Author: Alex Edwards

The 2019 Winter Yorkshire Championships was split into two competitions and was the first short course meets of the season for the swimmers. The first competition was for the 9 to 12 year old swimmers and took place on the 28th and 29th September at Leeds. There were swimmers competing from the Development, County, Regional and National Squad. The second competition was for the swimmers aged 13 and over took place on the 19th and 20th October in Sheffield. There were swimmers from National, Regional and Club Squad competing over the weekend. Overall the club won 29 medals and registered a 70% PB rate.

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On Sunday 22nd September the swimmers from the National Squad were in action for the first time this season competing at the City of Sheffield Teaspoon Meet alongside a small number of the Regional Squad swimmers.

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Not the usual type of meet swimmers attend …but certainly just as profitable.

After 9 years of waiting YCBC were invited to the Ebor Race Meeting to take a collection to boost our funds.

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Several members from Development, County, Regional, Junior Club and Club squads competed at City of Leeds’ September sprints meet. A small number were competing at their first open meet with many participating in their first long course competition.

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Over the course of the past two weeks fourteen swimmers from the National Squad have been in action at the two summer national championships. Please click read more to see the report from the championships.

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Swimmers from all six of training squads at YCBC were in action at the Rotherham Metro A/B Graded meet over the weekend of the 6th-7th July in Sheffield.

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On Wednesday 26th June at St Peter’s School, YCBC hosted a duel meet against Tadcaster Swimming Club. A number of very strong individual and team performances helped to seal a victory for the York swimmers with 167 points against Tadcaster’s 102 points.

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Following over two months of tough competition at Level 1 meets between the 22nd of March and 27th of May the National Qualifying Window has now closed. The national qualifiers list has now been published and I’m delighted to report on the successes from our YCBC swimmers.

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Several members from Junior Club, Development and County squads competed at Doncaster Dartes’ B grade meet at Adwick Leisure centre on the 2nd June.

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We have been allocated a highways collection on a raceday, to take place on Wednesday 21st August, which is the first day of the Ebor Festival. YCBC will be the only authorised collection on that date, making this a great opportunity to raise a significant amount of funds for YCBC.

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