Haddington and District ASC Weekly News Week beginning 16th April 2012

Lothian Intermediate Leagues. The three days of the leagues are swum in March, April and June and teams accumulate points through individual and relay events. This round Hugh Taylor, Charlie Malcolm, Declan Till, Charlie Smith and Fraser Samuel all took maximum points from their swims. A particular well done to Fraser Samuel as it was his first competitive swim in a year and he swam the 200IM not only recording a personal best time but also winning the event. The 8-9 Boys relay team of Hugh, Charlie, Harry and Justin came in first. The girls 10-11 A team relay finished 3rd after Sarah, swimming the final leg, fought back from 5th place. The 12-13 year boys Fraser, Andrew, Cian and Charlie Smith won their relay. We do not have the point totals yet to see where the teams will be lying going into the final round in June. Congratulations to Sarah Anderson who achieved her first Bronze Squad time recording 2.56.41 for her 200m Freestyle. The Bronze Squad is a regional squad for swimmers in the tier below National Squads and it runs local training days. Saltire Shield. We are introducing a new competition with Tranent which will be run as a timeband gala over two rounds - home and away. The first round will be at Haddington on Friday 18th May at 7.30pm. Minnows training will be on as normal before the competition. The team list will be announced shortly. Club record Certificates. I am in the process of issuing certificates for club records held by current members in recognition of their achievement(s) In future a certificate will be issued for any new records. Club records can be found in the all squads dropbox files. Joanna Whitelaw is one of our club swimmers who trains with the East Lothian Swim Team and is in the National Silver Squad. She holds 65 records spread over all the age groups from 9 and under upwards. Congratulations to her for this outstanding achievement. East Lothian Swim Team trial. Several of the Jack Macks trialled for the East Lothian Swim Team last Sunday. Congratulations to Helen Taylor who has been accepted into the full training (C) squad. Congratulations also to the following swimmers will train with ELST once a week in their Development Squad: - D1 -Sarah Anderson, Cian Woodsend, Abbi Brindley, Anna Cheyne, Angus de Burgh; D2 - Cera Gemmel and Hugh Taylor Club Championship heats and Finals This year we are introducing a new format to the club championships. The heats and finals for the four strokes will be a whole day event

on Saturday 17th November at Prestonpans Pool. Please note this very important date as this the championships are for every swimmer in the club. The IM will be swum as part of the Distance Championships. The date and details of this club event will hopefully be available for the next weekly news Aquathlon. We are introducing a new event this year for the Haddington Festival Week. In conjunction with HELP (the Haddington Running Club) we will be running our first ever Aquathlon swim and run on Friday 1st June. There will be no training for any squad that night and I hope that as many of you as possible will take part in the aquathlon. Details of the distances and age groups and an entry form will be available shortly in the meet info file. Viv Hastie