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Sutton Swimming Club Success at Acorn Open Meet 13/05/2012

Sutton Swimming Club finished as the 3rd place club out of the 20 clubs that entered the very first Acorn Open Meet. The 20 swimmers competing for Sutton secured a fantastic haul of 59 individual trophies and secured numerous personal best times.

Points scores from the day:

1st Braunstone 359

2nd Arnold 341

3rd Sutton 329

All other teams scored 213 points or less.

Many Sutton swimmers needed help carrying their trophies home.

We claimed the following trophies 19 x 1st place, 10 x 2nd place, 11 x 3rd place, 5 x 4th place, 9 x 5th place and 5 x 6th place.

Several swimmers ensured that they didn't miss this final opportunity to achieve or improve on their Midland Age Group qualification times before entries close. 7 Sutton Swimming Club swimmers will be competing in 30 events at this year's Midlands Championship - a record for the Club.

• Ruslans Golubs has 8 Midlands qualifications. On the day he was outstanding winning all 7 events that he entered and securing the most points to make him Top 12 yrs old Boy and also Top Open Boy.
• Jim Fergie has 3 Midlands qualifications. He took 3 trophies for 1^st, 2nd and 5th place finishes.
• Lauren Quinn has 3 Midlands qualifications. She took home 2 1^st places a 2nd and a 3rd.
• Rebecca Quinton has 1 Midlands qualification. She took 2 thirds and a 4th and 5th place trophy.
• Emily James has 2 Midlands qualifications. On her way to securing the Top 10yrs old Girl title she took 4 1st place trophies and a 2nd place trophy.
• Mia Fergie has 10 Midlands qualifications, most of which were secured before this meet. She only entered 2 events on the day but earned trophies for a 2nd and 4th place finish.
• Lily Boseley has 3 Midlands qualifications. She took trophies for 1 1^st place finish along with 2 3rd places and a 5th.

Other boys to win trophies on the day were Bailey Ward 9yrs, Connor Marsh 9yrs, Adam Hudson 10yrs, Liam Marsh 11yrs and Jake Hudd 12yrs.

Chloe Quinn also performed excellently and secured the 9yrs old Top Girl title by taking 3 1^st places, 2 2nds and 1 4th place trophies.

Other Girl trophy winners on the day were Shannon Barrett 10yrs, Erica Brown 10yrs, Chloe Peach 12yrs, Sophie Bunker 12yrs, Neve Fergie 12yrs and Jamie Currie 13yrs.   

Our only other competitor was Nicola Peach, who may not have won any trophies but achieved a creditable haul of 5 PBs from her 6 events on the day. Only Russ managed more PBs among our swimmers at this meet.

Head Coach Gren Greaves was delighted with all of his swimmers and emphasised that such performances were only achievable through working hard in regular training sessions.

For full results from the Acorn Open please visit the internet pages via the link on the Open Meets page on this site.

The the PB and Top 20 tables have now been updated.

We can now confirm that 58 PBs were set across 91 swims with a further 12 PBs set as a result of split times. 70 PBs in total - FANTASTIC.

Personalised Swimming Caps

Lee Bunker has requested that all orders for personalised swimming caps be submitted to him by Sunday 20th May. As these are special orders they have to be submitted in bulk and after 20th May the next order will not go in for another 6 months.

Worksop Dolphins Open Meet, Ponds Forge 50m pool

Our club is looking to enter the Worksop Dolphins Open Meet being held at Ponds Forge 50m pool on 1st September 2012. There are qualifying times but they are quite reasonable so should allow a significant number of our members to enter if they so wish. If we get sufficient interest then Gren may also chose to submit some relay teams as well. Full details are on our notice board but if we can promote this on the web page (perhaps with a link to the Worksop Dolphins Open Meet web page)  it may increase the numbers interested. I have put a deadline for entry notification by 24th May 2012 and will require payment before this date in order to submit any entries. All entries and payments are via me and not at the pay table. See also the new "Open Meets" page on this site.

Nova Trialists

Well done to Adam, Chloe, Connor, Erica, Krystle, Liam and Nicola for their strong performances at the Nova trial on Wed 2nd May. Fingers crossed for some good news in the next few weeks.  

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 Volunteers 

 The 2012 committee members list has been updated. See the SSC - Committee page. 

If any parents / guardians, of children who attend the Tuesday evening Beginners' session 7pm to 8pm, are prepared to take a turn at the payments table your contributions would be most appreciated.