Kingston Royals Swimming Club

Rob Barker, one of our Masters swimmers, set a new British record at the weekend at the British Masters championships in Plymouth.
Rob won gold and set the record in the 1500m free 50/54yrs age category, swimming a time of 18.11.96. Well done Rob !

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Jack Petchey nominations by voting the swimmers they felt deserved to win the Jack Petchey Award this term for demonstrating perseverence.  67 votes were cast in total.  The votes have been counted and we are delighted to announce that Charlotte Carmichael and Jack Walden triumphed.

On Sunday 9 June, Ming Harper won the 1.5 km open water women's swim at Windsor, one of the 2013 Thames Open Water Series. She was the youngest swimmer taking part.

Please note the Accepted Entries List for the above meet is now available for inspection.  Please check your child's details carefully (the Kingston Royals Entries are on pages 14-15) and get back to Sally-Anne Hawley asap with any errors or omissions.  Some people have recently been experiencing problems accessing some documentation if they do not have a google account - in the event of any problems, please let me ( Sally-Anne Hawley) know as I am trying to monitor how many people are affected.

The last two weekends saw 21 individual Kingston Royals swimmers aged 10-14 years and our relay teams compete at the London Region Age Group Swimming Championships.  The event was held at Crystal Palace over the weekends of 1/2 June and 8/9 June.  Many of our swimmers achieved personal bests and overall it was a much improved performance than last year.  Caitlin Thomson won a silver medal in the 100m Breaststroke and the three swimmers who won bronze were Dylan Conway in the 200m Butterfly, Lily Anderson in the 800 Freestyle, and Izzy Hyatt in the 400 IM.  Full results are available from the London Swimming website. Well done to all of our swimmers.  KRSC medalists and finalists were as follows:

Voting is now closed for the Jan-Jun 2013 Jack Petchey Achievement Awards.  The coaches have drawn up a shortlist of those swimmers they feel have demonstrated the quality of PERSEVERANCE above others in their squad.  Well done to those of you who have been nominated. Don't worry if your name isn't on the list this time as another award will be made in the Autumn which will recognise a different quality.   If you follow the code of conduct and keep training maybe your name will appear next time!

Please note the above meet is now open and all documenttation for entry can be found on the Open Meets page of the KRSC website.  As this meet is likely to be oversubscribed, no late entries will be accepted.  If you have any problems opening any of the documentation, please advise Sally-Anne Hawley.

Damien Bryan - new KRSC coach - held the first of a series of Summer open water training sessions last Wednesday evening, 29th May, at Ferris Meadow Lake in Shepperton. The lake was a chilly 13.5 degrees but all our intrepid swimmers braved the cold waters and even had to dodge a duck with her chicks! The club are planning to use Damien's vast international open water experience to develop a programme of training sessions with a view to preparing a number of our swimmers for the upcoming open water season. So - watch this space! 

In case you are interested, please click on the this link "Complete List of Events and Swimmers" to review all the swimmers for each event together with their entry times.  This document is also available via the Open Meets page for London Regionals.

Please note the Accepted Entries List for the above meets is now available for inspection on the Open Meets page of the website - the Kingston entries are listed on pages 8-11  Please check your child's entries carefully and get back to Sally-Anne Hawley by 1st June at the latest with any errors or omissions.