*** County Long Distance 1st Session ***
posted on 14 February 2008
K2 Crawley - Sunday 10th February 2008
Girls 800 Metres & Boys 1500 Metres
Six swimmers from Worthing competed in the 1st session of the 2008 Sussex Counties Event.
Karen Chan, Laura Joseph, Amy Quach and Charlotte Barnett all put in impressive performances in the Girls 800 metres picking up good experience swimming in a long course 50 metre pool.
Alexander Cranford and Chris Luesley both swam in the Boys 1500 metres event, 30 lengths of the 50 metre pool. Both set a time of under 21 minutes in preparation for the clubs 1500 metre event on the 29th March.
Well done to the 6 swimmers involved and good luck to everyone that is swimming in this years counties.
See www.sussexswimming.org for a full list of results.
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*** Training Session with Steve Parry ***
posted on 19 January 2008
Steve Parry - 2004 Olympic Medallist
Saturday 19th January 2008 - Lancing College 6 - 10 p.m.
Steve Parry won Olympic Bronze at Athens in 2004 for one
of the most gruelling events, the 200 metres butterfly.
He also has Commonwealth and European medals.
31 swimmers participated in the first training session with
Steve,
with ages ranging from 7 - 11 years and 33 of our older
swimmers took part in the second session.
Steve's sessions focussed on a number of key points including
ensuring
the swimmers did a thorough warm up, keep positive throughout
training
and competitions as well as more technical points such as the
importance
of streamlining during swimming.
Steve had a great ability to keep the interest of the
swimmers,
with a very vocal session with the younger swimmers, being
encouraged
to chant and celebrate good performances.
In the transition between the 2 sessions, Steve gave stories
about his many
years as a swimmer, his determination to win a medal at the
Olympics
whilst swimming against the mighty Michael Phelps and talked
about
the day he met the Queen.
Emma Piper (Girls Captain) and Alastair Hardinge (Boys
Captain)
presented Steve with an engraved salva to thank him for coming
to visit
us all the way from Manchester (277 miles away)
After signing autograph cards and having his photo taken,
many times with the excited swimmers, it was time for Steves
return to Manchester.
It was a very successful event and should be great inspiration
for
the 64 swimmers that were involved. It followed on from the
event that we held with James Hickman
nearly 2 years ago.
Thanks to Total Swimming for the organisation of the session,
to the swimmers that took part in the session and the
supporting
parents and helpers.
Events such as these need your support to make them successful
Regards
Chris Luesley
Please click here for photo
album.
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