Thanet Swim Club

Photos from Club Champs session 5 are now on Flickr.
Access details follow

The club’s extensive photo gallery contains over 10,000 photos some dating back to the 1970’s! This amazing resource is available to all club members via the following link: www.flickr.com/people/thanetsc/  (this link will take you to our ‘public’ album which contains ~300 photos).  To view all the photos and albums, you need to be authorised as a club member.  To do this please set yourself up with a Flickr Account online (for PC via www.flickr.com or for ios via an app from the App store).  Then follow “thanetswimclub” – if you can’t find the club account, email your Flickr username and the email address you used to set up the account to karen@crabtree.com who will add you to the club’s ‘friends list’.  Once a ‘friend’ scroll through all the albums of events and beyond to see individual swimmers’ albums!

Remember to ‘Fave’ the photos of your swimmer in the events albums and they will be added to the individual swimmers’ album.

Please remember to DONATE £1 per download towards the club’s fundraising for fun events for our swimmers.  Please pay for your downloads by placing cash or cheques to ‘Thanet Swim Club’ in an envelope marked “Photo donations” via the club letterbox at Hartsdown.

We hosted round 2 of Kent Jnr League at Hartsdown on Sat 9th Sept.  The swimming and supporting was absolutely fantastic! Both our A and B teams were competing at home this time.  Our A-team won the gala with 262 points, Beckenham-A scored 221 points, Barking and Dagenham 181, RTW Monson-A 159,  Shepway 121 and Thanet B scored a valiant 116 points against some very strong teams!  Special thanks to all the officials, coaches, team managers, senior swimmer helpers, volunteers, timing team, our new gala promoter Sarah and the fab Your Leisure team at Hartsdown!  Results are available to download here: (Results)

Club Champs Session 5 – Sun 10th Sept
Warm up 3.30pm  |  Start 4.15pm  | Est. finish: 6.45pm
(Training changes: Jr Perf, Sr & Jnr Comp, Academy – all cancelled)

Club Champs Session 6 – Thurs 14th Sept
Warm up 5.45pm  |  Start 6.15pm  |  Est. finish: 7.45pm
(Training changes: Jr Perf & Jr Comp: 4-5pm only)

Club Champs Session 7 – Sat 23rd Sept
Warm up 4.30pm  |  Start 5.15pm  |  Est. finish: 7.45pm
(Training changes: none)

Remember to wear your club kit and bring poolside shoes

Gala programme available to download here:
2017-09-14 TSC Club Champs PROG

The draws for Arena League in October have been announced!
Our A-team is off to Wycombe and our B-team is off to Maidstone.
Both galas have been Licenced to Level 3.

Our annual Open Water Club Champs and Fun Day is on Friday 1st September. Places are limited, email karen@crabtree.com for the entry form and return by 9pm on Sunday 27th August.

Congratulations to Maisie Macartney who returned from the European Junior Open Water Championships in Marseilles with a BRONZE medal from the 4 x 1.25km 16 & under mixed relay.  Maisie also competed in the individual 16 & under 5km race and placed a very respectable 18^th in Europe!

Reminder that the first training session back will be Monday 21st August (old timetable). The new squad structure and training sessions commence from Monday 4th September.

The second week at Nationals saw a continuation of the success from week one.  Our nine-strong team participated in 13 heats swims and made 11 finals (incl HDW 1-10 places), 9 of which resulted in medals: 5x GOLD, 1x SILVER & 3x BRONZE.  62% of the races also delivered personal best times.  Medallists and race placings are listed below:
Beth Williams:  GOLD 200Br*
Charley Langford: GOLD 200Fr*
Daisy Anderson: BRONZE 400Fr
Eva Oldfield: 13^th 50Br*
Luke Fowle: 17^th 100Br
Max Jameson: GOLD 200IM*, GOLD 200Bk*
Robyn Moon:  GOLD 50Bk
Sam Crabtree:  SILVER 200Bk*, BRONZE 1500Fr, 4^th 400Fr
Tamzin Myburgh: BRONZE 200Bk*, 5^th 400IM*
Holiday Swimmer
Joseph Russell: SILVER 200Fr*, 10^th 200Br*
(* PB in either heats or final or both)

This year we sent our biggest ever team of seven swimmers to the National Open Water Championships. First off were our three 13 year olds in the 1.5km race: Ben Millington came an impressive 10^th for his second ever open water race, Oscar Miles came 23^rd and Conor Wright soldiered through with a shoulder injury to come 35^th.  Next up was Charley Langford in the 14 years’ 1.5km race; he produced a storming 6^th placed swim.  Session two saw the start of the 15 years’ 3km races, Olivia Miles was competing in her first ever race and finished in a fantastic 6^th place.  Lily Jewell’s race was impacted by a deliberate and forceful dunking; she soldiered on to finish in 21^st position.  Finishing the day was Sam Crabtree in the 17/18 years’ 5km race; he had us on the edge of our seats by placing 9^th, then 5^th, then 4^th, then 2^nd on each lap, he finished a very close 4th after a stitch on the final lap.

This year we sent our biggest ever team of 15 swimmers to the British Summer Championships. The team participated in 49 heats swims and made 36 finals (incl HDW 1-10 places).  41% of the races delivered personal best times.  Three swimmers won a total of 5 medals:  Maisie two SILVERS, Alex a SILVER and a BRONZE and Olivia a BRONZE.  Full placings below:
Alex Boyd: 2nd 200IM*, 3rd 100Br*, 5^th 50Br*, 15^th 100Fly, 15^th 200Fr*
Beth Williams: 7^th 50Br*, 8^th 100Br*
Charley Langford: 4^th 400Fr*, 8^th 1500Fr*
Daisy Anderson: 4^th 400IM*, 6^th 200IM, 6^th 200Bk, 8^th 200Fly, 10^th 100Fly, 14^th 50Bk, 15^th 50Fly, 17^th 100Bk
Hannah Denny:  9^th 100Fly, 12^th 50Fly*
Katie Latham: 8^th 50Fr, 18^th 100Fr
Kieran Dale: 4^th 400IM*, 6^th 200IM*, 7^th 400Fr*, 10^th 200Fly*
Maisie Macartney: 2nd 400Fr, 2nd 800Fr, 5^th 200Fr, 7^th 50Fr, 7^th 100Fr
Maria Evans: 19^th 200Fly
Max Jameson: 6^th 200Fly, 18^th 100Fly
Olivia Miles: 3rd 800Fr, 8th 400IM*, 13^th 400Fr
Robyn Moon: 11^th 100Bk 18^th 200Bk
Rosie Arnold: 4^th 100Br, 4^th 200Br, 6th 400IM, 7^th 200IM
Sam Crabtree: 9^th 200Fr*, 10^th 100Fr
Tobi Sijuade: 5^th 50Br*, 9^th 100Br, 12^th 50Fly*
Girls 4×200 Free Relay* – Robyn, Daisy, Olivia & Maisie 7^th
Girls 4×100 Medley Relay* – Robyn, Beth, Daisy & Maisie 7^th
Holiday Swimmers:
Jakob Goodman: 1^st 200Fr*, 3^rd 1500Fr, 7^th 400IM, 10^th 200IM,
Joseph Russell: 4^th 400Fr*, 5^th 200IM*, 15^th 400IM
(* PB in either heats or final or both)