SHEFFIELD 2007

Well done to everyone involved with Sheffield at the weekend, see results at

http://www.rasc.org.uk/sheffield_teaspoon_gala.htm

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TRAINING CANCELLED

22^nd -23^rd September 2007

Please note, there will be no training on Saturday morning 08.00-09.00 or Sunday 16.00-18.00 on the above dates.

A large part of the Club going to Sheffield for the weekend and all available Parents and Coaches and are required to support the Swimmers which involves travel and overnight stay.

Lindsay Young

Head Coach

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Scottish National Open Championships

Tollcross Park Leisure Centre 28/06/2007 - 01/07/2007

Rutherglens Performance

Rutherglen had a squad of 5 swimmers eligible to swim in this prestige event, however Katy Smith is on Tour in the Netherlands with her Orchestra so only 4 managed to Swim.

Our 3 boys:-  Ryan Doherty, Kieran Kiely and Tony Fletcher all swam to their best. In a programme, in retrospect of too many swims in such a short period, where nearly all swims were Personal Bests. Many of the entry times were short to long course conversions making these swims even better.

To go to a major competition and produce a PB under pressure is a sign of well prepared swimmers.

Although Ryan had the most swims and potentially the most gruelling schedule over the 4 days, he still managed some outstanding individual swims culminating in 100 Metre Freestyle, in a remarkable time of 1.00.71 (and that is Long Course). His best overall position was in the 100m Breaststroke where he came 11th. This position is somewhat misleading as in terms of Scottish Swimmers this would make him 7th. Ryan's week was completed by swimming the Breaststroke leg of the 14 and Under Medley Relay for the South Lanarkshire team where they were narrowly beaten into Silver position. Retribution was exacted in the 4x50 Metres Freestyle Relay where they easily took the Gold.

Hilary Gorman took part in the Girls relay teams and just missed the medals in both the Medley and Freestyle relay taking 4th in both with Personal Best times.

Kieran Kiely possibly showed the greatest improvement of our swimmers and put recent demons behind him. Showing remarkable improvement in the 100m Breaststroke, he may yet make a quality Breaststroker. His best position was 20th in the 100m Butterfly and once again 13th of the Scottish Swimmers. Again a big improvement in the 200 individual Medley but considerable work is needed to improve the Backstroke Leg to move up the rankings.

Tony Fletcher still has another year at this age group. It is becoming clear that next year Tony has a really good chance to challenge as he is clearly ahead of last years swimmers in his events. With a best position of 31st in the 200 Fly, 24th of the Scots swimmers,

Remember, there are usually 100 swimmers in each event, Scotland's best with numerous swimmers up from England. Rutherglen has got a good  number of qualifiers relative to its membership size.

Ryan, Kieran and Tony do not have the availability of  the number of expected weekly hours of training that other clubs do, however, what they do do, is mostly quality and rarely do they miss a session, with no mumping and moaning or misbehaviour. They are always looking for more work to do, not less, do their own sessions at other times and work Land Schedules prepared by their Coach. These are the qualities that set them apart from our other swimmers as we have a number of other swimmers  who are technically just as good. Watch out for our youngsters too, who are age on age ahead of our champions

Well done Guys but where are our Girls?

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BRONZE SQUAD TRAINING TIMES

From Tuesday 17th October 2006 and until further notice, and on a medium temporary basis only, on a Tuesday night the BRONZE Squad training times will be extended a further 30 Minutes. The session will run from 18.00-19.30

The Bronze swimmers will be in lanes 1 and 2 perhaps 3 from 19.00-19.30

I will change the format of the Tuesday sessions, during the first hour the emphasis will be much as present and the additional 30 minutes will be used for particular swim skills, starts, turns, floating, sculling, relays, Push & Glide etc to build on work done at Cathkin.

If anyone has ay particular problems about staying the extra 30 minutes please come and see me.



Lindsay Young

HEAD COACH
 

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Well done Lucy!

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18th April 2006

CLUB TIME TRIALS

The next Club Time trials will be held on Tuesday 25th April 2006

Warm up at 18.00 for start 18.40.
Warm up lanes are

8, 9 and 10 Years warm up 1800-1815
11 years and over 1815-1830

Everyone will do all 4 strokes no matter what standard you are unless you have an injury which precludes it


The Distances will be:

50 Metres for everyone except C squad who may do 25 Metre butterfly instead
As these are time trials, boys and girls may swim together, 6 swimmers in each heat where possible. We will try to swim you with swimmers of a similar speed where possible.

Some swimmers may be asked to time trial another event.

SASA rules apply, there will be no disqualifications, however swimmers will be advised of Start, Turn or Stroke infringements so as they can work on them for the future.



Lindsay Young
Head Coach
 

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7th February 2006

GLASGOW GRADED MEET TOLLCROSS
Saturday 4th February 2006


Rutherglen had considerable success at the high level Graded Meet at Tollcross. Despite the fact that we are still only in preparation phase of training the majority of Swims were long Course Personal Bests.

Two Gold medals were won by Hilary Gorman and Ryan F Doherty in the 100 metres butterfly, Another fine swim in the 100 Metre Butterfly by Keiran Keily.

Stephen Anderson continues to improve his other strokes with a fine PB in the 100 Metres Freestyle.

Calum McGibbon also had a good swim in the 100 metres backstroke.

Once again we need to concentrate on our starts, turns and finishes and in many instances this is where we continue to let ourselves down.





Lindsay Young, Head Coach.




 

RUTHERGLEN SWIMMERS PERFORMANCES AT

MILGAVIE & BEARSDEN/DRUMCHAPEL UPDATED

Stephen Anderson – To fast 3:04 for 200 Breaststroke, 6^th 50 Breaststroke, 8^th 50 Freestyle PB.

Claire Leslie Gold in 200m Backstroke (and West District Qualifying time), 3^rd 50m Backstroke PB and 5^th in 50 Fly, 9^th 50m freestyle PB , 7^th 50 Butterfly PB.

Hilary Gorman Gold 50 Breaststroke, PB, 4^th 100 IM PB

Ryan F Doherty, Too fast in 50 Fly 2^nd 400 Freestyle 5:44, 29 second PB Silver also in 50m Fly, 4^th

50 Breaststroke PB, 6^th 50 backstroke

Jack Hamilton 3^rd and PB 400 Freestyle, 7^th 50 Breaststroke

Cameron Park 2^nd 50 Breaststroke,  4th 50 Backstroke, 4^th 100IM PB

Alexander Kattenhorn 13^th in 50 freestyle.

Calum McGibbon PB in 50 freestyle and under 40 seconds. 7^th 200 freestyle, 12 second PB.

Christopher Anderson  4^th 50 Breaststroke PB, 8^th 50 Freestyle PB

Johnathan Kiely, 50 Freestyle 6 second PB. 50 Breaststroke PB

Tony Fletcher 5^th 200 Freestyle PB, 6^th 200 Breaststroke (10 second PB)

Sean Haughey 5^th 50 Fly PB, 50 Freestyle PB

Kieran Kiely 9^th 50 Backstroke, PB . 6^th 50m Fly

Siobhan McColl 50 Breast 3 second PB

Andrew Gillen PB 50 Freestyle

Leslie Wynne PB 50 Breaststroke

Caitlin Boyle 50 Backstroke PB

Louise Smith 50 Backstroke, PB, 50 Freestyle PB

Katie Petrie, 50 Freestyle PB, 50 Freestyle PB

Katy Smith 50 Backstroke, PB

Well done everybody!

Lindsay Young

Head Coach

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7^th June 2005

SQUAD RE-STRUCTURE

The Squads shortly will be restructured and will come into place after the Summer Holiday. The idea is to make progression more logical and understandable

Everyone will receive a letter explaining in more detail soon, however the Squads will be:

Total Hours

Development Squad – 2, 1 hour sessions per week                                           2

Bronze - 2, 1 hour sessions per week with opportunity for 3.                             3

Silver - 3, 1 hour sessions, 1, 2 hour session per week.                                     5

Gold - 4, 1 hour sessions, 1, 2 hour session per week.                                      6-7

Platinum  Squad – 2, 1 hour sessions per week                                                 2

District Squad – 3, 1 hour sessions, 2, 2 hour session per week.                        7

Few swimmers will be greatly affected.

New Squads and Equivalents

Development Squad – current ‘C’ squad.

Bronze Squad – current ‘B’ squad.

Silver Squad – current ‘B+’ squad.

Gold Squad – current ‘A’ squad.

Platinum Squad – Current AX Squad

The biggest change is in the Coaching. I will Head all squads, however each Squad will have its own Coach responsible for their swimmers. This does not mean that the other Coaches will have nothing to do with you, as we intend to have as many lane Coaches as possible at every session.

Coaches

Development Squad – Andrew Molloy

Bronze Squad – Damian Fletcher

Silver Squad – Graham Mason

Gold Squad – Fiona Dyett

Platinum Squad – Lindsey Smith

District Squad – Head Coach

This is a new Squad and the proposed swimmers on the selection criteria based on District Qualifying Times. It is not automatic selection either but with discussion with the Head Coach. One or more of these swimmers may wish to remain in their existing squad. There is no squad size limit or age limit as such. There are approximately 6-8 other swimmers that are also very close and I would expect to join sooner than later in the next year.

Stephen Anderson

Ryan F Doherty

Tony Fletcher

Maria Marshall*

Ryan M Doherty*

Sean Haughey*

* denotes discussion required

I am hoping there will be additional training opportunities for everyone where appropriate, but particularly for Gold and Platinum Squads.

Scottish Amateur Swimming Association are not running the Academy this year and I intend running a very similar programme for our swimmers meeting the same criteria. On the last Sunday of the Month in September, October and November.

Lindsay Young

Head Coach

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On Tuesday 5^th April we held a Mini Time Trial. One of the reasons for this was to give Swimmers the opportunity to gain competition qualifying times.

Once again many of those who took part obtained Personal best times despite in some cases only recently having achieved them in the same event.

The results were as follows:-

Lindsay Young

Head Coach

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Super Swims at Larkhall Mini League

Rutherglen Swimmers were in post Easter action at a Mini League Gala at Larkhall on Saturday 2nd April 2005.

Of 45 individual swims 43 were Personal Best times and every swimmer obtained at least one.

In their respective age groups, Ryan Doherty took Gold in the 200m Butterfly and 200 Freestyle, with a second place in the 100 Backstroke.

Alexander Kattenhorn took first and second place in the 200 freestyle and second in the 100 backstroke.

Claire Leslie who is still only 10, took first place in the 200m Butterfly, holding good technique throughout

Maria Marshall swam a fine 100m Breaststroke in just outside West District qualifying time to take first place.

Calum McLean and Christopher Anderson took 2nd place in their age groupings in the 200 Freestyle. Cameron Park only 8 years old, took third. Christopher Anderson also took 3rd place in the 50m Backstroke.

Another cracking swim by 10year old Hilary Gorman took third place in the 200m Freestyle

Sean Haughey coming back into form took 3rd in the 200 Butterfly

Tony Fletcher, had two very good swims and took 2nd place both in the 200 Butterfly and 200 Freestyle.

All the following swimmers recorded personal best times. Louise Smith, Jenna Pexton, Caitlin Clarke, Dorothea McInnes, Nichola Valente, Caitlin Boyle, Siobhan McColl, Amy Molloy, Paul McLaughlin, Andrew Gillen, Stephen Anderson, Tommy Smith, Katie Lundy, Louise Smith, Nichola Gaffney, Katie Petrie, Calum McGibbon, Liam Smith, Laura Valente, Kieran Keily.

Of particular note Katie Smith took 45 seconds off her 200 freestyle swim a great reward for a year of hard work and determination.

Rutherglen Swimming club were hosting the gala and it was very pleasing to see such good performances under the circumstances.

Well done everyone, a big thanks to all who attended. Also a big "thank you" to all the Parents who helped host the gala. This was our first hosting and quite stressful to all those concerned. Everything went well and the whole evening was a big success.

Lindsay Young

HEAD COACH

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BELLSHILL HIGHLIGHTS 19/20 March 2004– Full details to follow

Andrew Robertson: 8th in 10 Breaststroke. 1 second PB in 100 IM

Ryan F Doherty: 1st 200 IM 2 second PB, 2 second PB in 100 freestle (PB). 1st in 10m Butterfly

Jack Hamilton: 4th in 200 IM 11 second PB. Almost 1 second off 100m Freestyle.

Cameron Park: Several good PB's

Paul Mclaughlin Near PB

Hilary Gorman: 1st 100 IM 8 second PB, 2nd 100m Freestyle, missed 1st place by 1 tenth of a second

Christopher Anderson: 100m IM 9 second PB, 1 second PB 50 Freestyle

Alexander Kattenhorn 4th in 100 IM 9 second PB, 5th 100m Freestyle

Calum McLean: Close to PB

Johnathan Kiely: 11 Seconds off 50m freestyle

Evan Rae: good swim goggle problems, 50 Freestyle

Calum McGibbon: 1.5 second PB 50 Freestyle

Tony Fletcher: 3rd in 100 M Butterfly

Sean Haughey: over 6 second PB in 100m Butterfly, 22 second Pb in 100m Individual Medley

Dorothea McInnes: PB
Kieran Kiely: PB
Lesley Wynne: Near PB (recent injury)
 

Easter Arrangements

Easter Arrangements 2005..... There will be no training on Friday 25th , Saturday 26th or Sunday 27th March all other sessions as normal

CHRISTMAS TRAINING

The last session is Thursday 16th December 2004.

There is no training Friday 17^th December 2004 as this the Presentation and Disco night.

The First Full Club night back is back on Thursday 6^th January 2005*

*Due to early closing times of the pool, we cannot have full club nights on Tuesday 21st December or Tuesday 4th January, however we have shorter sessions these nights for Competitors in the Glasgow meet and any one else who wants to keep swimming.

18.00-19.30 both nights

Two sessions additional are being run on Thursday 23^rd and Thursday 30^th December 16.00-17.00 specifically for those who are swimming at the Glasgow meet in January. If you are not swimming at Glasgow and want to train please let me know and I will try and fit you in.

I think our achievements this year have been remarkable, but there is still lots to do. I hope everyone has a good break, and a well earned rest….. but not too good. Remember while we are resting and putting our feet up our competitors may not be!

Can I wish everyone a Happy Christmas and New Year, and look forward to the prospect of a really exciting 2005.

Lindsay

Head Coach

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12/10/2004

FAULDHOUSE GALA 14^th NOVEMBER 2004

PLEASE READ AND TICK THE SWIMS on Pool Notice board

Below are the swimmers that I would like to go to the above Gala.. 8 and 9 year olds in the morning, 10 and 11 year olds in the afternoon. I have not sent you to Fauldhouse for fun but rather I think Fauldhouse, though less convenient, perhaps is a better gala for you. Please tick if you want to swim. Entries will close at the end of tonight, Tuesday 12^th October 2004. The club pays the first swim, £2.50 for each additional one.

If you would rather go to Kingston, which for these swimmers I believe is less appropriate, please let me know. The cost of Kingston swims is £3.50, but then it costs less to get there, but it is an all day event.

If you do not tick you will not be entered. If we enter you there is no guarantee that they will accept our entry so all entries are provisional till you are notified of acceptance

Lindsay Young

Head Coach