Thanet Swim Club

Cameron represented Thanet AC in the Kent Cross-Country League for the first time yesterday, less than three weeks after his 11^th birthday and the first time that he has been able to compete in the U13 category.  Cameron was probably the youngest boy in the race, with many of the others two years older, and finished in fifth place.  He exceeded all expectations, and a great day was complete when Cameron was selected to represent Kent at a Southern Inter-Counties meeting in Essex on Saturday 8^th December.

Well done Cameron.

Click here for the full report

Unfortunately we had to cancel our Level 3 Thanet County Qualifier Meet which we hoped we were going to stage on 24th November.

As a consequence we decided to support the Gravesend and Northfleet Autumn Meet on 1st and 2nd December. We are still waiting to learn whether our entries have been accepted.

In the meantime, the Committee have decided to also hold our own ‘Closed’ County Qualifier Meet on the 9th January at Ramsgate.

Full details can be found on our Gala page but in brief this is a Level 4 Meet and swimmers can enter a maximum of 3 events not exceeding 650m.

Closing date for entries is 7th December after the Gravesend and Northfleet Meet

Oh what a night!

The preparations for the Round 2 of the Arena League on paper didn’t look the best with part of the Team having spent the week in Snowdonia and only arrived back on Saturday at 5pm after a 7 hour coach trip. Not to mention the virus that seemed to affect many of the Senior Squad that remained in Thanet.

But clearly these preparations plus a night of heavy ‘disco’ dancing the night before at the Club Presentation Evening is exactly the sort of preparation that we need in future!

Because this was “probably our best team performance of 2012.”

Seeded 4th going into this gala behind Rushmoor Royals, Amersham and Brackenell & Wokingham, 4th would have been a good result.

And yet it was clear from the outset that this was going to be a special night. Indeed after race 40 we were only 8 points behind joint leaders Rushmoor and Amersham!

In the end we finished an amazing 3rd place with 206 points; that’s 37 more points than Round 1. What was most gratifying was the consistency of the results with 12 first places and 13 second places; in fact out 11u dominated their age group bagging 8 of those first places.

So I think that puts us in the second pool for Round 3 with Sevenoaks, Windsor, Bracknell and Wokingham, Woking and Epsom with Thanet seeded 3rd.

Can’t wait!

Full results can be found here

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