Swimmers Selected for 2021-22 Swim England Junior Squad

Posted on 23 December 2021

Well done to Lara Thom­son and Leah Schlosshan who are 2 of the 47 swim­mers select­ed for the 2021 – 22 Swim Eng­land Junior Squad which will see the ath­letes prepar­ing for future inter­na­tion­al competitions.

Areas such as learn­ing are­na skills, per­for­mance behav­iours and rac­ing phi­los­o­phy are among the top­ics to be deliv­ered on the programme.

On Wednes­day 22 Decem­ber, the team gath­ered vir­tu­al­ly as they are induct­ed onto their first online engage­ment day. Olympian Max Litch­field joined as a guest to share his knowl­edge and atti­tude to obsta­cles with the athletes.

This is part of an over­ar­ch­ing strat­e­gy to bring the team togeth­er vir­tu­al­ly in the first instance, before mul­ti­ple oppor­tu­ni­ties to train and race along­side one anoth­er in 2022.

One such oppor­tu­ni­ty will be com­pet­ing at the Mar­seille Inter­na­tion­al Meet in March 2022 or, alter­na­tive­ly, a bespoke open water event.

This approach will allow the swim­mers to gain inter­na­tion­al and domes­tic rac­ing expe­ri­ences as well as addi­tion­al online learn­ing activ­i­ties and sup­port through­out the season.

A num­ber of expe­ri­enced coach­es and sup­port staff will be work­ing with the squad to fur­ther their devel­op­ment and share key knowl­edge and insight, one of these is our very own Craig Robertson.

‘Enhance the individuals’

Richard Black­shaw, Swim Eng­land head of swim­ming tal­ent, said: ​“We are thrilled to be invit­ing such a tal­ent­ed and enthu­si­as­tic cohort of swim­mers onto the Swim Eng­land Junior Squad for this season.

“The hybrid approach is designed to ensure that the learn­ing they take away can be eas­i­ly imple­ment­ed in their home pro­grammes and allows for col­lab­o­ra­tion with their home coaches.

“The oppor­tu­ni­ties the squad offers will aim to enhance those select­ed, both as ath­letes and indi­vid­u­als in the com­pe­ti­tion arena.”

Club Shop Supply Update

Posted on 17 December 2021

Due to a vari­ety of rea­sons beyond our con­trol, the Club Shop has a low stock of items with sev­er­al items out of stock.

Our sup­pli­ers for kit (t/​shirts, shorts etc.) and equip­ment (mesh bags, drinks bot­tles, pull buoys etc.) have con­firmed our out­stand­ing orders are unlike­ly to be deliv­ered before the end of January.

This is very frus­trat­ing for every­one. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Important Notice Regarding Christmas Cracker 2021

Posted on 15 December 2021

Please take note of the oper­a­tional details for this week­end’s Christ­mas Crack­er meet.

We are hav­ing to lim­it num­bers and will there­fore have 350 spec­ta­tor tick­ets on the door which will be a first come, first served basis. The tick­ets will be £10 each and are payable by cash on the door, exact change would be prefer­able. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we will not be able to print any pro­grammes to hand out over the week­end, but the draft pro­gramme is avail­able here.

Swimmers Selected for North East Training Camp

Posted on 19 October 2021

Well done to the fol­low­ing swim­mers who are select­ed to attend the fol­low­ing Swim Eng­land North East Region Swim­ming Train­ing Camp.

  • William Hick­lin – NAG
  • Hazel Blain – National
  • Isabel Han­d­ley – NAG
  • Lil­i­ah Vin­cent – National
  • Megan Travis – National
  • Mil­lie Threlfall – National
  • Mil­lie Walk­er – NAG
  • Sophie Ramshaw – National
  • Vale­ria Pin­era-Levi­ta – National
  • Kevin Schofield – Head Coach

The camp forms part of the Swim Eng­land nation­al swim­ming tal­ent path­way and will pro­vide an oppor­tu­ni­ty for swim­mers to devel­op their tech­ni­cal, tac­ti­cal, phys­i­cal and lifestyle skills with swim­mers of a sim­i­lar age and abil­i­ty from across the region. The camp will also pro­vide an oppor­tu­ni­ty for swim­mers to work with dif­fer­ent coach­es and to train in a dif­fer­ent envi­ron­ment. We hope that the camps will be a pos­i­tive and reward­ing expe­ri­ence, with the inten­tion of them being a step­ping-stone for you to progress to fur­ther camps in the future.

The pro­gramme for the day will include two pool ses­sions, strength and con­di­tion­ing dry land train­ing and a class­room based session.

City of Leeds Level X Results – Series 2

Posted on 10 October 2021

The sec­ond leader­board for Swim Eng­land’s vir­tu­al Lev­el X Rac­ing has been published.

The sec­ond round of the event took place between 12 April and 22 August 2021.

Swim Eng­land launched Lev­el X Rac­ing to give swim­mers the oppor­tu­ni­ty to prac­tice rac­ing skills in their own club envi­ron­ments in the absence of com­pe­ti­tions due to the coro­n­avirus pandemic.

All times received dur­ing series two have been added to nation­al Lev­el X Rank­ings and used to gen­er­ate the leader boards.

Leader­boards show­ing the top 10 times for age groups from 8 years upwards, for both male and female, have now been pub­lished on the Swim Eng­land website.

Swim Eng­land Lev­el X Rac­ing Series 2 – City of Leeds Results [PDF]

Judge Training Opportunities

Posted on 30 September 2021

Dur­ing Octo­ber, Swim Eng­land North East are run­ning a num­ber of FREE online Swim­ming Offi­cials cours­es for North East Officials.

These include:

  • Judge Lev­el 2 – 14 Octo­ber at 19:30pm
  • Judge Lev­el 2S – 21 Octo­ber at 19:30pm

To attend the Judge Lev­el 2 you need to be Judge 1 qual­i­fied and have com­plet­ed your post qual­i­fi­ca­tion hours.

To attend the Judge Lev­el 2S course you need to be Judge 2 qual­i­fied and have com­plet­ed your post qual­i­fi­ca­tion hours.

To reg­is­ter a place on either course or for more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact John Fly­nn: j.​flynn@​ntlworld.​com.

Please come and join in – it would be great to have more qual­i­fied offi­cials with­in the region.

Addi­tion­al­ly, for any­one who would like to get start­ed in offi­ci­at­ing, you can now com­plete the the­o­ry aspects of the Judge 1 course online. The cost of the course is £20 and can be booked here: https://​www​.swim​ming​.org/​i​o​s​/​c​o​u​r​s​e​/3143. It’s a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for par­ents / guardians who are unable to spec­tate at com­pe­ti­tions due to Covid restric­tions to gain access to poolside!

What’s more, City of Leeds Swim­ming Club has agreed to refund the £20. for any­one who com­pletes the course and helps out at Leeds meets.

Notice of 2021 Annual General Meeting

Posted on 2 September 2021

All mem­bers and par­ents are invit­ed to attend the Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing of the City of Leeds Swim­ming Club on 11th Octo­ber 2021 at 6.30 pm.

Any pro­pos­als for change to the rules to be con­sid­ered at the AGM must be received in writ­ing by the Hon­orary Secretary.

Nom­i­na­tions are invit­ed for both offi­cer­ship and sup­port­er mem­bers of the City of Leeds Swim­ming Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee and should be sub­mit­ted to the Hon­orary Sec­re­tary. Nom­i­na­tion forms are avail­able from the Hon­orary Sec­re­tary and must have the sig­na­tures of the nom­i­nee, pro­pos­er and sec­on­der and all must be paid up mem­bers of the Club.

Please make every effort to attend the above meet­ing. This is your Club and the Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing is your oppor­tu­ni­ty to hear from the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee about devel­op­ments dur­ing the year and to put for­ward thoughts you may have about the future run­ning of the Club or the way it is managed.

Please be aware that only ful­ly paid up mem­bers of the Club are eli­gi­ble to vote at the AGM.

Pip­pa Baird
Hon­orary Secretary

Festival of Swimming 2021 Results Summary

Posted on 19 August 2021

Well done to every­one who took part in the Fes­ti­val of Swim­ming in Ponds Forge, Sheffield at the end of July.

The leader boards from the recent Fes­ti­val of Swim­ming have now been pub­lished – with over 6,700 swim­mers hav­ing com­pet­ed at the recent Fes­ti­val of Swim­ming meets; we have tru­ly kick­start­ed the return to rac­ing for our prospec­tive Olympians and Par­a­lympians of the future.

City of Leeds achieved 5 gold medals, 5 sil­ver medals, 4 bronze medals and 25 4th-10th place finishes:

Fes­ti­val of Swim­ming 2021 – City of Leeds Results [PDF]

Leader­boards show­ing all swims for age groups from 13 years upwards, for both male and female, have now been pub­lished on the swim­ming results​.org website:

Fes­ti­val of Swim­ming 2021 – Leader­board [swim​min​gre​sults​.org]

Volunteers Needed

Posted on 17 August 2021

The City of Leeds home galas rely very heav­i­ly upon vol­un­teers to make the galas run. As we are approach­ing the new sea­son and are hop­ing to run a full sched­ule of Leeds com­pe­ti­tions, any help from par­ents would be great­ly appreciated.

There is cur­rent­ly a Swim­ming Tech­ni­cal Offi­cials course com­ing up for any­one who is inter­est­ed. This is an online course and is the first step to achiev­ing Judge 1 sta­tus for swim­ming tech­ni­cal offi­ci­at­ing. It is acces­si­ble to any­one who wants to under­stand the FINA rules relat­ing to swim­ming and the process of being a Judge Swim­ming Offi­cial and Time­keep­er. The cost of the course is £20.00 and is avail­able to any­one aged 15 years+ at the start of the course. See link below for fur­ther details.

Swim­ming Tech­ni­cal Offi­cials – Judge 1 The­o­ry [swim​ming​.org]

City of Leeds Level X Results – Series 1

Posted on 24 January 2021

The first leader­boards for Swim Eng­land’s vir­tu­al Lev­el X Rac­ing have been pub­lished – with more than 94,000 swims clocked dur­ing the inau­gur­al series.

More than 16,200 swim­mers from 430 clubs took part in the open­ing event between 23 Octo­ber and the end of December.

Swim Eng­land launched Lev­el X Rac­ing to give swim­mers the oppor­tu­ni­ty to prac­tice rac­ing skills in their own club envi­ron­ments in the absence of com­pe­ti­tions due to the coro­n­avirus pandemic.

All times received dur­ing series one have been added to nation­al Lev­el X Rank­ings and used to gen­er­ate the leaderboards.

Leader­boards show­ing the top 10 times for age groups from 11 years upwards, for both male and female, have now been pub­lished on the Swim Eng­land website.