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Swim Wales North Region Championships Week 2 |
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| Abergele swimmers consolodated their opening weekend's performances by upping the anti yet again with Cameron Bell producing an exceptional result in the 11-13 200m freestyle to take silver; at the half way stage, he had split a 2 sec PB on his best ever 100m freestyle so looking good for next time over his favoured distance. Distance man James Owen broke 18 minutes (17.49) for his 1500m winning the event outright. Last time out over the distance, he went 18.01 so a huge effort swim from James in his favourite event. Brad Carnell after a shakey first turn in the 11 - 13 years 200m breast brought home a very well earned silver and dropped his time yet again. Alex Huffen and Charlotte Bryan proved their worth yet again by finishing up there with the best over several events. Charlotte Riley just recovering from a very heavy bout of flu proved her ability by producing fine reulsts in 100m breast as did Hannah Lancaster & Nathan Hughes. All in all in typical style the crew came home with a further 10 x Gold 2 x Silver 3 x Bronze setting 9 x new championship records |
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Swim Wales North Region Championships |
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Abergele swimmers kicked off as they meant to go on at the start of Swim Wales North Region Championships on the first of three consecutive weekends @ Holywell on 17/18th Feb 2007. The medal tally at the end of the first weekend saw 9 x Gold 2 x Silver 7 x bronze + 9 new Championship records coming home to Abergele There were huge efforts all round from the Abergele youngsters with notable successes of the weekend coming from Hannah Knightly who took a very hard earned bronze medal in the 11-13years 1,500m freestyle and a huge 5 minute personal best time over the distance. Despite having a heavy cold, Charlotte Riley also put in the performance of her life in the 13+ 200m IM slashing her previous best time to take a very well deserved bronze. It's all to play for going in to the second weekend @ Bangor & the Abergele squad are relishing the challenge ahead of them |
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Home Nations Selection 2007 |
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| Rob Parry and Alex Huffen both received a well earned call up (announced at the New Year Dragon Meet) to represent Wales at the forthcoming WISE international to be held in Dublin early March. This will be Parry's 6th call up for international honours, and Huffen will make her debut on the international stage. No doubt both are relishing going head to head with Scotland, Ireland & England in the Emerald Island and you can be sure that both of them will be ready, willing and able to do Wales proud. |
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Club Presentation |
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| The 10th anniversary Club presentation night was packed to the rafters to mark the end of a fantastic 2006 season. Swimmers danced the night away very enthusiastically and were treated to a very amusing anecdotal speech by out going Club Captains Rob Parry & Clarie McCarten . 2006 has proved to be the most successful competition year by a mile, with well over 100 very hard earned medals produced across the baord ranging from skills successes locally, to 9 international medals. The Club has produced many notable successes but a particular mention should be made to following success stories 3 x International Gold at 4 Nations home International Glenrothes 5 x International Gold at the Bellinzona International Meet 1 x International Bronze at the UK Schools Games 2 x Gold, 1 x silver & 1 x bronze at ASA NAtional Age Groups 11 x Gold, 7 x silver & 5 x bronze at North Wales Championships + 8 x new championship records 6 x Gold, 4 x silver, 20 finals and 35 PB's at the WASA Age Group Champs 3 x Bronze at Welsh Regionals 4 x Gold, 4 x silver & 5 x Bronze at Kath Ankers 6 x Gold & 1 x silver at Bangor Open 13 x Gold, 9 x silver, 9 x bronze and 13 x speeding tickets at Geoff Drew The boys 13/14 years 4 x 50m freestyle relay squad retained the N Wales Swim Fest title. Head Coach Sue Parry was also awarded Sport Conwy Volunteer Coach of the Year & Sports Council for Wales Female Coach of the Year. Thanks to everyone who helped to make the celebrations go with a bang!!!!! You can see the entire club winners' list here in pdf format - Congratulations To All!!! |
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Leah Goes To Stockport |
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Abergele's Leah Cooper stormed away at the Stockport Metro Open Level 1 Meet on 18/19th November 2006 |
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HSBC Junior Sprint Meet 06 |
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Four of Abergele Swimming Club up and coming Junior members took part in the HSBC 5th Junior Sprint Meet at Wrexham recently. For Toni Whitney age 10 and Liam Truesdale age11 this was only 2nd major Gala. Toni Whitney came 6th in the 25m Freestyle and 6th in the 25m Breaststroke Liam Truesdale came 11th in the 50m Backstroke and 11th in the 50m freestyle. Freddie Hughes age 10 came 10th in the 25m Backstroke and 15th in the 25m Freestyle Roy Sterling age11 came 7th in the 50m Freestyle and 2nd in the 50m Breaststroke taking the Silver medal. All four performed excellently and produce personal best times yet again. |
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North Wales Super Shrimps 2006 |
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ABERGELE SWIMMING CLUB TOOK PART IN THE NORTH WALES SUPER SHRIMPS COMPETITION HELD AT WREXHAM RECENTLY. 9YR GIRLS ANNA COOPER, 3RD IN 50M FREESTYLE AND 2ND IN 50M BUTTERFLY. |
Geoff Drew Meet 2006 |
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25 of Abergele Swimming Club's most promising young swimmers travelled to Holywell to take part in the Geoff Drew A & B meet. Some swimmers taking part in a large meet for the first time. An excellent performance by all swimmers, bringing home a bucket full of medals 13 Gold, 9 Silver, 9 Bronze, 13 Speeding tickets issued to swimmers who swam faster than the allowed time. Also Personal Best time being achieved. Speeding tickets went to |
UK Schools Games |
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Abergele swimmer, Rob Parry travelled North to Glasgowlast week to |
Welsh Regional Nationals 2006 |
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Three of Abergele’s top swimmers recently travelled to Wales National Pool, Swansea for the Welsh Regional Nationals, Leah Cooper, Nathan Edwards- Hughes and Hannah Lancaster. Under extremely warm conditions, they had a very rewarding three days. From 25 starts they produced 17 personal best times, six finals, one silver medal and two Bronze Medals. Day Three saw even more Personal Best times being produced. Nathan once again being just piped into fourth place in the 100m breast stroke final but still seeing him knock 2 ½ seconds off his PB. Going into the 200m IM final he had all to swim for. He turned in 5th place at the end of the fly, and held his own on the backstroke to turn in fourth. He really came into his own on the breast stroke leg and turned into the final 50m freestyle just in the lead. He kicked for home in a nail biting last leg but was just piped into 2nd place and a Silver medal by 200ths of a second. |
Cheestrings ASA National Age Group Championships |
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Abergele's own Rob Parry showed he was more than a match for anything British Swimming's finest could throw at him at the ASA National Age Group Championships Ponds Forge Sheffield. Taking on the best in Britain is no mean task, and the Abergele power house rose to the occasion in true grit style. Day 1 & entering the Meet in the best condition of his life, he powered through to finals in the 100m freestyle and 200m IM. Taking GOLD in the 200m IM slashing almost 3 seconds off his previous best time, and taking BRONZE in the 100m freestyle. Day 2 saw him through to finals of the 100m Butterfly. Going in third fastest & lining up against Oli Schmit (British No.1) Rob looked remarkably relaxed in the warm up. He knew he was in for a drum tight finish as 3 swimmers had gone a minute point in the heats. After a very solid start he swam a very relaxed first 50m hitting the turn 2nd behind Schmit. Fast off the turn he pushed Oli hard overtaking in the last 25m to touch him out in 59.99 to take another GOLD & slashing 1.64 secs. off his previous best. Day 4 saw the final day of competition. Tired but relaxed from a very hard fought competition Rob pushed into the finals of 100m backstroke and 200m freestyle. The100m backstroke event was always going to be an extremely exciting one with nothing much at all between Rob and nearest rival Adam John Plymouth Leander. With nothing in it at the turn the two swimmers were matched stroke for stroke on the back 50m with John just pipping the touch at the finish. With a very hard fought SILVER under his belt Rob was back in the water for the 200m freestyle finishing a very creditable 7th. All 4 days were extremely tough but our Abergele boy did us proud with by far his most outstanding performance at this Championships ever & its GAME ON for the next series of competitions. |
Bangor Open Meet |
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 Bangor Open Meet 2006
2 of Abergele's most promising swimmers were out in force at the weekend. James Owen put in an outstanding performance taking 6 golds and one silver together with 6 meet records and 5 personal best times. Brad Carnell had the swim of his life in the 200m breast snatching a very well earned Silver and a 5 second PB. |
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2nd July 2006 |
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 We held our annual Club Triathlon on Sunday 2nd July which saw more than 30 members took part. The triathlon was split into 3 consecutive races. 1st was a 200m swim for Juniors and 400m for Seniors, followed by a run of 1000m and finally a bike ride of 2000m. Congratulations to all who finished. Winners of this years Triathlon are: Year 3-4 Girls - Anna Cooper - Year 3-4 Boys - Alex Sharples - Year 5-6 Girls - Leah Cooper - Year 5-6 Boys - Roy Stirling - Year 7-9 Girls - Hannah Lancaster - Year 7-9 Boys - Nathan Edwards-Hughes Special Thanks go out to Sharon Riley for all the hard work she has done in organising the event as well as the bbq and excellent raffle prizes. Also we would like to thank all parents who helped out and the swimmers for their good spirit making it a success. For all the winning times please click here |
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Kath Ankers |
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| A young Squad of competitors from Abergele Swimming Club recently attended the Kath Ankers Gala at Wrexham Water world. An excellent performance was made by all swimmers with a total of 195 seconds taken off their combined previous personal best times. All in all they came away with 4 GOLD medals, 4 SILVER medals, and 5 BRONZE medals. 10 other swimmers were placed in the top 6. A total of 7 speeding tickets were issued to swimmers who swam faster than the allowed time, which just goes to show what a first class performance was made by all. |
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Rob Returns From Bellinzona |
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 Rob Parry Returns from Bellinzona Switzerland triumphant, earning 5 GOLD Medals for his country. Well Done to Rob from all the club on your outstanding performance! |
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Parry Flies To Switzerland |
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| Club Captain Rob Parry travels to Bellinzona Switzerland later this week as part of the Welsh Contingent to take on major European Clubs in his first out door meet. Parry is hoping to post some significant long course out door times in preparation for the Nationals later in the year. Currently ranked 4th on Europe for his age over his favorite distance 100m Backstroke he is looking forward to going head to head with some of Europe's finest. Parry is no slouch at many other distances ranked in Europe top 10 over 100m free, 50m back, 50m free to name but a few it will be an interesting Meet for the Abergele powerhouse. |
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Good Luck To Hannah |
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| Hannah Lancaster travels with a contingent of Wales' regional development swimmers to compete in Guernsey this weekend. Hannah will be looking to consolidate her recent good form in her number 1 event (100m breaststroke). Success will underpin her recent successes at both WASA Age Groups and the Manchester Open where she dropped her previous best times by over 2 sec's. She is looking forward to competing for the first time off the mainland |
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Welsh Age Groups |
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It was no surprise to the Coach that this years National Qualifiers would make an impression at the National Championships Swansea and, as expected, the Easter weekend got off to a glorious start with the first day of competition producing 18 outstanding personal best times from 22 starts This success very much set the tone for the entire weekend and time and time again Abergele was represented all in all in 20 finals from 50 starts > a staggering 40% of potential finals. In all 6 x Gold and 4 x silver medals were taken from 20 finals and from 50 starts 35 personal best times were produced throughout the weekend resulting in a 70% improvement overall. Well done to everyone we could not have asked for more |
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Chris Owen and Rob Parry did the club and Wales proud at the W.I.S.E. international Glenrothes last weekend. 
Two club swimmers have started the Season in the form of their lives. Having just come back from their New Year Dragon Meet outing at Swansea we saw Chris Owen make the qualfying time for the ASA Youth Nationals (Shefflield) in the 50m freestyle, where he will go head to head with the countries fastest Youth Sprinters. Owens' Dragon Meet peformance, underpinned his success at the Commonwealth Games Stage 3 meet at Swansea in December when he made All Welsh 200m Freestyle Finals. In recognition of his talent, Owen has also received his first call up to represent Wales at the WISE International Glenrothes Scotland on 18.3.06 Club Captain Rob Parry also stole the charge on the Country's finest Age Group performers at the Same Meet. Moving into competing against the senior ranks Parry broke the British Age Group record in the 50m Backstroke & his performances in the 100m backstroke and 100m freestyle also puts very well placed in the British Age Group rankings. His perfomances qualify him to enter the European Long Course Trials and British Championships at Sheffield in April, where he will be rellishing going head to head against the countrys finest athletes. Parry too has received his 2nd call up to represent Wales at Glenrothes. |