Altrincham Swimming Club

Swimmer of the Month - May 2025

We had lots of nominations for our May Swimmer of the Month! There have been some great efforts across the Club!

Sophia - Ducklings - a great start to Club life, fantastic streamlining and always keen to help others in the lane if they need it.

Bella - AG2 - fantastic effort every session, Bella has really pushed her training up a gear which is fantastic to see. Keep up the good work Bella!

Long Him - Youth - Long Him has made huge progress since joining ASC and has already moved up a squad. We are really impressed with all your hard work and you have done some huge PBs!

Wendy - Youth - for managing reduced training, racing and GCSEs fantastically, pulling off some great swims at Regionals this year.

Henry - D1 - for making a great start to Club life and always giving 100%.

Ted - D1 - Ted is always keen to listen and improve and has been working really hard.

Laurie - D3 - for making big improvements on her breaststroke technique.

Jay - D3 - for a great start to racing at the Trafford Spring Meet and for working consistently hard in training.

Toby - Youth - for giving his all when we visited Aquabears and giving 100% on every Vo2 set since.

Emily - Youth - for making English Summer Nationals for 1500 free and 400 IM and continuing to be a fantastic role model for our Club.

There could only be one winner, and the winner is Lewis from AG1. Lewis has been working hard in training and is a great team player within the squad. He had a fantastic meet at the Trafford Spring Meet with a clean sweep of PBs and some great medal performances. Well done Lewis!

Swimmer of the Month - April 2025

Nominations for swimmer of the month APRIL:-

Jeremy in D2 for focusing well on improving his dives and working on his breaststroke.

Clara in D1 for perfecting her tumble turns.

Sophia H in D3 for a formidable effort in the 30 minute 100s test set.

Athena in Youth for her consistent hard work in AG2 which led to the promotion into Youth recently.

Hannah Bir - Youth - for a clean sweep of PBs at the Leeds National Qualifier despite a really busy time at home and working hard for her A Levels.

Jessica S for a great regionals with a 6th place in the 50 Back and a

in the 200 Back with a huge PB that got her very close to a 12 year old summer nationals place.

The winner is Sophia R for her brilliant 2025 Summer Regionals campaign; Sophia had targeted Regionals all year and knew exactly what she wanted to achieve. Sophia did some absolutely outstanding swims, with big PBs in all events, coming 7th in the 400 Free, 4th in the 100 Free, 7th in the 50 Free, 6th in the 800 Free, finishing with a

in the 200 Free

Sheffield No Frills Meet, Day 2 - May 2025

Day 2 of Sheffield No Frills saw Sam, Hannah and Thomas lining up to race. Sam had some good swims in the 200 Breast and 200 IM with 2 LC PBs for

th and

th respectively. Hannah, who is busy with A levels, swam strongly for a

th in 100 Back and

th in the 50 Fly

Thomas swam a great 100 Back for

th place and a LC PB and a solid

th in the 50 Breast!

Well done team, great to see you flying the Alty flag!!

Sheffield No Frills Meet, Day 1 - May 2025

Well done to Sam and Hannah who were representing ASC today at Sheffield No Frills. They came home with 2 x

, a

th and a

th.

Well done team

Regional Development Programme - May 2025

What a great day with the Regional Development Programme at Wigan Life Centre! Coach Kate is sad that it was her last weekend on the programme after 2 consecutive years as a skills coach and then this year as the lead coach. It was fun to work with an inspiring bunch of coaches, and to see how much this particular group of swimmers have thrived since the first camp in October

As ever; Team Alison and Meg were the best

with Team Dan and Team James trying to steal victories in the team comps!

Lucy's Cross-Channel Relay News - May 2025

Lucy R, one of our long standing Coaches and swimmers, has been training hard with her friends for a 6 person channel relay crossing in July. Lucy is raising money for CRY - Cardiac Risk in the Young, which is also our Club’s chosen charity - for our 30th anniversary the Club raised £6,000 to pay for a CRY screening session in memory of Chloe Waddell, one of our young and most talented swimmers

Please sponsor Lucy if you can! SPONSOR LUCY HERE! Lucy’s team are also selling swimming hats and stickers to raise more funds.

Lucy's training update - We’re officially two months away from swimming the English Channel! The past few months have been tough – balancing training, cold water acclimatisation, and my dissertation – but I’ve managed to rack up over 90 km of swimming so far! Last Wednesday, we successfully completed our qualifying swim in 15.5°C water. It was tough, requiring us to swim for two hours in the cold while avoiding some gigantic swans. A massive thank you to everyone who has donated already – I’m halfway to reaching my fundraising goal! CRY does incredible work supporting bereaved families and raising awareness about early cardiac deaths. Their efforts have been vital in identifying cardiac abnormalities that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. It’s a charity very close to my heart, as I’ve seen first-hand the amazing impact their work can have. Any donation, big or small, is hugely appreciated. To keep up with our training follow our Instagram @sheswimslikeagirl!

Derby Excel Meet - May 2025

Poppy had an epic day at the @derbyexcelsc National Qualifier flying solo for ASC

She started with an amazing 19 second PB in the 400 Free and swiftly followed it up with a 3 second PB in the 200 IM.

Well done Poppy, fantastic swimming, all your hard work is paying off

Trafford Metro Spring Open Meet - May 2025

What a brilliant day at the @traffordmetroofficial Spring Meet.

We had a big team of more than 30 swimmers and the results sheet shows a huge number of PBs, with swimmers dropping up to 25 seconds on their personal bests! It was awesome!

Thanks to Trafford Metro for a great meet as always and well done to our friends at Flixton who won best visiting Club. We were very proud to be runners up in this category!

We had a huge number of 1st to 6th places and in terms of Bronze, Silver and Gold we won around 50 medals!

Thanks to Jacqui and Ian who were awesome team managers (Ian had also helped at Manchester this morning!) - we can’t thank you enough! Thanks to Jade for Coach duties 🙏🏼 and to Felicity, Louisa and Jayne for officiating (apologies if I’ve missed anyone).

Our top 3 finishers were:

Jay 🥈🥉🥈

Samuel 🥇🥉

Hamish 🥈 🥈🥈

Max 🥉🥇🥉🥉

Lewis 🥈🥉🥈🥈🥉

Matthew 🥉🥉🥉🥉

Etta 🥇🥇🥉🥈

Laurie 🥇🥉

Jessica 🥈

Bea 🥈🥉🥈

William H 🥈🥈

Olivia H 🥇🥇🥇🥈

Long Him 🥉🥇

Seraphina 🥈🥉

Sophia H 🥉🥉🥈

Mahathi 🥉🥇🥉

Ethan 🥈

Sienna 🥉

George 🥉

Isabelle 🥈

Amazing haul gang! If I’ve counted right that is… 10 x 🥇 18 x 🥈 22 x 🥉

🙌🎉🥳

Keep up the good work!

Arena Manchester Open Meet - May 2025

We kicked off the ARENA Manchester Open Meet in style last night with a 12 second PB for Sam in the 800 Free.

We followed that up with a fantastic PB rate today, with all of our swimmers either hitting a new PB or consolidating a recent PB.

A massive well done to all of our brilliant squad who made it a great day -

50 Back:

for Jessica (on PB), on PB for Hannah and a new PB for Bea

50 Fly - Hannah consolidating her PB

100 Back - solid swim for Toby

100 Free - New PBs for both Jessica and Mollie

50 Free - New PB for Toby and Simon was within 0.5 of his best

100 Breast - New PBs for both Ella and Hannah

200 Back

for Jessica with a great swim

200 IM - another big PB for Jessica

Hannah B was in action at @derbyexcelsc - with 2 great swims in the 200 Free and 50 Free. Unfortunately, Thomas B was not well enough to swim. Get well soon Thomas!

It was great to work together with our FAST squad neighbours at Manchester, cheerleading each others swimmers and providing coaching and TM support as a team.

It was also great to have @middlesbroughswimmingclub with us today. It was a pleasure to get to know the swimmers and see them thrive.

Thanks to Catherine and Ian for being awesome TMs as always.

SENW Summer Regionals 2025 Final Weekend - May 2025

What a fantastic end to a brilliant @swimenglandnorthwest Regionals campaign! This (final) weekend was the 15 and over age groups.

We had a great spread of events from the short and sharp 50s through to the 400 IM and every single one of our swimmers smashed out a worthy swim: as Coaches it was great to see the swimmers step up to the big occasion!

Saturday's swims were:-

Open 400 IM -Sam 11th PB, Thomas 10th PB

Open 100 Free -Simon 24th, Coach Ash

in the final

Open 200 Breast -Thomas 14th PB

Female 200 Back -Hannah 15th PB, Wendy 12th

Female 200 IM -Emily 16th PB

Open 50 Free -Simon 14th PB, Coach Ash 3rd into the final (final result tbc)

Female 50 Back -Hannah 9th PB, Wendy 17th PB

Female 200 Free -Emily 13th

Open 100 Back -James 18th

We had an exciting end to the day with a swim off for Hannah in the 50 Back; After a fantastic start and under water, the girls were neck and neck with the Wigan Best swimmer just taking the touch

leaving Hannah with another PB to finish the racing. Well done to both girls!

The Sunday swimmers turned up with their best positive mindsets, knew their race plans and stepped up for some excellent swims!

During what was a long day, their support for each other was unwavering, with everyone contributing to the positive vibe on the poolside. They also were a fantastic support to Coach Kate who was being assessed for her Level 3 course

First up was Emily in the 400 IM who had not been feeling 100% yesterday. In true Emily style she pushed as hard as she could for a very solid 12th.

Next it was Max, who even though he’s given up swimming and has been in the pool 3 times since early October, he had decided he fancied getting back in for a 50 Breast! It was lovely to have him back on the poolside with us and he swam a truly excellent first 35m, just fading in the last 15m for 18th.

Next up was Hannah with another PB in the 50 Fly with a technically really well executed swim for 16th

Thomas had another strong swim in the 200 IM for another PB (3rd of the weekend) and 15th place

Hannah was back in action for the 100 Back, finishing in 14th place with yet another PB swim

Wendy swiftly followed Hannah in the 100 Back with a strong seasons best, qualifying for the open age final. After listening to her feedback, Wendy stepped up to race a close finish with a confident

th in the final

Thomas had a fantastic 100 Breast with another PB, building on the feedback from yesterday for 20th.

In the 400 Free Megan swam with determination and purpose, taking the lead in her heat to set her intentions. In a seasons best swim, Megan finished in 11th place

Also in the 400 Free Emily swam a really well paced swim; particularly as we weren’t sure what she had left in the tank. Coming in on PB and finishing in style; Emily took a well deserved

th place

Thank you to our poolside team this Regionals - you have been amazing!

- Coach Leah you get a gold star

and thanks to Dylan for coming on Sunday

- TMs Gary, Kristina, Ian and Emma - we couldn’t do it without you all! Thank you!

Well done Alty

Smashed it.

Swimmer of the Month - March 2025

Well done to all of our swimmers in March! Our nominations for Swimmer of the Month were:

Imogen from D1 - she’s a very hard worker and she’s always happy to entertain the coaches

Etta from D3 - Etta’s swimming is going from strength to strength and she has a great training ethic to match, quietly working as hard as she can every session

Toby from Youth - in the recent 6 week 20x100 jelly baby case study Toby completed all 6 weeks, all 120 x100 and was by far the most consistent trainer in the group. Well done to James, Dylan, Mollie,Imogen, Poppy, Ella, Jessica and Jessica who also completed all 100s over each of the 6 weeks to a high standard

Our winner for March is Hamish from D3

Hamish had some fantastic swims at the Satellites Last Chance Meet, he even seemed to be surprising himself. His hard work and friendly manner have not gone unnoticed and we look forward to the next opportunity for racing to see how Hamish and the D3 gang have progressed!

Swimmer of the Month - February 2025

We are a little behind on these!

Well done to the following nominees:

Jack from Senior - always turns up to training with a good attitude, never complains and always tries hard

Clara and Ayla in D1- training very well at the moment, always try hard, listen well and making good improvements recently

Jemima in D2 for working really hard on her backstroke and she has made huge improvements since moving to D2!

The very worthy winner is Jichen in D3 for his performances in the Trafford gala - he swam up a group and swam all the butterfly!!

Amazing team work Jichen! And a big well done to all the nominees

Swimmer of the Month - January 2025

Lots of action to report on in January and we took the liberty of scooping in the first week of February so that we could include all the Cheshire Counties reflections!

Here are the nominations and the winners of January Swimmer of the Month

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Nominations for Swimmer of the Month

Rosie - Youth - for breakthrough swims in the 200 IM and 200 Breast on the last weekend of Counties. Outstanding swimming

Simon H - Youth - for clocking an awesome 24.01 in the County relays, being an absolute team player and swimming his very best for the team

Sophia R - Youth - for consistently great performances at Counties, finishing 6th Girl overall in the 12 years age group

Tom R - Youth - for winning Top Boy in the 14 years age group at Counties

Noah F - D3- for his fantastic 200 set one Thursday where he was awarded a duck for his excellent efforts and also for his enthusiasm to “beat the relays’ doing 3 amazing swims in training recently. Great swimming!

Laurie S - D3 - for her enthusiasm to “beat the relays’ doing 3 amazing swims in training recently, great to see

Sophia H - D3 for her enthusiasm to “beat the relays’ doing 3 amazing swims in training recently, well done

Joshua L - D2 -for always putting 100% in during training, and fantastic backstroke technique

The winner for January’s Swimmer of the Month is…

Jessica S for doing the treble winning GOLD medals in the 50 Back, 100 Back and 200 Back at Counties. 3 fantastic and breakthrough swims. Awesome work Jessica.

SENW Summer Regionals 2025 Second Weekend - April 2025

What an amazing weekend at Liverpool for the second weekend of the SENW Summer Regionals.

Saturday saw Sophia swam with heart, determination and tenacity, and all of her hard training paid off, in what was a monster programme of events at SENW Summer Regionals.

First up was a 6.5 second PB in the 400 Free for

th place with a pretty much perfectly executed race plan.

Next, Sophia swam an outstanding 2 second PB to qualify 7th for the final in the 100 Free. She managed to improve on this time further to take

th in a nail biting final.

In the heat of the 50 Free, Sophia shaved almost a second off her PB to make the final, coming

th hitting a similar time to the heat at the end of a long day.

Last event before the finals saw Sophia swim a brave and perfectly paced 800 Free finishing in

th with another 5 seconds knocked off her PB, again getting her pacing spot on and executing an excellent race.

Well done Sophia, the coaches were delighted to be able to make this a “two duck” achievement… which is unprecedented

Sunday saw Sophia joined by Jessica and Sophia for another fabulous day of racing

Sophia in the 200 freestyle with a massive PB and a Bronze medal

Jessica in the 200 backstroke with a massive PB and a bronze medal

Fantastic swimming from both girls today

SENW Summer Regionals 2025, First Weekend - April 2025

What a fantastic start to session 1 of North West Regionals - Day one, the boys 14-16 years came 6th in the 4x200 Free relay, with some great team swimming.

Next up was Sophia with a PB in 100 Fly for 15th, with a cracking swim

Nina went a fantastic long course PB for 16th in the 50 Back

Jessica smashed out another PB in the 50 Back to qualify in 2nd for the final this evening

Great swimming everyone!

Day 2 included a lot of team relays and team spirit!

Toby, Thomas and Harry stepped up first for some great swims in the 4 x 100 Free relay coming 15th overall. They were followed by Imogen, Nina, Hannah and Mollie who all PB’d for 18th place.

Our 17 and over girls swam a strong 4 x 200 relay for 5th place showing some great determination. Well done to Emily, Hannah, Rosie and Megan 💪

In the 14-16 4x100 Medley we had Toby on Back, Thomas on Breast and Harry on Free who swam hard for 12th overall.

Hannah (Back), Ella (Breast), Imogen (Fly), and Mollie (Free) were 15th in the 14-16 4 x 100 Girls Medley relay.

Thanks to James from Liverpool for the airhorn… it added a new joy to our cheering 💪

Jessica was flying the flag for the 12 year olds today, swimming the 100 Back. It turned out to be a tough race and Jessica finished 12th overall in a strong field. It wasn’t the race she wanted but we are proud of your the effort. Well done Jessica 💪

Regional Qualifiers - April 2025

Well done to our 13 Regional Qualifiers who will start their campaign this weekend!

Well done to all of you for qualifying and for your hard work to date, we are looking forward to seeing you shine. You’ve put in a good block of work and you are well placed for some fast swims over the next few weeks!

It’s bitter sweet for the squad as there were several of our dedicated swimmers who literally just missed out, and we know how disappointing that can feel when you have worked so hard. But these experiences make us fight harder and we know you will all come back stronger!

Be sure to cheer your team mates on even louder

Pointscore 1 - March 2025

What a fantastic evening of swimming at Gala 1 of Pointscore 2025! We had so many first timers racing and they all absolutely smashed it! It was a pleasure to see them practicing the new skills that they have been learning in their squads. An extra big shout out to the new Ducklings who joined in for the first time

Our older swimmers excelled themselves, with some great races and some excellent team spirit getting their teams ready for the 20-strong canon at the end. Well done to Team Pullbuoy for winning the cannon relay

Thanks as always to Helen who does an amazing job organising these events. Thank you to all the Officials for stepping up and ensuring that these galas are licensed. Thank you to the Team Managers and Coaches who marshalled all the swimmers, especially Kristina and Beth who must have done at least 20,000 steps tonight, each!

It was great to see some of our older swimmers who came back to help manage their teams. It’s nights like this that we can be so proud of

Richmond Dales April Fools Meet - March 2025

Well done to all our swimmers who swam at Richmond Dales this weekend.

Always a challenge swimming in a 50m pool! Well done to our swimmers that swam long course for the first time!

We had a great medal haul

12

18

12

42 in total!

400 IM

Imogen

Mikaela

Imogen

Emily

200 Free

Toby

100 Back

Etta

Jessica

Hannah

50 fly

Etta

Hannah

400 Free

Emily

200 IM

Thomas

50 Breast

Etta

50 Back

Ethan

Toby

Thomas

100 Free

Etta

200 Fly

Imogen

200 Back

Xander

Toby

400 IM

Thomas

200 Free

Emily

100 Back

Toby

James

100 Fly

Sophia H

50 Free

Etta

Seraphina

Sophia

200 Breast

Max

Thomas

800 Free

Sophia

Emily

Megan

200 IM

Sophia

50 Back

Etta

Seraphina

Nina

Hannah

100 Breast

Etta

200 Back

Seraphina

Sophia

Satellites Meet - March 2025

Well done to everyone who swam at the Satellites meet this weekend, there were some great swims!

Thanks to all the Team Managers and Coaches and Officials who contributed to the success 🙌

We had a great medal haul for a small team 💪

🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈 🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉

400 Free Sam 🥈 Toby 🥈

200 Butterfly Imogen 🥉

50 Back Toby 🥈

200 Back Poppy 🥇 Hannah 🥇

100 Breast Hamish 🥈

200 Breast Sam 🥈 Thomas 🥇

400 IM Poppy 🥈 Imogen 🥈

200 Back Toby 🥇

100 Back Poppy 🥉 Hannah 🥇

200 IM Thomas 🥈

100 Fly Hannah 🥈

400 Free Poppy 🥉

100 IM Sophia H 🥉 Xander 🥈

50 Fly Hannah 🥈

200 Free Toby 🥇 Lachie 🥇

200 Breast Imogen 🥈 Jessica 🥉 Ella 🥈

50 Back Hannah 🥇

100 Back Max 🥉 Ethan 🥉 Thomas 🥈 Toby 🥉 James 🥈

200 Free Hannah 🥈

100 Free Max 🥈 Toby 🥈

50 Breast Max 🥈 Thomas 🥈

Burnley Bobcats Meet - March 2025

Another great @burnleybobcats meet! Thank you to our friends for hosting such a fun weekend of swimming

Coach Leah was in the driving seat for the weekend, with Coach Beth supporting on Saturday and Coach Kate back on Sunday to count the fly kicks off the wall

Our team manager team did a fantastic job as usual; as did our volunteer Officials. Thank you to everyone as usual for making it happen!

The swimmers put in some great efforts, despite a tricky lead in to the meet. Stand out swims included another big PB for Jessica in the 200 Back, an excellent 200 Breast for Sam, a fantastic 400 IM for Megan, great swims for Etta, and a big PB in the 400 Free for Toby. Mollie and Imogen swam an excellent synchronised 200 Free and Hannah did a big PB in the 100 Fly.

Coach Leah awarded 3 ducks

:

for Xander for huge PBs in every event, great base skills and excellent race analysis

for Thomas B for building on swims yesterday with a suite of PBs today with some really excellent results, including one even his Mum didn’t believe her eyes for in the stands

for Mollie for trusting the Coaches and swimming her 200 Free in a completely different pace strategy despite her doubts and getting her first PB in that event for 12 months

Really proud of all the swimmers - for listening carefully to feedback and executing their race processes better each time!

We will definitely do this meet again and hopefully more of the younger swimmers will be able to join for the weekend events

Trafford Borough League - February 2025

Well done to all our swimmers who swam in the Trafford Borough League! Altrincham came 3rd overall, only 5 points behind 1st

Thank you to our Team Managers, Officials and Coaches for helping today.

Jessica's Treble Gold Success

Well done to one of our youngest racers Jessica, who did the treble winning

GOLD in all 3 backstroke races at Cheshires

50 Back

100 Back

200 Back

And of course there was a

too!

Well done Jessica it was a pleasure to see you race so hard

Cheshire County Championships 2025 - Session 4

Well that marks the end of Weekend 2 of Cheshire Counties and we had a fantastic few days! There were loads of PBs and the swimmers supported each other fantastically well.

There are a couple of special shout outs! The first is to Harry who had a very busy morning with 100 Back, 100 IM and 200 Free; his morning became a bit busier when he got into a swim off for the final of the 100 Back after a brilliant heat swim. Harry raced hard despite the quick turn arounds, just missing out on the win to Oliver from Warriors

. Harry came back hard though to take another PB in the 200 Free to finish the morning

Sophia also deserves a special mention for a fantastic 100 Fly, with a 5 second PB in the heat and a further 3 seconds in the final! She was so unlucky to just miss out on the bronze medal. Amazing swimming though Sophia (again) to add to her raft of final places this champs

Here’s a summary of the team’s results. We are small but we are mighty!

100 Back

Tom FINAL

Harry =8 PB

(swim off)

James FINAL 4th

Thomas FINAL 6th PB

100 Fly

Sophia FINAL 4th PB

Imogen 12th PB

Hannah 9th PB

100 IM

Harry 12th

Thomas 10th PB

400 IM

Poppy 13th PB

Imogen 9th PB

Hannah 9th

Emily

Megan 9th

200 Free

Tom

PB

Harry 8th PB

50 Breast

Harry 13th PB

Mostafa 10th

Thomas 12th

100 Breast

Jessica 14th

Rosie 22nd

100 Fly

Tom

PB

200 Back

Jessica

PB

Sophia 8th PB

Imogen 15th

Hannah 10th PB

Wendy 5th

Megan 7th

400 IM

Tom

Thomas 6th

Finals/Top 8 finishes - 34

7

2

Massive well done everyone

Cheshire County Championships 2025 - Session 3

We got off to a cracking start at Weekend 2 of Cheshire Counties yesterday. We had loads of PB/on PB swims and the processes were great 🙌

Well done to Lilia, Max and Xander who all competed in their first ever Counties and, despite the nerves, stepped up to the challenge. Well done! 💙💛

Here are the results (sorry if there are any errors)

100 Free

Sophia FINAL 5th PB

Jessica 14th

Mollie 11th PB 🐥

Isabelle 15th

Emily FINAL 5th

Megan 19th

Daisy 20th

50 Free

Tom R FINAL 🥇PB

Simon FINAL 5th 🐥

50 Back

Jessica FINAL 🥇 PB

Sophia FINAL 8th PB

Poppy 22nd PB

Nina FINAL 🥉PB 🐥

Hannah FINAL 5th PB

Wendy 9th

Daisy 17th

Hannah Bi 18th

200 Fly

Imogen 10th 🐥

50 Free

Lilia 10th

Sophia 7th FINAL 5th PB

Nina 12th PB

Mollie 15th

Emily FINAL 6th

Daisy 19th

Hannah Bi 25th

Eva 27th

50 Back

Max 9th PB

Xander 14th

Tom FINAL 🥇

Harry 18th

James FINAL 5th PB

Thomas B FINAL 8th PB

50 Breast

Sophia 14th PB

Jessica 16th

400 Free

Tom 🥇

Harry 6th PB

Cheshire County Championships 2025 - Session 2

With weekend one of Cheshire Counties complete, the team have put in a good shift with some excellent performances.

Stand out swim of the day has to be Jessica in the girls age 12 100 Back who smashed a huge 4 seconds off her PB to win the event by a country mile!

25 top 8 finishes is a fantastic start to the championships.

Female 50 Fly

Sophia 10th PB

Erin 19th PB

Imogen 11th

Hannah 10th

Wendy *FINAL* 5th

Daisy 17th

Eva 21st

Male Open 100 Free

Tom R

PB

Harry 16th PB

James 11th PB

Simon *FINAL* 5th

Female 100 Back

Jessica

PB

Sophia *FINAL* 8th PB

Mollie 13th PB

Imogen 16th

Hannah 11th

Wendy *FINAL* 7th

Megan 11th

Daisy 18th

Male Open 200 Breast

Thomas B 5th

Female 200 Free

Sophia 6th PB

Mollie 14th

Isabelle 7th

Emily

Megan 8th

Rosie 14th

Male Open 100 Breast

Thomas 10th

Mostafa 11th

Female 100 IM

Sophia *FINAL* 6th PB

Imogen 11th

Hannah 12th

Isabelle 14th

Wendy

Rosie 18th

Male Open 50 Fly

Tom R

PB

James 9th PB

Mostafa 12th

Simon 14th

Female 400 Free

Sophia 6th PB

Isabelle 7th

Emily 4th

Megan 5th

Male Open 200 Back

Tom

Toby 7th PB

Harry 9th PB

James 6th PB

This was a solid start, despite the disruption to training we have experienced with our pool situation

Let’s keep up the hard work to build for next weekend

Cheshire County Championships 2025 - First Session

This fabulous five got ASC’s Cheshire Counties off to a flying start! With a new format, the 800 and 1500 events are now long course

so if the nerves aren’t usually high for an 800 or 1500 they were high tonight!

It was the first long course distance race for Toby in the 1500 and for Sophia in the 800, they both absolutely smashed it

with a well deserved

for Toby and a 6th for Sophia in a strong field.

Leading by example, experienced long course distance swimmers Emily and Megan came 5th and 6th with Megan taking an early lead in her heat and racing a long course time that was faster than her short course entry time

True to form, Tom raced tough in the last heat of the 1500, to win his age group

Great start gang, you did yourselves proud. Now eat, drink, stretch, sleep ready to race again tomorrow

Satellites Last Chance Meet - December 2024

The team were absolutely fantastic at @satellitesasc Last Chance Gala this weekend! Team spirit was high, and there were so many great swims! Thanks to Beth, Gary and Martin for Coach/Team Manger skills and to all of our Officials who volunteered and made sure the gala went smoothly. Well done to the multiple duck winners ! Great skills!

Here are the medals from day 1:

400 IM - Imogen ,Thomas B ,Emily

50 Breast - Etta

100 Free - James

200 Fly - Olivia

200 Back - James

100 Back - Seraphina , Sophia , Mollie , Daisy

50 Fly - James

200 Free - Thomas R , Toby

100 Fly - Olivia

200 Back - Seraphina , Megan , Hannah

50 Free - Etta , Mollie

100 IM - Thomas R , Thomas B

200 Breast - Sophia

There were more brilliant swims and PBs on day 2! Thanks so much to Satellites for running a fantastic weekend; we had a great time

. Thank you to Coach Leah, Kristina and Martin for looking after the swimmers so well and to all our officials

THANK YOU. A huge well done to the swimmers who had a massive PB rate again

Here are the medals from day 1:

50 Fly - Etta

,Imogen

200 Fly - Sam

200 IM - Imogen

,Megan

,Sam

100 Free - Etta

,Olivia

100 Breast - Olivia

,Hannah

50 Back - Etta

100 Fly - Thomas R

,Thomas B

100 IM - Olivia

,Imogen

200 Breast - Sam

,Thomas B

200 Free - Megan

x 10

x 18

x 17

= 45 medals

Jasmine's Remarkable Year - 2024

It’s been a huge year for Club member and S14 swimmer Jasmine, who has battled heart surgery, recovery, at least weekly hospital visits and also managed to train as a swimming Official! She won @swimenglandnorthwest North West Technical Official of the Year and went on to win the Swim England Bronze Award for overall Technical Official of the Year

We were lucky to have everyone on poolside last night who has contributed to Jas’s journey this year - not least Jas’s mum Liz who has guided her through this storm so well

Liz has sent us a special message of thanks

“Just a thank you really from me and Jas to you 3:

Helen for her mentoring, patience and being able to adapt the learning for Jasmine eg doing videos to test ability to spot DQ’s!

Melisa for all her time supporting Jasmine both poolside at training and competitions.

And of course to YOU (Kate) for all your support and belief in Jasmine to get her back in the pool and swimming again

You are ALL fab people and without you Jasmine wouldn’t be able to access and achieve the things that she does in relation to all things swimming - it takes a TEAM x”

Swimming can be so transformational in many ways! Who knows what Jasmine will achieve in 2025

Arena League Final Round - December 2024

A huge well done to our Arena Team who swam amazingly last night in the B Final at Macclesfield!

We totally smashed what would always have been a difficult gala - with illness & injury meaning we had a flurry of last minute team changes who totally stepped up & swam their hardest. We came a creditable 7th place, with a few extra points lost along the way which was unfortunate, but that’s swimming!

We had amazing team spirit & the team fought for their places in some tight finishes with wins for Davey in 100 Fly, Tom in 100 Free (sub 60 club) & Mostafa in 100 Fly. There were breakthrough PBs for Rosie in 100 Breast, Ella in 100 Breast, James in 100 Back & Jessica in 50 Back with Sophia, Ethan, Emily & Mollie posting some rapid relay times with all the chasing!! We need a special shout out to our youngest team member, Adam, who filled in at the last moment & absolutely wowed us all with his races

Thank you to Jennie M for organising all the galas behind the scenes, being in charge of printing & sorting out coach travel so that everyone could travel as a team, & for team managing every round. Thank you to Ian for being a fantastic Team Manager, motivating the swimmers & doing a fantastic job of “herding cats” to races & around the venue Thank you to Tess, Felicity & James who were our excellent Officials, to Helen, Jo & Jennie B for volunteering to do the door & to Coach Leah for bringing the best sparkly Xmas hats.

Swim England National Winter Nationals - December 2024

A massive well done to the fantastic Simon who swam brilliantly this morning at Winter Nationals in Sheffield. Despite being held at the start he went super close to his best time and did us all incredibly proud. Well done Simon

Swimmer of the Month - October 2024

This month's Nominations for Swimmer of the Month were:-

Poppy P - Regional - Poppy was crowned Queen of the Camp at swim camp this year with a fantastic, consistent effort and attitude, and some fantastic training blocks delivered.

Harry B - Regional - Harry was crowned King of the Camp at swim camp for stepping up and making the jump to the next lane, with some absolutely cracking training performances across the week.

Sophia R - Regional - demonstrated a good attitude both in and out of the pool on swim camp.

Ella P - Regional -demonstrated a good attitude both in and out of the pool on swim camp.

Abel J - D1 - excellent racing and attitude at Club Champs.

Shymala D - D1 - great effort and team spirit at Club Champs.

Laurie S - Pre County - trains hard, listens to feedback and takes it all on board.

Tilly B- Competition - gets really stuck in to training and always asks for help if unsure. Always listens and gets on with the session.

And the winner was.....
Imogen T - D1 - for a fantastic attitude in training and great underwater skills, and for facing her fears and racing really well at Club Champs/Pointscore.

National Bronze Award for Technical Official of the Year

We are SO PROUD of Jasmine who was awarded the National Bronze Award for Technical Official of the Year this weekend at the Swim England National Award Ceremony. Becoming an Official was a fantastic feat of hard work and perseverance, and it’s all paid off! As Jasmine’s Mum rightly said “a learning disability and autism just doesn’t stop you” - well done Jasmine you inspire us every day.

Warrington/Preston/Trafford Weekend Roundup

What an incredible weekend! With 7 swimmers at Percy Mason, 25 at the Preston Xmas Cracker and 23 at the Trafford Xmas Cracker almost half the Club were competing! We had 2 first time county qualifiers in Lilia and Xander which is fantastic to see. Well done you two!

At Preston we had a huge PB rate with everyone swimming superbly and lots of county times. Ducks went to Imogen for 200 Fly, Hannah B for 200 Breast, Xander for 50 Back, Jessica S(o) for 50 Back, and Bea for 100 Free

At Trafford there were some fantastic swims also with ducks going to Sophia and Lilia for fantastic effort in 100m fc both with a 6 or 7 second PB, Maisy for a great race and 18 second PB in 200m fc, Issy for great swim in 50m fc with 9 second PB Ducks are also headed to Alex RT and Seraphina for great swimming.

Well done everyone, great swimming for a cold and rainy weekend lots to build on!

Without our Club helpers, Coaches and Officials these meets would not be able to happen and this weekend we were spread thinly! Thanks to TMs Ian, Nick, Felicity, Jennie, Sarah, Catherine, Emma & Gary and to Coaches Kristina, Jade & Andy (and I’ll give myself a mention too, Kate), plus volunteers at Trafford (Maria, Mandy, Jane, Steven and Max) plus all the Officials - I don’t get a list of these but I know Felicity was at Percy Mason, Jacqui and Felicity were at Trafford and Lindsay, James, Louisa and Nishma were at Preston (if I missed anyone please don’t be offended).

Preston Christmas Cracker - November 2024

We had a big gang from our Performance squads racing at Darwen pool, in the Preston Xmas Cracker

Day 1 was a proper cracker with some big PBs across the board, County times gained, and others happily hitting “on PB” targets. The process was great with turns and underwaters more precise than ever: Looking back to the 2023 entries our swimmers have been on a huge improvement curve!

Well done everyone!

Thanks to the volunteers and officials who make the meet happen; and to Coach Kristina and team managers Emma and Catherine

Trafford Christmas Cracker 2024

Wonderful smiling faces from our swimmers at the Trafford Christmas Cracker Meet, with lots of bling, PBs and team spirit!

Well done to all the swimmers! Thanks to Coach Jade and Ian for looking after our swimmers and to the officials and volunteers who make it happen

Warriors of Warrington Percy Mason Meet - November 2024

Really proud of the gang swimming the 800m/1500m at the Warriors of Warrington Percy Mason Meet. There were some great swims, brave races, big moves forward and lots of learning in the first distance meet of 24/25 for us.

Well done everyone

Swim England Regional Development Camp

Kate and Tom had a great day at the Swim England Regional Development Camp in Wigan! Four hours of IM skill and some land training later, Tom did a great job! Lots of stuff to integrate into training until the next camp!

Joseph is British Champion AGAIN!

Well, he’s done it again! Joseph has retained his British Champion Title in the open/male 25m breaststroke at the British Championships @downsyndromeswimminggb

This is absolutely incredible as this summer Joseph was putting all his attention into his @nolimits.foundation run challenge and by November he’s back to winning British National titles in the pool!

Well done Joseph, great work

Jasmine Officiates at the British Blind Championships - November 2024

Jasmine has been busy recently despite a difficult week health wise after her heart surgery.

She was officiating at the British Blind Championships where she was lucky to meet up with the inspirational twins Eliza and Scarlett Humphrey who competed in the Paris Paralympic Games this year.

Jasmine has been back in the pool herself this week and is working hard on her rehab. We were excited to be able to build up to some 50s last night without too much discomfort, and we definitely had a few laughs on the poolside too which made the time pass really quickly!

Jasmine is going a great job getting back to fitness, well done Jas, keep up the great work

Stockport Short Course Meet - November 2024

Awesome swimming from our team at Stockport this weekend!

We saw a solid start on Friday night from Isabelle on the 1500 to kick us off and she had a good 200 on Saturday. Simon had a strong performance in the 100 Free, and Hannah swam a big PB in the 50 Fly Saturday morning.

Saturday afternoon saw us have 2 huge PBs from Wendy and Hannah in the 100 back, both winning their heats, with Hannah making the 14/Under final, finishing a brilliant 6th! Mostafa came 2nd in his age group with a big PB in the 50 Breast, with a solid swim from Thomas also

. Mollie and Nina both swam big PBs in the 50 Free, both winning their heats.

We kicked off Sunday with Sophia and Mollie in the 100 Free with both hitting PB times

which were followed by a big PB for Mostafa in the 100 Breast

. We followed that up with Wendy and Hannah having great swims in the 200 Back, both with fantastic PB times. Mostafa smashed the 50 Fly hard

and we finished the morning with PBs for Hannah and Wendy in the 50 Back. In the afternoon Simon hit his entry time within 0.00s in the 50 Free, finishing the weekend on a high

Well done to everyone who swam, to Catherine for Team Managing, and Felicity for officiating

Also a shout out to the squad back at Alty, where most of regional and national smashed out 6500/7000m on Sunday evening - some had already swum this morning too!

It’s great to see the hard work starting to come through for everyone

Keep up the good work gang

ASC Distance Championships 2024, Session 3 - November 2024

Well done to our swimmers who competed in the 400m meet at Club Champs today! There were some great swims

A particular well done to our swimmers from the Development Squads and Pre County who stepped up and raced these distances - you were all really impressive! Awesome work

Thanks to Helen and all the officials for making it happen and to Kristina and Beth for providing coaching and marshalling

ASC Distance Championships 2024, Session 2 - November 2024

Well done to all our swimmers who swam in our Distance Club Champs tonight where we finished off the 200m events

Thanks to Helen for organising and to all the Officials who made it happen, we can’t run our licensed events without you.

Massive well done to all the girls who did the skins after the 200 IM, with Wendy winning the 1st category with Emily as runner up, and Hannah winning the second category with Imogen as runner up

Exciting racing!!

Arena League Round 2 - November 2024

Well done to this superb team who fought as hard as they could and kept smiling throughout our toughest draw in the Arena National Swimming League! Fresh out of swim camp with the fatigue real, we showed our brilliant team spirit and never give up attitude. With a lot of first timers in the team in the younger events, they absolutely earned their stripes and tried their best.

Well done to Winsford for the win, and we look forward to the B final on 14 December where we can show our worth

Thank you to our team managers Ian and Jennie (you were amazing as it was hectic), Officials Jacqui and Felicity and Coaches Tess and Dylan for motivating the troops

Well done team

Trafford Borough Development League - November 2024

Absolutely fabulous swimming from all our swimmers in the Trafford Borough Development League!

Well done to all our swimmers that took part

Back from Swim Camp - November 2024

We are home! And that’s a wrap for Swim Camp 2024!

What a truly fantastic camp it was, on never to be forgotten... subways to Barcelona, hostels, rain, flash-floods, fire alarms - you name it, we did it! But the camp was a roaring success and we can't wait to do it again next year. Well done ASC, you are amazing.

Thanks to all the swimmers for being amazing, and well done for all the hard graft

A big thanks to Kristina, Stewart and Jade for being brilliant Team Managers and Coaches and for giving up a week of their lives for the swimmers. Your hard work means a lot … there was never a quiet moment

Swim Camp Starts! - October 2024

And we are off!

Swim Camp 2024 we are ready for you! We have a 24 hour detour via Barcelona city but we’ve risk assessed the hell out of the subway trip and we will be in the pool by Tuesday morning

ASC Distance Championships 2024, Session 1 - October 2024

Well done to everyone who took part in Club Champs tonight, especially our littlest swimmers - many of whom were swimming their first Club Champs and their first 200m races! Awesome work!!

Well done to the boys who made the skins finals

with our 14/over winner being Thomas B and our 13/under winner being Tom R! Fast sprinting

Swim England Masters National Championships - October 2024

Wow! What a super weekend at Ponds Forge at the Swim England Masters National Championships. Emily kicked off the weekend with a win

in the 1500 Free, followed by 7th in the 100 Free and so close to hitting sub 60 secs! Saturday saw a big PB for Emily in the 50 Free and a fantastic 4th in the 200 Free!

"Super Sunday" brought two more gold medals

It was GOLD

for Emily in the morning in the 400 IM in a truly outstanding PB, when Emily wants to focus on an event she really does and this was a huge improvement on previous times and process! Absolutely awesome Emily

In theafternoon, Ashley was in action in the 50 Back and he smashed out another GOLD

showing that his training and commitment are working really well! We can’t wait to see how much faster Ashley gets as the season progresses with a bit more race practice under his belt! Well done Ashley, brilliant swim!

It’s a pleasure to see these two swimmers still loving to swim into their university years and still making incredible progress

They are definitely inspiring

2025 Club Captain Hannah - October 2024

We are delighted to reveal our 2025 season Club Captain, Hannah B. Hannah takes on the role from Wendy and Isabelle who were both wonderful role models and inspiring team captains.

Hannah B is a popular choice for captain; a swimmer who fully embraces the Swimmer ABCs and role models top training and racing behaviours 100% of the time. Hannah has grown in confidence over the last few years, specialising in Backstroke, Fly and a bit of IM where she has been successful at a County and Regional level and she represented ASC at Irish Nationals last year too! A great team player, Hannah ticks all the skills required by a Club Captain.

Look out for Hannah at training and at galas, I’m sure she will be happy to say hello!

Pointscore 3 - October 2024

Great Pointscore competition tonight with 101 of our amazing swimmers racing as hard as they could!

There were some great swims and some excellent cheering and there were also some good skills although I was a bit disappointed by the lack of cross over turns

due to “finishing on the wrong arm”

The canon was epic as usual!

Well done to Yaseen for managing to pick himself in the lucky dip draw! These skills are crucial to survival in life

Thanks as ever to Helen for organising and running it so efficiently, and to the Officials, Team Managers, Team Captains and Coaches for all of their help.

Arena League Round 1 - October 2024

We are so proud of the team tonight! In our most challenging draw ever our Alty swimmers swam with big hearts and lots of soul and didn’t get deterred by the strength of the other teams. We chipped away at it, one race at a time and were absolutely delighted to move in to 7th from 8th right at the last moment.

Our Alty swimmers sure know how to race like a team! Well done gang! Here’s to the next one

Swim England Inter Counties - October 2024

Well done to ASC swimmers Simon and Tom who represented Cheshire at the inter-counties at Ponds Forge in Sheffield this month.

NW Technical Official of the Year Award - Jasmine Stagg

She did it!!

Jasmine is NW Technical Official of the Year

Well done to Jasmine who always fights the odds to do something incredible

Jasmine has battled open heart surgery this year, a huge procedure which has been life changing. Swimming has always been central to Jasmine’s health and well being, and as a successful S14 swimmer being limited in her swimming has been incredibly hard.

Never deterred, Jasmine and her mum Liz found another way to keep Jasmine engaged with the sport she so loves.

Becoming a technical Official is a tough process at the best of times, but Jasmine never gave up and proved that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. With the help of our wonderful senior Official Helen Inns, Jasmine spent hours and hours in training sessions learning the rules of an Official and how to apply them. She volunteered at copious galas to get signed off, with her support team never too far away.

Well done Jasmine, this is a special victory for you, you have given back to the sport that you love during a particularly tough year for you personally.

Well done from everyone at Altrincham SC, you are awesome…. Now the next stage is to ease you back into the water too

Wigan BCM Meet - October 2024

First gala of the season complete and what a fantastic one it was for us, with a medal count of 22!

Well done to all swimmers who competed and showed fantastic support this weekend at the Wigan BCM! Lots of great early season swims, proud of you all!

Thank you to the Coaches and Team Managers for doing an amazing job as usual

Kristina, Jade, Emma, Gary & Jacqui, and to all of our Officials who without them the meets wouldn’t happen!

Joshua wins First Place at Fleetwood Triathlon - September 2024

What an absolutely brilliant race from Joshua, doing us all so proud - First Place at Fleetwood Triathlon, part of the Triathlon England North West Junior Series. Awesome work!

Summer BBQ/Presentation Evening - September 2024

Well done to all of our award winners for 2024 and a warm welcome to our Club Captain for 2025, Hannah B!

Thanks to outgoing Captains Isabelle D and Wendy D for being such fantastic Captains this year.

National Squad Swimmer of the Year - Wendy D

Regional Squad Swimmer of the Year - Toby H, Runner Up Thomas B

County Squad Swimmer of the Year - Alex R-T, Runner Up Jessica S

Pre-County Squad Swimmer of the Year - Adam H, Runner Up Sophia H

D2 Swimmer of the Year - Samuel L, Runner Up Isabelle W

D1 Swimmer of the Year - William S, Runner Up Jemima F

Competition Swimmer of the Year - Matilda S, Runner Up Lewis G

Senior Swimmer of the Year - Joseph A, Runner Up Jasmine S

Coaches' Swimmer of the Year - Emily I

Swimmers' Swimmer of the Year - Thomas R, Runners Up Hannah B and Sophia R - Nominees Alex R-T, Emily I, Evie S, Hannah B, Harry B, Isabella R, Isabelle D, Jessica S, Lilia M, Lily H, Mollie O, Olivia H, Poppy P, Sophia R, Thomas R and Wendy D

Chloe Waddell Memorial Trophy - Thomas R

Matt Parkes Shield - Mikaela J

Trafford Borough Early Bird Meet - September 2024

Well done to all of our fabulous swimmers who raced at the Trafford Borough early Bird Meet at Stretford! What a great day of swimming !!

With just under 50 swimmers racing, we have brought home lots of bling and lots of smiles.

Well done Alty, lots to build on this season.

Swim England Talent Pathway and Team Selections - September 2024

A massive well done to Tom R who has been selected for the North West Regional Development Programme and the North West Regional Distance Programme

Coach Kate has also been selected as Head Coach for the North West Regional Development Programme and as a Skills Coach on the Swim England National Age Group Development Programme.

Simon H and Tom R have been selected to swim for Cheshire in the prestigious Inter County Championships at Ponds Forge in October. This is probably the most fun and most noisy competition in the calendar so it’s a wonderful experience to be a part of! Cheshire were promoted to Division 1 last year so there is everything to swim for!

Well done everyone, what a great start to the season!

Swim With The Stars - September 2024

Well done to Hannah, Thomas, Sophia and Daisy who had an amazing experience at @apraceofficial Sprint with the Stars in Birmingham yesterday!

The swimmers made lots of finals and there were some near misses too, and the stars were all amazing and inspiring

Joseph's No Limits Challenge - September 2024

10 x 10km

5 days

10 countries

Blood, sweat and tears

The best family

Raising £350k for a new disability sports, training and employment programme!

Joseph has done some amazing things in his life (e.g. he was crowned National Champion back in November at the @downsyndromeswimminggb National Championships) but this has got to be the most impressive so far!

Joseph’s dad explained that Joseph’s Challenge has been called “No Limits” because the idea behind it is that if you remove any preconceived limits or labels you can explore someone’s full potential. Joseph has taught all of us this over the years in many ways becoming a national swimming champion and competing in many sports in spite of not being able to walk until he was nearly three or swim until he was ten. Rather than choose a swimming challenge - the family, with Joseph’s agreement, decided to pick a sport he really doesn’t love and 330km of training later he is ready to go.

It was wonderful to see Joseph and his team finish their epic challenge at the @altrincham10k - he finished his last 10k in the second fastest time of all the 10ks which is pretty impressive stuff! Well done Joseph and team from all at Altrincham Swimming Club, you have absolutely smashed this one! Rest up, you must be exhausted! But we do need you back in the pool soon!

Swim England National Summer Meet - July 2024

We kicked off the Nationals pool campaign with Emily’s 1500 Free! Just shy of PB pace but Emily fought really hard and finished with a smile to mark a fantastic experience and achievement! We are super super proud of you Emily, you have inspired so many other swimmers today

Tom gave incredible performances throughout; 29 SECOND PB in the 1500 Free for 4th place, including a 400 and and 800 PB! 5 Seconds off his PB for 6th in the 13 years 400 Free final; and another PB from Tom in the 100 Free for 11th. In the 13 years 800 Free, Tom won a

medal; he held his pacing to perfection … and came home in an epic 1.06 for his last split for a 26 second PB! Another

medal for Tom in the 100 Back, bettering his PB from the heats to sneak under 1:05. A final great morning of racing for Tom, in the 200 Back and 200 Free. He will have raced 7k this week by the end of the evening (excluding warm up and swim down). Great swimming Tom, ASC is very proud of you

A fantastic end to the swimming year for Ashley, who has put swimming on a back burner whilst he’s been at uni but still managed to train enough to get to Nationals and a National final! Ashley was 7th in the 50 back final with a fantastic swim with a great underwater performance phase and strong rhythm

Well done Ash, looking forward to your next steps!

In summary, our swimmers have absolutely excelled themselves

Emily had a great swim in the 1500 to take 20th, and she enjoyed every moment of her first National experience.

Ashley had a fantastic swim in the 50 Back to come 7th in the final

It’s hard to put into words what Tom has achieved this week, as he swam an incredible number of events, with huge PBs across the week and consistently acheived absolutely outstanding results.

3km National Open Water Champion

800 Free

100 Back

1500 Free

400 Free

200 Free

11th 100 Free

12th 200 Back

A huge well done to Emily, Ashley and Tom for a brilliant week, Altrincham Swimming Club are proud of and inspired by what you have achieved

National Open Water Champion - July 2024

What an incredible way to kick off a Nationals campaign! Huge well done to the awesome Tom R who is National Open Water Champion for the 3k in the 13 years age group.

This was no ordinary swim … at one point he was in 4th, until his choice of racing line and super sighting brought him back into the mix. He held his nerve and got himself into second and by 2.5k we suddenly realised he was moving towards first place. In another display of superb open water racing skills Tom chose the best racing line into the finish and hit the gantry 9 seconds ahead of his competitor, who had put in a fantastic effort too. Massive well done to the other medal winners, it was a great race!

Cheshire County Masters Record - July 2024

We have just found out that the amazing Emily managed to get a Cheshire Counties Masters Record for the 400 Freestyle on 13 July at Stockport. This was mid heavy training and she smashed it

Well done Emily, this is truly outstanding

Richmond Dales Summer Madness Meet - July 2024

We had the best day in Leeds at the Richmond Dales Summer Madness Meet.

We kicked off the sessions with some fantastic relays, which were loads of fun and the teams swam fantastically with some PBs to warm us up!

Lily won the first duck of the day for amazing cheering, closely followed by Beatrice! Jessica's mum won the best parent supporter duck too!

Daisy, Hannah and Imogen won ducks for best fancy dress (Spiderman goggles that looked like they had never been designed to get wet!) and Ian won a duck for fantastic breaststroke swimming over the last 2 weekends. Xander collected his 400 free Warrington Meet duck and Mikaela knocked a massive 14 second off her 200IM for a duck award. Mahathi smashed out the most incredible 50 breast for her first duck of the season! Sophia H was awarded a duck for her 200IM and also commitment to finding the ducks' sunglasses!

The team spirit was high and the swimmers were an absolute delight with lots of LOLs to mark what was for all of them the last meet of the season. A big thank you to Kristina and Ian who were fantastic Team Managers and to Nishma, James and Jacqui for being excellent Officials.

The medal tally was insane with 48 medals in one day with Daisy, Hannah and Eva and Rosie getting some clean sweeps in the 15 and overs.

Amazing work team

Irish Nationals - July 2024

Great swims from the ASC representatives, Mollie, Hannah and Sam in the Swim Ireland Age Group National Champs!

Mollie swam in the 50 Free, 400 Free, 100 Back and hit a PB in her 100 Free

For Hannah it was 100 Fly, 200 IM, 400 Free and solid 100 Back

Sam was a 400 IM finalist but had to smash out his 1500 free (finishing 6th) before the 400 IM final! Also swimming in the 200 Fly and a solid 800 Free within half a second of his PB

We hope you are all proud of the work you have put in and enjoyed your first experience of racing abroad.

Swimmer of the Month - July 2024

Winner: Sienna H - D1
We have loved watching Sienna grow in confidence and happiness. She was very nervous to start with and each week she's got braver and braver and recently she absolutely smashed club champs with huge smiles the whole time and her swimming is going from strength to strength. Well done Sienna, what a great journey and we hope you continue to really enjoy your time at ASC.

Nominations (For June & July)
Isabelle W - D2 - Isabelle always listens, always smiling, asks for feedback and has really made some good improvements in both racing at the club champs, and training.
Adam H - Pre County - Adam has been working really hard, he listens well and he is skilful and focuses on the detail. He always remembers to practice the skill the next session rather than just going back to what he's always done. His swimming is showing a lot of improvement and potential.
Rio – D1 for big improvements in technique since starting and brilliant streamline last week!
William – D1 for great attitude in training and listening well
Thomas B - Regional - showed a big improvement at the end of the season after a difficult time with a perforated ear drum which saw him out of the pool for a significant period.
Noah F - Pre County, great attitude and team spirit, he's worked hard to improve technique on all 4 strokes and he's really seeing the benefits!
Jessica S[o] – County - Jessica has a great work ethic, she's a pleasure to train with in the lane and is technically very coachable, listening to instructions and practicing each skill carefully.
Beatrice E - County - fantastic team spirit and a positive person to have on the poolside; she's working hard on her swimming and has seen some great results but she always remembers to support the rest of the team too.
Daisy B -Regional - Daisy has made a big impact since she joined the squad, she's a great team player and has a strong work ethic. She's also bagged some club records for her hard work!

Swimmer of the Month - June 2024

Winner: Sophia H, Pre County
Sophia demonstrates great commitment and focus in training and takes on technical feedback. Sophia has shown a great attitude towards both training and racing and her hard work is paying off with great improvements.

Nominations (For June & July)
Isabelle W - D2 - Isabelle always listens, always smiling, asks for feedback and has really made some good improvements in both racing at the club champs, and training.
Adam H - Pre County - Adam has been working really hard, he listens well and he is skilful and focuses on the detail. He always remembers to practice the skill the next session rather than just going back to what he's always done. His swimming is showing a lot of improvement and potential.
Rio – D1 for big improvements in technique since starting and brilliant streamline last week!
William – D1 for great attitude in training and listening well
Thomas B - Regional - showed a big improvement at the end of the season after a difficult time with a perforated ear drum which saw him out of the pool for a significant period.
Noah F - Pre County, great attitude and team spirit, he's worked hard to improve technique on all 4 strokes and he's really seeing the benefits!
Jessica S[o] – County - Jessica has a great work ethic, she's a pleasure to train with in the lane and is technically very coachable, listening to instructions and practicing each skill carefully.
Beatrice E - County - fantastic team spirit and a positive person to have on the poolside; she's working hard on her swimming and has seen some great results but she always remembers to support the rest of the team too.
Daisy B -Regional - Daisy has made a big impact since she joined the squad, she's a great team player and has a strong work ethic. She's also bagged some club records for her hard work!

Warriors Grand Prix Event, July 2024

Day one of Warriors Meet

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A big thank you to Warriors of Warrington for a fantastic meet today, we can’t wait to come back tomorrow!💙💛

Our hosts had pulled out all the stops with fantastic bespoke medals, very frequent sweets being brought around and excellent commentary… and the standard of swimming was great. There was something for everyone.

Our swimmers excelled themselves with both their attitude and their swimming, and there were lots of smiling faces💙💛

We won 47 medals on day 1… 21 of them were gold🥇

Thomas B🥇🥇🥉

Harry🥉🥇🥇🥇🥈

Sophia🥉🥇🥉🥇

Mikaela🥈

Imogen🥉🥈🥉

Rosie🥇🥈🥉🥇

Joe 🥈🥉

Toby🥈🥇

Thomas S🥉🥇

Poppy🥉🥈

Hannah🥇🥇

Yaseen🥈

Mostafa🥇

Beatrice🥈

Mollie🥉

Isabelle🥈🥈🥉

Lewis🥉🥈

Xander🥉

Jessica 🥉

We had simply loads of PBs too, the vibes were high!

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Day 2 of Warriors meet

Another fantastic day for our swimmers at the awesome Warriors of Warrington Grand Prix! Today we won 44 medals - a total of 91 across the whole weekend! 46 x🥇 • 19 x🥈• 26 x🥉

What an amazing achievement! Here’s the combined medal tally for our swimmers.

Thomas B🥇🥇🥉🥇🥉🥇🥇🥇

Harry🥉🥇🥇🥇🥈🥇🥈

Sophia H🥉🥇🥉🥇🥈

Mikaela🥈

Imogen🥉🥈🥉🥉🥉🥈

Rosie🥇🥈🥉🥇🥇🥈🥇🥇

Joe 🥈🥉

Toby🥈🥇

Thomas S🥉🥇🥇🥉🥉

Poppy🥉🥈

Hannah🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

Yaseen🥈

Mostafa🥇🥇

Beatrice🥈

Mollie🥉

Isabelle🥈🥈🥉

Lewis🥉🥈

Xander🥉

Jessica 🥉

Ian🥇

Laurie 🥈

Max W🥉🥉🥉

Lilia🥇🥇🥇

Nina🥈🥇

Ella🥉

A huge thanks to Warrington for a fantastic meet - so well organised and friendly

Thank you to all of our Officials who made the gala work so well💙💛

Thank you to Ian, Louisa, Kristina, Emma and Nick for looking after the children so well as Team Managers this weekend💙💛

Open Water Regional Event - June 2024

We had a fantastic afternoon at the Swim England North West & North East Open Water Regionals. A big well done to Sam, Tom and Emily for representing the Club in this prestigious event.

Huge well done to Sam in the 14 years 3k - 3rd in Cheshire.

Fantastic swim from Tom in the 13 years 2k, who won NW Regional Gold and Cheshire Gold, plus qualified for Nationals.

Awesome swim from Emily in the 19+ 5k, who won NW Regional Bronze and Cheshire Gold, plus qualified for Nationals. Emily always give us a little bit extra and today she almost literally went the extra mile by completing one extra lap after she had finished! Clearly she was enjoying the experience too much!

Well done everyone; what a great day.

Event Calendar

We've updated the meet calendar for the coming year. It's not exhaustive and I'm sure things will change during the year, but it should help to understand which galas are aimed at your swimmer and will hopefully help you plan for these.

You can find a copy of the calendar here

Club Kit

If you need a swimming hat, these are available for £5.50 each for the standard Club hat and we also have some ASC Bullet Hats back in stock (priced at £12.50). If you'd like to order one, please email kit@altrinchamsc.org.uk

All other Club kit can be purchased through The Kit Stop website, or via the link here.

Resource Information

There is a ‘Members Resources’ section of the Members Area on the website and there is already lots of interesting and useful information on there, so please have a look if you haven’t already. Helen I, who is our most senior Official and coordinates our Pointscores, has recently put together some really useful links on the technical rules for each stroke which will help all swimmers to understand the rules better.

Reporting Absence

There is no need to report any absence from training sessions. The only exception to this is if the absence is anticipated to be prolonged (more than a couple of weeks).

Contacting Coaches

If you need to contact the Coaches for any reason, please remember to do this via email and not via Coaches' personal mobile phones, on text / WhatsApp etc. Messages should be sent by email to either secretary@altrinchamsc.org.uk or to headcoach@altrinchamsc.org.uk.

Club Contact

For any queries or questions, please email secretary@altrinchamsc.org.uk

Fundraising by Shopping

When shopping online, please consider raising funds for our club via the Easy Fundraising online service. Shopping doesn't cost you a penny more, but as you make purchases online shops make a donation to the club. All you do is register (it's good to click the "Find & Remind" button) and start shopping. Please give it a go and encourage others to do so too – it's effectively free money to benefit the members of our club! Thank you. More information is on the website, or via the link here.