Thanet Swim Club

A record 31 Thanet swimmers qualified for this year’s ASA South East Region Swimming Championships with a squad of 20 attending the Age Group Championships and a further 11 swimmers contesting the Youth Championships both held in the 50m pool at K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley with the Youth Championship finishing at Surrey Sports Park in Guildford.

The South East Regions top swimmers compete at the Championships with swimmers coming from the Regions top Clubs such as Guildford,Portsmouth,Oxford, Southampton and Jersey.

The 1^st weekend of the Youth Championships saw Thanet on the podium in style with Katie Latham not only winning a hat trick of Gold’s but setting a new South East Regional record in the 50 backstroke in a time of 29.86. There was further podium finishes for Louise Gates, Alice Latham and Ben Pond.

In the Age Group Championships, Thanet continued their success claiming 3 more South East Regional records.  As well as 6 Gold medals 12 year old Jamie O’Connor swam record breaking times in the 200IM and 1500 Freestyle. He also was joined by team mates Alex Wilmshurst, Harry Bradford and Ben Evans to set a new record in the boys 10 – 14 year old 4×200 freestyle relay. Podium finishes also went to Ben Evans 2 Gold 3 silver, Alex Wilmshurst 1 Silver, 3 Bronze, Maise Macartney 1 Gold, 2 Bronze, Hannah Denny Silver, and Harry Bradford Silver.

Thanet Swim CLub – South East Region Age Group and Youth Championship Squads

Thanet swimmers Kyri Papa- Adams and Katie Latham missed the last day of the Youth Championships to represent England East at the Sainsburys 2012 School Games which took place at the Olympic Stadium. Katie came home with 2 bronze medals in the relays, just missing out on a medal in the 100 backstroke finishing in 4th a new personal best time. Kyri also finished 4^th in his 100 breaststroke and 4^th again in the relay.

The date and location for the Summer BBQ has been confirmed as Sunday 29th July at Stone Bay starting at 4pm weather permitting. All swimmers and parents from all squads are invited.

We will provide a BBQ and condiments but we felt it would be easier if everyone brought their own drinks, nibbles and whatever they want cooked on the BBQ.

Fingers crossed the weather is kind to us!

Your new committee is working hard to introduce policies and procedures to ensure the welfare of children and yound people in this club.

Therefore we have created a new page that can be found here with information on child safeguarding including a link to Wavepower documentation; Wavepower 2009/11 is the ASA’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Procedures manual and replaces all previous ASA Child Protection Policies and Procedures documents.

As an ASA affiliated club we are looking adopt and implement the Policies and Procedures contained in this manual. We have already approved a number of policies that have now been published however, we expect further policies and procedures to be developed.

In the near future you will receive by email some of these policies that we ask you to read and sign and return.

I am pleased to announce that the Thanet Schools Traithlon for boys and girls in school years 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 will take place at St Lawrence College on the morning of Sunday 8th July.

This years’s Thanet Schools Triathlon will be run jointly by Thanet Athletics Club, Thanet Go-Ride Cycling Club and Thanet Swim Club.

Details and entry form can be found here. Please note that entry forms need to be submitted by Wednesday 4th July.

Finally, we need to provide a number of pool marshalls (not timekeepers) to supervise starting and exiting the pool. If you are able to help out please email webmaster@thanetsc.com