Newsplash can be found at the bottom  of this page

Speedo League 2008

After such a brilliant performance last year CABSC will again be fielding 2 teams in this national league. The 1st round draws have been made;

As this is one of the most important leagues we participate in please make sure you are aware of these dates and that all swimmers are available to swim should they be selected.

Nottinghamshire ASA County Champs 2009

The dates for the Notts county champs have been released and are as follows;

Tulip Open Meet 2008

Thanks to Kath & Rosie Needham for the following report

24th Tulip Open Meet

The first weekend in May saw CABSC camping diehards (‘mad fools’ we were called by some) braving the usual threatened wet Bank Holiday weather forecast to take part in the 24th Tulip Open Meet in Spalding. This Open Meet coincides with the huge Spalding Flower Festival which was celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

Fortunately for us the rain stayed elsewhere and the sun shone! We were joined this year by Tulip regulars and senior statesmen of the club, Paul Cross, Andy Burton, Colin Holmes and Stuart Crisp who were there for the camping experience, the ambiance and the beer! Our valiant team of only 28 swimmers competed fantastically, with many personal bests and a few meet records being recorded. Seb Smith claimed new records for 13 year old boys in 100m Fly, Back and Free and Katie Cockayne claimed a new record in the Open 50m free.

Unfortunately Mike went home feeling grotty after a couple of hours on Saturday and spent the rest of the weekend wrapped up in bed, which left us coach-less!. But thanks must go to the happy band of volunteer parents, and especially to Claire, who all rallied to cover warm-ups and help with team managing/vocal encouragement over the weekend. On Sunday afternoon there were about 7 TM’s on poolside at one point!

Besides the serious stuff in the pool, the weekend entertainment consisted of footie and cricket (and some forays over fences to collect well hit balls), sunbathing, watching Chris put Seb’s tent up, eating fish and chips, bowling, shopping, being woken by pigeons at 5am, Rosie and I watched a fine display of Morris Dancing in the town square and the odd BBQ – some even managed to watch the flower parade!. Rosie and I left around 7.30pm on Sunday, tired, in need of a shower and a cup of tea, but having thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. Many of our swimmers had new pb’s, trophies and medals, Rosie R and Seb came first in their age groups, we had claimed new meet records and CABSC ended up in 3rd place overall - which was a good result from such a small team! Well done and thanks to everyone for ‘pitching’ in (no pun intended)

Kath and Rosie

Final placing results were:

9yr boys, 7th Adam Clarke

11yrs boys, 6th Tom Roberts, joint 11th Jack Smith

13yr boys, 1st Seb Smith

15yr/over boys, 4th Chris Holmes, joint 5th James Crisp, joint 7th Ian Cross

9yr girls, 1st Rosie Rudin, 6th Amy Bond, 7th Kate Smith

11yr girls, 5th Betsy Earnshaw

12yr girls, joint 3rd Verity Turner

14yr girls, 9th Rosie Needham

15yr/over girls 2nd Katie Cockayne

13yr/over mixed 200m relay, CABSC A came 3rd in free relay and 3rd in Medley relay 12yr/under mixed 200m relay, CABSC A came 6th in free relay and 8th in Medley relay CABSC B came 11th in free relay

Club positions:

1st Northampton

2nd South Lincs Competitive SC (home team)

3rd CABSC

4th Deepings

5th Sheffield City

6th City of Peterborough

7th Downham

8th Boston

9th Grantham

10th Trenton Dolphins

Olympic Trials 2008

Over the past week, Britains top swimmers have been competing in the British Championships/Olympic Trials for Beijing, held at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. Several CABSC swimmers swam in this event including, Jess Sylvester, Kathryn Wilde, Claire Abraham, James Crisp, Martin Cox, John Cook and Callum Lawson.

Jess and Kathryn were involved on the first day of the competition both competing in the 100m FC heats where both of them made it through to the final the following day. This put them both in with a chance of being selected for the 4x100m Fc relay at the Beijing Olympics. The top 4 swimmers in the A final would be selected, with Jess claiming the fourth spot after an incredibly tough race. Jess touched in a fantastic time of 56.12 with Kathryn close behind on 56.49 taking 5th place and so narrowly missing out on selection. With Jess having met the selection criteria by coming fourth she will now be included on the final list of swimmers to be nominated for this years olympics and looks well on her way to competing in her first olympics, which is an amazing achievement.

CASCB swimmer and two time para-olympian James Crisp was also competing on the first day in one of his strongest events, the 400m FC. James clocked the fastest time which was also within the qualifying time he needed to be selected for his 3rd olympics. James also went on to qualify in the 100m Back. Having undergone a shoulder operation last year, James has had to narrow his number of events down and so will be concentrate on these two, in which he has a great chance to come back with some more medals to add to his already huge tally. 

With some amazing swims from swimmers all round the country this looks to be one of the strongest British teams for a long time to be heading to the olympics. We are extremely proud to have James and Jess included in such a fantastic team with some British swimming ledgends such as Mark foster (38!) who some CABSC swimmers had the pleasure of meeting at last years Tulip open meet.

Revised Training Times

The new training times for the JDS and Juniors B2 & C will take effect from the 1st April. These have been updated on the training times section of the website and have been included in this months newsplash. Please make sure you are familiar with these new sessions as it now means there are a lot more available to each swimmer. If you have any queries please contact us.

Gala Win

Well done to everyone that swam in the 2nd round of the Sports Centre League gala at Hucknall on saturday. CABSC won the gala comfortably, with 22 first places and some excellent P.Bs. This will keep us at first place in the league having won both the first and second round galas.

1st -  CABSC - 172

2nd - Mansfield B - 135

3rd - Worksop B - 132

4th - Sutton - 124

5th - Hucknall - 98

Well done Jim!

CABSC swimmer Jim  Patterson recently represented England in the English Schools Swimming Association - W.I.S.E International event. Jim swam the 12-13 100m fly in which he came 4th and the 200IM in which he comfortably picked up gold. Jim was also part of the gold medal winning 12-13yrs 4x100m freestyle relay who also set a new championship record.

Counties

Cabsc swimmers have again excelled at the two recent county champs weekends.

The distance weekend proved to be a medal winning weekend with our boys dominating the 800m event on the saturday. Cabsc swimmers won 5 out of the 6 boys age groups.

1^st – Liam Rose  - 13/u

1^st – Jim Patterson - 14/u

1^st – Jack Stevenson - 15/u

1^st – Barney Barlow  - 16/18

1^st – Jim Patterson - open age group

 The girls also performed extremely well with several PB’s and club records being set.

2^nd – Poppy Rudin – 11/u

3^rd – Regan Jordan – 11/u

3^rd – Faye Henesy – 12/u

3^rd – Rebecca Barsby – 14/u

 The Boys 1500m event on the Sunday was again won by a CABSC swimmer – Barney Barlow, with several other top 3 placings in both the girls and boys events.

2^nd – Liam Rose – 13/u

1^st – Daniel Winter – 15/u

1^st – Barney Barlow – 16/18 & open age group

2^nd – Poppy Rudin – 11/u

3^rd – Regan Jordan – 11/u

3^rd – Faye Henesy – 12/u

2^nd – Rebecca Barsby – 14/u