Welcome to the “SummerSpecial” edition of our

newsletter. As always

there’s been lots happening

since our last newsletter, sowe will try to give you someof the edited highlights.The Club AGM was held inApril, I am delighted that weappointed volunteers to all the Committee Roles, I amhugely indebted to all par-ents who have committed their time thereby ensuring our club continues to growfrom strength to strength.So a big thank you to all the

“old timers”, and a special

thank you to the new mem-bers who have steppedforward to get more in-volved, already you aremaking a difference. Theclub always needs newfaces coming along as thenew and fresh ideas thatare brought to the tablekeep the club vibrant. If

YOU

want to become moreactively involved, throughcoaching, teaching or or-ganisation please makecontact via any coach, Com-mittee member or the clubwebsite:

www.bodasc.co.uk

Our newly designed websitehas been very well re-ceived, with new featureslike club records, minutesof meetings, and a coachesarea. I would like to recog nise the time and effort that Graham Bruno put in to deliver this enhancement to such an essential com-munication tool.There are a many changeshappening at local authoritylevel with control of sport inAberdeen passing from thecouncil to a Sports Trust,Swimming will be includedin this transition from thebeginning of July. Thisshould provide a level of financial security for thesport within Aberdeen thathas not been available pre-viously. The plans for a50m competition/training pool facility are well ad-vanced and due for comple- tion by 2012. In addition,changes within the COASTstructure are providing greater support and clarityfor our performance swim-mers progressing throughall levels of competitiveswimming. In summary, thisis an exciting time to beinvolved with Swimming inAberdeen.At club level our

Learn toSwim

scheme

continues tofeed on its previous suc-cess, a high percentage of our swimmers progressing through into the Competi- tive squads within the club.Regretfully, ongoing councilconstraints mean we areoperating at maximum capacity, and currently have awaiting list for new swim-mers wishing to join theclub. This is not an idealposition for the club and wecontinue to pursue variousoptions to obtain increasedpool time to accommodate the numbers of swimmerswe are attracting to theclub.Finally I continue to be im-pressed with the numbersof our older swimmers whoare continuing to support the club through poolsidehelping, teaching , coaching and as committee mem-bers. It is satisfying to see these individuals choosing to put something back into the sport that they haveenjoyed participating inover the years, many thanks to you all.I hope you all have a greatsummer holiday, enjoy yourbreak from training, andcome back after the breakrefreshed and raring to go.Thank you for representing and supporting Bridge of Don ASC

Ron

Ron Smithpresident@bodasc.co.uk

President’s piece

newslettereditor@bodasc.co.uk

Summer 2009

Bridge of Don Amateur Swimming Club Newsletter

Inside this issue:

Coaches Reports 2-5COAST in Sunderland 6BETA league results 6News from Swim Shop 7Swimmers of the Month 7Ellis bows out at Ythan meet 7Success at Elgin Mini Meet 8

Saturday 12th Sept.2009Fundraising EventBag packing @

Sainsbury’s, Berryden

I took over the LTS classesat Linksfield at the start of the block and it has been apleasure teaching all thechildren on a Monday andWednesday evening.Many of the children arevery new to the club so it isalways nice to welcomenew faces to the class. All the children in JT1 aregrowing in confidence eachweek and progressing well.The JT1A classes are focus-ing on core skills and basic technique. My only JT2class are becoming reallycompetent swimmers whoare focusing on stroke de-velopment and technique.During the summer holi-days I would encourage allmy young swimmers tokeep practising their newlyacquired skills in prepara- tion for the new block.

Jessica

pool at Bridge of Don canbe a bit different, and it can take a while to get used to the new, deeper pool. Someof you weren't sure whetheryou could manage in thedeeper water at first. Butnow, you're swimming widthafter width with no prob-lems.If you started off nervous in the deeper water, butLots of hard work this termfrom everybody! We've cov-ered a lot of things this term, so thanks forlistening and trying hard.It's not always easy toremember all the different things I tell you to thinkabout each week!Moving from the smallerpool at Linksfield up to theworked hard and got used to it, then that deserves aneven bigger well done.

Michael

Coaches Report: JT2

I’ve also been very grateful

for the in the water helpprovided by Stevie Brandsfor my Saturday morning

classes. I’m also aware that Danielle Dewsbury’s

help with classes taking place in the second tankhas also made a real dif-ference. Seeing someonein the water demonstrate askill can really help a swim-mer understand what isbeing looked for.As we near the end of this

block of lessons I’d like to

extend my best wishes toeveryone this summer holi-day

–

take care and keepswimming!

Graham

Coaches Report: JT2 & JT2a

It’s been a pleasure to be

working as part of the teaching team this block.

I’ve seen many of the kidsI’ve taught before trying

new skills and plenty of new faces also joining theclasses. We now have a team of teachers who are taking JT2 and JT2aclasses at both Bridge of Don and Linksfield includ-ing myself, Ellis Paterson,Michael MacDonald andJessica Smith.

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Coaches Report: JT1 & JT 1A

“Keep up the

hard workand have alovely

summer!”

“Don’t miss the

SwimmingWorldChampionshipsin Rome,17July -

2 August”

Watch out for Hannah Miley in Rome.

breaststroke and in ourstreamlining off the wall.Oh, and our backstrokestarts don't look like ad-verts for the Centre Parkflumes anymore, so good job!There are always things welike doing and things wefind hard and don't likedoing. Remember, it's theWell done to everyone forplenty of hard work this term! Ellis and myself been giving you quite a lotof work, especially on theFriday lengthsession, so well done forkeeping up the enthusiasm.I think the biggest improve-ments from everyone havecome in front crawl,hard things that need mostpractise!Well done, please keep up the good work.Have a good summer.

Michael

Coaches Report: JT3 & 4Coaches report: JT5

summer, and are very muchlooking forward to working with them.Hope you have a very goodsummer. And I hope it isactually summery. Takecare, and see you soon.

Craig & restof the JT4team

Coaches report: JT4

We have had a very suc-cessful time since the lastnewsletter, with our num-bers swelling to a veryhealthy level. It will be sad to see people move on aftersummer, but we wish them the very best of luck. Andwe will see you all againsoon.We are also very happy toreceive the swimmers mov-ing into the squad after

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“

There are thingswe like doing andthings we findhard and don'tlike doing.Remember, it's thehard things thatneed most

practise!”

Well done to everyone inJT3, you have all workedreally hard and I have seen abig improvement in everyone of the squad. I hope thatyou have enjoyed your timewith me, as I have had lotsof fun with you.Hope you all have a greatholiday with lots and lots of swimming.

Karen

Well, it's that time againwhere you are off on your holi-days, but I would like to thinkstill keeping up with the swim-ming! You have all listenedwell (most of the time!) andreally tried hard this term toimprove. I hope you have hadfun too as that's what swim-ming is about, as well aslearning to swim properly andbe able to keep yourself safein the water.

Some of the older boys at Ythan

Keep up the good work eve-ryone and good luck to those of you who move on to JT5.Thanks to Dani for her help too. Enjoy the holidays andlook forward to seeing someold and new faces after thesummer hols.