Dear All
I start this week feeling really pleased and proud of the swimmers and parents that represented Seagulls in the National Swimming League Round 1 at Keynsham on Saturday, we led the gala on every points total from start to finish.
I am pleased in many ways with the whole process that led to success.
This started with the NSL Hinton Oak Selection Gala where we fielded 3 teams against each other. I offer a big thank you for all the swimmers and volunteers that took part in this to allow us to find our strongest team. The swimmers competing on Saturday at Keynsham represented the whole club including the swimmers that did not make the team and did everyone proud.
It is often hard and I know from experience having been a swimmer, that if you are not quite the right age or you train more than other people who get selected for the team you can often feel a little downhearted and hopefully it will drive you on to gain the place. However you can be assured that we selected the fastest team who did not just perform for themselves but for all the swimmers, parents, coaches and volunteers in the club to show the in depth strength our club is starting to develop.
For the night I would also like to say thank you to everyone who purchased T-Shirts and without doubt we looked the smartest team. We had organised our warm ups both on land and in the water prior to the evening which showed professionalism and the support from the parents and swimmers with never ending chanting and cheering I also found outstanding!
This really showed that a strong team gains extra points.
With 33 personal bests, 38 top 3 finishes (out of 50) 16 firsts and 4 club records, finishing 31 points ahead of one of the fastest improving teams in the South West, Salisbury Stingrays showed a very dominating performance.
On the back of this result and with out creating too much pressure on the team, I feel it is realistic to push for promotion this season.
Although this is our best first round result in the last couple of seasons we will have our work cut out against some of the stronger teams in the division such as the combined teams from Swindon x 3, Bournemouth Dolphins and Ferndown Otters, 3 Towers Somerset and also against Bath and Bodmin who draft in swimmers on dual memberships, so I would urge all swimmers to keep training consistently and keep training cleverly to compete and wilfully beat these teams.
I start this week feeling really pleased and proud of the swimmers and parents that represented Seagulls in the National Swimming League Round 1 at Keynsham on Saturday, we led the gala on every points total from start to finish.
I am pleased in many ways with the whole process that led to success.
This started with the NSL Hinton Oak Selection Gala where we fielded 3 teams against each other. I offer a big thank you for all the swimmers and volunteers that took part in this to allow us to find our strongest team. The swimmers competing on Saturday at Keynsham represented the whole club including the swimmers that did not make the team and did everyone proud.
It is often hard and I know from experience having been a swimmer, that if you are not quite the right age or you train more than other people who get selected for the team you can often feel a little downhearted and hopefully it will drive you on to gain the place. However you can be assured that we selected the fastest team who did not just perform for themselves but for all the swimmers, parents, coaches and volunteers in the club to show the in depth strength our club is starting to develop.
For the night I would also like to say thank you to everyone who purchased T-Shirts and without doubt we looked the smartest team. We had organised our warm ups both on land and in the water prior to the evening which showed professionalism and the support from the parents and swimmers with never ending chanting and cheering I also found outstanding!
This really showed that a strong team gains extra points.
With 33 personal bests, 38 top 3 finishes (out of 50) 16 firsts and 4 club records, finishing 31 points ahead of one of the fastest improving teams in the South West, Salisbury Stingrays showed a very dominating performance.
On the back of this result and with out creating too much pressure on the team, I feel it is realistic to push for promotion this season.
Although this is our best first round result in the last couple of seasons we will have our work cut out against some of the stronger teams in the division such as the combined teams from Swindon x 3, Bournemouth Dolphins and Ferndown Otters, 3 Towers Somerset and also against Bath and Bodmin who draft in swimmers on dual memberships, so I would urge all swimmers to keep training consistently and keep training cleverly to compete and wilfully beat these teams.
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Next weekend, you all have a Saturday night off (whilst I am training in Plymouth) so make the most of it and organise to meet up with each other for some social fun and activities before the club champs the weekend after.
All the best from a very proud HEAD COACH!
Barry
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