Last weekend a contingent of YCBC swimmers made the trip to the National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace to take part in the National Schools Biathlon Championships. National swimmer Genna Suddes, her brother Philip (Regional Squad), along with County squad swimmers Libby Morrison and the youngest of Team Suddes, Zoe, competed in the swim and run competition.
YCBC had swimmer representation from all six training squads who were competing at the Jorvik Spring Meet on Sunday 11th March. For many swimmers this meet was the first long course competition of the season.
Over the weekend of the 17 and 18th of March thirty five members of the Club’s Development, Junior Club, County and Club Squads braved the wintry weather to compete at Richmond Dales SC Development Gala held at Billingham.
While some of our National Squad swimmers were competing in Edinburgh last weekend, YCBC masters swimmer Emma Wills travelled to Swansea through the snow to compete in the Swim Wales Masters LC.
After three weekends of competing, two weekends of short course at Leeds and one weekend of long course at Sheffield I am pleased to report on a successful Championships for YCBC swimmers.
YCBC National Squad swimmer Lauren Gaunt-Edwards competed in the Independent Schools Association championships last weekend at the London Aquatic Centre, home of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
YCBC swimmers from National and Regional Squad competed at the Level 1 Burns Meet in Sheffield over the weekend of 27th and 28th January.
Six of YCBCs top swimmers qualified for 17 events in the Swim England Winter National Championships during December at Ponds Forge. This represented a significant increase from last year with one swimmer qualifying in one event at the 2016 competition.
Save the Date
YCBC Annual Presentation evening and disco will be held at The Poppleton Centre in Main Street, Poppleton on Saturday 13th January 2018.
The evening will commence at 18:30 with the buffet followed by the presentation ceremony and then the disco. The bar at the Centre will be open throughout the evening and those wishing to make a night of it will be pleased to hear that we can dance the night away until at least 23:30.
Please note, this is a new date for this event, which has been moved forward due to a recent change to the gala calendar.
I’m very pleased to announce that Allison (Allie) Campbell will take on the role of Lead Coach for Development Squad when Jen leaves us at the end of December. In the run up to Christmas you can expect Allie to be increasingly visible at Development Squad sessions as she works alongside Jen in order to help ensure a smooth handover. For the foreseeable future Kathy Jordan will continue to support Development Squad and will take the Monday evening session at the Mount.
