be approved by the ASA in order for
a club to remain in the programme.
Being accredited means a club is safe, well established, managed correctly,
with qualified coaches and is always looking to the future.
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