News / 2013

North East Arena League Champions Once Again

Posted on 17 December 2013

Sat­ur­day saw our team advance to the nation­al final of the ARE­NA League by win­ning the North East ARE­NA League Final for the third year in a row. 

Junior League Champions For The Fourth Time

Posted on 26 November 2013

The team returned from Cor­by tri­umphant in retain­ing the Grand Final Cham­pi­onship for a 4^th year run­ning. This equals the cur­rent record of 4 straight wins. 

2014 Club Membership Fees Agreed

Posted on 20 October 2013

At a meet­ing of the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee last Thurs­day it was agreed that the club fees for 2014 will be £100.00. In addi­tion to these fees there will also be ASA fees to pay at renew­al in January/​February.

AGM Details And Housekeeping For The New Season

Posted on 3 September 2013

Date set for this year’s AGM and an impor­tant announce­ment about meet refunds.

AGM

This year’s Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing is in the Deni­son Suite on 7^th Octo­ber 2013.

Refunds

Refunds must be col­lect­ed with­in two months of the com­pe­ti­tion date.

Swim­mer Representative

David Maxwell from Senior Nation­al Squad is the Swim­mer Rep­re­sen­ta­tive and shall be attend­ing club com­mit­tee meetings.

Com­pe­ti­tion Programmes

The new sea­son squad com­pe­ti­tion pro­grammes are now avail­able in the Upcom­ing Meets sec­tion. The pro­grammes tell you which meets each squad will tar­get through­out the year.

The Late Malcolm Hill

Posted on 29 August 2013

Obit­u­ary: ASA sad­dened by pass­ing of Mal­colm Hill (The ASA)

2012-13 Season Summary

Posted on 22 August 2013

One of our most suc­cess­ful sea­sons for many years with our junior swim­mers, and par­tic­u­lary Sophie Tay­lor excelling. 

Great Britain has tak­en teams to Euro­pean Youth Olympic Fes­ti­val, Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships and World Youth Cham­pi­onships; Leeds has had a rep­re­sen­ta­tive on each team and con­tributed to the medals table in each com­pe­ti­tion. At the World Youth Cham­pi­onships, Sophie Tay­lor broke the British Senior 100m breast­stroke Record [Swim­ming World] with a time of 1:07.36 on her way to a sil­ver medal. Leed­s’s first senior record since James Hickman. 

Domes­ti­cal­ly we have start­ed to see Leeds swim­mer make senior finals at the British Cham­pi­onships and make the podi­um. Our young­sters have bro­ken into the Top 25 in the ​“open” rank­ings which is a good sign of the depth com­ing through the pro­gram. Fin­ish­ing Top Club and Top Girls at Nation­al Age Groups with 10 dif­fer­ent swim­mers medalling and mak­ing finals the pro­gram is start­ing to show more depth. The Youth swim­mers fin­ished 2^nd in the Girls and 5^th over­all. Hope­ful­ly the next sev­er­al years we will con­tin­ue to build with the depth of the young­sters com­ing through. 

Cham­pi­onship Events

World Junior Cham­pi­onships, Dubai, August 2013

Sophie Tay­lor

• 1 British senior record 100m breast­stroke 1:07.36
• 3 British age group (17 yrs) records 
  • 100m breast­stroke 1:07.36
  • 50m breast­stroke 31.38
• 2 Sil­ver medals 
  • 100m breast­stroke
  • 4 x 100m med­ley relay
• 1 Bronze medal: 50m breaststroke

Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships July 2012, Poz­nan, Poland

Euro­pean Youth Olympic Fes­ti­val, Holland

British Inter­na­tion­al Meet, Leeds, March 2013

• 4 Senior Finalists
• 11 Junior Finalists

Nation­al Senior Cham­pi­onships, Sheffield June 2013

• 3 Bronze
• 1 Final
• 2 Semi Finals

Nation­al Youth Cham­pi­onships, Sheffield July 2013

• 2^nd Top Girls
• 5^th Top Team
• 1 Gold
• 2 Sil­ver
• 4 Bronze
• 15 Final­ists plac­ing 4^th – 10^th
• 19 Semi-final­ists

Open Cham­pi­onships

• 1 Bronze
• 2 Final Placings

Nation­al Age Group Cham­pi­onships, Sheffield July 2013

• 1^st Top Team
• 1^st Top Girls Team
• 13 Gold
• 9 Sil­ver
• 5 Bronze
• 18 Final­ists plac­ing 4^th – 10^th

Welsh Sum­mer Nation­als, Swansea July 2013

• 16 Gold
• 10 Sil­ver
• 12 Bronze
• 73 Final Placings
• 332 Life Time Best Performances

Region­al Youth & Senior Cham­pi­onships, May 2013

• 8 Golds
• 4 Sil­ver
• 5 Bronze
• 27 Final­ists plac­ing 4^th – 10^th

Region­al Age Group Cham­pi­onships June 2013

• 60 Gold
• 37 Sil­ver
• 23 Bronze
• 164 Final­ists plac­ing 4^th – 10^th

Team Events

• Nation­al Age Group Team Cham­pi­ons 2013
• Nation­al Age Group Girls Team Cham­pi­ons 2013 
• Nation­al Junior League Cham­pi­ons 2012 – 2013
• 6^th Nation­al Are­na Swim­ming League 2012 – 2013
• York­shire Age Group Cham­pi­ons 2012 – 2013

British Age Group Record For Sophie Taylor

Posted on 2 July 2013

Three bronze medals and a British Age Group Record for Sophie Tay­lor round off a suc­cess­ful week for City of Leeds at the British Championships. 

Sum­ma­ry

• 3 Bronze Medals
• 1 Final­ist (8^th)
• 3 Semi Finalists
• World Youth Cham­pi­onships Qualifier
• British Age Group Record (17 years)

Indi­vid­ual Achievements

Sophie Tay­lor

Ryan Flana­gan

Olivia White

David Maxwell

Some excel­lent per­for­mances at the British Cham­pi­onships. Well Done. Spe­cial Con­grat­u­la­tions to Sophie Tay­lor on her three bronze medals, British Record and World Junior qual­i­fy­ing times. 

Age Group Swimmers Dominate Regional Championships

Posted on 21 June 2013

The sec­ond week­end of the NER Age Groups saw many phe­nom­e­nal swims to top off some of the most spec­tac­u­lar rac­ing the club has seen at region­al level. 

The club occu­pied all three podi­um posi­tions on six occa­sions dur­ing their dom­i­na­tion of the week­end’s com­pe­ti­tion. The relay teams also per­formed well; medalling in every event. Over­all, we col­lect­ed almost six times more gold medals than the sec­ond placed team. 

Medal tal­ly (after two weekends)

In addi­tion to the 120 medal­lists there were 164 final­ists (plac­ing 4^th – 10^th). Our tal­ly of 60 gold medals meant that we won just under half of all of the gold medals (124) that were avail­able over the two weekends. 

Con­grat­u­la­tions to all the swim­mers who achieved per­son­al best times, medals and nation­al times. We hope that these results will help to fuel a pos­i­tive approach in the lead up to local and Nation­al Cham­pi­onship events. 

Thank you to the team man­agers who were an amaz­ing sup­port over both week­ends, their con­tri­bu­tion unques­tion­ably helped us achieve the heights we reached. 

Support Your Club With Easy Fundraising

Posted on 27 April 2013

Find out how easy it is to sup­port your club with easyfundraising. 

We cur­rent­ly have 32 reg­is­tered users of easy­fundrais­ing who have raised over £470. Imag­ine how much we could raise if we all registered. 

It’s easy – you can still use over 2000 of your favourite sites – but you access them through the link on the club web­site – that’s the only difference. 

Just use the links on the easy­fundrais­ing site when­ev­er you shop online and, at no extra cost to you, we’ll receive a dona­tion of up to 15% from every pur­chase you make. It’s that simple! 

If you already shop online, please help raise extra funds for the swim­mers by using this com­plete­ly free ser­vice. Fol­low the instruc­tions below to find out how. 

Easy as 1 – 2‑3

1. Go to www​.easy​fundrais​ing​.org​.uk/​colsc and click ​“Sign Me Up” to reg­is­ter for FREE!
2. Once you are reg­is­tered, either use the search box or the Retail­ers menu to find a store you wish to shop at.
3. Fol­low the link to the retail­er by click­ing ​“Go shop­ping and raise funds” then shop as you nor­mal­ly would.

Or speak to a mem­ber of the Sup­port­ers’ Com­mit­tee on the bal­cony on a Mon­day evening for fur­ther information. 

More Success in Second Weekend of Yorkshire Championships

Posted on 26 February 2013

Some great swim­ming at the John Charles Cen­tre saw huge improve­ments on last year’s medal tally.

Week­end 2 in the John Charles proved to be as fruit­ful as the first. If that was­n’t impres­sive enough… com­pared to the 2012 York­shire Champs we won a mas­sive 60% more Bronze, 12% more Sil­ver and an impres­sive 28% more Gold Medals.

Medal Tal­ly

Out­stand­ing Team!

Amazing Performance From Our Bag Packers

Posted on 5 February 2013

Many hands make light work as our swim­mers raise over £1000 pack­ing bags.

On Sun­day 3^rd Feb­ru­ary 2013 at 11am, 34 swim­mers from the Nation­al Squad descend­ed on Sains­burys at Colton to under­take an unusu­al challenge.

Instead of tak­ing to the water they took to the aisles bag pack­ing in order to raise mon­ey for the club. For 2 hours they packed their socks off and even looked to be enjoy­ing them­selves! It was then the turn of the Nation­al Age Group Squad who took to the task with great enthusiasm.

Even when it became qui­et their enthu­si­asm nev­er fal­tered. Final­ly it was the turn of the Region­al Squads who although few­er in num­ber raised an aston­ish­ing amount of mon­ey, the final 2 tills left open were in a ​“pack off” to see who could raise the most money.

All the squads looked amaz­ing in their City of Leeds kit and real­ly stood out, with­out a shad­ow of a doubt this helped to raise an unbe­liev­able total of £1035.88.

A huge thank you to each and every swim­mer who gave up their time on Sun­day. It just goes to show that City of Leeds Swim­ming Club real­ly are A Team Above All and Above All a Team.

Solid Start to New Year at Grand Prix Meet

Posted on 22 January 2013

Last week­end’s New Year Grand Prix saw some wel­come per­for­mances as we start the new year as we mean to go on.

A great show­ing con­sid­er­ing the con­di­tions that some clubs faced in get­ting here, which all lead to a good atmos­phere and a punc­tu­al meet.

The results will set us up well for the York­shire Cham­pi­onships as we fin­ished with (approx):

• 82 gold
• 77 sil­ver
• 71 bronze

Thank you to all the vol­un­teers, mar­shalls and offi­cials who made the meet such a success.