Welcome to the home of
Sutton-in-Ashfield Swimming Club
accredited
Drayton Manor
A reminder for those going on the summer outing Sunday 5th July.
The coach leaves the Lammas Leisure Centre at 09:30 and departs Drayton Manor at 17:00.
Success for Sutton Swimming Club
Sutton Swimming Club had an excellent turnout at the Nottingham Northern Open Meet at Beechdale.
All swimmers produced their best in the competition, with many reaching their respective finals, including Sarah Baird, with a convincing win in the 50m Breaststroke final for 11 year olds.
Other successes included Esme Wood, Lauren Hughes, Jake Hudd, Aaron Lee, James Prosser and Lara Prosser, who did very well in finals against some tough opposition. Across the team 32 new PBs were set at this event.
Sarah Baird also recently produced excellent swims at the Midland Championships in Coventry achieving 9th overall in the 100m Breaststroke and 10th in the 200m Breaststroke.
All of the results above reflect very well on Sutton Swimming Club and Head Coach Gren Greaves, who is naturally extremely proud of all his swimmers.
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The results from the first round of the Development League can now be viewed on the "Gala Results" page.
A new page "News Archive" has been added for the less current news items first seen on the homepage.
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11th June 2009
189 improved PBs in the past week
Plus 109 new PBs established
10th June 2009
The Advanced Swimmers' timings sheets are now up to date. In the past week an large number of 25m times were recorded in the run up the Gala at Mansfield. Many swimmers did not have times for this distance and therefore a host of new benchmarks have been set. In fact 53 new times have been established.
In addition to this 32 new PBs were set by the boys on Thursday evening, 40 new PBs for the girls.
Following on from this 10 new standards were set by the boys and 9 PBs for the girls, at Mansfield. Too many names to mention across these two evenings, but congratulations to all. One swimmer worthy of a special mention is Imogen Millin who improved her 25m Fly time by almost 6 seconds on Thursday in 18.01 secs, and to prove it was no fluke, recorded 18.01 again at Mansfield.
On Tuesday 9th June the beginners did their monthly timings. Again a host of new standards were set. In addition 22 PB improvements were made among the girls and 20 by the boys (2 of these were set by Morgan Hunt at Mansfield at the weekend).
Keep up the good work everyone.
Swimmers Log Books
Please ensure that you keep your swimming logs up to date, and that you bring these with you when monthly timings are taking place.
Typically the beginners will be timed on the 1st or 2nd Tuesday of each month.
Advanced swimmers are timed on the corresponding Thursdays.
Please note that if you are interested in joining Sutton Swimming Club then details of how to apply for membership can now be found on the 'Want to Join SSC' section of this web site.
This section also includes useful information on the 'Pathway to Competitive Swimming' which gives an explanation of how our swimmers progress, (through attendance at regular sessions) to hopefully represent our club at Galas and Championship events.
Also on this 'Want to Join SSC' section is our PR leaflet which provides additional information about Sutton Swimming Club, our excellent coaches and our Committee members.
Lammas Leisure Centre
Lammas Road
Sutton in Ashfield
Notts
A potted history...
Sutton Swimming Club was first formed in 1927 and initially comprised separate gents and ladies clubs. In 1930 the two clubs joined together and were simply divided into junior and senior members. Annual membership fees were 2/6d for the junior members and 5/- for seniors... with towels provided!
Training sessions took place on Tuesday evenings during the swimming season (Easter until the end of September) with an admission charge of 2d and 4d. From October the pool was covered over and used for dancing and other functions.
During the war the pool was closed to accommodate army personnel and afterwards, in 1946, the club reformed and practiced not just swimming but also Water Polo and Royal Life Saving.
The club has evolved and grown over the years and now is exclusively a competitive swimming club, competing in many different swim leagues and competitions. The club is open to children from the age of 6 where basic swim skills are taught in our small pool. Swimmers are then developed to progress to our large (25m) pool and coached to County standard and above.
2007 saw us celebrate our 80th year of coaching the children of Ashfield. We are as committed as ever to providing a friendly, family atmosphere where children can enjoy their swimming, develop their skills and stamina and go on to achieve their full potential in the sport of competitive swimming.
We have a history of producing some excellent Nottinghamshire County swimmers and currently around 10% of our members are part of the Nova squad. The 2006 County Championship's saw our club produce the boys 12's County Champion, the boys 13U County Individual Medley Relay Champions and many other top 10 overall placing's. One of our swimmers, Sam Hynd is now a member of the Great Britain Disability World Class Potential squad and will selflessly attribute much of his achievements to date to Sutton S.C's coaching staff. A great achievement for what is a relatively small club and is true testimony to the hard work, dedication and skills of our coaching staff and not least of our swimmers!
Our club emblem, a bird, is often a talking point!
For those ornithologically challenged the bird is in fact a Snipe... locally it is known as the Sutton Snipe, once the emblem of Sutton Town Council (now of course Ashfield District Council). We are able to use the Sutton Snipe as our club emblem after we were authorised by the town council many years ago, an honour bestowed upon very few bodies; we are one of only two sports clubs known to have been permitted by the council to use it, the other being Sutton Town Football Club - The Snipes!