It is much regret that we have to advise you that Shelley Postchild will step down from the role of Teaching Co-ordinator at the end of December. As much as we are sorry to see Shelley leave us we are also delighted to announce that Mandy Aitken will be taking on the role and has already started to work with Shelley to help ensure a smooth handover.
The Winter NER Championships this year was split into two separate competitions. The Age Group event was held in a short course pool for swimmers aged between 11-13 years at the Sunderland Aquatics Centre. The Senior/Junior event was held in a long course pool at Ponds Forge in Sheffield and open to all qualifying swimmers.
YCBC Masters swimmer Emma Wills has been in record breaking form again, this time at the Swim England National Masters Short Course Championships in Sheffield last weekend.
The Winter Yorkshire Championships was split for a second year into two short course competitions. The purpose of this meet was for the swimmers to demonstrate an improvement in their racing skills from the YCBC Autumn Extravaganza and also for the swimmers to step up to the very high level of racing at the competition.
York City Baths Club members will represent Yorkshire at the Swim England National County Team Championships on Sunday the 8th October 2017. Swimmers Harry Devlin, Jason Robson, Mollie Garratt, Tom…
Whilst competing at the recent York City Baths Club Autumn Extravaganza, Nathan broke his own GB Deaf Record for 11 & Unders 50m breaststroke. Nathan had an amazing swim, producing a new record time of 51.15 seconds.
The season of competing kicked off for YCBC starting with our own meet, the York City Baths Club Autumn Extravaganza at the John Charles Centre in Leeds. Strong representation was present from all training squads with over 100 YCBC swimmers in attendance over the weekend.
YCBC masters swimmer Emma Wills won four medals at the World Masters Swimming Championships 2017 held in Budapest (Hungary). Emma won the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle in ladies 35-39 years age group. She also picked up a silver medal in the open water event.
14 Swimmers from YCBC qualified for the 3 Summer National Championship events in Sheffield during late July and early August. The number of qualifiers from York City has almost doubled from the 8 Swimmers who qualified a year ago.
Today is the day for several York City Bath Club swimmers as the Swim England national summer meet begins. The Championships take place at Ponds Forge Sheffield between the 2nd and 6th of August. If you are interested in going to watch, support and see what it is all about tickets are available to the public.
