News Summary 2012

December 19, 2012
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Regional Success in Sunderland

Posted on 4 December 2012

Age Group and Senior/​Junior teams rack up a total of 89 medals at the ASA North East Region Championships.

National Hat-trick for City of Leeds Age Groupers

Posted on 27 November 2012

An out­stand­ing dis­play of team spir­it, com­pet­i­tive swim­ming and a will to win saw our Junior League Squad to vic­to­ry in the ARE­NA Junior Inter-League Grand Final last Sunday.

Final standings

  1. City of Leeds 321
  2. Hillingdon 244
  3. Preston SC 227
  4. Northampton 208
  5. Stockport Metro 204
  6. Boldmere SC 198
  7. City of Peterborough 194
  8. Bournemouth Dolphins 158

City of Leeds Junior League Squad trav­elled to Cor­by Inter­na­tion­al Pool this Sun­day to com­pete in the ARE­NA Junior Inter-League Grand Final. After 12 of the 49 events the team had a slim 13 point lead on 2nd place Hilling­don. After 36 events, it was evi­dent the team was feed­ing off each oth­er’s ener­gy, enthu­si­asm and suc­cess, lead­ing Hilling­don by 59 points.

Only a seri­ous of ​“bloop­ers” would threat­en the lead from this point but the team had one final task. The tro­phy that has elud­ed the club since its re-entry to the com­pe­ti­tion 4 years ago, the Can­non. An 8 X 25m relay; 1 boy and 1 girl from each age group. This was our year, a spec­tac­u­lar team effort to snatch vic­to­ry in the last 25m.

We had 23 first place fin­ish­es and we believe CoL swim­mers broke 9 meet records. What“s more, Ben Rayn­er col­lect­ed Top 10 year Boy, Liam Bir­rell Top 11 year Boy, and Abi Bur­ton Top 12 year Girl.

Myself, the coach­ing team, the par­ents and sup­port­ers could not be more proud of the chil­dren’s achievements.

For their con­tin­ued sup­port, I would also like to thank the Sup­port­ers” Com­mit­tee, as well as a per­son­al thank you to the Team Man­agers Elysha Wal­lis and Greig Bir­rell. Thanks also to Lucie & Tony Black, Emma Fer­ri­man and Julie Hob­bah for their help on the day.

It was an amaz­ing day for all. Well Done.

Olympic Gold Medallist Duncan Goodhew Pays a Special Visit

Posted on 2 October 2012

The 100m breast­stroke cham­pi­on from the 1980 Moscow Olympics was in the city to pro­vide a coach­ing ses­sion to a group of City of Leeds youngsters.

Olympic gold medal­list swim­mer Dun­can Good­hew paid a spe­cial vis­it to the Aquat­ics Cen­tre at the John Charles Cen­tre for Sport in Leeds. The 100 metre breast­stroke gold medal­list from the 1980 Olympic Games was in the city to pro­vide a coach­ing ses­sion to a group of young City of Leeds Swim­ming Club swim­mers aged eight to 12. The vis­it was a reward for the club recruit­ing the most swim­mers of any club in the coun­try to take part in this year’s char­i­ty Swimath­on Week­end event in April.

After the vis­it, Olympic gold medal­list and Swimath­on Pres­i­dent Dun­can Good­hew said: ​“It was a plea­sure to teach the young peo­ple at the City of Leeds Swim­ming Club. The young swim­mers were put through their paces learn­ing Olympic stroke tech­niques to help them become even faster in the water for Swimath­on 2013. There were some great swim­mers amongst the group and who knows, maybe a future Olympic champion!”

15 Medals at Welsh Summer Nationals

Posted on 1 August 2012

Strong sup­port from team­mates and staff helped bring home 9 gold, 4 sil­ver and 2 bronze medals from Swansea.

A 45 strong team of City of Leeds Swim­mers descend­ed upon the Welsh Nation­al Pool in Swansea on 21st July 2012. There were some remark­able per­for­mances. Life­time Bests fell left, right and centre.

Heads were turned dur­ing finals ses­sions as the horns and voic­es of the whole team of City of Leeds swim­mers and staff over­pow­ered the com­pe­ti­tion to fuel some impres­sive racing.

There were 53 final swims across 6 days of com­pe­ti­tion. Between these final­ists there were 9 gold, 4 sil­ver and 2 bronze medals. Par­tic­u­lar­ly impres­sive was our final­ists’ abil­i­ty to con­vert heat swims into even faster final swims.

Well done to the entire team.

A spe­cial thanks to Lizzie Coombes, Sara East­wood and Emma Fer­ri­man for their hard work and dedication.

Taylor Comes Home From Antwerp With 3 Medals

Posted on 14 July 2012

16-year-old Sophie Tay­lor wins 2 sil­vers and a bronze medal at the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships in Antwerp, Belgium.

Sophie Tay­lor, who lives in Har­ro­gate and attends Leeds Gram­mar School, qual­i­fied for the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships at the Olympic Tri­als in March in the 100m & 200m breaststroke.

Sophie was entered by British Swim­ming in the an addi­tion­al event; the 50m breast­stroke, in which she swam a life time best per­for­mance and won a sil­ver medal. Sophie achieved anoth­er life time best in the 200m breast­stroke to earn a bronze medal. In the 100m breast­stroke Sophie came sixth. Sophie was also select­ed for the breast­stroke leg of the 4 x 100m med­ley Team relay where she swam anoth­er life time best in help­ing the team to a sil­ver medal.

The Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships was a great expe­ri­ence for Sophie and she swam fan­tas­ti­cal­ly well. Next week she com­petes in the British Youth Cham­pi­onships in Sheffield where she will be vying to improve her per­for­mances, this time in City of Leeds colours.

Another Dominant Performance From Our Age Groupers

Posted on 12 June 2012

City of Leeds swim­mers dom­i­nate the medal table and make 154 appear­ances in finals at the ASA North East Region­al Championships.

The com­pe­ti­tion which extends over a gru­elling two week­ends showed City of Leeds Swim­ming Club’s dom­i­nance of age group swim­ming in the north east.

As well as many swim­mers suc­ceed­ing in achiev­ing nation­al qual­i­fy­ing times, swim­mers made the podi­um on 85 occasions.

The team col­lec­tive­ly achieved 28 bronze medals. 22 sil­ver medals; and a whop­ping 35 gold medals (almost dou­ble the 2nd place team’s gold medal tally).

Evi­dent­ly… ​“A team above all but above all a team.”

Claire Cashmore and Sophie Taylor Earn Team GB Call Ups

Posted on 20 March 2012

At the recent British Cham­pi­onships, Claire qual­i­fied for her third Par­a­lympic Games while Sophie Tay­lor will rep­re­sent Team GB at this sum­mer’s Euro­pean Junior Championships.

Some stel­lar per­for­mances from Par­a­lympic vet­er­an Claire Cash­more at the recent British Cham­pi­onships have qual­i­fied her to swim the 200m IM and 100m breast­stroke at this sum­mer’s Par­a­lympic Games. This will be Claire’s third Par­a­lympics and she hopes to add to the sil­ver and bronze medals she won at the Athens and Bei­jing games. Claire has also been select­ed for the freestyle relay teams at the games.

At the same com­pe­ti­tion, held at the new Olympic Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Lon­don, Sophie took over 1.5 sec­onds off her pre­vi­ous best time to fin­ish 4th in the 100m breast­stroke. She fol­lowed this suc­cess by qual­i­fy­ing for the 200m breast­stroke semi-final a few days lat­er. Though Sophie did not make the final in the 200m, the times she record­ed through­out the meet were good enough to earn qual­i­fi­ca­tion for both the 100m and 200m breast­stroke at the 2012 Euro­pean Junior Championships.

We wish them both every suc­cess this sum­mer and we’ll keep you updat­ed on how they get on.

Leeds Swimmers Light Up Yorkshire Championships With Over 125 Medals

Posted on 29 February 2012

More out­stand­ing per­for­mances at the sec­ond week­end of the 2012 York­shire Coun­ty Cham­pi­onships at the John Charles Centre.

Of 100 City of Leeds swim­mers who entered the Coun­ty Cham­pi­onships over the 2 week­ends, 76% were ranked in the top 10 in at least 1 event. We end­ed the week­end with a total of 309 Top 10 fin­ish­es and an out­stand­ing 125 Medals. Including:

  • 53 Gold
  • 39 Sil­ver
  • 33 Bronze

After a bit of maths, this means we made the podi­um in just over 40% of all finals and heat declared win­ner events.

Fur­ther­more, 40% of City of Leeds com­peti­tors made the podi­um. An out­stand­ing achieve­ment upon which we must now look to cement our dom­i­nance of York­shire at the 50m Cham­pi­onships and York­shire Teams.

Final­ly, please remem­ber to con­firm your atten­dance for the team events if you haven’t done so already.