Romsey and Totton Swimming Club

 2010 Novice Champs 

The Annual Championships for Novice swimmers in the Club were recently held at Totton Leisure Centre. The purpose of this event has 2 main aims. Firstly to give those swimmers who have yet to reach “Club level” or who are still taking lessons, an opportunity to compete against similar ability swimmers and gaining a taste of what it is like to compete in a swimming event. Secondly, the event is run, timed & judged by those swimmers who are at “Club level”, giving them some experience & understanding of how similar events they compete in are run, and maybe  giving them an appetite to go on to do courses in the future with a view to becoming a fully qualified ASA Official.

There were 4 age categories for both boys & girls – U9, 9-10, 11-12 & 13+, and 4 events in each age group, Freestyle, Breaststroke, Backstroke and Butterfly, all being of 50m except the U9 Butterfly which was only 25m. The top 3 swimmers in each event all received medals.

Whilst it is not possible to list all those swimmers who took part, the results did produce some note-worthy achievements.

For the girls, Alexandra Walker in the 11-12 years age category produced a clean sweep, taking all 4 gold medals.  In the 9-10 age group, Cerys Ralph took gold in Freestyle & Backstroke, with Hannah Brackley taking the Freestyle & Breaststroke in the 13+ group.

In the boy’s section, Harry Cooper equalled Alexandra Walker’s achievement in the U9 age group with another clean sweep. Honours were even in the 9-10 group with Freddie Ide claiming gold in the Freestyle & Backstroke, whilst Adam Bowen took Breaststroke & Butterfly. Zayd Neseyif’s domination of the 11-12 boys was only held in check by Luke Ralph who took the gold for Butterfly. To finish off, the boy’s 13+ events were hotly contested between Steven Simpson & Rob Murphy, with Rob emanating Alexandra & Harry’s feat of taking all 4 gold medals.

The Club Officials would like to thank ALL the swimmers who took part for making the whole event worthwhile. Without you all, we wouldn’t have a club. Thanks must go also to the Club swimmers who did an excellent job in running the event, with a particular mention for Gemma Boyes – Girl’s Vice Captain 2010, for organising the “Officials” for the competition.

 17th May 2010

Tony Weston Memorial Gala

 Saturday 15^th May saw the Annual Tony Weston Memorial Gala at Totton Recreation Centre, hosted by Romsey & Totton Swimming Club.

 The Gala is held each year in memory of Tony Weston who died in 2007. Tony had a 20 year -long association with the club, as swimmer, coach, Club Secretary & Vice-President. His swimming achievements included World, European & National at Masters Level & he was a British record holder for Breaststroke. Eye problems plagued him in his later years, and the care he received at the SGH Specialist Eye Unit enabled him to continue playing an active role within the club.  “RATS” invite other local clubs to take part, and a raffle is held during the event, with all money raised going to the Specialist Eye Unit at SGH.

 All events 4 x 25m or 4 x 50m relays, and this year 5 teams took part including Romsey & Totton. The other 4 were defending holders of the trophy Salisbury Stingrays, Eastleigh & Oaklands, Hamble Otters and Andover.

 Romsey & Totton got off to a fantastic start taking “first blood” in the girl’s 9-11 medley. All 5 teams went on to swim impressively and the overall result went to the wire. With only the Squadron Relay left, the 1^st & 2^nd placed teams were separated by only 2 points!

 In the end, Andover were victorious winners on 166, followed by Hamble on 160, a margin of only 6 points.

 Romsey & Totton’s team finished strongly in 3^rd position with 120 points. The 9-11 girls (Rebecca Stevens, Jenny Bambridge, Gabriella Hebert, Aoife Gray) and the 13 & U boys (Will Mintram, Stephen Simpson, Nathan Hunt, Jack Kelly) swam particularly well, each winning 3 of their 5 races, coupled with a second & third placing, both scoring 22 out of a possible 25 points.

 Mrs Diane Weston, Tony’s widow, was guest of honour & presented the trophy to the Andover captain, but most importantly of all £135 was raised to donate to the Eye Unit.

 Tony’s philosophy was that swimming is to be enjoyed, and is fun. It certainly looked that way amongst all the competitors, who are to be thanked for coming along and swimming their best.

 Romsey & Totton would also like to thank all those people & organisations (Moors Valley Country Park, Hillier’s Arboretum, Weymouth Sealife Centre, Longdown Activity Farm, Odeon Cinema, Blue Peter/CBeebies, Specsavers Opticians-Totton Branch and R. Cooper Landscape Specialists) who gave so generously to make this annual event such a success.

12th May 2010

 This years Tony Weston Memorial Gala is this Saturday coming Saturday eveing , please make sure your there on time to cheer the teams on , lets make it a really good night , Also, all the procedes from the raffle will be going to Southampton Eye Unit so please give generously , there are some great prizes this year so dig deep if you can . 

Teas and coffees will be available upstairs from 6.30 onwards as well as another desk selling programmes for those wishing to watch from the upper gallery :o) 

I will look forward to seeing you all 

Cheers 

Paul ( FIX IT MAN )

  27th October

Hi gang , I will be looking to you all to give your very best over the coming months , with the Club Champs looming and other Gala we are involved in it will take dedication and commitment from you all , I know you can step up to the plate and produce some great times to make us and yourselves proud of your efforts, I will be approaching you all over the next few weeks to go with me to Open meets in January and early February to prepare you for the County Champs in the spring , the first will be a level 4 meet to try and get you qualified for the county champs the next will be a level 3 meeet to make you more competitive and the a level 2 to encourage you to push for that personal goal at the Meeting . I hope you will be open to the invitation and give it your very best efforts .

On another note , Steve is going back into hospital in the near future and will not be with us for quite some time so we wish him all the best and a speedy recovery  .

Now whilst I know we are all busy people these days I would like parents to try their best to get the children to extra training sessions, since opening the upstairs gallery on Friday nights, its enabling  me to get to know you all and see if we can help co-ordinate lift sharing so that the swimmers get the opportunity to train a bit more . contact me if you can help out say once a week with a near neighbour to share the workload . 

 see you all soon 

Paul Murphy ( Mr FIX IT ).

 21st september

Hi Everyone , well done to all those who travelled up to basingstoke on Saturday night , some great results and hard work , unfortunately no win this time but some PB's and great effort from those who were new to the team ,you did really well ,I will publish results as soon as I can . 

All the best 

 Paul,  FIX IT MAN 

30th August

Many thanks to all who attended the Summer BBQ today , I hope you all enjoyed yourselves , sorry the weather was not so kind to us .

Special thanks to Andrew and Lyndsey for hosting the event , and to all that helped make the day go so smoothly .

see you all soon , 

Paul ( FIX IT MAN )  .

2nd August

Steve is now out of hospital and recovering after his surgery , I hope along with me that you all wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him soon . 

Paul

 10th June

 Hi to everyone

 Helen popped the huge “Get Well Soon” card round at the weekend.

 Reading everyone’s comments went a long way to cheering me up.

 Please pass on all my thanks to everyone at the club.

 And better still – well done for winning on Saturday!!

Thanks everyone 

Jonathon |Hawkins 

 6th June

ROTHER LEAGUE Rnd 2 ,RATS WIN !!!

 WELL DONE TO THE WHOLE TEAM  , Results posted

tomorrow

Paul

5th June

Hi everyone , just to let you know , Jonathon has had a motorcycle accident on his travels in  the US and is on his way home, he has  7 broken ribs and broken clavia, so lets send him all our best wishes on a speedy recovery .Good Luck Jonathon .

 Paul(mr FIT IT )

1st June

Jonathon Hawins is in the US travelling the Pacific Highway , (West Coast ) !! and is drumming up support for the club on the way from south to north , check out the Rats t-shirt in his photos ,anyone else who is going anywhere exotic or interesting for their hols , send me your photo's and a little note and I will do my best to get them on the album , remember to wear your Rats shirt !! Happy Holidays :o)

Paul murphypaul@fsmail.net 

24th April

Novice Champs tonight at Totton , good luck to all taking part ,lets see some good times and PB's set , work really hard and enjoy it :o)

Good luck to all those going to Basingstoke for the Rother League meet on Saturday , make sure you are there on time please . Have some fun and keep up the good effort made by you all at the Gemini . Lets make this season a good one .

Also ,a good luck notice to Erica Fogg in Sundays "London Marathon"  , well done qualifying to run with the Elites , a great achievement in its self . 

 20th April

Hi Everyone , just a quick update to say a big well done to all who took part at the Salisbury open yesterday, some fantastic results with Medals galore and lots of PB's , A superb showing from all of you , well done  !!

Results on page 2 of the results tabs 

Paul (FIX IT MAN )

  16th April

Good luck to all those taking part at the Salisbury Open this Sunday.

 12th April

Happy Easter ,

Dont forget , morning training is still available after Monday at Totton

 April 3rd

Last chance to enter for the Novice Champs , all forms must

be in by tonight at the club desk .

 Notice

 TheNovice Gala dated 21st November has nowbeen brought forward to the 7th November as not all clubs could attend, please make changes in your diaries ,

many thanks .Paul

 March 14th

A big Thankyou to all our Novice swimmers who put in a

great deal of hard work on Saturday ,All of you did really

well , A big thank you to Sue Hatchett ,Jacky Mills ,Emily

Murphy , Gemma Boyes and Simon miles for your help .

 County Championships

some really good results and PB's set .

Well done to all of you, news to follow.

Click on the link to take a look : Results 2

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