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Presentation Evening – Save the Date

2017-11-17 18.25.14.jpgThis year’s Presentation Evening will be held on Friday 5th October at the Winter Gardens.  Every swimmer and families are welcome.

Medals and certificates from Club Championships will be awarded at Presentation Evening.  (Please return trophies to Hartsdown asap).

Event sponsors and donations would be appreciated, please get in touch with Scott Miles  if you can help.

Bookings for guest list opening soon.

More information is provided on our Presentation Evening web-page [here].

Open Water News

2018-06-16 Maisie Kent OW TrophiesCongratulations to Maisie Macartney on being awarded the Kent County ASA Open Water Swimmer of the Year award at their annual award ceremony last week.
Well done also to Maisie and Oscar Macartney who both competed at the Great East Swim on Saturday 23rd June.  Maisie was the overall winner of the Womens’ Elite race and Oscar won the Mens’ Open 2-mile race.

Nutrition Workshop

The Club held a nutrition workshop on the 17th June, the talks were given by Andy Shepherd of Absolute Sports Nutrition. Andy explained how to eat to optimise performance, what to eat on gala days, optimal digestion times for training and competing, how to cope nutritionally with early morning swims, how to support the evolving nutritional needs of a swimmer though puberty and how to incorporate nutritional strategies to reduce the risk of injury and promote longevity in swimming.
Andy’s presentation, other information and recipes can be found here:  www.bit.ly/Thanet18
Many thanks to Clare Roe for organising this informative presentation.

New Club Records

The club records have been updated: [Link]
Well done to:
Alex Boyd: 15/16 100m Free and 50m Fly
Hannah Denny: Open 100m Fly
Maisie Macartney: 15/16 1500m Free, 800m Free, 200m Free and 100m Fly